I was wondering if anyone has first hand experience of a good net for skimming floating debris, general crud and algae off the surface of a lake.

Have recently purchased a 1 acres fishing lake, I'm in the process of cleaning everything. Tonnes of overgrown reeds and a considerable amount of floating algae and duck weed.

I'm well versed in good and bad options for carp landing nets, but not so much on skimming nets. Lots of options online but many look to be cheap Chinese crap that will fall apart in 10 minutes. Ideally, it would be a screw thread attachment which connect to the usual fishing landing net pole, but not against having to buy a new designated pole with the net if it's a different fitment.

Clearly can't use standard fishing based landing nets as the net material weave is too large.

Thanks for any help.

PS: owning a lake which has been neglected for a few years is hard work!

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There are two suppliers who spring to mind for my pellet.

- Blakes Pet Food& Fishing Baits

- The Pellet Guys

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That bloody sticky rubber crap was the only reason I sold my set of four ATTs alarms with updated v2 receiver.... The cheeky feckers at Gardner/ATT say this is solved in newer versions but it isn't.

It pained me to spend more money with them but I think the design is the best on the market so I ended up going for the 'Crystal' versions in the end. They are exactly the same specification but made of clear plastic and don't have any coating.

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Had one, loved it. It's essentially a tempest bivvy but without a front panel and no windows. Bit cheeky that Trakker referred to it as a bivvy, it's clearly a day shelter. As previous peeps have mentioned, it used the nice breathable Aquatex type material as opposed to the plasticy/nylon stuff that the Tempest brolly was made from.

They'll be like rocking horse poo now, and well used undoubtedly show the usual issues like bleached material, scratched poles and frayed elastic.

I sold mine whilst still in mint condition to make way for a newer Tempest v2 XL bivvy. I use my new bivvy with the front panel off so it's essentially the same thing but with a couple of windows at the back.

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No matter how good the Actor boat is, it's not a suitable for navigating longer distances on large open waters. It's too small and would struggle with any small waves.

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And I bet you love the TFG rod, right!?

Sold mine to my friend, he'd never part with them and I miss them so much!

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I note already mentioned, but the TFG Carp Compact Commercial rod is probably one of the most amazing/enjoyable rods I have ever played fish on. The 10ft comes in 2.5lb test curve and has just the right amount of bend for carp up to 25lb.

I dont normally recommend TFG but they got these spot on.

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The Chub Vizolite wasn't the amazing bivvy it was cracked up to be.

The Trilite on the other hand... I bloody miss that bivvy!

Probably old news to many of you, but as someone who's been keeping one eye on prices for a new bivvy there's a few points I wanted to raise about Trakker bivvies...

It seems to me that, not satisfied with making a overly complicated product line-up (see January 2020 YouTube video they published entitled "Choosing the Right Trakker Tempest Bivvy or Brolly for Your Carp Fishing"), the boys at Trakker have done it again by introducing a new all-singing-all-dancing fabric called Aquatexx EV (TM).

I don't know what this will do to the previous line up and current distributed stock. I'd be pretty annoyed if I went into a tackle store today and picked up the previous incarnation.

I've been looking out for a Tempest Advanced 150 in particular and the stock is limited and the pricing seems very haphazard. I'll be honest though, until I see one on a good offer I won't be paying the full price which is ridiculous when you factor in a skull cap.

Lastly, I'm losing my faith in humanity when I see online retailers hiking their prices up 3 or 4 times the standard RRP. My wife asked whether eBay item 174505342498 was what I wanted for my birthday but at £3,000 I said the seller could go jump. She queried this with the seller (Dan Brydon, Wensum Valley Angling, Norwich) to be told "Thought I'd see if anyone would buy it at that price"... if ever there's an obvious red flag not to buy from a company that would be it for me.

Rant over lol

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As others have said, it's not "normal" at all to have those tiny rubber gaskets removed.

I've had my ATTs for ages and generally need to change the batteries every couple of years. I do recall the first time I did it one of the gaskets was already fitted twisted and clamped awkwardly - it will have been like that from factory.

Alas, I'm also from the era when they used a external body rubber coating that turned sticky after a couple of years. I've all but scraped that off now. ATT didn't want to know seeing that I hadn't kept my receipt.

They are a solid and reliable bit of kit and you shouldn't be disappointed once you've fitted a new seal kit.

I've just upgraded from the standard black units to the see through crystal set.