In reply to Post #331
it's a little bit worse than that Ken, Bait, pop ups,all dips and liquids, pellet and any form of feed will be confiscated, if you try to hide it, it's smuggling and carries a fine of 1000 euros and for good measure if they think you are taking the piss as to where you have hidden it your passport will be listed as trying to smuggle contraband, now that produces some real problems like trying to get into the USA and some other countries,

Bricolage or any of the big hardware places sell particle its cheap also (might change when they realise the brits are buying it ) do not try to smuggle anything, not even pop ups

There is every chance that travel to France will be subject to proof of Covid vaccination as well as valid health insurance and visa ,there are probably countless other hoops you will need to travel to the EU states after the 31st of December,but these are three i have read in a study into traveling to the EU next year, the amount of hoops will depend on the deal we make, so i wouldn't count ya chickens for next year just yet

In reply to Post #89
yep Rac will still cover you AA has said that they will recover you to a local garage and home relay will be be on a discretion based service some of the others will and some wont, E111 will always work but if you need to be flown home good luck with that on a E111

Ok it was really hard to find information on to how they plan to police this however i did find some interesting snippets.
The job of enforcing this falls to public health England who only have 5500 employees mostly scientist and researchers, powers are now shared with local councils public health departments, on tuesday Uk border force stated to share arrival information with public health England who are passing information to local councils, checks will start at random and dependent on the amount of people flaunting the rules may move to checking everyone, second problem if you travel against a non essential travel recommendation, you may well find you have no insurance or breakdown cover, average recovery cost from France can range between £700-3000 dependent on where in France you breakdown. another thing to consider is if you go after the announcement and come back and quarantine your employer does not have to legally hold your job for you or pay for the time you have to self isolate

I probably Thought the same as most the're not going to enforce it, got call from my brotherinlaw last night he got back from France on Sunday got a knock on his door yesterday afternoon and answered it to a very disappointed official who was checking to see if he was self isolating, luckily he works from home, the guy did say they was itching to hand out the first fines and if they can prove it you can get a maximum £1000 fine for every time you leave the house, im with blanco better of not going and waiting, plenty of fishing to be had over here rather than risk it

In reply to Post #14
I agree, two options would be perfect..... for me in it's current form it would be useless come November i think aquatexx and a heavy duty ground sheet would send it to about 25 kilos, but as i said in my post i fish a lot of lakes where you park behind or in your swim, but my tempest v1 i rarely need the winter skin because the insulation it offers, the 200 does look good set up on the bank and blends nicely like all the other tempest range

I looked at one of these for a long time i do a lot of winter session fishing here and abroad, so wanted something with a lot of room, when i see one last week in france i took the opportunity to speak to the guy using it, it is really big, easy to set up, however the material imo is too thin and not like the normal tempest so would offer little protection in cold weather, the ground sheet is less than half the thickness of the normal tempest so again little protection when the ground gets cold
in all i was disappointed as it didn't come up to the same quality of my v1 tempest but i think that is reflected in the price.
on the plus side its Huge, the inner capsule is a really cool idea for taking the wife so no you dont get screams in the night when creepy crawlies come in, you probably need a stepladder for fitting the skull cap but all fitted up it looks really cool and with two people inside you defiantly need it stop condensation, the rear vents are really big so airflow is to a maximum, the guy says it takes the same time to set up as a normal tempest so that,s a plus again.
I was gutted they scrimped on the material and ground sheet if they hadn't i would have paid double the price for the bivvy and suffered the extra weight as the sort of lakes i fish are straight out the back of my transit van i think trakker let themselves down on this one.

In reply to Post #6
I had a set of neviles converted to do just that, and added attx deluxe conversion, the range is miles better than fox or delkim, neviles are bullet proof compared to the rest just gotta work on getting delkim battery life out of one

In reply to Post #757
never really fancied 6 as a swim 18 is awesome fishing the channels in the weed.......you'd think the weed would would be sufficient warmth and protection rather than travel into deeper water but then its deep over by the corner of 16 it was always a good winter spot