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Went out to a local pool on me club book today... 
Had 3 of these little scrappers, pulled off early as they were starting to swim  about in groups possibly getting ready for a bit o' Jiggy-Jig.
 
I'll give this pool a miss for a coupla weeks now... next trip out'll be on a river I think...👍
 

Think it might have been but didn't bring my scales so I'll never know 

Is that a new Pb mate? 

humans tend to sleep lol
i found they do go feeding mad but not straight after.

I wouldn't be looking to move away from the biggest weed growth and shallower water, in theory it's bang on 👍

My local has spawned twice this year already and its driving me nuts, both times it kicked off early hours when I was booked on 🤷‍♂️🤣 

normally they just laze about in the weed to recover.
 
One of the problems with pre booking of swims IMO
you can’t necessarily get where the fish are unless the owner will let you move and that depends if anyone else is on at the same time.
anyway,
good luck, and I really hope the fish are in your area and you catch ‘em. Hopefully all the spawning will be done and dusted by then.

The location/depth of the fish will be determined largely by the conditions on the day mate. If I had to choose I personally would stick to the shallower areas. High chance of decent warm sunny conditions in July.
I can't recall seeing fish moving consistently to deeper areas after spawning in 25 years of carp angling. They go where they're comfortable and where the food is imo.

Good luck. 

Can't help with the sat phone. I would prefer to disappear but can't unfortunately.
I have a dual SIM phone with 1 SIM on O2 and the other on Giffgaff. Usually got signal on atleast one of them. Maybe you could find out what networks are best in the areas you fish

the view from the brolly 

I love to disappear and be uncontactable.
I'm the same, about no mobile signal. Part of the problem is that different providers have different signal. 
As an example, near Botesdale and Redgrave, Vodafone is absolutely awful, signal will come and go from 4/5G one or two bars to Emergency calls only, yet EE offers an almost continous 4/5G.
Worse is it is not consistent, always one provider with best signal, it is fragmented, some areas  if O2 or Vodafone have masts in the area, you will get signal, where if EE or Three whoever don't, you won't.
 

Excuse the legs 🤣
Been feeding a pair of Robins on the last few seasons and I'm sure they've been taking the food back to a nest 👌 its got to a point where they come to the door and wait for me to give them something 🤣

Last weekend, same swim, same baiting - all 3 on the yellow, similar conditions.
Took the baitboat in case I wanted to fish upto the island and find fishable ground with the sonar, but all this showed me was that my normal spots are deffo the one so left them there for the duration of the session no recasts just a bait top up for the 2nd night.
Just a couple crashed all weekend - no feeding activity, got it wrong again lol
Need these fish to spawn and be normal - taking forever with this weather.
Maybe next time

Got down Fri night about 8pm, 3 of the swims down the windard end were taken and I didn't fancy fitting in between.
I thought they might push them out anyway and with cold night temps they might make their way up the other end.
Saturday 11am I see the first of around 15 - 20 shows over the course of an hour, some over the rods so wasn't a complete surprise when the left hander pulled up at 1pm.  A low double common 12.4lb, female still full of eggs (fish are so behind due to the influx of cold water), so I was made up, another swim caught from and a spot found back in March.
Sunday morning, they arrived at 10.30 with one crashing out against the island, then 3 subtle rolls at 11am just short of the rods.  11.15 I'm on the phone and notice the left hangers off and line out the clip but no bleeps whatsoever (no idea), pick up the rod and there's a weight on the other end and weeded up short of the spot, I pull it out and gain 10-20 yards and it's off, hook pull - damn!
Interesting it was the left rod both times especially as the fish arrived from right to left.  It was the only yellow bait - with corn in the mix so I'll take that forward next session, all 3 on yellow.

 
 

Exactly, I bought around 100kg plus of Bait...
46kg Bio Marine (when was on sale), Pop Uos, Wafter, Glugs, Liquid Food. 
30kg Carp Particles - Ultimate
10 Bags of Frozen Corn
1 Sack of Aller Aqua Feed Pellets
Thus was all supposed for a Park Lake Campaign which I should be in Now, but ended selling all my Gear (+Bait)
 

I finish my antibiotics today, so that's good. The hospital has sent me a follow-up appointment to discuss tonsils out for next month.
I've managed to actually stay awake for a whole day.
I had been getting up, breakfast, ablutions, walk Sky and fall asleep, lunch, take Sky out, fall asleep, dinner and take Sky out bed then a rough night's sleep.
Fishing this week, although cursing at how quickly the weed has come up. On Sunday, only a few weeded over spots, within 3 days the surface is covered by blanket weed and any that breaks free drifts into the lines.
I'm going to have to go out in chesties to clear some of it. Not fun as the water level is still high.
On a positive note I have seen the big uncaught common that I would put at big 40's, and I managed to retrieve the line and rig that the pike bit through a couple of weeks ago, still with bait attached, but negative is that I haven't caught this trip.

If you need to use barbless, I would use something with a beaked point, wide gape, J precision long gape or krank. I've used barbless a few times recently and not suffered any losses using a beaked point. 
I've gone full circle tbh I never used to use a beak point at all,then I lost a load on straight points now they are pretty much all I use. 
Thanks for all the kicker suggestions, I think I might just buy some and test them against one another and see which works best for me 
 

Kamasan B170, B400 are barbless, probably in fly anglers section or via flea bay, it's then just a case of looking for a barbless equivalent to the Solar's.

Found it.
It is held up by the pop-up in water, so the curve link is not quite so severe as it looks.
The boom is a doubled over length of Smakeskin, and the pop-up weights are free running.
The hooklink section goes through the swivel exactly like a 360.
 
Yes, it is on a helicopter set up, Solar Unleaded needle knotted to the mainline, and I had cast it to around 115metres, just under the outer branches of a tree on the island where I'd seen a few fish, so it's tangle free.
The fish I had runs from, absolutely nailed.
You could quite easily swap the boom section material.

Albringht knot mate 👍

Thanks Kev , Nick , and Elmo .
That's lots of very useful information for me to think about , much more than I was hoping for .
Many thanks .
😃

That looks very neat , Elmo , but I'd probably cast straight into a tree after going to all the trouble of tying it .
😢

It does happen to us all, the 31lber I caught recently ripped off while I had just retrieved a rig from a tree minus half the hooklink I had to chuck the rod in the bush, to make it worse I had already lost a rig in the same tree that was a recast my plan was to hit it short and clip up 😂
It was this one just incase you didn't see the catch report. 

That looks very neat , Elmo , but I'd probably cast straight into a tree after going to all the trouble of tying it .
😢