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Uncoated lead so you can feel more through it. I’m pretty sure you can get hold of small marker style leads. I often use a sea fishing breakaway lead, cut the arms down and cable tie them in position. Very useful for picking out debris or minor weed clearance in the margins. You can get them in all sizes fairly cheaply too on eBay.

Similar to yonny, I had a £75 club ticket last season, fished there for 3 nights and a £275 ticket (June-june) and I’ve only done 3 nights so far! Expensive trips. Spent most of my year fishing a club water for free as I’m on the committee! But none of those club lakes really do it for me tbh. hopefully fit in a couple more nights on the ticket before June but then I don’t know whether I’ll renew. See how it goes. Pretty expensive trips!

Nope, they will still get people there. Supply and demand and the demand is still damn high everywhere you look. More and more members only lakes are becoming invite only due to silly enquiries for the waiting lists. The rest are raising prices to ensure a lower membership costs costs. it makes the day tickets more money off the back of it.

I should probably pre soak my braid when I’m fishing at range. Sweatbands the obvious choice. not that I’ve fished mono for years but I always used to have a couple of casts without a hooklink to the clipped spot to ascertain the difference in feelings from the braided leading rod. So I guess line was wet already when it came to the casts that mattered. in terms of the OP and breaking strain was really my point with the soaking whilst fishing thing. If I leave my lines out for 24hrs and it reduced breaking strain you’d certainly know about it! can imagine a very good pre soak of any line but especially monos and fluoros would be beneficial when there’s a lot of algae floating about or sediment in the water as to not discolour it?

I’m not sure I get the whole point of all this, but you cast line out and leave it in the water for hours on end. It’s well soaked up to the distance you’re casting anyway. you’re always advised to soak before spooling so it becomes more supple.

Have you seen the crimp-it or whatever it’s called. Same thing but not a toaster, could use it to prepare them before your session and then just pop it in a toaster device if you’re choosing to heat it up. Interesting to look at RM as a business. A redesign of a toaster device, simple and easy, has propelled them in to what they are now. Goes to show how something incredibly simple can lead a business to be extremely lucrative!

Any of them!

We argue a bit and move on. Hence why the long term members remain. Rather argue about something that matters than if a hookbait worth the price 😂

That opens another can of worms regarding attitudes on Israel across the world and the right to claim land back because of ancient claims to the land 😂 When are the Europeans going to give America back to the natives? What if someone funds the natives to the tune of billions and billions to arm themselves and reclaim it, what would the world say? Same for Australia. Now that would be an interesting situation to witness!

So why is your focus on these migrants doing it? Focus on it as a whole no? Stop it ALL not just a small percentage of it no? Wasn’t people on the streets like they are about migrants was there? A proportion of them seemingly charged with SAs, paedophilia and domestic violence, proclaiming to want to protect women and children. Make it make sense! As you said, they act like some British do, but you’re focussed on them not all again. If you know it’s not a migrant attribute, why the hyper focus? I get that it’s an easier issue to sort out but demonising them for behaviours you admit British people have as well or crimes British people also commit seems a bit ridiculous doesn’t it. my example in jest. They have plenty of reasons to prefer Britain to anywhere else. Family ties, the lifestyle, the countryside, for some of them maybe they feel that Britain played a part in causing their circumstances in their country so we owe them a safe place to live… that last one you can’t disagree with really can you.

Funny that they hand themselves over to authorities and ask to claim asylum as soon as they land. They don’t run off and hide. It’s like they want to claim asylum and enter “illegally” to do so as they have to be on British soil to claim it. It’s as if, if there was a legal route to claim asylum by not being on British soil, that they’d just do that instead. It’s not a hard solution. flying them to Africa and housing them there’s is a considerable taxpayer expense still. All money better spent employing staff to process applications and sorting out claims quicker. make it easier to claim asylum from any number of those safe countries and they wouldn’t need to arrive “illegally” would they. at the same time spend money on staff to process the claims. Bish bash bosh, you’ve solved the issue of them coming here on boats and smuggled in and put up at taxpayer expense. but you never see anyone saying this is the solution, either let them all in and process or deport them and all put the navy out to kill them at sea. No middle ground or sensible option for some reason. Extremism is never the answer.

Our history extents much beyond those two things. The empire and atrocities committed against countries Britain invaded should be taught alongside the good things for example. Same for every country. Simple as that. There’s no excuse to be uneducated on history or any subject now the internet exists. Information is at everyone’s fingertips. Anyone that passes comment or forms opinions without educating themselves thoroughly, beyond the scope of social media and Algorithms, in my opinion has an invalid opinion or at minimum be willing to educate themselves based off evidence provided.

Often times the women and children are in an”safe country” and then men make the journey to Britain as the risk is high in the channel. Then once here they bring the family. Your statements show you need to do some internet research as you don’t fully understand any of what you’ve said. Women and children in Ukraine were FLOWN out at the expense of other countries taxpayer money to those countries. The men were forced to stay, those that left cant go back. One that did flee got a visa here and lived across the road from my parents. I’ve spoken to him first hand. Avoided duty because of a bad back, was here working as a labourer the following week. They have a choice on where to go. They might prefer British food to Italian. Simple as that. They have freedom of choice. also, it just sounds like you don’t care about women and children sexually assaulted by British men. So much focus on these migrants and what they’ve done when a majority of SAs in Britain are carried out by white men, same with child SAs. Get a grip on reality please. Villainising a small % of the perpetrators and ignoring the majority is utter stupidity. Are you as vocal about British rapists? If all of these migrants disappeared will you still be vocal about rape and sexual assault? Were you before they were here? they are a recent phenom after all.

It’s the same with all these people harping on about Iran, that regime is/was only there because they overthrew a brutal and sadistic dictatorship installed by the British under proxy for the Americans, because the leader at the time who everyone in Iran loved, wanted to nationalise oil and cancel the contracts with BP. A history well documented and factual, but that they bury whenever they can. History repeating itself again. What do they say, if you keep on doing the same thing over and over again and expect a different result, they call you crazy. Afghanistan, Libya, Iraq, Syria, Iran…

So they plan to ignore and actively hide the bad side of British history, which we all know exists and to educate people properly, should be taught to our children. It’s like Germany saying they won’t teach anyone about the Nazi party….although that does need looking in to if you have a brain on who set that policy and wrote the textbooks. the entire issue with this policy is that the internet is free, people will go and question and interrogate it for the truth and start asking questions in school, what happens then? They are expelled for questioning the history they are taught? Imprisoned? What happens? censor the internet? you teach the good and the bad side by side. You should be taught the truth. Churchill for example, he did many a bad thing, that’s facts. Why hide it? What happens if I bring that up in a Restore Britain Britain? Death penalty for the truth? the internet will always win the day unless censored, which sounds an awful lot like a dictatorship that restore criticise. The truth about what you were taught, what I was taught, what’s being taught now, is out there. go translate hitlers speeches for a start, eye opening. Go look up who publishes school textbooks. Go research the real history and current affairs. Eye opening stuff. Kids are savvy and a fake history doesn’t run anymore.