I usually walk around the lake until I see signs of fish then move into a swim. The bivvy goes up and kit goes in. I may put a bit of bait in trying to keep an eye on the water. Rods set up and cast to the most promising areas. I don't use a marker unless I'm doing a long session and don't know the swim. If they are there that's the main thing for me.
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I am exactly like you mate, I've got to no a couple lakes that I fish regularly very well. Alright I'm not saying the fish will always be where I thing they could be of course not, but I do have a good idea obviously anything can happen on any given day.
I'm like that bud I've got a couple different books I try to keep as much as I can in. I believe it can be a huge advantage once you no the lake well enough
I am exactly like you mate, I've got to no a couple lakes that I fish regularly very well. Alright I'm not saying the fish will always be where I thing they could be of course not, but I do have a good idea obviously anything can happen on any given day.
I'm like that bud I've got a couple different books I try to keep as much as I can in. I believe it can be a huge advantage once you no the lake well enough
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On nearly every lake I've fished I've got my preferred swim. Doesn't always mean it's the "going" swim on the particular day I'm fishing there, but if it's free I'll normally make a beeline for it.
It could be my favourite swim for a variety of reasons, maybe it's the one that's laid out best for my set up, maybe it's the best one for whatever is the prevailing wind, maybe it's the one I tend to have a result, but I usually have one.
So I'm not going to spend too much time faffing around.
This time of year, when the weather is so unpredictable, my bivvy will be going up first.
In the Summer?? I might not even put my bivvy up until late evening.
On nearly every lake I've fished I've got my preferred swim. Doesn't always mean it's the "going" swim on the particular day I'm fishing there, but if it's free I'll normally make a beeline for it.
It could be my favourite swim for a variety of reasons, maybe it's the one that's laid out best for my set up, maybe it's the best one for whatever is the prevailing wind, maybe it's the one I tend to have a result, but I usually have one.
So I'm not going to spend too much time faffing around.
This time of year, when the weather is so unpredictable, my bivvy will be going up first.
In the Summer?? I might not even put my bivvy up until late evening.
In reply to Post #1
If it makes them happy who cares
If it makes them happy who cares
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Where does all your gear go if the ground is wet and dirty? Just chuck it down in the muck? I generally set my bivvy up first for that reason. It takes 10 minutes to setup and unload the gear so hardly a session breaker. Bit different if you're fishing manicured gravel or artificial grass pegs.
Summertime I'll setup first then put the bivvy up, but as I fish mainly on the tidal Trent there are no trees and no cover, so the bivvy is needed for shade as much as it is for protection in winter.
Where does all your gear go if the ground is wet and dirty? Just chuck it down in the muck? I generally set my bivvy up first for that reason. It takes 10 minutes to setup and unload the gear so hardly a session breaker. Bit different if you're fishing manicured gravel or artificial grass pegs.
Summertime I'll setup first then put the bivvy up, but as I fish mainly on the tidal Trent there are no trees and no cover, so the bivvy is needed for shade as much as it is for protection in winter.
I have to set my bivv up first as one of my dogs is a total nutter when it comes to baiting up and casting out. He has to be in there all zipped up and something over the front so he can't see what I'm doing, then I can relax without him whinning mercilessly in my ear hole. He is a working dog and can be very intense.
For some reason or another, it can take me ages sorting out my spots once I've jumped in a swim where I've either been baiting up or seen them during the week on my baiting missions, maybe it's a best guess swim as the fish where I go don't show loads of give themselves away too often.
Luckily enough the swims aren't that difficult to get banksticks in, so no real need for a hammer, although I do take one just incase I can't drive a bankstick home.
For some reason or another, it can take me ages sorting out my spots once I've jumped in a swim where I've either been baiting up or seen them during the week on my baiting missions, maybe it's a best guess swim as the fish where I go don't show loads of give themselves away too often.
Luckily enough the swims aren't that difficult to get banksticks in, so no real need for a hammer, although I do take one just incase I can't drive a bankstick home.
