couldn't be more right about the UK and the current state of affairs.

I do love stories like this but its gonna be many years before i ever get available time like this again

Social media is the issue as soon as someone posts a big fish from somewhere all the others jump on it for their bit of fame

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Things will go full circle, anyone who isn't sponsored will go full secret squirrel, like the old days.

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It's about money; social media just facilitates it.

Esso swim
this was a known Bream hotspot but was next to where the carp like to frequent
it only had 2 parking spaces on the short walk 2 mins away but it was very popular walk etc etc with everyman and his dog liking the area so getting a parking space in daylight hrs was virtulally impossible so then it was a 1200mtrs + walk from the main car park to hope you had a swim as you couldnt really park anywhere to check
thats why i only fished this swim at night when i worked for Esso if you left your car in the car park over night it was pretty obvious where you were and your car was then very vulnerable to the scallys and you would come back to your car / van on bricks or your locks done and radio missing