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13 hours ago, OldBoy said:
The TLB had a speaker and they discontinued it, not sure it needed a reciever to actually make a run tone tho??
It was discontinued because they bough the TLB+ out. I strongly suspect the TLB+ will be discontinued when the new ATT comes out.
14 hours ago, OldBoy said:As for loads of interest, well only thing I dug up was that youtube vid I posted ages ago, nothing on theirweb site lol
Not sure I follow you here. I'm talking about interest in the product from anglers. Not websites or advertising. Loads of guys on the bank are keeping an eye this.
14 hours ago, OldBoy said:I cannot see this being a winner, and in an odd way I hope it isn't...... just stick to the old skool stuff a lot of us old gits love about ATTs
Why would you hope the product doesn't succeed?
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57 minutes ago, OldBoy said:
tbh I just wonder how these 'improved' ones will actually sell?
It wont boost any sales tho imo.
I can guarantee you right now that they will sell. They've drummed up loads of interest.
It is a complete no-brainer to offer one with a speaker. For every guy that prefers the speakerless version, there's one that prefers a speaker. It's a win-win for them to offer both. Their only other remote alarm is based on a design that's nearly 30 years old (TLB+), and even that needs the ATT receiver.
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1 hour ago, Juan pablo said:
recently it's been very windy so the waters have been quiet rough. well after an hour i noticed my dark matter putty was gone from all 3 of my rigs........
I came up with this idea to shrinkwrap dropshots so I wont lose them again.
There's plenty of alternatives to putty and yours looks like an acceptable solution, but I'd be asking why it's disappearing in the first place. Are you fishing rivers with big flow? Wind on a lake shouldn't be enough to remove putty. Are there crayfish in the waters you fish?
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3 hours ago, kevtaylor said:
My mates got a fishing room, in progress - got ornaments of fish and everything lol
I'm hoping to get a few for the mantlepiece - perch, pike and zander, but they're all good, he's got nearly all including the super rare carp.
Believe it or not I can possibly beat that 😅
I have a full size faux taxidermy carving of the ex record carp, Two Tone, fully mounted in mahogany case. The centrepiece of my fishing room. There's a funny story that comes with it too.
I came across it on ebay. It was advertised as a carving so clearly not the actual stuffed fish. I bought it, knowing full well it wasn't real, for the fishing room and thought I'd see if I could find some info on it. I posted it on the old Anglers Forum but no-one could tell me anything about it. But, the Anglers Mail got in touch and asked to do an article on it. Me being me, I told them I don't really want to be in a magazine, and turned them down.
So rather than just leave it.... they made a story up. They published an article, using the picture I'd posted on the Anglers Forum, that said the buyer had purchased it thinking it was the real thing i.e. the actual stuffed Two-Tone. The cheeky gits. Naturally, I went back to them and called them scum of the earth A) for making the story up, and B) for stealing my photo. Needless to say they never replied. This was maybe 10 years ago but the story was still available online not long ago.
I just Googled it and found the image but the link no longer works.
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I got a Korda Spring Bow net delivered last week. I have a thing about real decent nets and have inadvertently amassed a bit of a collection. It drives the Mrs mad. A pal of mine showed me his Spring Bow a while back and I was well impressed so I've had a search set up on fleabay/marketplace for a while. The right deal finally came up so it's now racked up with the various Dymags and Chris Brown nets in the fishing room, much to the Mrs' annoyance.
I'll use it on my next session out of principle and then decide if it replaces the Dymag mk2 I tend to use most of the time.
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16 hours ago, salokcinnodrog said:
To be honest complete numpty error.
Agreed. I'd not even noticed the swivel on the leader on until you mentioned it! Absolutely shocking set-up.
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On 20/06/2025 at 16:36, Golden Paws said:
I'll be storing them in some strong tupperware boxes from now on!
Worth having a look at the Rat Bag - it's an air-drying bag made from light chainmail with a velcro opening. Completely rodent proof. They used to be sold by a small independent company in 2 sizes - I got both and they're absolutely brilliant. A little while back OMC bought the firm out and started selling them as an OMC branded product. I'm not sure if OMC still do them (can't see them on the website) but there's certainly still stock available online if you Google 'OMC Rat Bag'.
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18 hours ago, kevtaylor said:
I use lead clips all the time and will continue quite happily
Me too.
On the water I'm fishing there's no way you'd be able to fish a running rig. If the fish takes lines on the take you're halfway to losing it already such is the severity of the weed.
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9 hours ago, elmoputney said:
are you going to ban the magic twig on your water?
Yeah nothing from OMC allowed onsite 😆
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Well as purchases go they don't come much more exciting than a new home and a return to my beloved Nene Valley. Carpy in more ways than one; I'll be 3 miles way from the Valley itself and there's also koi to 30lb+ swimming around in the back garden! Offer was accepted on Friday so now I just pray that nothing goes wrong and we're not waiting too long.
