In reply to Post #3
How's Kingsmoor Moor these days, heard a rumour of a fish kill early this year?

In reply to Post #10
Would probably take a papercourt ticket mate. Not a quiet water these days I don't think but it's a nice distance from me and a nice lake. Fished it a couple of times many years ago when cemex had it. Very hard to get a ticket I think in recent years

In reply to Post #3
Yeah I've heard from mates it's pretty bad everywhere and understandable to an extent with the lockdown just can't believe how bad my current syndicate is. It's definitely not enjoyable fishing even if you manage to squeeze in one of the last remaining swims

In reply to Post #2
Never thought about the grand union worth a look thanks.

Carp fishing has destroyed me lol. Twice I've turned up recently to my nearly £600 syndicate after work, only to go home due to lake being rammed out 😩 that's not right surely there's gotta be something else.
There's gotta be some peace and quiet out there surely, tell me I'm not deluded! Don't care how hard the reputation of the lake is and not fussed about cost just give me some quiet banks on a gravel pit anywhere in Surrey, Hampshire or the colne valley or surrounds pleeeeeeeeeease

I wait in anticipation haha

In reply to Post #1
I bought a set about 3 weeks ago from eBay. They were from an eBay only type tackle shop. There were up for £535 which was more than I wanted to pay but I watched the item anyway. After a week I received a message from the seller with a private offer of £515 which was good but the next day eBay had one of those 10% off certain purchases which just happened to work with that tackle shop. I had to contact eBay first and ask if that 10% offer would work on top of there private offer of £515 which it did! So get them for £463 in the end which was a result. a mate has just bought a set of rods off eBay and had the same type of private offer after watching the rods for so long that was much cheaper than anywhere else. Not something I'd heard of before but maybe worth a look if you're not in a rush to buy

In reply to Post #31
Jesus mate sounds awful, there's no doubt although the angler in me is gagging to get out and no idea how I'll cope with no angling for potentially the next few months or more lol, hearing stuff like that and obviously everything going on in our country, Europe and the rest of the world, angling clearly can wait and really I guess we need to focus on staying safe and not putting others at risk.
Nice bit of input from everyone, with plenty of time on my hands in the coming weeks can see me on here a lot more than I have been in the past.

In reply to Post #10
I hope they do help the self employed partly so we can do the right thing and stay home but also because before long no ones gonna wanting work to be done anyway and I definitely wouldn't blame them! Obviously I'm basing this on self employed tradesmen like myself but obviously all self employed are gonna need the help.
some year 2020s gonna be

In reply to Post #7
Yeah self employed too mate. As it stands I've still got work I doubt for much longer...