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I've still got my biomaster xta 8000 reels, my dad bought them for me nearly 20 years ago as my first set of big pits, even though the bail arms have dropped slightly, they are still mechanically sound 👍 I retired them last year but got them back out recently for catfish and they're still going strong 💪

Shambles lol, I should of deffo checked the weather and put a bit more thought into where I was setting my bivvy up, the rain continued all through yesterday and got heavier over night with thunder, lightning and hailstones. The rain was so bad it made its way through the bivvy, the groundsheet some how failed and had water running across it. The ground I set up on just bogged down, this morning I was basically set up in a giant puddle, the bugs vacated the ground and decided to crawl in the bivvy, I had worms and slugs making the way up the bivvy, it was a complete mess 💀🤣 thrown the towel in this morning and just packed up in the rain, piled it all into the car soaking wet 🤣🤣no more fish to report lol

Done a mid double common yesterday and just done this one at 17lb 12oz, it's hammering down and my hood wouldn't stay up, it all went wrong 🤣 Anyway it will be my last night tonight, hopefully get another cat 👍

Is not easier to get into a pair of flip flops or crocs 🤣 on the res I've found myself wading out in shorts and crocs in the middle of the night before lol tbf there's been a few times where its been bare foot 🤣🤣🤣

That's a big nope from me 🤣 I know my luck I'd end up having bugs crawl in there with me 🤣🤣

Managed to sneak 3 nights in for this week to test my new rods 😏🤣 Had this one around 2am this morning at 29lb, caught it on a piece of chorizo sausage topped with half a pink wafter 👍 the rods are like broom sticks to cast with, but have got a decent back bone, enough to put pressure on the fish and turn it when its heading towards snags 👍

Wicked mate, my favourite places to fish are big open reservoirs, we used to fish upper tamar about 15 years ago, was quite a trek to swims up past the quarry 🤣 I've got a ford focus and it's like a game of tetris getting it all in the back 🤣 Same as that mate, the hide xl was being sold as a 2 man camping tent 🤣 Is that a water filter lol I take 10l on all my trips, even for a 24 hour 🤣

Yeah mate as I'm new to catching cats it seemed like a good idea as it's away from everyone else lol 🤣🤣🤣 just my luck mate lol, they were proper on it though, I landed 3 and had a hook pull on 1 and a drop back that lead to nothing lol. Not much of a fight on the cat gear though, the rods are 4.5lb or 5lb tc I can't remember exactly but they are like broom sticks, and was using 25lb line 🤣 Thanks mate, not sure if its the strain but they had really weird eyes lol I did another mirror at 3am this morning, a mid double I expect, didn't bother weighing it or doing pictures, temps dropped and had ice on all my gear 🤣 That's me done for the next 10 days now, oh and the locking pins on my barrow broke as I hit a pothole with the wheel, barrow ended up rolling over, smashed my shin up as i tried to stop it🤣🤣🤣

21lb 12oz common 👍

Off the mark with this mirror at 19lb 8oz, not the species I'm after but I will take it 🤣 nailed it on a size 2 wide gape double 20mm boilie 🤣

I find half the problem is if you don't take it, you end up needing it 🤣 I've scaled back quite a bit but looking at my kit I probably lose the guest chair and power bank, but I prefer sitting on the chair during the day and like to have power just incase the phone or camera dies lol. My aim is one barrow load comfortably, if it takes more I need to scale it back again 👍🤣 I can't be dealing with small bedchairs, tried it in the past and it's torture on long sessions 🤣 I'm currently using the nash ss4 wideboy sleep system and find it the dogs lol, not sure on the weight but I'd say probably 35 - 40kg 🤣 Interesting though, when I pack up tomorrow I might get the scales out and weigh bits of kit see what the total is on a barrow load lol I buy most of my stuff second hand mate, the price of new bivvies are insane 🤣 got quite lucky a couple years back and got a nash hide xl with door and groundsheet for 170, only been used for camping twice lol. It's trashed now tho 🤣

My mate who's fishing the canal at the moment has gone a bit mad about stripping his gear back, he's removed his kettle for a metal cup that he can use on a stove 🤣 Is it about the weight on the barrow for you guys or the space it takes up? For me it's not so much the weight of things, but the amount of stuff I take and how long it takes to pack away lol. @Roughtor my old bed chair and sleeping bag weighed around 49kg if I remember correctly 🤣

Ordered a pair of the ngt xpr catfish rods, 2 for 65 lol, I've read a few reviews and people are saying they do the job 👍

Went on a quest for my first catfish this weekend, I lost one the other night as it was steaming towards a bridge, I was felt a bit defeated lol. Anyway I carried on and managed this beauty this morning at 29lb 8oz 👍buzzing 👍👍 Anyway I feel like I got the bug for these things so getting some catfish rods ordered, I now want a bigger one but have learnt I need stronger gear lol. I'm wet and covered in slime, so packing up and going home 🤣 mission complete 👌

I've got a knock off temu x spomb, opens at range pretty much every cast and but has issues with short range lol I've seen them airbombs before, I like the concept of them but I wonder how big the spread would actually be lol I've got a horrible cross wind at the moment so as I cast out the midi x spomb I've been dropping the tip and to my side a little, it opened every time over 10 spombs, been fishing 9 wraps which is about a ft off an island and they all been pretty much on the money 👍🤣 Do you use the Amnesia leader on a dedicated apod rod or for spod/marker?