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  1. 1 minute ago, crusian said:

    Thanks , Greekskii . I think I'll try a plug in for the mice .

    I guess I'm not allowed to use mantraps for human pests ? .

    😁

    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 😅

  2. 32 minutes ago, framey said:

    Problem with cool bags is you need the ice blocks and they don’t stay frozen long enough to help any.

    possibly keep frozen for a couple of hours.

    better is to use a bottle of water from the freezer and then you can get about a day out of it.

    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. 😱

     

  3. 15 minutes ago, jh92 said:

    Anyone use a separate holdall/bag for their cooking stuff? Thinking about getting a large coolbag so it can carry everything for cooking? 

    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. 

  4. 3 hours ago, greekskii said:

    You can get various devices. I got some pest plug in things from Amazon for this winter. I still left the poison traps out but only had one dead. Previous years it has been 6+! I do back on to fields though so have a steady population nearby. 
     

    the plug in pest thing seems to have worked for all manner of creepy crawlies and mice. Worth a look 

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

  5. 1 hour ago, salokcinnodrog said:

     

     

    I've given a name as a conversation joke to my mate reference one particular fish, 'BC'. It's the old prehistoric uncaught big common. If it does get caught by me, I will be officially naming it that. 

    I'm trying to work out a plan how to catch it. Not every member of the syndicate has seen it, but those who have agree it is a big fish. I've been working out where, and how it feeds, but it is difficult. I've seen it feeding, even put a hookbait in front of it, and it doesn't appear to pick up bait. I've waded out where it has fed in a line about 5metres from the bank, the groundbait, boilies etc were untouched, yet the bottom was turfed up as it mooched along feeding on naturals. You can't miss it feeding, it's tail and base of the dorsal is sticking out of the water, yet so many people haven't seen it. I think it stays in one area of the lake, and doesn't mix with the other fish, even in winter.

    The OG BC from ITV 😂anglia_childrens_1980.jpg.1df4f62da0f3b697f7fdbb0d2b1628a4.jpg

    Worm zig in its face, Surely irresistable? 

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  6. 4 minutes ago, B B said:

    You sounded like your doing an after match football report on match of the day 😉… but what a buzz getting a carp on a zig you almost can’t believe it when it happens. 👍

    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 😂

  7. 2 minutes ago, B B said:

    If I had a single bleep il be looking at the tips mate a carp could be trying to get rid of the hook maybe been on a while. I try to set the bivvy up as close to the rods as I can if it’s dark just need a flick on the torch to check, and I have the rods at slight angle to the water a  bit like quiver tipping. Always near the rods even when I’m in a hot tub 😂

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    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 😂

     

  8. 2 hours ago, jh92 said:

    I've got the atts aswell, nice alarms once I found out how to turn the vibration setting off on the receiver 🤣

    Might sound mad but the only thing I don't like is the shape of them, could do with with being more chunky 🤣

    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. 

  9. 11 minutes ago, OldBoy said:

    Salokchimnodrog,

    Blimey, someoneone old enough to remember Optonics!

    I moded mine to have new vanes and 'carp ears' and a brass fixing nut, all linked up by cables, yes cables, to a Bitec sounder box in a Rod Hutchie bivvie dome!

    As said before, I still love the Atts alarms, not sure why people go for so called hi tech stuff, although I read Atts are bringing out one with a speaker now apparently!

    In my over 40 years of carp fishing, most takes are either run off screamers or drop backs....

    As for zigs, only relevant for years ago, but high rod tips and very tight lines to the lead worked well for me 

    I had some optonics, they always use to end up tilting to one side. 

    I've seen the new atts with speaker they look awesome and sound great too. Come with snag backs as standard they look mint. 

  10. 44 minutes ago, yonny said:

    Nah.... if anything, your hooking potential is amplified on the zigs imo. Your hook length/link is already tight to the lead i.e. there is no slack to take up. If/when Mr Carp takes the hookbait, it's immediately under tension unless he dives down which is extremely unlikely given what we know from the numerous underwater vids in circulation. Ergo, the likelihood is a hooked carp.

