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Diameter of 20lb iq2 is 0.47
diameter of 14lb is 0.4
xs crimps are 0.5
so either would work but I would go 20
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Can’t give you a bank side bodge but
my boat cover had 4 holes it it and I used tear aid fix kit from millets to repair it as a temporary fix until I buy a new cover
these patches are always under water when it rains and until I go down to the boat for any reason and then I throw the water off
the other thing that may work is tenacious tape
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Nash you can pick up readily
Cotswold need to be made for you that’s where your problems may start …
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these have no mention of no dogs on the fishery
farlows
thorpe Lea
henlow bridge lakes
fairlands
stanborough
rib valley
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3 minutes ago, Carpbell3 said:
Seen it done but it is hit and miss without a live feed back to a display that brings in range issues, I think for the costs and the fact the picture quality is going vary on water conditions it is not worth it better going with sonar.
Sonar doesn’t tell you if anything has eaten the bait which I think the way I read it is what the op wants to find out.
i would have thought the Waterwolf or the fish spy would have been the better option.
i think the other problem is they only work properly in clearer water.
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4 hours ago, salokcinnodrog said:
I have 2 of them. Annoyingly where I fish the phone signal is absolutely awful, half the time I'm on emergency calls only and when it comes up 4/5G is only one bar.
It is often lack of signal that causes phone batteries to die faster.
The Fag packet size chargers I can usually only get 1 charge out of. The Juice long Weekender I can get 2 sometimes 3 charges out of.
I still sometimes end up going back to the car and having to charge from the cigarette lighter.
I really must look out for the Anker versions.
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Anker do seem to lead the way .
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22 hours ago, salokcinnodrog said:
Nicely said.
One thing I noticed when air drying baits to get them rock hard, is they took on water (or other liquids) and got softer quicker than baits straight out of the freezer. It meant they could actually have a faster breakdown time than frozen or 'normal' boilies, which could be an advantage at times.
Ah, the washed out baits concept, supposedly making the carp think they are safe as opposed to freshly introduced.
I never noticed an advantage over freshly introduced straight from the freezer, although I did occasionally have a fish that took a bait that had been in the lake for 2 days untouched, unmoved and left in place, fish that I think were wary of new bait, even the disturbance of putting any bait on the spot.
One particular example was on a 3 day trip to Brackens Pool where the left hand rod produced 4 or 5 fish to 20lbs, all on stringers fished to the treeline opposite.
My right hand rod produced only 1 fish, a 30lb mirror that was previously uncaught at that weight, but I had left it alone for 48hours after lowering it in to the tree line to my right.
Now mixing @framey and @yonny's quotes, when bites come hard to get on your food bait boilies, it can help by increasing the amount you prebait, or put in at the end of the session.
I think carp can get used to and avoid just a few baits and getting hooked on your hookbait. By increasing the amount of prebait, and potentially the free bait when you fish, you reduce the chance of them inspecting and checking every one.
That inspection of baits is why rigs get developed or changed, because the carp can learn to avoid a particular situation.
Some is because we simply can't afford to put in more bait every trip, so need to come up with other answers.
The more you can afford, the more the fish rely on it, and a basic inefficient rig will still catch.
Absolutely put something they want to eat where they want to eat it and the rig can be anything
just need a sharp hook..
Don’t forget you can make a kilo of boilies go an extremely long way if you crumb them up so then it can become “relatively” cheap
a sack of groats are about 20£ a sack and easy to prep even for a beginner.
and can help to make a kilo of boilie go even further and add some cloud into the water to give the fish extra confidence
Just need do what you are happy doing
confidence breeds success
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33 minutes ago, jh92 said:
Spot on mate, never used anything except a decent bag tbh. When I got into night fishing a bivvy heater was never really spoke of lol, now you're seeing things on Facebook where people are using diesel heaters etc, madness lol
I like the hot water bottle idea though 👍
If you really need to there is a couple of electric blankets that will plug into a power bank
I bought one for my mrs as she always moans she’s cold saves me putting the heating on lol.
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1 hour ago, mrmud said:
Just finishing getting all the stuff I think I need for a comfortable weekend fishing. Just gotta decide on a bivvy heater now.
You don’t need a bivvy heater
decent bag and a water bottle and maybe a winter skin and that should be good enough
whatever you do
please don’t use gas heaters it’s just too risky..
