crusian

I have a JRC x lite chair and the Avid lo... and oddly enough, the Avid causes me less probs than the X lite, which kills my back... I've mastered "The Roll Out" of the Avid and wobble upright... (eventually)
With the ultralite kit... a lot of our banks are stepped, so I can park me 'Arris on a mat and sit quite upright... I can't do it everywhere though...  I think either Avid or Sonik do a chair along the same lines as the Avid but taller and more upright.. I may investigate that... Chairs are a bit  funny really... What may seem comfy in a quick sit down in the shop could be blooming purgatory for 8 hours on a bankside.

I just don't like the idea of cracking my head on the internal pitch point on the brolly. It's also 100 quid more than a good quality tarp and 3x2.2m tarp that comes in at 1.1kg. Only need one support and a few pegs. Still doing research if there is anything better but 130 for a brolly when I already have a bivvy seems a bit of a splash of cash to me. 

That's very interesting Blue. , but I thought you suffered with your back and knees ? .
I think my knees would protest the next day if I sat on a Lo Chair other than for a short period of time , and the same for sitting on a mat or the grass ; I am better off sitting on my JRC Xlite Chair at 3kg.
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Probably would of been better for me tbh as they just bounce off .... wing mirrors they tend to  take with them at that speed  not the first time I've lost one off a vehicle due to pheasants . 😝

Lucky it didn't hit your windscreen .
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Let's hope for the forums' sake you get out on Tues. , Smufter , that's 2 items to review .
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By this time next year Rodders....we'll be bagging up!

Finally got the snow that they have forecast all week.
Been down to the lake tonight and it's ice free.
Tomorrow is snow carp Saturday.

Well roll on Tuesday , it should hopefully be a top job .
Please keep the forum posted .
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You had a bad day mate?? 
You go from compassion to sensible and then full on av it!! 
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I suppose he could be ill , but surely he could manage a text .
Personally , having lived in Spain ( land of the British cowboy ) I would never pay up front , no leverage if it all goes pete tong .
Go round mob handed with your boy and give him a slap .
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I suppose he could be ill , but surely he could manage a text .
Personally , having lived in Spain ( land of the British cowboy ) I would never pay up front , no leverage if it all goes pete tong .
Go round mob handed with your boy and give him a slap .
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I don't do little scrappers Geezer. It's big scrappers for me, or nothing.
Usually nothing
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At least they should come out of your thumb easier than barbed one's 

Pop up rig using a 6 with a 14mm "ting tong" pop up. After trying to get those hook stops on, my eyes have gone wonky 😖😖😖

My "go to" blow back bottom bait rig, tied with the 4's. 
Not such an aggressive inturned eye as my usual hooks so had to incorporate aligners. On "looks" I'm 100%confident 

Mine arrived this morning. First impressions are very (very) good. Nice size (some size 4's are like 2's) and the 6's will make an ideal hook for pop up rigs. Seem ultra sharp and a nice matt black colour too.
My lake allows barbed hooks, but I'm going to knock a few rigs up using these Gripz and see how I get on.

Ask @Highy to have a look in his cupboard,
I bet he's got one kicking around somewhere

I did well a few years ago on Nazeing when the lakes thawed and meltwater was pouring in from the Lee Relief Channel.
Three 20's and a beautiful double on a 4 day/night session. I arrived, walked round, thought I saw a swirl, so set up on it. Within hours I had a 26lb fish, which I nearly lost. The hook pulled, but it sank into the landing net. One blank day, but next I had a 20, and on the last morning another 26, which as I was getting ready to photograph caught the 16lb
Not every lake is the same though. Some will stay switched off until spring, some you may have to find the fish for a bite or two.
 
The pics have uploaded in the wrong order, it is black jacket 26 first, blue Adidas 20, followed by DPM smock, 26 and 16

I use figure of 8 personally mate, never had any issues with it.

Rapala knot for me, works on braids, coated braids and Amnesia:
https://www.animatedknots.com/rapala/index.php

Well documented on here, but this is my most important capture......my first "White Cottage" fish after 15 months of blanks, blanks, blanks without so much as a beep!!
Caught in January of last year, 27lbs. Not my biggest, but certainly meant the world to me.
 

Well lads what can I say , very depressing day to be an angler ! Absolutely no big fish left so the common above has been had this winter as I spotted it in the summer . Even the small amount of fish left the majority of them had half a tail .
So from my findings today if your on a water getting hit hard by otters in a few years there be nothing left & what is will more likely be damaged . The future looks proper grim !  

Day sessions for me nowadays... was a time that a week wasn't long enough... last long session I did was last March... a week on Redmire... damn near killed me... my back isn't up to a long night in a bedchair (collapsed discs) these days and at 60 years old my knee's (osteo arthritis) are not up to lugging loads of gear for a long session, so about 8-10 hours sees me totally  cream crackered and laid up for a day or to to recover... god help me if I do a club match, the amount of gear you need for that is making me seriously question my sanity and that's only for 5 hours😲

Had a go at the Ronnie Rig...have the Gardener 1's already pre made...
So had a go myself but with the Nash Claw (love these hooks)..only thing is nowere had any uni swivels so used quick link swivels...still not too bad.