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Jack's settled after his dinner, he's so chilled for a young cocker. 🥰 
Will be a different story when my dinner comes out of that cobb cooker though lol

So with all the talk about the possibility of seeing the northern lights, did anyone manage to catch site of them?
I was fortunate enough to be fishing on the south coast and was treated to a nice sunset followed by the northern lights. Must admit I felt quite privileged to witness it. 
Excuse the pics, had to screenshot my photos or they wouldn't upload.  

Jack likes the rear security window lol

Been running past few weeks, so we decided as a family to do the Race for Life (tonight) 



My lad, being the lad he is, had to sprint off and finished in 31mins, instayed with the wife whonhad a little struggle, 38mins us.
 
 

My kind of spot 

Massively: winter, small traps handful of bait plus washed out freebies, squashed.
Spring, single brights, zigs, maybe a few freebies scattered about like 10 per rod, maybe a little corn to up the visual attraction.
Summer: up the baiting, maybe fill it in if conditions look right.
Autumn, maybe fill it in but more likely start scaling back towards small traps.

Thanks very much , everyone , that gives me plenty of information to think about .
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I'm not looking for big holes or clean spots as such, just a drop every time and a tiny amount of pull back and you're fishing.  In my mind at the moment I'm not looking for clean spots anymore, if only to avoid and find the drops in weed nearby.
Every venue is different but I think on lower stocked venues with wary fish clean spots are treated with extreme caution and hold little natural food e.g. gravel spots.  How many people pick the same obvious far bank markers, find the obvious clear spot, pile bait on it and are surprised when nothing happens, wheres the natural food, wheres the thickest weed, what are they showing over?
I'd rather set up and watch all day for them to show me where to put the traps than rush in crashing leads everywhere, not always possible I know but once you've seen them feeding in an area you dont have to wait next time as everything is written down and measured up.

Did Thursday to Saturday in one swim this weekend, had a stocky on the stiff hinge rig in the thickest weed bed in the area.

Then back Sunday for the night as I was super keen having caught.  This time chose a swim round the corner as all the fish were there on top but despite expecting a take come first light nothing materialised so back home tail between legs.  Can't wait till Friday to get back down, but might have to fish a flooded swim just to get in the area if it's busy.  Loving my fishing more than ever at the moment - gotta keep pushing on!

Hope not I haven't got a lifetime supply yet 😂

They are that buoyant even chuck Norris can't push them to the bottom of the lake. 

Thanks very much , everyone , that gives me plenty of information to think about .
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Ooh , that's so Elmo , thinking outside the box 😁 .
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But is your car a Mini , or a Hummer , Yonny ? .
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CcMoore do matching cork balls if available but their Air Ball Pop-ups last great, no complaints whatsoever and I've tested many brands and been disapointed over the years 👍

Yup. I have pots of these that are years old, completely saturated in glug, and they'd still hold up my car.

I've heavily glugged proper jobs and they still stay proud, I did hear they were a certain favourite of the top goo anglers. 

Currently I usually have a different pop-up on one rod from my feed bait, one on the same pop-up as the food bait and a snowman of the food bait in 15mm and a 12mm Monster Crab pop-up.
Pjpu's are supposedly the ultimate pop-up, nothing coming close in terms of buoyancy and longevity although I have found that most pop-ups I use still pop-up after 3-4 days.
The only problem with glugging pop-ups is that you can change the buoyancy. I had some that took on  much liquid they sank, so flavour sprays are the alternative, but how quickly they 'wash-off' might be an issue.
The only thing that I can suggest is see how long the food bait pop-up stays popped up for.
 
 
 

Can you get the liquid flavours or bait sprays, if so maybe you could buy some unflavoured PJPU'S and spray them yourself, best of both worlds then 👍

Not many will stay up as good as PJPU's mate. They're mega buoyant!

Hi Everyone
I have some Proper Job Pop Ups , lovely and buoyant , but I have this mental thing where I want to have feed Boilies and Pop Ups the same flavour .
Trent Baits I can have matching pop ups ( that stay up ) ,  and boilies  .
Essential Baits , is it me or do their pop ups not stay erect as well as PJPU , and Trent Baits ? .
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The pin Short, the Abu long...👍😎

Orr heat up a knife  then place it on the hole slide it over gently….
As an afterthought if your using your saw again and manage to lop off a arm or leg you could use the above technique to cauterise the cut enabling you to carry on with your trip, I got the idea from watching a old flim which I believe stared Tony Curtis called, now I could be wrong here but im going to say The vikings he unfortunately had his hand arm chopped off and a quick fix in them days was to set fire to the cut to stem the blood 
I can thoroughly recommend the film  👍
 Best of luck with saw and trip. 

I'd probably be going to 8lb maybe even Kryston Jackal in 20lb. Sounds heavy but for a coated braid it is very thin.