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Interesting read Danny , certainly better than some of my Ill-thought out ramblings on here . I’m interested in your actual fishing method for the catch ? You know , rig style , lead arrangement, bite registration method etc and whether you consider it to have made positive contributions to your success there ? I assume being so close to the syndicate record your pics will be up on the website gallery very soon . Congrats and looking forward to reading more of your thoughts.

Even Vicar’s go fishing

Yeah website doesn’t even exist anymore. watching brief on eBay for flogging stuff off cheap I reckon

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Not like this one mate 😉

You have mail mate 👍🏻

I dunno if I’m honest . I’ve been looking on and off for years and I’ve never been able to get any information . JRC have changed and/or updated their Bivvy range regularly over the years but have never been able to find out if any of the newer wraps would fit the STi’s especially the 2man versions. Ian ( @welder ) owns or at least owned one at one time . if you see this post Ian do you think it might do the trick ? it’s an awful lot of dosh to waste on taking a chance , after all.

Just popped on to say I’ve been looking for one of these for Donkeys years. more chance of West Ham staying up.

Hello mate , I fear you may have to bite the bullet and buy from the uk . this thread is old but the tackle firms suggested are mostly still thriving . good luck fella 😉

Hello mate , if Snowman Stevo sees this he may be able to assist. He’s a Scouser so will probably be able to suggest somewhere your boy can nick a few . Ouch did I say that ? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Moyes out ! Clueless er person .

Rather relegation than a Tottenham reject

When have I ever been any different ? it used to be big fat Sam …. now it’s the other 🦕

We are getting smashed tomorrow. my guess is 5 or 6 nil ☹️⚒

Genuine question, what makes a lake ‘abandoned’ ? And if it’s abandoned does that not mean that nobody owns it ? I can’t understand why someone would own a lake and have it just sitting there doing nothing . Surely if you own a lake and don’t want it you get rid ? Some people must have more money than sense 😄

I’d just like to wish everybody a Merry Christmas while I have the chance ( especially you Carpbell , 🤞🏻 for you and the Mrs) and good luck for the new year with your fishing , whatever discipline it may be . Reading above about all your salt water exploits has had me thinking about it a bit. iIts never appealed to me tbh but I work down near Tilbury Docks and in my tea break I’ve noticed a few people fishing the Thames . They’ve been too far away to ask them myself but does anybody know what I’d be likely to catch should I have a dabble myself ?

It’ll probably be next Xmas before it clears 🤣

A winter sleeping bag was on my list after my Mrs asked , so I gave her a trio to choose from in preferential order . The next evening I got told to “do one” whatever that means 🤣. So I have to raise the money by other means . I sold enough stuff the other week to cover it … then the Boiler and Vets bills swallowed it . I won’t be venturing out without one.

Piking I assume mate ? I say that as I didn’t think it contained any Carp ? I reckon maybe some nice Roach though.

Anyone been brave enough to get out in the ice and snow ?

Welcome Shane . How’s your fishing ? Tell us a bit about it 👍🏻

I think with Essential it was a way of plugging the winterised version of their new KS10 bait . I wouldn’t have thought they had a lot of ‘old stock’ lying about to shift but I take your point generally mate . In my experience people tend to stick with what they know bait wise but you never really know what’s going on behind the scenes with the price and availability of ingredients etc . Call me an old glory hunter 🤣 but I’ll always use an ancient well established and therefore trusted bait company . When I first started with the Carp I had to make a decision somewhere and , I dunno why now thinking about it , but I plumped for CC Moore . Somewhere along the line I changed to Essential baits and I really can’t remember why but there IS a sort of pattern forming lol

Nice one Ouchy , congrats 👏🏻

As for my plans for the new year …. More of the same really , determined to get to the larger residents on my little syndicate lake no matter how long it takes . I just wish I could make more use of it timewise really . plus I need a decent sleeping bag and keep getting outbid on them 😬

And that my friend is the crux of the matter . I have people at work that could earn themselves a half decent wage as there is always overtime available but they won’t put the hours in as they’ll lose their Universal Credit . It wouldn’t be so bad if they knew they’d earnt (for example) £100 extra and knew they’d lose £100 off their UC . But that’s not that simple . Any slight increase in earnings and EVERYTHING STOPS ! ….and they get what’s left of their UC about 5 weeks later so for the rest of that pay period the family goes short . Might be different mate if that pretty good wage was 40 hours a week but it’s the part time nobody wants and frankly I don’t blame them when there are thousands of illegals filling their pockets and living comfortably off the state having fled war torn France …