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Got to the canal a couple hours ago, just had a bream lol, first night under the stars in ages, feels great. Best of luck to anyone on the bank this weekend 🤙

Na mate, I'm on a lake with my dad for 24 hours 👍 hopefully back on the canal tomorrow night 👍

31lb 8oz 👍

Thanks mate it was a red letter session for me 👍 everything just aligned and I managed to get 3 off the same spot in about 2 hours lol. They were really cool looking fish, dark and some scars, I think the 24 is one of the older ones 👍 100% best looking fish I've ever caught 👍

Had these from the canal today 👍 24lb 12lb 14oz 19lb 4oz

Canal/basin 👍

Interesting mate, I'm gonna have a look and see what I can find on it 👍 Just bought a bottle of this Any suggestions on how much to put with a kilo of boilie?

Yeah that's the ones mate, I was thinking of the wychwood reels while writing this 🤦‍♂️🤣 Sadly my only had the one reel in stock so ended up getting a set of fox eos 10000fd reels. Cheap and cheerful tbh, they will do for the river 👍

Thanks mate, that's deffo some food for thought, I've been thinking of rolling a shelf life bait, had a little look into preservatives but never got round to it, easier just to put them in the freezer 🤣 I've seen a few companies are now storing their baits in rock salt as a shelf life. Any thoughts on that? Speaking of salt, seen a couple lads spombing pure rock salt onto a spot, surely there's only so much you can put out before it becomes harmful for them?

Boiling with sugar and water sounds interesting, do you think the boilies take on the sweetness? I remember reading somewhere about using garlic cloves in your boiling water 👍

This time of year drives me mad mate, it feels like it should go off but it doesn't lol. One of my local lakes they just bask on the top all day, massive groups of them, 30 - 40 fish, chuck a floater out and they ain't even interested 🤣 roll on August and September 👌

Anyone used these reels? I'm looking at getting a set for my 9ft scopes. Or does anyone have any suggestions? Don't need anything too big, they are for the river and short range fishing 👍

Sold my 9 footers a few months back because I had no need for them.. just bought a set of 9ft scopes, picking them up tomorrow 👍🤣

Helicopter setup with either a wafter or popup. I would use the lightest lead you can get away with. With a heli setup it will pull the lead down into it but will leave your rig above 👍

My staffy would probably run away from a rat 🤣

Visited a couple mates fishing the river yesterday and seen this, how cool 👌🤣

Small common as I was packing up. Doesn't this time of year drive you mad. Spawning, not spawning, spawning, not spawning 🤷‍♂️🤣 Starting to feel like I'm on the wrong water again, think a long session on the reservoir is in order 👌

Out for a night or two on a 4 acre lake, it's looking good down in this bay. There's been a few shows in the far margin so boated a rig over to it, then put one down my right margin which is about 10ft away from a air pump thing 👌

Don't give up mate, you will get one eventually 👍 did you say you have a bait boat? Maybe get a deeper on there and map the lake or as yonny said get the marker out and spend a day or two mapping it with that 👍 I'd be doing laps of the lake with sunnies mate, try and find some clear patches in the margins, small bit of bait and see if they clear it a day or two later 👍

I'm guilty for doing the rods half hour before it gets dark 🤣 also baiting up with a throwing stick in the dark so the gulls don't catch them 🤣 no idea if they were going on the spot but it did produce a few fish 🤣 What I sometimes do is if I'm fishing two rods I'll keep a third clipped up and ready so if I get a take in the night I can send it out without fuss 👍

Just got back from my birthday trip to benidorm, we spent most of the time at the strip, I can't drink like I used to 🤣

Nope, I tie them on the bank, my normal go to rig is a loop to loop combi rig but I just change parts depending on what lake I'm fishing. I'm a bit weird I will change kicker shapes, hook sizes and patterns, blow back ring and tubing on different waters 🤣 I don't really enjoy tying rigs either 🤣 My dad only goes a couple times a year and buys the korda ready tied ones and has put fish on the bank with them👍

When I'm fishing the complex it's like a morning ritual I will walk to lidls and get fresh chocolate croissants, they go perfect with a coffee, sometimes they are still warm 👌👌🤣🤣

Hi mate I found a set of nash dwarfs 9ft 2.75lb were ideal for most of my pond fishing, stiff enough to send a 2.5oz lead as far as needed and they felt really nice playing carp, done more 20s than I can remember on them, and they would certainly be enough for bigger fish. For a cheap bait boat, me and my dad share a actor baitboat by boatman. Its nothing fancy but will get your rig and some bait to them island's and over hanging trees 👍