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As I've found out, gotta up the gear or there's no point, I've laid out 1500 on a roller, I'm still in the middle of setting up, dough mixer next on the list. My bottle neck at the moment is boiling the baits. My machine can do 100kg a day, but boiling is taking for ever. I'm gonna go down the route of boiling instead of steaming, gonna try a burco with a cage, if that fails I'm gonna get some single ring burners and a some big pots. I will get there eventually 👍🤣 Once being able to mass produce I've got some people lined up who wants to buy so should be good to go 👍

Could see into next week with that thing 🤣🤣

Just had this beaut at 28lb 4oz 👍

I wouldn't be without my radio 🤣 I quite happily just sit there making rigs, watching the water/rods with the radio going in the background lol. This session has been a bit nuts, I've been working the spot since I got here, putting out 10 spombs after every fish (had around 18 I think) its been a lot work but very rewarding, but it's enjoyable, kind of got into a bit of a rhythm, got some music going while I bait up lol. I just wanna point out I'm not being a yobbo belting out music disturbing everyone, I'm on 90 acres of water and hundreds of yards from anyone with a small radio basically following me from the bivvy to where i bait up🤣

I like adding tinned milk like condensed milk and evaporated milk. The juices from cooked hemp create a nice flat spot too 👍

Another double this morning, I was gonna go home today but everything is damp, it's cold and I just cba packing everything up so gonna do another night, got 2 - 3kg left so should be good for a few more bites 👍 rods are in, gonna get over the shop get a few bits etc 👍

There's not much to report really, after the 24 this morning I've had countless doubles, I think im on 16 or 17 fish 🤣 I showed an angler the 33 I caught and he said its called "black spot" and is the one of the best looking commons in the res 👍

I use the same water it's soaked in mate 👍the color afterwards is all the juices/oils etc, when I prep my particle to freeze I drain all the particles and put the liquid in a bottle to freeze as well, then when defrosting ill add it back 👍

It's going off this morning, 3 fish on the bank already, two low doubles and this 24lb 8oz common 🤙 I've just took a screen shot of it cos the file is 10mb 👍

All the best with your recovery pal, sounds awful.

Put the rods back out this morning with a few spombs of bait and the right hand rod went off within minutes 👍🤣 low double, tried taking some pics but it wouldn't stay still 😬🤣

Over the moon lads 💪 gonna do another 24hr today, there's rain forecast and the bivvy is still wet, they give a sunny day tomorrow so makes sense to pack up then 🤣 dropped down to two rods, got 5kg of bait left so it's all good 👍

Thanks bud, it was a great buzz 👍

I've just had the best fight of my life, fish was kiting down the res from 100 yards out, it was a long slow plod towards me until about 40 yards, started going again, got it back to about 20 yards and it just went off, the rod went in half with it just charging off, it kept doing this for about 15 20 minutes, every time I gained some it just took off again, I didn't want to tighten the clutch anymore at risk of losing it and the rod was already going in half 🤣. I eventually got it into the net and straight away knew it was a chunk 🤣 33lb on the nose!!! Guys i am absolutely buzzing, my adrenaline is going and my hands are still shaking 👍🤣 I do have some photos on the dslr too, they came out acceptable to me but still can't get the focus correct. But it don't matter tbh I'm happy with my phone photos and can look back on them 👍👍👍👍 fish has destroyed me 🤣🤣🤣 In the middle of the fight my second rod went off, then the third at the same time. Once the fish was in the sling I lifted into the second rod and connected to a fish, starting getting it back but it Bumped off, so drops that rod and lifts into the 3rd rod and landed a little common about 10lb All rods are out the water and I feel done in🤣 might have a chill tonight then get rods back out early with a fresh lot of bait 👍

25lb 👍 had this fish last session (one i posted for the first fish of the month) Bailiff took the photo so didn't set it up on the intervalometer and tripod, the focus isn't good but I don't mind, it made it onto the bank 👊

Just been having a look mate, there's no facial recognition but the focus mode is on af-a, I'm gonna try it on 'af-s' and see if it helps, apparently when using af-a, it can focus on the face more than anything. Trial abd error I suppose 🤣

another one on the bank bringing it up to 6 fish 👍

I have that app as well, I'm sure it doesn't take pictures the same as using the built in camera app, like the quality is set on max but it doesn't seem as good as the standard camera photos 🤔

Well had a stocky brace the net so perfect excuse to use the camera Next time I think if I lower the camera a bit it will be level with the fish bringing it into focus better 👍 @yonny thanks for your advice mate I think I'll be taking some decent shots in the future 👍

18lb 👌 not the best shot I had someone take the photo instead of being on the tripod, with that it hasn't focused on the fish properly. I'm still happy with it tho, it's a memory 🤙🤣 I'm gonna put some pegs in the swim in a bit and have one where the tripod goes and one where the cradle will go. Should be able to keep everything pretty centered like that 👍 it's a learning curve but I'm sure I'll get there 👍

Wicked mate, It's took a lot of googling (don't have a manual) but got it set to your settings, I've had a little go but realised I had the single point to the bottom right instead of the middle 🤦‍♂️anyway it should be good to go, will test when it stops raining 👍 Wader shot using your settings Happy days 🤙

Okay thanks mate 👍

Didn't even notice that mate 🤣 I've got a nikon d5000 with a af-s nikkor 18-105mm lens yeah its in auto mode mate, i don't have a clue what im doing, ive only just managed to work out how to use the intervalometer 🤦‍♂️🤣any help would be great thanks 👍

I will have a look and see what I can get 👍 is 13ft a must? For the water I'm on at the moment I'm doing really well with big baits and I'd like to say I'm getting the bigger stamp of fish and avoiding the stockies and bream, so would like to keep things the same if I can 👍 I will see what lines they in my tackle shop after my session and get something thinner 👍

24lb 12oz, first time using my dslr, image quality is so clean lol