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Been ordering some bait and bits ready, I have in stock or soon to be in stock 25kgs skrettings 11mm 15kg boilies 7kg ish tigers 5kg ish of dry pigeon Conditioner To get 15kg Vitalin +more pigeon mix when I run out That ought to be enough, I wanted more boilies but I also need to be sensible for now, but there should be enough to keep them going and get some spots rocking hopefully otherwise I may just cry 😁

That would also work well cheers 👍

Nice one cheers guys I knew there would be a cost effective solution, will get searching, I could probably lash some up with a coat hanger or something thinking about it 😂 Just drill a couple of holes right through a lead, bend the coat hanger wire and zip tie it for extra strength, I am imagining a 6 pronged pear lead right now for extra tough weeds 😁

I did a double uni knot but i think the mahin knot looks much better cheers I will try that next time, i think the leader knots are tbings I need to do more of as I tend to use loops for everything those days 😲

Hi guys I have discovered I really like having a couple of these around as they are useful, I've been using the fox ones but at nearly 8 quid a pair I don't like losing them 😣 I lost one today 😭 I mean the 4 pronged ones BTW grappling leads Does anyone know where I can get some that are cheaper please?

Well I used it today, because I tend to use my heavy spod rod for a couple of other things like weed raking and stuff I found out it wasn't up to the extra tasks 😭 I trimmed it down to 5 turns and then it snapped at the knot after accidently sticking my castable weed rake into some heavy weed, Will get some spod braid I think it's probably cheaper in the long run 😂

Well that's something I got right then I did that perfectly 😂 I think I misread its grim up norths post and thought he put 40m on lol, I thought that's a lot let's go for 25m 😁 I should think if I remove half of it should be about right, can put the other bit on my lightweight spod rod 🤔 Whoops, it's been one of those days today 😁

Been to my vintage collection today xl pocket rockets ftw 😂

I've already got 2 Rod lengths of leader pulled out, is that too much, I got carried away, and aimed for 25m but think I may have overcooked it 🙄 I also just went for 15lb and cleared up some old Spools I had left over it's a bit of a lash up but it should work 😁

That's perfect look how many deals nick has 👍

I think I might need a new bedchair unless anyone knows a repairist preferably local to me in sunny cambs Got it out to sit in the garden and it just split when I sat on it, it's now unusable it's my cyprinus camou one, I have messaged them so will see what they, I still have the old Jrc one but that gives me backache still even with the zip ties Does anyone know a repairist? I may be back for requests, I am quite sad though as this was light and pretty comfortable 😔 They have stopped making them now I think too

No its not the same then, i think you are allowed to say which bait you use can't you? Does look a nice fish though looks a bit Italian to me but I am not expert on strains, I'm like cillit bang better on stains 😁

Is that carpy Co? I used there bait for a bit last year

I am in between spombs at the moment my hooky one doesn't work needs a mod I think (edit its in the pond somewhere near the big airbomb, forgot about that day 😢) , I have a midi airbomb, which would take too long for lots of bait 😁 and a spod, spod is quickest and is easiest to fill, if I can just lessen the spill perfect tool for the job 👍😁 Also I am not too bothered spod spill will help with better line lay, honest 😁😁

After a lot of spod spill with the pigeon Conditioner yesterday(some accidently brilliant though I might add baiting 2 spots at once 😁) I figured the easiest thing to do is add some vitalin with the excess water, to make it stodgier, should work a treat I think, I've tried to plant the seed for a couple of early morning mobile sessions sessions rather than a Saturday night this week, my plan try and be there for morning bite time then just do a bit more spot finding work and baiting up then home by lunch in the hope I can nick one and do some good prep work, and still get some brownie points for the future 😂

I'm an ideas man, I just always struggle with delivering them, I was also never cut out to be a midwife or postman 🙄

I thought 12lb may be better might help get a few extra yards, Nice one thanks was thinking about the same but I am going to be using Gardner kinetic

Hopefully as far as I can cast 😁 Probably not further than 100yards haven't needed to yet tbh

We could sell those ones like footballers always stand In front of with Nike and carlsberg etc, but with a Camo background and insert your own sponsorship deals here, would be great for the fishing industry and us 😁 We could also sell the seaside ones where you just hold the fish and put your face through a hole and it's like your an old strong man holding a fish 💪😂

We all do that don't we 🤔I always want to try and work out where the fish is being being held aloft from that's good angling isn't it 😂

Me :I've caught one mate you couldnt come and help us with the photos could you,? Imaginary friend :Yeah course I will Me :Cheers I need a bouquet from Morrisons the £10 ones, she's well worth it 😂😁

Always like to find some sense foliage, if I ever get to catch another wouldn't mind trying to get some flowers in the shot 😂

That makes sense I guess, I popped over today, ended up clearing a tonne of weed out of a swim in the vein hope I can make 3 spots from it, I never realised just how much was in there, I was meant to do a quick bait up and do the shopping,I had to shop later on after the opticians lol, took ages and I still don't think I've got it all, I might have to Don the waders next time, still spodded a load of pigeon Conditioner over the areas in the hope it gets things started, will have to do that again a few times I think before its ready for action, i disturbed something massive though made a couple of big swirls, may have been a cat I think, or an alligator didn't look like a carp, The way I thought was that 2 nights before should leave enough time to clear me out then I could just top up enough for a bite at a time when fishing, and include the hookbait, the spot I did today is pultable so fairly easy to get right, I do think maybe get the spots gleaming a bit first might not be a bad idea though reckon they could be silty for a while, lots more particles required first I think, For a while today I thought about keeping a few swims going lol, I think 2 or 3 may be too many, if they all need that much work, the weed rake worked well though and I had a good workout win win 😂

Thanks, I will give it a try see how I get on with it, I think it should certainly be more user friendly to cast with I think 👍

Ummhing and ahhhing about what to use for pre baiting My initial plan was 3 times a week Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday and I was thinking heavy with particles Sunday (pigeon Conditioner) , lighter with bigger particles, maybe just maples, nuts or pellets, and some boilies Tuesday, then just boilies Thursday so there is usually something there but getting towards fishing time it's mainly boilies so they probably will be gone so I am not fishing over much old bait But then I keep thinking about the pesky nuisance fish, millions of rudd, some tench and bream, so while they might help me clear some spots they would probably also eat most of the particles and pretty dammed quickly too, those rudd are everywhere, just boilies would slow this down but would also make spot clearing harder work, then comes the finacial impact of just boilies, I can't afford much more than 20kg of boilies this month so if I was to just to do that I am probably only looking at a few handfuls of bait per spot per visit not sure that will make much of a difference I can handle feeding the tench and bream with some particles or pellets if it helps get enough bait out but want to avoid those pesky rudd who are a right nuisance unless the kids are there 😂 You can also get 25kg of skrettings pellets for 35 quid I could use a liquid to get the right signals on them at least and 11mm ones should be rudd resistant ? Any thoughts will be considered I would like to use quite a lot of bait over the next few weeks I think, Having written this all down I am starting to think pellets might be easier to work with quickly, as they don't need a lot of prep, can be pulted, spodded, spooned and will breakdown, but at least the carp have an option to get there first, and alongside boilies and chops etc I can make the signals go a bit further, I can always just start the spots with a load of pigeon Conditioner and work from there hmmm