    Zigs can give odd bites - sometimes screamers, sometime massive drop-backs, and sometimes those odd bouncing tips that you describe (which tbf you can visualise if you imagine Mr Carp flapping when he realises he's now attached to a lead system 6 ft below him), but I can almost guarantee you that changing to a 6 magnet roller will do absolutely nothing in terms of telling you if a carp is attached. They are either hooked or they are not.... I certainly wouldn't go hitting single bleeps without a visual indication that you've hooked one.

    I would certainly change this before I changed the roller on the alarms buddy.

    Thanks, the reason I doubted myself was that I had dismissed them as single bleeps and not even bothered checking them for clues tbh, which is something I should have done in hindsight, it's all a learning curve still and good that I am learning, next time I will keep the tips out the water and will be looking for the clues. 

     

    20 minutes ago, jh92 said:

    I've had this before when fishing tight lines mate, it registered on the tip of the rod before the receiver/alarm lol. I think with the line being tight its going to register on the tip first before it takes line if that makes sense 🤔

    I'm currently fishing with my lines quite slack, with the bobbins as low as they will go. I'm using a leadclip that's "running" so the swivel pulls out easily. I'm fishing 5 wraps at the moment and want the leadcore leader and line on the deck as much as possible lol. The fish in here are apparently really weary of tight lines and will most likely spook if coming in contact with them 🤔

    Fishing at range seems much less complicated 🤣

    You might notice the line pick up before the alarm fishing slack too, I've hit into fish before I've even had a bleep before watching the line, it's a good way to spot what's going in the swim. I love short range fishing watching for any little sign, nothing beats it tbh,Good luck .

  11. 11 hours ago, salokcinnodrog said:

    That's how I feel. I've been swanned out. The first 2 nights I kept them off the spot by giving them half a bucket of maize each day. Last night they moved into the swim when they saw me putting in a bucket of crumbed boilie and breadcrumb. 

    My own fault I guess, but Chestnut normally makes her first appearance each year in the shallows around March to April so I was in the area she shows. She also gets caught frequently near the swans!

    Good luck, The swans and ducks seem a lot more active than the fish at the moment, I still think they are chasing warmth. 

  12. 15 minutes ago, SJPR said:

    Ok, so, i had a bit of a reccy and found it (see attached image) - but its no longer a carp fishery.... its a Wellness Centre calls Watersedge. It's actually dead opposite the lakes at Vale Golf Club. https://www.watersedge.club/

    I might call them and try to find out a bit more about it, see if they might let me fish it 😂

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    I once taught the owner of that golf club how to hit a ball 😂 they had an open day and I went with the in laws, had 3 pints in the bar then we all went to the driving range, I was hitting the balls miles with a driving iron (that I chose because I had never used one) and the owner and the bro in law couldn't get close 😂 I was on fire that day, couldn't beat the satisfaction level from that day, so have never played anything other than crazy golf since 😂

    I am not claiming I was good BTW, I wasn't but he was terrible 👍

  13. 18 minutes ago, B B said:

    I have the Atts as they come and have wondered the same Elmo…but I was in my mates swim when he was on zigs and was using the all singing and dancing shoe box size Delks 🫢 when I noticed the tip moving ever so slightly and then his alarm went off and I netted a mid 20 for him. 
    When I use an adjustable float which I find better as you know for the obvious reasons easier to change the depths of your hook bait but it also asks like a running ledger that’s more sensitive… I should use a running ledger on my bottom rigs more often especially close in.  🤔

     

    With 2 magnet rollers? I do much prefer the 4 mags tbh, 6 would be overkill for normal fishing I think. But might be useful if max sensitivity is required, I think it's too easy to just write a single bleep off as an anomaly, whereas 2 bleeps would make you notice, 

    When I was at the Essex show I got shown the PB Products hit n run lead clips, I haven't tried them yet but they kind of act like a running rig, the fish can't use the weight of the lead to discharge the hook, quite different and I am an easy sale so naturally I bought some 😅

