elmoputney

Hi guys I want to get my kids a couple fo 6ft rods either sonik or more likely the tackle box darent Valley ones for France, I'm struggling to decide which reels to go with them, These seem OK in theory, simple, light enough, cheap but will they be any good? https://www.fishingrepublic.co.uk/15988430/shimano-fx-4000-fc-15988430 The thing I like is no anti reverse or stuff they will mess with, so all they do is cast and reel in, if anyone has any suggestions needs to be 4000ish size, I would go for okuma Inc6000 if they were for me (sometimes they will be😂) but I want to keep the weight down for them, and also don't want to spend a fortune on kids reels Thanks in advance Elmo

Glad you bought this up I've fallen right off the wagon of late, I'm doing more longer dog walks but my diet is pretty bad hopefully we can use this as some good motivation and I can get started again Good luck with your effort hope it goes well keep posting up and I'll try and do better with you 👍

Sounds like a plan to me I think, if I get one more night in I'll be happy but I'll be fine if I am a planning something for autumn, I am taking the kids pole bashing Friday if the weather is OK, we're gonna try hookable pellets with pellet freebies this time, specimen pole fishing, hopefully it will be a bit slower than maggots that's exhausting 😀

Yeah it's tricky to find an area to prebait tbh at the moment I think I need to make my own spots out of the weedy kinda overlooked ones but it is hard to do without getting spotted, a good day's raking and regular baiting could get me a nice fresh zone for autumn though I guess, perhaps that's what I need to do get ready for France and just do some prep work for a few afternoons, still have a lot of pellet and pigeon conditioner to make a prime zone

I have to try and sneak one in when I can tbh but I wasn't feeling it and I just thought no point wasting my time,I wasnt prepared, I didn't have any leaders or pellets for bags and I had just got it wrong I think, I just thought I could be at home with the kids maybe get some extra credit for another time and have a day with them rather than being tired for no good reason, I did only go 2 weeks ago so I wasn't desperate yet and I am only 6 weeks from France, but I just couldn't be bothered, it had been a long day walking around the village fete and all that and I don't think I had the energy left to put in, hopefully it will mean I can try again soon 🤣 Well done on persevering I think maybe if I had seen something it may have made a difference, but It's funny I thought that same thought that I need a back up plan, I did think about one of the other lakes on the complex but I felt rude as some of the others have been doing a lot of work on it lately, I have done a bit of raking on there, but I just would have felt a bit cheeky 😳 Thanks everyone it did make me feel bad thinking I've never done that before but I don't think it was a bad decision in hindsight, I will just be better prepared next time, dim going to make up some leaders and bits this week so I am ready for anything 👍

Does anyone else ever do this? Last night I turned up late to find most pegs sewn up apart from a few, I walked round it all, went back to the car moved round the other side only to be met with 5ft of weed and no clean spots, I thought if I set up 3 Chods it will be dark and i'll just be pub chucking anyway into thick weed, so I packed up and came home, I'm sadly lacking a back up plan at the moment, think I need to Don the waders and get the rake out when I can

I mainly use proper jobs these days they seem to work pretty well with bait screws always nice and consistent

The switch are meant to be a mix of the two and are meant to change but I'm not sure tbh I think they help a bit but being overwraps I think going over glasses makes them lose some qualityand maybe definition it may be my old man eyes though they've had a tough life lol , I think if you need prescription glasses then prescription Polaroids would be the best choice, I will get some one day

Not really I still prefer normal non spinny bait screws though,the metal ones from bank tackle are as good as any I find,

Who's been putting a wigs worth of hair down the plughole crusian?

I've had the Amber and now got the switch over wraps I'm not gonna lie they help a bit but they aren't as good as my old prescription maui Jim's, I will go for prescription ones next time I am colour blind though and I can't help thinking twin lenses reduces the quality

That's a massive one, congratulations 🎉🎉

I'm currently listening to a brilliant book, The ragged trousered philanthropists by Robert Tressell https://librivox.org/the-ragged-trousered-philanthropists-by-robert-tressell I'm on chapter 29 only started yesterday 😮

Have you got too much line on the spools that may make it go curly? I would try using wrap sticks and just stretch it out a bit using them also wet it first may help 👍

Goalposts and buzz bars will much more sturdy than a pod, a properly inserted bank stick won't move on the most extreme takes, pods will, I also think buzz bars just look smart, and as we all know, if your rods ain't level you might as well go home

I use matrix blackout sticks and buzz bars, and they are lovely, I've used cheap ones before and like you have found they don't really last, best thing I bought though was a matrix piledriver that will, dig a hole anywhere for your sticks, I made the mistake of buying cheap stuff and quite often it doesn't last, worth spending a bit I think

I can vans and cars ruining the vista and blocking the tracks annoy me and when people are with vehicle they also open and close them all the time and slam the doors to make sure they are shut and worse drive past your bivvy, When in Rome though, i don't see why I should be the only one pushing a barrow 😂

I agree with yonny, solid bags use a wafter or bottom bait tbh, good method though can be devastating, we all tend to think about it before a session but you have to go with what you see really and try and give yourself the best chance on the day, it's OK to have an idea, but don't make it your only option

I think korda have done those too I saw a one more cast multi tool that looked pretty smart though

Yep, I got fed up looking at prestige stuff in the end, i wanted a mk2 for ages as I had one years ago, but they never seemed to be in stock anywhere and when they did get stock they had bumped up the prices quite a lot, In the end with prices and everything factored in the Mk2 with luggage and bits it was the worst deal out of the 3 I had shortlisted, I went for the trakker and don't regret it yet

You can also get diawa ext ones, only from total fishing tackle though as they are exclusive to them deal, and the other ones seem to be more expensive, I love my 12 footers light, slim, minima guides very nice budget rods worth a look anyway https://www.total-fishing-tackle.com/daiwa-crosscast-ext-tt-rod

To be fair when I was looking at prestige barrows a while ago, they had already increased the prices quite a lot, and they never seemed to be in stock in a lot of shops, can't do any harm I don't think

Excellent read, and well done catching that many in a session, have you thought about trying a blatent pop up rig that may help you get through to the bigger ones and maybe slow down the bites a bit

Baitworks mentioned the huge increase in raw material cost on their podcast last month so it must be all around, I've been looking for some deals for my holiday but they don't seem to be there at the moment so I think it will be affecting them all and I guess you have to wonder if some companies will be forced to leave Ingredients out or at lower levels to combat this? I blame Bozo for everything 👍

They've just added the cost of getting brexit done,