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In reply to Post #39
In truth my OCD has got a lot better in more recent years . . . .
and I've pretty much exhausted the magpie ting; but at its height (20+ yrs ago) I actually turned around (with a gear laden car) when I got to the lake once after seeing one (and not seeing a pair / multiples afterwards) and went straight home, such was my belief in its absolute evil anti carp catching presence . . . . insane! 
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I'm not one for superstitions but when I first got a car about 15 years ago, there'd be certain songs that I heard on the radio to the lakes that I'd consider "lucky" when I ever had a good result. Tears for Fears was playing on the way to the lake when I caught my first 30lber and so for a period afterwards, I'd always put it on when driving to go fishing. I obviously knew full well it was nonsense but it became a nice little ritual that I look back on fondly.
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At all costs, you should avoid superstitions, its all bumkum, otherwise, they will "Cosume" you especiaily when you get to the lakeside and find you have left your lucky charm at home and think to yourself its pointless fishing as you are going to blank and it burns in your heart the whole session.
About 20 years ago, I always deemed it was unlucky not to consume a "Yorkie Bar" and two "Cadburies Dream" bars on arrival at the lakeside whilst I decided on what I was going to do and would always stop at the shop enroute to buy them. To forget was a tragedy on arrival at the lake. And when Cadburies stopped making "Dream Bars", I was devastated, and oddly enough, I still kept catching. And that superstition just started one day when I had took the said items with me, it became a habit because I eat a lot of chocolate. then a ritual, and then it became a superstion.
Then I have the "Lucky Stones" and definitely not alone with this one, sometimes when I am in a swim, I might see a stone that is a bit different to all the others and before I know it, its in my bag after giving it a rub to clean it and shine it up and then goes on every session and gets a "rub", along with all the others that are in my bag I have picked up over the months. Then one day, I clean my bag out, find all these stones, decide they are not that lucky and as an offering to the "Fishing God's", launch them out into the middle of the Lake with the catapult or drop them using the baitboat............and then start collecting again.
I could go on, things I have had over the past years back to 1968, lucky hat, lucky pillow, lucky spoon, lucky fishing jacket etc, non of them worked, but mentally disturbed me if I did not have them with me
Avoid superstitions. It can lead to you doing stupid things like when its 02:00 in the morning, freezing cold, pouring down with rain and you look at your bobbins and you see that handcrafted bobbin of a plastic dragon with glaring eyes you found in a Kinder egg is no longer looking out over the pond like its supposed to do, you start worrying you will blank and eventually you crack and get out of your nice warm sleeping bag to turn the bobbin round so that those glaring eyes once again draw all the hungry carp into your swim, or so you hope they will. When in fact, its just a load of nonsence
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In reply to Post #35
Interesting fact. Did you know Stonehenge was built by a bunch of carp anglers while they were waiting for their tickets for a local syndicate 
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In reply to Post #36
I thought fishing was supposed to be stress free and relaxing
It is, once everything is set up EXACTLEY as it should be 
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In reply to Post #35
I thought fishing was supposed to be stress free and relaxing, you lot need some therapy, and not the JS type.
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In reply to Post #20
I have stacked stones, my record up until yesterday was 7
Now i know who started it on top of all those mountains 
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In reply to Post #31
The quote is from Sheringham's book Coarse Fishing, in the chapter on Carp and Tench.
''For some men I admit the usefulness of skill and pertinacity; for myself, I take my stand entirely on luck. To the novice I would say: Cultivate your luck. Prop it up with omens and signs of good purport. Watch for the Magpies on your path. Form the habit of avoiding old women who squint. Throw salt over your left shoulder. Touch wood with the forefinger of your right hand whenever you are not doing anything else. