Ok so maybe I'm an old git now.
I don't have matching luggage..
I don't have a seat for every day of the week....
I don't own a bait-boat....
When i do a 72 hour session I ONLY take the one barrow of gear...
I survive only on Coffee, Chocolate, Noodles and Pasta (if im feeling flash i might have some chipolatas and beans) But certainly not rump steak with all the trimmings....
I don't take a generator..
My Bivvy doesn't have a built in wood burner.
My Bivvy is big enough for me (and aint designed to accommodate everyone else on the lake should they all pop round together.)
I don't take a personal portaloo with me
Nor do i take an extra tent to put up special as an External ****house...
I don't have the most modern alarms but occasionally, just occasionally they wake me up by going BLEEEEEEEEP...
My bed chair is good enough, but its no so wide i can roll over 4 times before i fall out.
I'm old enough to remember when Northwestern rods were the Mutts Nutts
I'm old enough to remember Churner fishing with a 50p piece on the spool over a tin tray
Im old enough when a bedchair was actually a red sunlounger
I'm old enough to remember tin foil on the line....
I remember Mk1 BaitRunners ....
I remember the ****ty Heron Bite alarms that would give off a continuous screeeccch if you so much as looked at them funny..
But ... up to now Wrap Sticks ..........????
Naa I've managed this far for this many years, Just more Carp tax i don't need to pay.....!
OHHHHH BUGGER HOW WRONG AM I......!!
Having dismissing these weird poles sticking out of the ground in everyone's swim as just another Gimmick to catch us and force us to part with our hard earned,...
I finally invested in a set of Summit Wrap Sticks (YES The expensive ones....But they ticked all the boxes that i wanted and why not..)
So I set about figuring out what the young whippersnappers actually do with them..
Fooking genius just a simple, but fookin genius idea...
No more waking up at 6am to rebait; Only to find the rod you had the fish on at 3.00 am is now 10ft up a tree on the opposite bank...
Now i aint the worlds best caster... but now i have good confidence every time that when I hear my rig go PLOP in the pitch dark, Its somewhere dammn close to my baited area.
Im certain because of them i put more fish on the bank hands down.
Back in the 80s people on my club would of doubtless laughed down their sleeve at me.. But it would of been my alarms screaming all night not theirs...
Best Carp widget ive brought in ages, money really well spent.. !!
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