In reply to Post #25
Mark the water companies deliberately dose Orthophosphates to chemically line the the lead pipe distribution network to stop the lead coming into contact with the treated water, otherwise it's generally being ripped out and replaced with HDPE pipe, I'm a water treatment engineer for context.
Lead is poisonous and science backs this up categorically, continually dumping lead into the environment isn't a great practice and only gives the anti's ammunition to try and put a stop to angling as you've pointed out in fairness 👍
The Shooting industry have shown the way since the wild fowling lead ammunition ban came into effect in England back in 1999, there's lots of alternatives to lead although more expensive granted, TSS, Heavy Shot, Bismuth to name a few!

In reply to Post #7
Aspen weed rakes are fantastic, they work exceptionally well!

In reply to Post #1
Yes you can I use them at work, extremely expensive and pH probes need replacing every 6 months to remain accurate as eventually offsets become to great giving unreliable results. AJS isn't a bad shout tbh 👍

In reply to Post #1
I have both! I'd say the Thermacell performs slightly better but more costly to buy refills but you will not get bitten full stop, you literally see the mozzies doing a u turn away from the brolly! Worth the outlay imo.

In reply to Post #1
Spence at Aqua bait rolls up 22 mm baits and can thoroughly recommend his gear it's quality!

In reply to Post #20
Ok bud sound I'll give it a work out and see how I get on with it! Looking forward to catching a few off the top on braid I bet it's lovely to play fish on with a through action surface rod 😁

In reply to Post #10
@Belch I've bought a 270m spool of the fire line crystal in 0.20 on your recommendation, it seems quite wire like on first impressions, does it soften much with use out of interest?

In reply to Post #8
Cheers bud appreciate the clarification 👍

In reply to Post #8
His furniture wax sticks are brilliant tbf, it lasts an absolute age and protects the points very well indeed, I bought two sticks from Jason a good number of years ago and there's still many hundreds of hooks worth of protection left the sticks!

In reply to Post #4
Hi Belch,
Is that the fused stuff ?