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1 hour ago, emmcee said:
Regarding the soaping, I'd never heard of it until I got on dinton. There were a couple of anglers who I found out were right nasty towards other anglers. I got told by one of their good "friends" that they would often soap swims that were fished week in , week out by particular anglers. If the certain swims held fish because of a weed bed then they would "napalm " the swim (drop aquatic weed killer bombs) into the swims. When I look back there were certain anglers that would fish the same swims week in , week out and catch fish for it to suddenly die a death.
Proper savage that mate. It's just fishing!
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9 hours ago, kevtaylor said:
What would others have done?
Tricky one that mate.
I think if the choice was fish the spot or walk away, I'd have just fished it in front of the guy. I don't think it's fair to ask him to move, but maybe when he saw your lines were cutting the bay off, he may have decided to move himself anyway. Sure it gives the spot away, but it's better than having to walk away imo.
Very frustrating. I'd fully expect him to pop round and ask where your lines were in that situation. Poor show.
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Managed to get over to the syndi this week. Tough going but I managed to get on them eventually. Spotted 3 of the bigguns so was pretty excited. Had to wait until an hour before home to get the bite..... a little fully about 10 lb 🤣. Chucked it back without a pic.
Just on pack up I got another take.... lost it in the weed🤦♂️.
Such is life. Roll on next month for more punishment.
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35 minutes ago, elmoputney said:
you could try going the total opposite and bait really heavily.
That would be my first port of call. Find a proper, clean spot, near some carp. Fill it in, present over it. There's 200 carp in there. There's a massive hit to be had somehow.
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10 hours ago, jules007 said:
A bailiff told me Ronnie rig with small 12mm pop up and just a a small amount of freebies (6-12 boilies) around said hookbait but cant help thin that 90% of anglers are using and suggesting Ronnie as its the "Vogue" rig this year.
Take what you will from this. You might say that the bailiff should not be ignored, after all they know the water as well as anyone. On the flip side, doing what others suggest takes away from what really matters which is figuring the place out. I have to say that not using a rig because it's in vouge is completely illogical. By all means try to be different, but if you're going to avoid using a rig at least have a good reason for it.
10 hours ago, jules007 said:Canadian pondweed is rife, its really hard to find a spot to fish due to the weed, clear patches are few and far between.
This makes it even more important to find them.
2 hours ago, jules007 said:tried a session with lobworms on a korda maggot clip, still blanked
Chopping and changing isn't likely get you anywhere until you understand what your problem is. There are a million things you could change but it could take months to find the right one. Your best piece of tackle is your eyes. You need to be changing what you do based on what you observe, not just a whim or a hunch. You've not mentioned on this thread if you've been on feeding fish on your sessions. That's the first thing that matters.
You have a half decent starting point in that you know what doesn't work i.e. what you've been doing. To be honest, based on what you've said so far, I strongly suggest that finding a few spots is all you need to do. A good spot can turn a difficult lake into an easy one so you just need to know where they are.
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10 hours ago, jules007 said:
3.5 acre lake with a stock around 200 head of fish, it should be a runs water!
You're doing something wrong mate - you just need to figure out what it is. You mentioned earlier in the thread you were chodding it. Have you considered getting down there for a day and marking up properly i.e. find proper, clean, fed-on spots?
They're just carp mate, they are catchable, you're just missing a piece of the puzzle.
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Only time I'll recast at bite time is if I know I should have had a take, but it's not happened.
9 hours ago, kevtaylor said:It does feel wrong watching people re-baiting and recasting late evening when they've had all afternoon to do this?
I love to see this personally! I make sure to have any spodding/baiting done in the early afternoon. If everyone else starts doing the same in the evening I just chuckle as the fish are pushed to the only quiet spot on the lake i.e. in front of me!
It's not uncommon for me to bait up then go on a wander or chat with other members. As long as the rods are clipped up ready to go I'm happy to keep the swim free of lines for a while.
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18 minutes ago, kevtaylor said:
They've also requested and been given the access codes to my current syndicate complex - which is a first according to the manager.
So basically, syndicate anglers that see no benefit from license funds are now covering the cost of the EA checking the licenses of syndicate anglers that see no benefit from license funds!!!!!
I always get my license and have zero problems with the price when I'm fishing open access waters - clubs for example. However, in the last 20 years I've fished several syndicates and none of them have benefited from any reinvested license funds. No benefit at all. £50+ then seems expensive!
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Awesome @kevtaylor.
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4 minutes ago, elmoputney said:
sticks and bits of cane
Tank aerials 😅
Supermarket type liquids
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Me too, depending on what I'm trying to achieve.
A decent bait shouldn't need boosting as such imo. If the carp find a decent bait, they should eat it. If they don't, it's the wrong bait or the wrong time of year. For me, the purpose of glugging in hydros is simply to pull the carp in i.e. help them find your bait. To optimise this you want them as stacked full of those free aminos as possible - so they pump them out stronger, for longer. Mixing with water will just alleviate those food signals, and reduce the amount of time those signals are pumped out.
There is a place for water for certain applications (such as washing-in with glugs/saturating to prevent or slow down the taking on of silt for example), but for attraction you want it neat imo.