Lidl doing waders, fishing jacket and padded trousers. Cant speak to the quality but prices look keen

Anyone got a recommendation for waders that are hard wearing and can cope with brambles? I do a lot of bank maintenance and clearance at my lake and my cheap waders are getting torn to pieces and are now more patched than original.

I managed to miss the spring completely and only got going at the end of June and days only. Two 20's and a 30 from the same spot in a week and I thought I was on for the season from heaven and now its completely dead! I can see them in the weed, I'm pre-baiting the same mix and fishing the same way but getting nothing. Happy though with the peace and quiet and watching the kingfishers and maybe I'll get another before year end. Summer sun can be a pain but I'll take that over pissing down rain

I have a small pond with a couple of koi and a few goldfish. On a pond forum I saw advice to suspend orange halves in the water and the fish would go crazy for it. And they did, they just love slurping at it until all that's left is the peel.

So as koi = carp has anyone tried incorporating oranges / orange juice or other fruit concoctions in their fishing?

In reply to Post #2
Yeah I know

The weed itself is healthy

The carp are healthy

But bugs there are few ?

It does teem with roach but I cant imagine they've eaten everything

Weird

I'm fishing a lake that's heavily weeded so I've used a rake to clear a patch. In all the weed I've taken out I'm struggling to find any natural food. No snails or bugs etc. It seems to be healthy canadian weed and the fish are certainly healthy but I'm puzzled why there's not much aquatic life?

Just feed them off on bread or cheap floating pellets and they'll forget all about your spot

I quite like having them around and watching their behaviour, sometimes easy to know when the carp have arrived by the ducks spooking

I bought a 15kg sack of copdock mill from my local farm supply shop for about £33. Soaked for 24 hours and boiled for 30 minutes it splits nicely and working nicely

I use hey camera with an iphone 11 and it works great. Just have to say photo or video and it does it all

Ford S-Max has done me proud on 48 and 72 hour sessions