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Well there is something I've been wanting to do for quite some time and I've finally got round to getting it all sorted.

I grew up with dogs, love em and miss having one around. Obviously in the military I didn't have one because of moving and time constraints. Infantry does not leave you a lot of time at your house...then I moved to a no pet apartment for quite some time and when we switched apartments the other year Liz had her Cats so I kinda left the thought on the back burner...However Hank has recently been fishing with us and bringing his dog out so the urge has been re-ignited if you will.

Anyway to make a long story short, I worked hard with my Landlord, who has been shafted in the past with irresponsible tenants and dogs, to get permission to own a dog. Then of course to find a dog etc..

Well one month ago we adopted Trina. She is a beautiful 2 year old Blue nosed American Pitbull. She was housebroken but not much else so the past month has been some serious work to get her to walk on...

I blanked this week, my own fault i'm affraid.
Thursday evening 16c, windS/W changing N/W.
Looked perfect...Fed about 4kg of New Grange and Cell mixed 50/50 into the lake that has really been producing for me lately.
Woke up Friday morning 4.30am only 3c.....not a sniff!
Worst of all, it was my own damned fault!!
I didn't check the weather did I!!! First frost of the year and too much bait out for the conditions. Just goes to show the old saying of 'you can always put more in but you can't take it out' is sooooo bloody true!!!
Total, schoolboy error!!
Check the weather before you leave guys, don't be a total blanker when you don't need to.
Tight lines to you all, may your next ones be monsters.
Deano

just thought it would be interesting to see what boilies you all have tried making and whats worked best,

sofar ive tried blackstone carps dogfood boilies,

I then went to changing his mix by adding different flavours into the dogfood,

I added tuna in sunflour oil and used the tuna oil in the wet mix, sofar this has proven to be a real carp catcher, in 4 sessions ive had about 20 runs on these boilies and about 14 carp landed,

Ive made garlic and cinnomin, they didnt work so well,

peanut butter boilies (awaiting a test)

and today I mixed up some king prawn and dogfood boilies, hoping to try them out thursday along with the peanut butter,

Carp reels will need to be matched to thecarp rod. Depending on the distance you are going to be casting and the line strength and diameter you will be using, you need a reel that can hold the amount of line required. Choice of actual carp reel is very much a personal thing and you need to be comfortable with whatever you choose. I would recommend trying a carp reel on the rod you will be using it with. A good fitting is essential as is good balance. I would certainly try to buy a carp reel of the baitrunner type. If you are going to be using two rods and maybe waiting for a long time for a run, you can't always watch it the whole time, and a carp needs to be able to pull line free from the reel before you can strike. If it can't then a big carp can pull the whole rod and reel into the lake; believe me, I have seen it happen more than once! OK, so you could open the bail arm, but try this on a windy day and you will wish you hadn't. It can also produce disastrous messes on a strike if you forget you have done it. A baitrunner is simply a mechanism whereby a switch is set...