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The passion for angling episode with the unfished estate lake is my fave . Along with the matt & mick episode where mick catches his 40 ... Anyone remember jack hargreaves' out of town ?

Cant believe its taken me 4 years to find this thread . Keep it up boys , best thread i've come across in years . I havent laughed so much since grandma died.....

Thanks ian but only doing what you and most on here would have done mate . Stevo your 100% right mate long may it continue . You never did pm me with regards to your last comment ?

Yeah you got a bit of a deal there i reckon even without the missing part and even if you end up paying £20+ for the chub bars your still coming out on top . Cant beat the jrc bivvies imo

I know you wasnt to know but i still cant believe that geezer flogged on the bivvy without the central tension thingy ? Hope the price you paid for it reflected it

Or , of course , you are very welcome to mine if your more in my neck of the woods

Try putting chub tension bars in the search engine .

Ok , now , chub used to sell a set of 3 bivvy brace bars which do exactly the same job only they are a lot more solid . Trouble is THEY are now discontinued as well BUT i recently picked up a set on fleabay for a bit over the odds so they are still about . I heard that trakker do something similar but i'm not sure and taking a look at the jrc contact bivvy , that middle pole looks similar to the chub bars so maybe jrc do them now for their own bivvies ? Either way the geezer who flogged you that defender has had you over because the bivvy is useless without that middle pole and he would have known that too . On a more cheerful note , your better off getting the metal brace bars anyway cos the pole supplied with your bivvy is more trouble than its worth mate , a real pain to thread through ! I was told about the chub bars by ian (welder) who posts on here . Eventually he will be along to give you his tuppence worth but he's at the social at the mo so probably as drunk as a sack

Well you have a similar problem to the one i'm having at the moment in that the defender range has been discontinued and i dont know whether the (new) contact range of bivvies has the same set up ie the middle pole that you are missing. Google the latest jrc bivvy range and take a gander mate . If they dont use the same part then there IS another way ...

If its the same as the sti's then there should be an elasticated fold-up pole which threads thru it from the back to the front just above the door . It keeps the bivvy up mate .

Whereabouts in essex are we talking matey ?

Ah gotcha so you could probably deduct what type of silt it is by leading around a bit beforehand . I suppose its common sense really that no fish would want to dine IN something that smelt as foul as some of that stuff can . Thanks mate its good that you are still around for me to pick your brains , so many regulars seem to have disappeared from the forum lately. Apologies to the original poster for hijacking the thread.

Nick , how would you know whether the fish were feeding IN or ON TOP of the silt ? Or is that a noddy question ? It IS still early

Cant say i've ever fished there but they have quite a good website if i remember rightly ? Anyway , welcome to the forum . They are mostly a good bunch of fellas that get on here usually very helpful with their advice and you'll learn as much from the search facility too matey . Most impressive .

As most people have said , try & keep it simple . Maybe its just as simple as shortening or lengthening your hooklinks. Same with the hairs . Theres a superb thread on here somewhere entitled "complicated rigs" i should check it out if i was you mate

Ian , my fingers are the same mate , tieing pop ups on with bait floss is just way too fiddly . I tend to use the "u" section of a paper clip , pop one end of it through the D and push the "u" into the pop up . I know this involves piercing the hookbait which a lot of people frown upon , but a good quality pop up will remain bouyant plenty long enough. Just for the record , i use the esp choddies too but the gardners are a great substitute when the esp's are out of stock.

gis a clue as to what part of the country you are looking at then mr trav ? if you are anywhere near to where i`m based then i may have just the place you`re looking for .........

just for the record i used `em at the weekend and they work fine (on test that is , they never went off during the night but thats another thread) so as usual thanks for everyones helpful input and mr keen for the cabaret

How on earth ?

Yes thank you boy george I would like to know though, why it programmed my 2 alarms onto random led's rather than the first two ? Maybe its something to do with the previous owners alarms & its stll programmed for them ?

Yes thank you boy george I would like to know though, why it programmed my 2 alarms onto random led's rather than the first two ? Maybe its something to do with the previous owners alarms & its stll programmed for them ?

Ok Now do you know what mate ? I did exactly that last night to no avail and it was then that somebody misinformed me that "beep" the alarm meant to switch it on doh ! Anyway , i've just tried it again and the damn things worked this time and made me look like a prize melt ! Its programmed the two eos' onto led 3 and 5 respectively which isnt ideal but i dont care at the moment, i just want the system to work full stop. Wonder why its done that ?

Morning chaps , uncle newmarket is here to pick your brains again This time its a question for who uses or has used the attx v1 receiver and dongles. I've aquired a v1 receiver and a couple of dongles and i've been trying to programme my eos x alarms into the receiver so that i can use it on my overnighter this weekend but i'm having problems. Once the receiver is switched on and all the led's are lit up , the instructions say to hold down the button at the side of the receiver and "beep" the first alarm till the first led goes out. Then , whilst still holding down the side button, "beep" the second alarm and so on....... Trouble is , ive taken "beep" to mean "switch on" , when i switch on the first eos nothing happens at all. The first led on the receiver remains lit and nothing changes . I dont think i'm doing it correctly , anybody out there got any ideas ? Or am i doing it correctly and just got dodgy batteries in the dongles ? I've had a good look through the search facility nick

Thanks fellas , that's why I love this forum so much . Never a shortage of friendly advice and suggestions . Especially on a subject that does get a lot of coverage . Unlike some places .... Hope there's plenty more to come too

Thank you nige you've hit the nail on the head The 25lb stiff link won't thread through the eye of the hook so it looks like a lower breaking strain material is in order. Trouble is , SO I'M TOLD , this means that the hook link won't be as stiff and therefore won't sit up properly off the bottom ? So what's your take on this mate , would you use a bigger hook and Therefore a bigger bait and so on ? Or is somebody pulling my plonker ? Physics was never my strongpoint and rig mechanics go whoosh ! Straight over my head