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I have to usually set the bivvy first as my dog is also a massive bellend until he can chill out on the bedchair, either that or I have to leave him in the van then go and get him once the house is up, either way there's no getting the rods out till the dog is happy
I have to usually set the bivvy first as my dog is also a massive bellend until he can chill out on the bedchair, either that or I have to leave him in the van then go and get him once the house is up, either way there's no getting the rods out till the dog is happy
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I couldn't work out why my one was going bonkers in the bivv every single time I was just about to bang a rod out, the bugger was watching through the zip, even zipped up. Like a beady mince pie up against the zip 👀 Now I put something over the front so he can't see anything and he's mildly sufferable. I do sometimes wrap his lead to a tree well away from the swim and where he can't see me casting, then he nuts out with the *whoosh* of the rod. He literally looses his marbles. It's right laugh.
Does yours want to swim out for your rig/spomb? Mine does and has done 🤬
I couldn't work out why my one was going bonkers in the bivv every single time I was just about to bang a rod out, the bugger was watching through the zip, even zipped up. Like a beady mince pie up against the zip 👀 Now I put something over the front so he can't see anything and he's mildly sufferable. I do sometimes wrap his lead to a tree well away from the swim and where he can't see me casting, then he nuts out with the *whoosh* of the rod. He literally looses his marbles. It's right laugh.
Does yours want to swim out for your rig/spomb? Mine does and has done 🤬
In reply to Post #38
No he doesn't do any of that he just sits there whining at me until I get the bedchair sorted
No he doesn't do any of that he just sits there whining at me until I get the bedchair sorted
In reply to Post #39
My other one does that in sympathy to the other one loosing his mind. Soooo relaxing
My other one does that in sympathy to the other one loosing his mind. Soooo relaxing
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My dog doesn't mind me casting out, but if he see the catty or throwing stick he goes bonkers..... he then likes to eat any boiles which go awol and land on the bank....
Dunno if it's the same for you but once he's on the bed ....he's only a whippet and manages to get fully spread out and I'm left squashed on the end.....
My dog doesn't mind me casting out, but if he see the catty or throwing stick he goes bonkers..... he then likes to eat any boiles which go awol and land on the bank....
Dunno if it's the same for you but once he's on the bed ....he's only a whippet and manages to get fully spread out and I'm left squashed on the end.....
Bedchair gets set up first so I can sit down and keep low while setting up.
Unless it's raining brolly goes up just before dark.
Unless it's raining brolly goes up just before dark.
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Nah, my two are on the ground. I always have to use a ground sheet as the nutty one was escaping without one when casting out. I put a sleeping bag down for each of them, although it can be musical dogs in the night as one of them likes to snuggle up to the other, and the nutter doesn't like it, so he moves to the vacated sleeping bag.
I'm guessing your dog has to have a jacket on him in this sort of weather?
Nah, my two are on the ground. I always have to use a ground sheet as the nutty one was escaping without one when casting out. I put a sleeping bag down for each of them, although it can be musical dogs in the night as one of them likes to snuggle up to the other, and the nutter doesn't like it, so he moves to the vacated sleeping bag.
I'm guessing your dog has to have a jacket on him in this sort of weather?
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Mines a whippet x cocker. I give up taking her. She won't settle and will jump In and attack any bird life. I found that out the hard way
Mines a whippet x cocker. I give up taking her. She won't settle and will jump In and attack any bird life. I found that out the hard way
one of the few times I took one of my dogs (on a lovely sunny day) he
ate most of my mixers that I had for floaters, I told him off with an angry
voice and he looked at me as if to say "Well it is dog food", bloody ruined
that days fishing
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Do your own thing, be happy
ate most of my mixers that I had for floaters, I told him off with an angry
voice and he looked at me as if to say "Well it is dog food", bloody ruined
that days fishing
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reply to #1
Do your own thing, be happy