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Lucky boy, love good days like that, one of my neighbours recently moved and gave my daughter a pair of old 11ft daiwa sensor Z carp rods, they will be perfect to get her started. I've bought her a new reel for her birthday, hopefully she can get out and catch a few with me this year on them.

I really don't use D rigs often these days. The spinner is my main go to pop up rig. But for the odd time I do thinner ones work OK, I prefer them anyway as they are a bit more supple.

I quickly went through my rucksack this evening, i removed a dozen leads and that was about it,still have about 10 spares but it still feels quite heavy, but everything in there all seems to serve a purpose. My tackle box didn't seem that heavy, just a few things that weigh a bit combined. Will try and reduce all my other stuff next.

What type of rig are you trying to make? stiff link is good for booms, but not so easy to knot(it can be krimped) , mouth trap is good for chods and hinge rigs etc but I've found it tricky to use 25lb for d rigs as it doesn't always like going through the eye 3 times, I use 15lb mouth trap sometimes, and actually I mainly use 15lb boom for my spinner booms. If I am making a proper d rig I would use a fluorocarbon

You should try and book another trip while you have their sympathy, hopefully they will roll out the red carpet for you next time, sad to hear that though sounds like the people fishing it just removed it so they could fish it. That's the gamble with day tickets you never know who will turn up.

I did one trip at the social but it was a struggle lol, most of the time I don't need a barrow so it makes it easy to take extra stuff, I will get down to 1 bucket one day 😂

Are you gonna get it down to 1 trip now 😱😂

I need to have a trim down of what I take, my rucksack has got to the stage where it is heavy again. I don't know what I take that I don't need though 😂 Will have to get ruthless 😱

I've had mine a few years now, they still look mint I have underlit ones newest version I guess, they are the most reliable alarms I've ever owned, batteries last ages, you can buy all spares for them if the casing does get tired, I initially bought the standard receiver, and it was the one thing that I didn't like tbh, it always gave this weird double bleep for the first bleep, used to scare the bejeesus out of me, I switched to the deluxe and it's now perfect, so buy the deluxe one and save yourself going through that. But yeah still brilliant, I love them.

Hopefully you catch a few, that will make up for the disappointment of not being where you were meant too Good luck mate

I went for 300yds of purple angryfish celebrity in 35lb for a tenner, I also bought 4 sweatbands for 4 quid off amazon that I can soak and leave on my spools to keep my line moist between sessions. Thanks guys

Amazon have got this one? https://amzn.eu/d/iDRnwot

Probably 25 wraps or so opportune time. Yeah you are all right it's probably not a good idea and I should probably just stick to using a braid as I use mine as a marker rod too 😂 I found the gardner spod braid better than the one I am using now. Anyone found a really good one that doesn't get too many wind knots. Thanks guys

Anyone do this? I've been getting bored of wind knots in braid lately and was thinking I might try some mono with a shock leader, Thoughts please?

I think the thing to do before propolis is some kind of antisceptic spray then prop it to stop it getting infected but like you say, people just use propolis as a one stop shop, I just tend to use the gardner stuff. I don't think you are wrong though, I've never seen them go to the quacks after spawning. Not sure if they even have a GUM clinic 😅

You would somehow manage to get yourself trapped In it 😅 I've ordered a 6 pack off amazon coming today, looking forward to a mouse and bug free summer 😅

Just remember to not use a full bottle in the freezer or it will split when you freeze it 😏🙄😳 I did that with one of those metal water bottles it really tore it a new one. 😱

I use an NGT cool bag ridgemonkey and cutlery etc front pocket, gas and stove, side pocket, kettle other side pocket, main compartment full of donuts, biscuits and a dinner of sorts 😂 Brilliant bag for the money tbh, I've had others but ngt is perfect for what it does.

These sound quite good I also get false widows as well as mice trying to live in my garage and house.

Nah baiting pole would be more stealthy 😂

The OG BC from ITV 😂 Worm zig in its face, Surely irresistable?

I've been watching this instagram short and this comedian does post match interviews for things like dates and Christmas board games, it makes me chuckle so I thought I would do a fishing one 😂

Will do next time thanks for the tips. I think it's been a good learning curve this weekend. I made some mistakes but got the result, will regroup and be ready to go again next time,its a long season just got to kick on now and take the positives, and hopefully we can be there or there abouts at the end of the season 😂

Bought some more zig stuff today Atomic zig bugs and kickers red and black Thinking anglers barrels brown and black and some more size 8 hooks Some 12lb zig line I think I've caught the zig bug (get it)

Ha ha I somehow accidently turned vibration on this weekend I had to Google how to turn it off was doing my head in 😂 Nah small and simple love em, I get tempted by snag backs from time to time but haven't yet.