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Satay sauce is basically thinnned down peanut butter, probably thinned down with fish sauce or soy and coconut milk or something, I like eating it too much to waste it on fish though 😂

I went through that too when I restarted. I've had about 5 sets of rods in the last 6 or 7 years, sonik, wychwood, daiwa, sonik, free spirit, In my opinion you are best off just buying the set you really want now and save yourself going through loads of cheap rods. I had 10ft 3lb soniks and within about 6 months of use they had gone a bit soft. Also the weather is now turning in your favour, just stick at it, find the fish, bait them and you will catch them,

I saw those cheap on ebay recently.

Cork handles always seem to get damaged in my experience. Too easy to take a chunk out of them or they go out of shape after sitting in butt grips or whatever.

I have never used them but someone told me they were decent for the money, probably better than all the soniks etc in that price bracket. For £85 you could get some free spirit helicals, which will be decent.

Phwooar nice reels matey 😉

Also gemini booms are good, but I'm like you with your bait, they are a lot more expensive to use, and the length is fixed so if you need to adjust you are stuck.

Krimps can be very useful, it's up to you if you want to use them or not but they do have some great uses. I am sure you have tried them for more than just booms though, they are great for making shorter chods and hinge rigs, because you don't need to knot them you can easily control the height and make them much shorter than knotting. And let's be honest trying to knot 25lb mouth trap nicely can be a right chore. Not with krimps 👍

I've bought 2 shimano reels since my return to fishing and I've not been happy with either of them. Like you say the quality has dropped. I wouldn't buy another one tbh. I'm okuma all the way now tbh, great reels for the money the 8k is a great big pit reel, smooth, great line lay the drag is perfect and they handle anything I throw at them. They are the epitome of Elmo Proof. I was looking at the new versions of the big bomber spod reel last night the 8000 has a 128cm retrieve, if and when the rooblinos let's me down I will probably upgrade to one of these, then I can clean up the aerlex put the dodgy S clip back in and someone will still pay me loads for it, because it's shimano 😂

Check out temu, I just picked up this bad boy for £22.96 I've been waiting for the right deal on this for ages and they knocked off £11 for me. And it's got lid ice packs.

Excuse my ignorance but. What is that???

Wow😍 😍😍😍 that is next level, congrats Mr Guns that is a mega stunning beauty. Well done Yonny for making it happen too it would have been criminal not to share this one 😏 good luck for the rest of the trip 👍

You can always tell when someone is lying, proving it can be tougher, surely they walk each lake once a day? Would be it be too hard to print out all the bookings on the complex and check them daily?

Good luck matey, hope it's a memorable one.

Kind of like a Chelsea smile???? It's why I stopped using uncoated braid, it happened to me. Now I've got the double beep shock rig I can use any rig I want with a mesh bag, usually a spinner tbh 😉if it ain't broke and all that.

I can't help thinking supple uncoated braid causes damage, especially if you have a big lead swinging about 4 inches from the fishes face, but yeah most fish on my syndicate with mouth damage came from when the lake used to be a match lake, we are now trying to catch them ones and retire them to another pond.

Yeah I dont doubt it won't be perfect, just really an experiment to see whether a £20 reel will be up to the job, if its OK I will use it, if it annoys me I haven't really lost much and will swap back to the aerlex or buy an okuma or something.

Aerlex isn't all that tbh, I've never really felt it was a great reel it does the job now I've taken the S clip out of the bail arm but it's not brilliant, at the moment this 20 quid reel feels smoother,and nicer, whether it will stay that way remains to be seen. My okuma 8ks are miles ahead of the aerlex . They have brought out a new aerlex and it looks exactly like all the other shimano reels. And is now £120 looks like they have rebadged the speed master.

I think it will bed down a bit tbh after a couple of casts, it went on quite loose, but I might have done a few extra turns than I should I do agree 😂

This is my £20 Rooblinos ngk 8000 that I bought off temu, I've spooled it up with 35lb angryfish purple braid with Gardner shock leader and I will be putting it through its paces sometime to see how it handles the business of spodding, it has some plasticky bits but feels pretty smooth and the line lay doesn't seem bad, it's slow oscillating and a nice long spool, it has sealed bearings and carbon drag washers + a 20kg drag but will it be true to it's spiel and be Elmo proof or will I need to switch back to the battered old Aerlex after it explodes. Only time will tell..........

I have one true green and 2 clear with green wheels, true green is better, but initially got a really good deal on clear before I broke one falling over 😂

Well that contradicted me then 🤣 What colour are yours B B?

I think the only difference is the LED, but not too sure for definate, you could email Gardner if you want to know for sure, I've only had the underlit so I think it's preference, I would definately advise on the deluxe receiver though, Sometimes the underlit can be hard to see in the daylight if you just get a single beep(good at night though) , and the single led to the side might actually be more visible in that situation but I tend to look at the receiver if I can't tell.

Much less ploppy than a spomb really weren't they,certainly could be more stealthy, I have used one from time to time I got a sky raider a couple of years ago, it never took much to get the contents stuck in them though, well all the spod spill would come out obvs 😂

Good idea, I've been toying with the idea of zigs and floaters this year and not dropping a spomb right on their head seems a good idea 😉