commonly

Sat 22nd Feb - First night on the syndi, nothing seen or heard except the thousands of birds roosting - what a place, love it, fingers crossed for a good year! 🤞

Thanks mate, if I don't get far with raking it with the Gardner rake and baiting particles at the end of each session, I will give it a try 👍👍
I've been quite lucky over the last month I've been able to get on the same swim fishing to the same spot, at first there was a bit of weed out there but I started baiting heavily with particles at the end of each session and now I'm starting to get a nice donk with the lead. But by the sounds of it using lime will be more efficient 🤣

I only get to go every now and then,  so wouldn't know for sure. It worked for me on 2 very weedy waters. 
I know a few fish farmers who swear by it for clearing the silt and carp off the deck. The fish love it and tear up the weeds.
We used on my mates little 2 acre pond in one swim that was full of Canadian and 4"of silt, within several weeks it was hard bottom and lilly pads came up which he'd never seen there before.
He'd tried dye, weed cutters, hand balling it, nothing worked like it. Effortless 

I only get to go every now and then,  so wouldn't know for sure. It worked for me on 2 very weedy waters. 
I know a few fish farmers who swear by it for clearing the silt and carp off the deck. The fish love it and tear up the weeds.
We used on my mates little 2 acre pond in one swim that was full of Canadian and 4"of silt, within several weeks it was hard bottom and lilly pads came up which he'd never seen there before.
He'd tried dye, weed cutters, hand balling it, nothing worked like it. Effortless 

We can't help having a bulky build mate, 8-10 stone would be fine on these type of beds.
This one is in the running
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/235391171203?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=8py9PnHURjO&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=yW-jXGLIRqK&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

We can't help having a bulky build mate, 8-10 stone would be fine on these type of beds.
This one is in the running
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/235391171203?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=8py9PnHURjO&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=yW-jXGLIRqK&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

If you can go secret squirrel, try hydrated lime several pva bags and in a several weeks those spots will be clear as a dinner plate.. 
Just keep it subtle though, as has been said, other anglers will soon be on your spots

If you can go secret squirrel, try hydrated lime several pva bags and in a several weeks those spots will be clear as a dinner plate.. 
Just keep it subtle though, as has been said, other anglers will soon be on your spots

I think your handles are on the wrong side 😱

Couldn't resist posting it 👍🤣 

My 9ft Wychwood rods with the new DAM mini pit reels on, very happy with both the rods and the reels, i forgot to bring the rear rest hence tips up, still failed to catch

Have a look on eBay, there were a good number of Solar Undercover bedchairs for sale, they look like unsold stock.
I've been using mine for a few years now and if I was to be really picky, it would be legs don't lock out, BUT, if it's properly levelled out there is no problem. 
When you break the 30lb it is really special!
 

I would be happy with any fish, just dont seem able to catch any thing at all............ consistent as ever, good luck with a bedchair 

I've got a back up cheapy.
I'd be happy with any common over 28lb🤩

I've got a back up cheapy.
I'd be happy with any common over 28lb🤩

2 on the zigs and one in the stink. 
Currently probing 4ft and 6ft after 7ft and 8ft proved fruitless. Depth is about 10ft, come on the carps. 

They had to fence the area in Norfolk that Springwatch was filmed on. Quite amusing seeing on television an otter raiding and killing a coot and it's nest on a bird reserve.

A lot of my waters have been ruined by otters tbh, there's not many being caught from the tidal anymore.. we've seen otters swimming about and found dead fish in the hedges and reeds etc, wasn't long ago we found a big mirror all chewed up in the hedge, was probably a 20+.
The canal has lost a few old ones as well, it does get restocked by the local club but a lot of the old fish have gone.
A local pond has got a fence up now but lost most of its original stock. They were really old fish, owners estimate were around 40 years old. I cant say for certain but they were apparently priory fish? I'm not too clued up on that though lol
We've got otters on the reservoirs as well. They seem to be on all the unfenced waters around here 🤷‍♂️
It's a shame but tbh a lot of these waters I've stopped fishing, I still like a go on one of my reservoirs as there's still a good stock there and still some bigguns left, but I mainly fish a fenced complex now on a season ticket and moving forward I'm gonna spend most of my time here 👍 

They're everywhere, I think we're just done talking about it coz nothing will change.  Numbers will just go up and up and lakes will continue to be fenced.
My syndi isn't fenced and obviously we have otters to contend with, it's a constant threat.
I've fished two fenced lakes and both still had otters getting in and out, once they smell the fish they come back every night looking for weaknesses in the fence, it never stops!
My uncle has a lake, stocked it with carp in the 80s, nowhere near a water course and now he has just a handful of tiny baby carp and small roach left thanks to Mr Otter.
I'm NOT a fan - it's disgusting how land owners are being treated!

Would second hand be an option mate? I've got the indulgence ss4 wide boy and it's been an absolute game changer for me, I can do a week session on it without any issues lol. It handled me at 17 stone 🤣
 

I try to have a declutter every year, it's amazing the amount of stuff we take that we don't really use. If I use the barrow I really try and minimise. Can be more carefree if I can park at the swim but the less I have to take the better. 

The other problem with taking too much gear is the length of time it takes to move if the fish show at the other end of the lake then you just can’t be bothered to move.
theres a fine line between not taking enough and enough to cover everything.
i also carried a bucket of spare bits in the van for that very reason.
Mini weed rake, spomb, bank saw, gravel eater, even the gardener multi rake
silly bits that could stuff you up if you didn’t have them 
 
 

I've managed to scale it back to point where I can move without issue, I've gone from 5 rods to 3, dropped the pod for bank sticks, camera bag, two bait buckets, hold all and cooler bag to just the holdall, cooler bag and 1 bucket, ditched the chair, just gone back to sitting on the bed lol.
I got to the lake earlier and there was someone in the swim I wanted so setup somewhere else, they ended pulling off so quickly packed down and moved lol 👍all fits on one load and feels much lighter lol.
 

It's got to that point again where its starting to take me two barrow trips to get all my gear to the swim, to many "just in case" items that never get used 🤣 I've managed to thin my gear out a bit hopefully only one trip next time lol.
Also took a laptop with me for the last 10 sessions or so to watch films on but haven't once took it out the holdall 🤷‍♂️🤣
Back to the bare essentials for me 👌

The new sonik banktek beds are rated to 150kg, I have an axs duralloy that has survived me so far apart from a bent leg, but sonik replaced that by sending me almost another bed as spares.