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I spoke to someone who has been keeping an eye on the lake I fish yesterday, he said it seems to be going up a degree a week at the moment, he said up to 10 degrees in places, I said thanks and vowed to start trickling some bait in 😂

A chod rig will help you be able to fish over, rougher bottoms like weed,chod debris effectively, its designed as a chuck anywhere rig, so as long as you have your top bead set up correctly in theory it should present anywhere Personally in my opinion the longer the hooklink on a helicopter set up the more you take away the leads effectiveness to aid with hooking , I would rather use an inline or lead clip if possible, and I would work towards making holes in the weed with prebaiting then you can fish simple lead clip set ups or Pva bags on your cleaned spots and you will start to catch them, I became a fan of dropping the lead in weed last year after a run of hook pulls cost me 7 fish, dropping the lead makes it easier to control what the fish will do in weed as you have direct contact, and stops the lead bouncing about out in front of the fishes mouth whilst hooked, one of those fish still hurts today I know it was a biggun, I wish I had started dropping the lead sooner😢 I would use a chod if I didn't know what the bottom was like, but I would rather know what I was fishing over and use the correct rig for it,

I've just seen this on fb thought you might be interested https://boatmanuk.com/product-category/boats/actor/

If you are the only one fishing at present you can afford to put a little bit in I would say, I heard today the 25 acre lake I fish is 10 degrees in places at the moment, so find the bit where the sun hits most and bait that, if it doesn't go cold again its not a bad time to start pre baiting a bit I don't think, I will be as soon as i form a plan 🙄 if it isn't going far you just need to be gentle with it, think finesse lol delicate, smooth and easy like a Sunday morning 😎🌞😁😂

Does anyone else fish it? How big is it? If not keep it simple keep the bait going in and make the spots yourself, they will come if you bait it often enough, then just cast bags into the area when you are fishing it will soon firm up a bit Are using using your line clip when you cast? It does make being accurate a lot easier

Has your hookbait been coming back stinking of rotting silt? If you are leading about try and find silt that doesn't stink, takes some practice at first but once you have done it a bit you can soon spot the difference, imo ignore the spot if it stinks 👍

Well the results are in from week one weigh in, 😬😬😬😬😜😜😜😜 -5lb down to 21st 9lb 😁😁😁😁 I'll take that for week 1, still a long weigh 😳 to go but a solid start Cheers all 👍

Well it's Friday and I've done pretty well so far this week,today I've managed to refuse point blank a kebab from the best kebab van in the world and I didn't go to the canteen for fish and chip Friday 😲😬😬😬 Willpower mode on 😣

He's a bit like Glenn hoddle this one Lots of ball control but a bit of a dribbler ⚽ 😂😂😂😂😂

No that's what I said but little ruder 😁😁

The spod braid performed about 10lb below breaking strain on the tackle box line test, I didn't see that til after I had bought it though, it snapped a few times gently lobbing a spomb 6 wraps 😲

It works if you pee on a jellyfish sting 😁 probably though it's ammonia innit, will probably do it by accident anyway the aim isn't what it used to be 😁😁😁

Future carping stopped selling the actor bait boat, I think there were some issues with the last batch tbh, I also decided against going to the darkside 😁

Gardner will be better, I've gone off fox stuff since the exocet spod braid debacle (not fit for purpose) in Gardner I trust 👍

I ve already scratched it lol, it's swollen up like a good un I've put some bite cream and taken an antihistamine so hopefully will settle, I'm gonna get my bug zapper out tonight 😁

I've put some bite cream on it that usually works, but might try that if it's still bad later

They must be waking up round here, I've already been savaged by a mosquito on my ankle whilst sleeping its proper swollen 😭😭😭😭😭

I have tried a couple of cheaper ones in the past they are usually not very good and splice like a pig, not worth scrimping on

As above avid one is pretty good, I used it before and it spliced well I am using Gardner camflex at the moment though I really like it, 👍

No you can do they are also not a bad substitute for real cheese, they also stop you eating loads cos they are a pain to unwrap 😁

It's how I imagine Northern life now, looks great fun 😁

I did kind of well yesterday, until I hit the cheese and oatcakes 5 turned into 10 late night 😲 not a kebab or nothing but still not good, I'm getting some cheese triangles today so that will give me my cheese fix, I just love the cheese 😲

I'm not sure nowadays tbh, I did see on fb that some aqua bivvies were fading and turning orange a little while ago,

Cyprinus typhoon range look a great bivvy for the money tbh, I have a bunker with 20000mm hh and I love it, I wouldn't mind a typhoon when I grow up 😁

That was a good one, I liked the chippy **** exercise one 😁