who cares where it was caught from ? its a massive achievement, congrats 👏

cheers gents, Peter I still have all the recipes and supplier details if you need or want some info on the RR or palatants. I wont be going into it again,

I've still got a few hoodies myself knocking about lol 8 years later.

Still fishing just not as much as i use to. and of course the rainbow trips, cant moss them lol

Cheers for the heads up on the post pemby,
and thanks for the nice comments gents
wayne its been a while, hope you well fella
AA baits bought vision and ruined it, supply/ demand / they couldnnt do it and didnt have the knowlege or ability to so all that hard work went to nothing in the end. i needed it gone in all honesty, , had a decent job lined up and still there now! do i regret it ? NO, it ruined my hobby for a good numer of years after as it seemed like a chore sometimes, met some great people done some amazing things all over europe.

There is a bait made claiming to be the OP its not, its close but its NOT the OP I made or the semtex or anything to do with vision days.
I still have all the recipes if someone wants a massive roll of it im sure we could sort it through CF and Karlos.

Best wishes gents, missed this place big time

Cheers gents

One of the mere's in Shropshire spooked the hell out of me once. I had fished this swim many time and never had any problems or heard anything untoward..

To get into the swim involved two hikes in chesties with gear (on your head) through sludge/silt and basically a bog of stinking crap. Huge bramble bushes and trees surround the place and it is well away from any public pathways.

I only had the brolly with me (guesting time) and a bed chair + essentials.
I was fast asleep at around 8pm only to be woken startled at midnight with the sound of branches snapping behind me (real loud cracks) there were bushes rustling as if something big was running towards me so immediately I was wide awake with my heart pumping.
Knowing I had these two boggy areas between me and the pathway I got out to look, well I peaked round the side but as soon as I stood up the noise stopped and it was back to the deadly silence that we usually get down there.

A little worried what the noises were I finally dosed off an hour or so later and forgot all about it all until 2 am, you know when you get the feeling that your brolly is about to be blown over and you reach up to stop it flying back?
Well I woke up and raised my hands as I felt the brolly going but I was too late and missed only to be clattered in the head and leg as the bank sticks hit the front of the bed chair before the whole lot landed some 20yards away behind me.
Now I am seriously wide awake and stood up just looking at the state of the place at the same time as crapping myself and looking all around me.
There was not a breath of wind and no sound of the culprit which shifted the brolly.

It got me thinking for all of 2 minutes. Could it be another angler trying to put me off?
No animal could pull a brolly of that size over.
I sure didn't knock it 20+ yards behind me so what the heck was it?
I didn't think about it any longer 2 minutes was enough as by now I was seriously scared and just wanted away from the place. I just grabbed the two rods/ buzzers and left everything else there and fled back to the car and of home.
I returned around 11am that day with a mate to collect the gear and hide it elsewhere. Only footprints in and out of the bog were mine. No branches were broke in or behind the swim so even to this day I still have not got a clue what it I sure as hell wont be fishing the swim again.