     

  14. As alarms I love them tbh simple and great, not sure how much they will change the sensitivity as the 4 mag roller is every 0.5cm and 6 is 0.33cm so essentially the 6 mag roller is  17mm more sensitive. I think a lot of it is me adjusting to check out every single bleep when zig fishing as in hindsight I feel I may have missed a few chances. I also had my rod tips underwater which won't help me see what's going on, learning all the time thanks OldBoy 

  15. I have used the 2 and 4 (always use now) has anyone used the 6 magnet roller wheels, I had a couple of single bleeps on my zig rods that I am starting to think may have been bites in hindsight as I was fishing bow string tight tines, was thinking 6 might be better for zig fishing can anyone tell me if they noticed much difference between 4 and 6 please? 

  16. 13 hours ago, InteraX said:

    Some fox rage gloves, a selection of halibut pellets from 3mm to 30mm and some rig tubing.

    My son who's never really shown an interest in fishing want to catch a catfish. The nearest local for catfish requires you to have gloves and tubing if fishing for cats, so I'll give these a go.

    Great to get them into fishing, my daughter was with me when I caught this one, fortunately it didn't provoke a strong desire to catch one herself 😂 but it's good to get them into it and outdoors so if that's what it takes, good luck. IMG_20230812_060214.thumb.jpg.c188a2dc060bcace5eaf946d1d8d99c6.jpg

  17. 9 hours ago, SJPR said:

    Does anyone know if this place still exists? I fished it regular many years ago when it first opened before moving abroad. Now back in the UK, living locally and wondered if it was still being managed as a fishery? If anyone knows of any other nice specimen carp waters in the Worcestershire area worth trying please post them on this thread too..... thanks 👍

    Hi mate welcome to the forum, there is a website on Google, nick has linked it, might be worth going to have a look if you are not too far away, sometimes websites stay open even if the place has closed, best to find out with your own eyes if you can. 

  18. 1 hour ago, jules007 said:

    okay its Warwick baits, not gonna complain as the main man has been through a bad patch this last 6 weeks, and he dont need whinging winnie going on at him, will put it down to experience but will look for a different product from a different comany  

    Fair enough thanks for sharing. Have you looked at proper job pop ups, if I could only use one it would be these tbh. KLS in washed out pink a personal favourite,but tbh on their day they all work. I have tried and own lots of pop ups(I have a bit of a problem😂) and now the only ones I take are proper jobs and innovate bait. 

  19. 2 hours ago, jules007 said:

    So i am known for trying to do things on a budget, buying the less well known kit for a lower price, i decided to go over to single hookbait pop ups and ended up ordering 2 tubs of 15mm pop ups from a well known name, sweetcorn and a nut based, these were not cheap at £24.40 posted, they arrived today and 1st thing they are not 15mm more like 12-13mm the nut based smell like damp mould, and very hard to say what the sweetcorn smell of, part tempted to see if i can return them but guess i have to just stash them in a corner or something and buy more soddin pop ups but from a lower priced outfit, out of respect i wont name the brand

    Name and shame, I would also complain if you don't think they are any good. 

  20. 13 minutes ago, B B said:

    I was looking at the pic thinking what’s the lad up to now 🤔 is he bored and hoping to catch a bird ? Orrr is it a cunning clue that’s he had a fish and drying out the net ? …I must confess I thought you were after a bird but just seen the carp catch 😂

    Ha ha, the kids call it a victory flag I believe 😎😱😅

  21. Just now, B B said:

    Well done Elmo and well deserved using a new method 👍 …. What was the bite like ? Iv had them moving the tip almost like quiver fishing before the alarm gos off, any movement and I pick up the rod and reel in. 

    It was tight to begin with so pulled 3 or 4 beeps and the tip was bouncing, so I knew it was on, was weird how little I felt because of the lead though, I didn't see it before it beeped as I was trying to pack up lol but a pleasant disturbance none the less 😂

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