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1 hour ago, OldBoy said:
Just an update on this post....
Last week one of my old ATTs started to play up after many years of trouble free service, bit of a bodge job to get battery chamber working again but now doesn't seal properly! 😕
Anyway, out of curiosity last week I emailed Gardner via the web site about any release date for the new alarms, no response - probably not surprised tbh.
Actually wondering if they will ever appear?
You can get new seals and parts for them have a look on ebay.
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4 minutes ago, kevtaylor said:
Gonna have to get on this, just gotta do it quietly. was thinking of taking the rake out on the baiting pole for stealth if it will take the weight. When I saw my spots last week in good light I realised anyone would have found them on the right day, so no doubt I'm fishing the usual spots, not finding anything new at all - doh!
Tbh most people just think you are an idiot for making that much disturbance, if you can do it without being spotted it does help though. But most people tend to be doing their own thing and slaves to other swims, so you can get away with it to some degree. Pellets are good for spot clearing as they tend to suck up the smelly silt once you have raked and make your spot smell like it's been shake n vac'd, it's all you have to do.........
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34 minutes ago, yonny said:
This is different to a mallet imo. Raking means so much more than clearing a spot. The naturals you release during raking serve as the ultimate attractant imo. They carp are bound to come back in.
I've raked perfectly clear presentable silt spots and you see fish coming in no time at all. They absolutely love it.
Fortunately most people cannot be bothered to rake these days, preferring to look for existing spots or moaning about the weed, last time I fished I raked a margin spot and the next morning it had regular visitors, the only reason I didn't catch was I reeled it in with a big rudd that had impaled itself on the size 4, I went and cleared a couple of spots this week with a view to fishing this weekend, hopefully the bait and freshly cleared spots will have the fish visiting regularly cleaning them up for me. If I still can't get a drop I know they haven't, I baited a hole in the weed somewhere else also so I have options.
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Some serious hauling going on.
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8 minutes ago, emmcee said:
A lot of swims on dinton were rock hard, topped up with road plainings. I often smacked the pegs in with a mallet to the sometime amusement and sometimes anger of fellow fishermen.
On one occasion I set up opposite two mates who decided to hurl abuse at me and call me a "noddy" across the lake for ruining their fishing, my reply was simple "how many 40's you had?". The reply was, silence 🤣. Unless you're fishing right in the edge i personally believe it has no affect, though especially so on a lake like dinton where dogs are jumping in all the time, kids throwing stones etc, the carp ain't bothered by it.
Bang a peg in, it might bring the fish in. 🤣
I must admit last time I fished I really went to town with the weed rake and still caught the same night. That should probably scare them more than a quick bang with a mallet. It's not like you have to bang them all in usually.
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45 minutes ago, kevtaylor said:
Bought a set of the Jag ones, it is your fault Elmo but they look great and the cross bar slides out so no more dog cable getting caught around them every 5 mins so worth it for that alone 👍
Not my fault. 😂
Would one work as a excavator for bivvy pegs?
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19 hours ago, emmcee said:
Ive seen campers use these pegs and use an impact driver to put them in. They don't budge i know that, but carrying a drill is a pain if you're fishing.
Might be a bit too formula one pit crew for fishing lol. I could go with a ratchet though. You might only need to do one or two. I would have been tempted to mallet the other day if I had one the ground was that tough.
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1 hour ago, framey said:
You would have thought a peg should be able to do its job without thinking about it
kind of like that picture they could use a set of wings or prongs like a fork on the top part of it that you can stand on at the end to give it a final push home once wound in as an added bit of security.
there ya go kev a proper bit of development that will keep the company afloat a while longer
You mean kind of like the magic twig where you push it in the ground and then the prongs come out and it gets stuck in weed 🤣
Facebook always knows. I haven't looked at tent pegs on there and this ad came up.
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Has anyone tried these type with a bolt type end? Obvs power drills are as bad as a mallet but was thinking might be able use a small rachet with the correct size socket.
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I am struggling with the usual heavy duty ones that bend when you try and put them in hard ground, has anyone got any good suggestions or a solution that don't cost £15 each peg please ?
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3 hours ago, yonny said:
Fantastic result Elmo. Great fish!
