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I can mainly drive to most swims now, but when it was flooded I had to use my barrow, I really regret selling my old Mk2 carp porter in the olden days, I ended up buying a cheap one when I started again, I've customised it with a new wheel and carp porter handles but it's still not a carp porter, and it's still not that great, I have to travel as light as I can when using it otherwise it flexes like a body builder In a gym mirror, A good barrow is a good investment tbh, but taking less stuff is still a good idea 😁

E liquid is pretty much glug with nicotine In it 👍

Depends what the warranty is like in comparison and stuff like that really, it looks similar and probably is but I noticed there feedback isn't outstanding and they sell some toot also

My lake opened back up today, after they spawned last week for a few days, I thought it was a bit soon, but I will be leaving it for another week or two at least I think, its given me some time to get the garden sorted, taking a leaf out the Highy book, 👍

Can't you just pop out for a Wigan kebab and a pee whet and say you got a free bait boat

I would assume the gate for the hopper isn't under enough tension to cut through the line tbh from all the vids I've watched of it most seem to do this tbh, I am getting really tempted to get one BTW lol

I had a break from fishing for a good few years, wrapping sticks were one of the inventions that happened while I was away, I am glad I bought them, I use them all the time now, makes life so simple tbh, I wouldn't be without them now 👍

I watched the Darrell peck wazing vid last night, one thing i took from it was how he used his gut to tell him to move, I know I've sat there thinking this isn't right before and not moved 😢

I had that Sunday more bubbles than a sodastream but they stopped and nothing happened turns out my rig was covered in dirty chod poo 💩

I always re wrap it is more accurate I think, 👍 I forgot to take my line out the clip and got a run off an angry mid double common last year, luckily I had good butt grips which helped, but it can be hard getting the line out of the clip when it's bowstring tight with an angry carp on the end 😳 Forgetting to turn the alarms volume back up is something I do quite often too 😂

That's good advice and something I've been known to fall foul of, Infact I've been guilty of it recently, 😁 You get blinded by where you want the fish to be and not where they are, and it's easy to not look about when you get like this, not only that you start to get quite precious about it, that was something I noticed last year, and didn't particularly like, also I got bored fishing the same peg after a while, it becomes like you are going through the motions, I had been baiting a swim for a few weeks recently and one time a guy came up wanting to fish it whilst I was baiting as he had been doing some time in there, he seemed a bit put out I had been doing it tbh, I just blew off 3 weeks work off and tried elsewhere 😔 I started off last year in a different peg each time and built up a picture that way I can now jump in a lot of swims and fish which helps, I tend to just do my own thing nowadays,don't race to get in the going swins, I will clear spots and swims that are overlooked by others and have a go, if nothing else I may learn something 😂 The main thing I think is to just enjoy it though, if you keep trying you will have your good days as well 👍

If you fish a quiet water don't tell anyone 😂

Maybe it was the way I was sharpening them or something, just something I thought might be a factor when I went through a run of them, I do feel more confident now using the J precision ones, they seem sharp and not overworked, and it hasn't happened since and hopefully won't again🤞🤞🤞🤞

I've just tried on my new wellies, they seem pretty good for the money and easy on/off so far, I daresay once they get sweaty and worn in, they wont be so easy to put on but I can slide my feet straight in with no hands, and they sit nicely below my calfs that'll do me for now, i might test them out today as I am going for a bait up

Nice n short hinged stiff rig, I'm going to need to bulk buy krimps 😂

Loop to loop multi combi 😳

I was just thinking don't tie the swivel onto the chod rig, leave a swivel on the leader, cut the old one off and crimp the new one in place 😂

I got the wychwood crimp set today and made my first hinged stuff rig with it, looks so smart, I am sold on it already I think 👍 Going to be able to make my Chods nice and short now too, it's a bit of a game changer I think and it will make them quick change 👍

I have due to something when I was snag fishing last year,and I was making sure my hooks were sharp, I just thought it was interesting that Danny was discussing what seemed a similar thing, and then he said he stopped using sharpened hooks when snag fishing, and he stopped getting so many hook pulls, he seemed to think the finer gauge under pressure may just cause little tears and come out, whereas an unsharpened hook would stay put

Then at a guess at the highest part the top bunk kids face will be about 50cm from the highest point of the bivvy I would think and probably touching it in places,

I'm can't find how tall they are tbh, But my thoughts are top bunk will be quite close to the roof of the bivvy

I was listening to the korda podcast the other day and it took me back to last years hook pull situation, DF was saying how he doesn't use sharpened hooks when snag fishing as he suffered a few hook pulls using them, I was using sharpened hooks and put 2 and 2 together I was Convinced it was using a bait screw on the shank of the hook that I thought wasn't allowing enough movement, But I just wondered if anyone else had found this when using sharpened hooks ? I have been using J precision hooks lately and while they are sharp they don't seem to have the granny rubbed off them 🤔

Shipping seems good from bulk feed supplies parcelforce24 should be arriving tomorrow and free 👍 A company that delivers bait promptly and free is a good company in my eyes 👍 Blakes, retro, and hopefully now these can be relied on for a good free service 👍 Monster particles let me down I don't forget 🙄

They will slow them down a bit 😁, its more the rudd I have issues with tbh, last time I dropped a airbomb of bait in the margins of crushed bits and they mullered it in minutes, even picking up bits they couldn't get in there mouths they would just swim about with them, they won't move these so easily 😁

I've just bought 25kg of bream resistant Aller aqua pellets, 17mm AP halibut 49% protien 22%oil they look pretty great to me It says they can stay whole for 48 hours, nuisance resistant size, I had a eureka moment and spent probably 20 quid more than I planned too on pellets 😁 but I thought the carp are more likely to get to eat them so it was worth it 🤔