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This is the 11lbers tail 20lb4oz both sides The 15lber I regret not getting a proper photo with And the stunning 17lb blank saver Not a bad weekends work, shame about the other 3 nil pointers though, but a lot happier than before the 17lber this morning, I am convinced that first one I lost last night was one of the bigger ones, we will never know though so I will just have to try and catch it again sometime 😉

Only about 17lb but it was a stunner so I am quite pleased, got some nice snaps of it anyway,

I think I spoke to soon I have a pretty scaly one in the net 😁

And now a pike is all over my spot acting like an aerator to catch the rudd, gonna start packing up i think, doesnt seem like it's meant to be today

So far Well it's been a funny old night and not in a good way really, 1 hook pull 1 lost in the pads And a mid 20, which was foul hooked in the gut, must've been feeding over the bait or something and got nicked by the wafter rig (was treated and went back OK) Its been a totally different night and I've hardly slept, but I am going to have a cuppa and watch the sunrise,

Just looked at the bait room it says the shopping cart has been disabled, more like put in prison £30 for a tub of pop ups 😲🤯

Is it either specialized hookbaits or the bait room?

I just lost one to a hook pull,it felt like a decent one too 😭 they are out there though I am hopeful of more chances tbh , I will keep trying to keep the bait going in, I think I need to just slow it down and get some life family balance back I may or may not regret it but I have just put out quite a hit more bait 😬 I figure I've got to not be late home tomorrow let them feast tonight 😁

Which specialist hookbait company please? I tend to get carried away always nice when I can rule one out 😁

I'm allowed to go as long as I am back early 😁 Bait prepped put 6 spare cups in the glove box and my proper cup in the car 😂 Got to do a few bits then hopefully will be back by tea time 😬 Pre baiting can be tense if you think others will be using the swim,but you just have to accept it as part of the risk, I tend to hope now they may just accept my bait in other locations too, although that's not a given, its also not cheap lol I've gone through nearly 25kg of pellets, 25kg of pigeon Conditioner and 20kg of boilies now, I think I may slow it down though for a bit now after this weekend, spend some time with the family, 👨‍👩‍👦😁

Well back at home now, had to leave them fizzing away over a lot of bait 😭 20lb4oz, 15lb and a little 11lber very pleased with that I really want to go back tonight, testing the water presently must see if I can earn some serious brownie points today 😁 But they do say to make hay while the sun shines,

20lb 4oz lovely colours again though I seem constantly amazed how big twenties are still, I did think it was a mid 20 at least till I weighed it, if I ever catch a 30 I will think its a shark, hope one slips up soon 😁 3 20s in 3 overnighters I can take that though happy days

I made one out of an old water bottle 😂 Had a 15lb mirror in the night just did literally one mat shot and I had an occurance on my middle rod so I quickly put it back and struck into nothing,feel a bit bad this morning that I couldn't be bothered to photo it properly,although it had managed managed to take 2 rods off the dancefloor I managed to get one back on last night, 1but a quiet night after that, redone them all this morning and had a couple of savage liners, so there is hope still Just when I wrote that last bit the rod ripped off and there is now a chunky mirror in the net 😁

I knew it was going to well I forgot my mug 😁😁😁😁😁

Cheers buddy, hope you get out soon, Its weird I took my time setting up bivvy first , got everything ready, 4 casts to get 3 rods out, my catapulting couldn't have gone much better, I've seen signs, loads of fizzing to the left in the weed, if it doesn't happen tonight I may cry, I don't think I could've done that all much better tbh, even my reel handles are pretty straight 😁 I had best have a cuppa I think One just crashed out in the weed about 1 rod length behind the spot 👀👀

And breathe the swim is bucketed 😂

Its about obsession mainly this week 😁 Thanks guys, hopefully it pans out well 👍

Well is this going to be the day, I'm excited, nervous, tense, worried that the spot I've been baiting for a month will be taken when I get there, I can but try and pray it is free , it feels ready and I need to be there, bait is prepped, done some fresh rigs, charged everything, I will be getting there as soon as I can, praying those fish that visited the other day are keen for another feed, I feel a bit like braveheart ready for battle 😁 Now I've just got to get there, littlun has a stay and play at school then I'm hoping to sneak out this afternoon, this is what it is all about the buzz, the anticipation, I blooming love it 😍

Same 😁

I've really got into proper jobs lately I just find those seem to really work as they should smell amazing and I know they will still be up in the morning, I have yellow banana ones, Camo brown black pepper + ones,beige devil's dung and cheese, and white scopex special dumbells, at the moment I favour banana and BP+ though,

Kids and the misses caught Plenty of rudd and roach caught some pretty good ones too, biggest about 12oz or so, there were definate sightings of carp in the location and fizzing on my spot infact I've never seen it so alive 😭 had a few savage liners but no takes, next time isn't far away though and they look up for it 🤔

Going to finish off the school holidays with an afternoon rudd bashing, went to the seaside yesterday had a lovely day out bless em, been a funny old summer but they seem to have got through it, I am also hoping to place one rod on the dancefloor 😁

I did a slightly unusual defrost last week added a couple of cups of boiling water and glugged them at the same time and left them overnight,not. Enough water to cover them but enough to leave some excess, i was quite pleased with the result tbh bit washed out but oozing with gloopy stinky goodness then I soaked up the excess with pellets 😁

You could use just about anything to catch a fish, whether or not it will be good for it is another matter, if its a utility rod then it's probably branded as a spomb/marker rod to have one rod that is suitable for both uses, personally I think it may be quite stiff for use as a fishing rod and would guess the test curve is about 3.5lb to 4lb, I probably wouldn't if I didn't have to. but if needs must its a rod that will handle casting OK, I would play fish very carefully though as you may find you suffer hook pulls as it may be quite stiff Hope that helps 👍

There we go quite pleased with this one other than the leaf I didn't spot 🙄