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6 hours ago, Whitstable Jack said:
I generally unfreeze the day before, in an air tight bag, moving the baits around every few hours as they thaw.
I've been reading that air drying on towels and air dry bags is a good way - but with this you top the flavours up. Sounds like a faff to have to re-add flavour, and could over do it. WHereas surely all the flavour that's already there gets sucked in during the thawing process in a bag?
I understand there can be damp patches that leads to baits going off quicker.
Also, I don't fish far out, so I don't need rock hard baits with a throwing stick.
Any thoughts on here?
Cheers
Take them out even longer before you go and just wash them out in a bucket of water about 3 days
some stupid carp think they are safer as they have been in the water longer…..
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2 minutes ago, salokcinnodrog said:
How many times have I said updates and upgrades are not always better?
Nor me.
That's not a mark 2, it's a mark 2.5 or 3.
I hope you get it sorted, you can always use the return of item as not suitable for use described. It is one you could win especially if you got Trading Standards or CAB involved as the description is not clear.
Could use that part of the CRA.
would also help if you could pick up the advert to prove it doesn’t mention the fact it will only fit pre or post 2017 model.
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1 hour ago, kevtaylor said:
No I didn't know, I suspected it but said to myself 2 x MK2 versions 'Nah can't be' - best thing I've seen during the investigation is a photo from someone with the older barrow and the new drop in bag, it clearly doesn't fit or open out fully, but they seemed happy enough to think it's bang on and post pics. Classic 🤣🤣🤣
Surely the latest version should be classified a mk3 and it would save these kind of headaches!!
effing manufacturers
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I think if you have the proof in writing from the hospital and emails from work etc
then you can afford to wait the 6 months rather than settle now.
remember it would be a full and final settlement figure if you took it now and wouldn’t be allowed to do another claim in the future for this injury if it turned out to be worse than previously thought.
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3 minutes ago, Higham1987 said:
When I Needle pierces your skin from an Unknown source...
That's the 1.
It was 1 of them 1 in a million things, I was handalling recycable plastic from a dolav into a baler, and it was in the plastic and not in a Sharps bin....
Had to go AnE, Tetnis, Hep B injection, 2 lots bloods taken and anti HIV meds for 30 days, then another Hep B injection each month for next 3 months, 2 more bloods after 6 months then get my results.
There was not 1% wrong on my end and someone in the Factory hasn't followed Sharps procedure.
BIG investigation going on.
Sounds like a win for you
IF
you decide to go down that route.
they do take a minimum 25% these no win no fee people out of your claim
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9 minutes ago, jh92 said:
Got myself 5kg of the French stuff on its way, hopefully the carp don't mind 🤣
French stuff has garlic
Chinese stuff has sweet and sour
best stuff is the Jamaican 😂 😜
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33 minutes ago, Stretch da scaff said:
Essex angling in Thurrock stock all his products and his factory is open Saturday mornings from 10 o clock hope this helps you, excellent bait and kenny is a gentleman if you get the chance to pop into the factory
Google says Essex angling is permanently closed which is why I didn’t mention them
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55 minutes ago, salokcinnodrog said:
Possibly also mixed in with Jim Gibbinson when asked the question "do you ever use 3oz leads?"
"An ounce on this rod, an ounce on that one and an ounce on that one".
Seriously high test curves have become fashionable not always for fish playing, but because the angler does not have the casting ability, and a higher test curve rod will supposedly improve their distance.
Then bear in mind in the 1990's with 8lb line (and shockleader) and 2.25lb test curve rods on 4000 Aero Baitrunners I could cast 125metres. In the 2000's with 15lb line and 2.75lb rods and Aerlex's I was hitting the same.
Not so sure if it’s become fashionable but rather what the manufacturers tell us we want lol.
give it a couple of years and they will go the other way again
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Lee Jackson caught his 60 (2 tone) on a lower than 2lb test curve iirc
he says he uses 3lb tc
1lb on the left rod
1lb on the middle
and 1lb on the right ..
that quote isn’t probably worded correctly but I’m getting forgetful
Pictures say. Thousand words
https://youtu.be/cp6b_AhxVGI?si=HZBV18mSykbDQTqa
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On 13/04/2024 at 15:19, ouchthathurt said:job done 👍
Well done
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Looks like the old angling intelligence one
shame it was discontinued