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Water keeps rising 🤣 dry day today so should be off later 👍 no fish to report other than a tench 🤣

Ive got at least 10 buckets but my mate must have nearer to 30.
When we went Italy because I wasnt smoking I struggled to sleep and had weird dreams every night with at least 2 of which centered around a massive wall of buckets in someones swim it was like bait wars, woke up stressed out 🤣🤦‍♂️
The mans got 100 buckets, we're screwed! 🤣

You like the Hydrotuff, stick with it.
Sounds silly, but it can take a while to get used to a different brand or type of line.
Saying that, the Gardner lines, must be the best available.
 
Floater fishing wise, I go old school, still on Daiwa Sensor with a Berkeley XL, Preston Reflo or Drennan Sub Surface fly hooklink.

If you have no issue with hydrotuff, I would stick with it. 
 

Well... considering that Richard Walker's 44lber from Redmire kicked off the carping craze in the UK, I think its only fair we take note of the fact that he landed a 44lb Common on a 10 foot cane rod of approx 1.5lbs Test Curve... and not a spod rod 
Us vintage lads have seen everything in the carp world more or less, and we're still pulling 20's out on our bits o' cane...😉😛😎👍
 
That said, Walker was an innovator and I'm sure he would have embraced the modern methods had he been alive today

Do you mean us Pensioners , young man ? 😁

No I mean these guys 😂

Just thought the old school peeps might like their own vintage tackle section. 

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That reminds me of " Jaws " , and yes I'm weird 😁 .

Had this 5lb 4oz Chub back in November from the Nene,  lure caught on the ned rig 👍

Pretty sure i could get a 6+ here with a bit of luck 🤞

If I didn't need too I wouldn't spomb, catapult wins everytime. 
My rule of thumb for should I recast or not is just trust my gut, if I feel I should have had a bite or have doubts I rechuck it, I've had many quick bites from a recast to the same spot for it to worry me these days. You need to feel confident and if you think your rig isn't working for whatever reason best to check. 
I don't have confidence in plastic baits, which goes back to confidence. 
I would go where I think they were and fish for liners. Also somewhere I could see a lot of water so I can look for signs. 
Just enjoy it and don't worry if you don't catch, it's the blanks that make the captures more worthwhile. 

I'm getting Wilson with tailwalking pike vibes. 

Put it in your sleeping bag, just the gas not the stove it will warm it up a bit. 

That reminds me of " Jaws " , and yes I'm weird 😁 .

No mud that’s a result in its self. Great pic and best of luck…just don’t trip 😉
 

Yeah mate tbf I'm on the one that is further out, the others are cut off with snags etc so each one has its own area to fish 👍
I'll get some pictures when I leave mate there's snags everywhere to the right of me 🤣

Yeah mate really nice place to fish from 👍 it's a new water for me and totally different to the reservoirs I fish so its a bit of a learning curve, got weed beds, lillies, lots of snags, clay spots, gravel bars etc. I'm on a clear spot 10 wraps out and fishing to that has been a challenge as I've been used to casting the rod as hard as I can 🤣
I plan on fishing to the snags when I get a better idea of the lake, but will settle for open spots until then, I'll also need to up my line to a fluro or braid I think. Also need to finesse my rigs and go a bit smaller lol
 
So I'm fishing the top end of the lake mate which was flooded to make the lake bigger, there's no swims as the water just goes into the trees etc, looks like mangroves 🤣 at the top there's 4 platforms that go out of sticks for you to fish from 👍
You can also feel the platform rock when you move 😬🤣

Why is that there, Is the question I want to ask? Seems such a weird thing to build right out into the middle of the lake, looks fun though good luck 👍

Where it is in the lake 👍

All set 🤙

I'm blooming cold just standing at the smoking shelter at work. Hope you catch one, good luck. I'm going in to get warm. 

overall opinion seems to be i just dont need the 6ft so for once i will heed the good advice and give it a miss, the 9ft rods will do just fine

I don't possess a carp rod over 9'6" can honestly say I don't miss the length of the 12 footers, my shortest (8') is great for getting into little nooks and crannies and winkling the odd fish out... I love the portability, and the easy handling of the short rods... to be fair though, I've borrowed a pair of 6' 3lb Scopes paired with my shimmy Aero 400X runners and hated them... too short, too stiff not nice at all... my Dwarf 9 foot 2.75lbers are a nice playing rod, but sit idle these days...
My Sharpe 8 footer see's more use, with a pin they're superb for margin work

Or Ikea if your other half has dragged you there 😁.