Thanks, was pleased with this one because it came from an area of the lake that had always beaten me for some reason. Something to build on now.
1 hour ago, salokcinnodrog said:Not sure about the biscuits but that is a heck of a fish, proper result.
Thanks I enjoyed both and the pack of custard doughnuts. I was proper lazy with food this week, brioche rolls, burgers at night, bacon in the morning, biscuits and doughnuts 🤣
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Finally got out and caught one this weekend. Got to the lake Saturday lunchtime to find only one other on. Had a look around in the island half of the lake and as usual found a few mooching about. It was really weedy everywhere so I continued walking, looking at the bigger end of the lake I just thought it looked good, whilst it was still very weedy.
I got the plumbing rod out to look for a spot I used to know. It still existed a bit but was a lot smaller. Did quite a lot of leading about and didn't find a lot else so raked a spot close in for a 3rd rod, one mountain of weed later it was done, flicked in a load of pellets to let the Rudd go to work, I stuck a rig on it straight away but a couple of hours and it had stunk out my pineapple pop up. Continued baiting it and left it for the morning.
2 rods went out to the bank of pads and weed onto a plateau baited with a good few spombs of boilie and pellet mix and just chucked the 3rd onto another clear spot I had found in the other side margin.
Nothing much happened until I was asleep and about 2am I had a series of beeps and line was being taken so I hit it and instantly it was weeded up, it came in like a big ball of weed for a while when it got free of that went nuts and found another weedbed, this continued for a while and I just kept trying to gain line, until it got to the weed In front of the swim I tried and failed to get it round the side and it locked me up solid. In the end my only hope was putting the rod down. Luckily after a vape I picked it up and it came free I ended up landing it and a free ball of weed.
Couldn't find my tripod, or water bucket, and my intervalometer batteries were dead so had to find some more of those. Luckily I could use a picnic bench that was in the swim as a tripod. Not the greatest photo but at 3am it was the best I could manage.
31lb 3oz of hard earnt carp. I also lost one to my line parting (happened straight away off a drop back) , caught a massive rudd on a size 4 pop up I had a couple of what I thought were liners because my raked spot was fizzing, sadly no takes because of the Rudd, and I also had a pretty big tench with weed ball also on a pop up.bith slipped back because I needed a nap, The trig hammer XT got a big test and passed with flying colours.
I had a little nap and came home a happy but tired and achey man.
These were the biscuit of the week in my world, they came alive when you dunked them. And pink what's not to love.
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1 hour ago, framey said:
Loook what’s just come up in my feed
lol
https://www.facebook.com/reel/728762759986002?fs=e&s=TIeQ9V&fs=e&fs=e
Ha ha Facebook always knows. As if anyone is that accurate 😳
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Little update on this fox 8ft thing, I haven't really used it for its intended purpose yet as I haven't really done much mass baiting other than with an x spod. However a couple of times like this morning it has proven very handy as an 8ft landing net handle. It was really weedy and the water level has dropped so the extra 2ft came in handy, I also used it when zig fishing and it helped. So if nothing else it is a great landing net handle when you need a bit more distance.
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It's a sticky bait called the legacy, seen Scott Lloyd using it in a video too.
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10 hours ago, kevtaylor said:
Blimey wasn't ready for that - shocker, nearly passed out - negativity about the man, unheard of! 🤣
Not seen it yet gotta get some popcorn in - he could say anything at this point lol coolest carper ever! ❤️
Got my esp bucket hat and Fortis waders, just need the knitted jumper 🤪🙌 oh and catch something 👎
I enjoyed it for balance.
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10 hours ago, salokcinnodrog said:
Put this in your memory, when you need to replace the line, take off around 300metres (80 odd wraps at 3.66m or 12ft, its actually just under at 292metres) and spool new line on top of it.
The only downside with that is how much you cut off, snap off during the life of the line. Every few sessions I cut mine back to fresher line as it wears or shows damage.
Thats why I like my yellow backing line just strip it to that and it works every time I've even changed between 0.35mm and 040mm Gardner lines and it uses 1 spool per 3 rods bang on for both.
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I like the claw hammers, I mainly use trig hammer XT at the moment though but they are a good n sharp wide gape style hook.