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That's what a few reviews said, but I ordered one anyway should be fine for me I think I'm only using short sticks

Is that also a matrix piledriver ? Is that a good piece of kit?

Wouldn't that send you mad though constantly checking they were still level, at least with a spirit level you could lock In the car or something 😏

That's kind of why I thought a marker may leave more of a smell if they can smell your fingers and stuff 👍 But that is good to know they wouldn't 😁

The only thing that puts me off using a permanent marker is that I wonder if they can sense the smell of them? I don't know that it would matter but it's just something I've thought about 🤔

😁 Thing is you have to look at them a lot while your fishing, and it just eats away until you get annoyed that it's not level, I actually got annoyed just as darkness was descending, I had started recasting them all and it just lolloped to the right so I had to sort it out and rechuck them all as I felt I may have moved them a bit, then in the morning when I got the take they moved again 😫 Is a spirit level going too far or is this an item that can be used but just not talked about 😅

Just thought I would add a couple more pics from my last trip, now everytime I see that last pic and a lot of my rod shots I get so annoyed with the wonkyness 🙄 I think I may have to get an auger of some description, I keep hearing Iain Macmillan saying "you won't catch sh1* if your rods aren't level" 😁 Even the tension poles look a bit wonky 😭 It never used to worry me but it is definately becoming an issue that needs addressing 😬

I have some gravel pb jelly wire and I also think it's a bit light coloured but would probably still use it Didnt Rob Hughes do an underwater video about the colour of the bottom? I seem to remember watching something

I think the main thing I like is for braid not to be a solid colour that way it should blend in better, unless it looks blatent in the margins I wouldn't worry I tested the esp camo sink link in the margins the other day dissapeared completely, I am colour blind though 😁😁😁

If you are still planning on fishing at st Ives, you will find the bivvy tramps books interesting if you haven't read them already 👍

Jamie Clossick wrote one of his I think,

Did you see this one they are releasing?

There are other ways of making a similar set up in black on the cheap I think 👍 bare with me I'll do some research

Any old black buzz bars would do if you have any? Then all you need is the threaded uprights and a couple of small banksticks possibly available in black

I may be able to grit blast them at work which might be easier, dunno if I want to paint them black though, not when you can buy black singles it would need to be different 😬😁😉 I can feel a project coming on 😁

Kind of slight variation on the Std ones you can get,as I am using a goalpost front bar and a narrow buzz bar rear and other bits I had, the quality isn't all that I don't think really needs a proper tap and die cutter set running over them to make them better, the threads are a bit poo on them. Probably good 10 ten yarders but I just know they will annoy me 😁

My stainless bits arrived yesterday while I remembered how stinky winky the quality is just set them up in tip run required corner, I don't think I will like them for long as my buzz bar bag now weighs more than my bed 😁 but quite happy with the rake on the set up and they seemed sturdy enough time will tell but will probably end up wanting to buy some quality items eventually 😅

Cheers guys I think I've gone off the idea of the alarms today now 😂 I did read a lot of good ones about the S9 though so maybe they are a little better, but I may just stick with the soniks they haven't let me down yet

That's not so good I think the S9 seems a lot more simple, with less to go wrong on them but thanks will do more digging

I'm also starting to really like these indicators 😬 and really cursing myself for mainly having stainless set ups 😁I can't decide if it would be criminal on stainless to use these or if I care enough to worry, functionally they look good and they are quite pretty 😁

I'm staying to quite like the look of the S9 alarm set tbh, they look quite decent I think, have lots of different features that can be all controlled via phone or the reciever

You can just buy one of there power banks and leave it attached to them 😁

I bought a new net recently, I've got a Sonik S1, It's a bit of a heavy weight one in comparison 998g 😬 But I thought it was light compared to my old one, that must've really been on the pies 😁 Although actually looking the pack weight is 998g too so may be lighter it came in a big old box 🤔

They are now rechargeable ones which is quite handy I think,

For some reason the pervert in me wants some delkims ev-d or Nevilles or something, im not ready to commit 550 quid to a set but I fancy a change 😑 Has anyone used the ND tackle dongles £71, for 3 dongles + receiver which is less than half price of the gardner set up? But are they any good? I am slowly coming round to the idea of needing dongles and the fact they are cheaper from ND makes it acceptable just abiut ☺️, I can't see any other alarms I want really other than Nevilles or the delkims at present, but I think most people will say Delks are better alarms with the vibration sensing thing