New purchases

[Adders27]

Just ordered the Solar Undercover Medium carryall for my gear 

£38 for decent branded bag 

[Carpbell3]

Got some Facebook market place bits lined up, need a chair for day sessions my carp chair is one that sits on the bed so not ideal, prices new are a bit much, so found a wyhwood one for 25, there is that much used tackle available I would only buy new for the delicate stuff.

[Carpbell3]

Saying that I did order a small unhooking mat at the same time I ordered the rods, just the roll up one from drennan perfect for what I want, I'm not taking my carp mat to sort perch and bream out.

[kevtaylor]

Sorry but 6 for £2.37, looks like an essential tackle purchase to me:

[elmoputney]

24 minutes ago, kevtaylor said:

Sorry but 6 for £2.37, looks like an essential tackle purchase to me:

You won't catch if you ain't got a pastry selection. 

[kevtaylor]

8 minutes ago, elmoputney said:

You won't catch if you ain't got a pastry selection. 

This is what I've realised 👍

Must be an age thing coz it seems that every year I forget what my main meals were on the bank in the previous years, suddenly I haven't got a clue what to take.

Going late tonight and it's steak, new potatoes and peas Friday night, then back home Saturday and planning the meals for a 2 night social at Bluebell Sun - Weds.

Weathers looking good for the following weekend down the syndi again, westerlies and rain - fingers and toes crossed for that one, gonna be there Thurs night for first dibs on swims for the long weekend 😎

[elmoputney]

5 hours ago, kevtaylor said:

This is what I've realised 👍

Must be an age thing coz it seems that every year I forget what my main meals were on the bank in the previous years, suddenly I haven't got a clue what to take.

Going late tonight and it's steak, new potatoes and peas Friday night, then back home Saturday and planning the meals for a 2 night social at Bluebell Sun - Weds.

Weathers looking good for the following weekend down the syndi again, westerlies and rain - fingers and toes crossed for that one, gonna be there Thurs night for first dibs on swims for the long weekend 😎

I've got to try and entertain 2 kids on the bank this weekend, god knows what I am going to feed them. 

Good luck Kev at least you have pastries 👍

Edited 19 hours ago by elmoputney

[salokcinnodrog]

6 hours ago, elmoputney said:

You won't catch if you ain't got a pastry selection. 

Tuesday was a Co-op chocolate cookie day.

[kevtaylor]

52 minutes ago, elmoputney said:

I've got to try and entertain 2 kids on the bank this weekend, god knows what I am going to feed them. 

Good luck Kev at least you have pastries 👍

I was back home by 9.15 pm, lap of 2 lakes, swims I wanted gone, could have stayed and fitted in but thought better of it, going Bluebell Sunday anyway.  Wrong attitude but bit fed up with members from other lakes being allowed to fish ours coz theirs is flooded.

I can see why a mate fishes a nature reserve with 5 fish in it now, seems crazy but its you verses them nobody treading on your toes 🤷‍♂️

[elmoputney]

10 hours ago, kevtaylor said:

I was back home by 9.15 pm, lap of 2 lakes, swims I wanted gone, could have stayed and fitted in but thought better of it, going Bluebell Sunday anyway.  Wrong attitude but bit fed up with members from other lakes being allowed to fish ours coz theirs is flooded.

I can see why a mate fishes a nature reserve with 5 fish in it now, seems crazy but its you verses them nobody treading on your toes 🤷‍♂️

I feel the same about winter tickets. You get something going the normal anglers are fading a bit then they all turn up and start taking over like they own the place. 

[salokcinnodrog]

10 hours ago, kevtaylor said:

I was back home by 9.15 pm, lap of 2 lakes, swims I wanted gone, could have stayed and fitted in but thought better of it, going Bluebell Sunday anyway.  Wrong attitude but bit fed up with members from other lakes being allowed to fish ours coz theirs is flooded.

I can see why a mate fishes a nature reserve with 5 fish in it now, seems crazy but its you verses them nobody treading on your toes 🤷‍♂️

We have a problem in that 1 member was the membership 'secretary' for two syndicates, and one of them has a April to June close season. The secretary would 'recommend' members to this syndicate from the other so they would be members of both, but only fish here during the others close season. 

32 minutes ago, elmoputney said:

I feel the same about winter tickets. You get something going the normal anglers are fading a bit then they all turn up and start taking over like they own the place. 

That then creates @elmoputney 's problem and freshly cut, prepared or baited swims are suddenly taken by people who only fish the lake for 3 months without doing any work themselves. 

I was gutted this year to cut and dig out a new swim, keeping it in keeping with the rest of the lake, prebaited it, gotten fish feeding and then finding someone else fishing it and catching one of the fish I was after. His publicised 'campaign' for a bait company was actually fish for 2nights where someone else had been baiting and dive in when they had gone, not as it was published.

It's not the first time it has happened to me or another couple of mates on the lake.

It's these other syndicate members who don't do any work themselves who wind me up.

[kevtaylor]

1 hour ago, elmoputney said:

I feel the same about winter tickets. You get something going the normal anglers are fading a bit then they all turn up and start taking over like they own the place. 

So far my plans have gone totally the wrong way, trying to complete a side job through March - April with fishing in May at the forefront of my mind, it's turned out I should have fished then and put the job off till May - June with the hot-still weather and now new members and other lake members on top it feels like a bit of a disaster at such an early stage.

Really think the bulk of my syndi fishing has to be Sept - April, hardcore through early spring when it's nice and quiet.

This place is busy May until whenever the weed gets up lol

Edited 6 hours ago by kevtaylor

[framey]

6 hours ago, salokcinnodrog said:

We have a problem in that 1 member was the membership 'secretary' for two syndicates, and one of them has a April to June close season. The secretary would 'recommend' members to this syndicate from the other so they would be members of both, but only fish here during the others close season. 

That then creates @elmoputney 's problem and freshly cut, prepared or baited swims are suddenly taken by people who only fish the lake for 3 months without doing any work themselves. 

I was gutted this year to cut and dig out a new swim, keeping it in keeping with the rest of the lake, prebaited it, gotten fish feeding and then finding someone else fishing it and catching one of the fish I was after. His publicised 'campaign' for a bait company was actually fish for 2nights where someone else had been baiting and dive in when they had gone, not as it was published.

It's not the first time it has happened to me or another couple of mates on the lake.

It's these other syndicate members who don't do any work themselves who wind me up.

 

if an angler who only fishes once or twice a month as that’s all his time allows turns up at a lake and proceeds to do what the “stars” say and finds the fish how is he doing anything wrong he doesn’t know anyone has baited that area.

if you have baited an area and the fish are on it that’s not really his fault.

unless he’s in with the clique which most of these type of anglers are not he will never know

on a club water it’s “lottery fishing”

trying to get anything going you have to pray no one is in there when you come back.

 

[yonny]

2 minutes ago, framey said:

trying to get anything going you have to pray no one is in there when you come back.

Agree. Pre-baiting is a thing of the past on many waters nowadays. Certainly on busier ones.

[framey]

3 minutes ago, yonny said:

Agree. Pre-baiting is a thing of the past on many waters nowadays. Certainly on busier ones.

Do you really wanna waste money throwing your bait on top of some one else’s stuff ??
best sticking to zigs or chucking singles around me thinks.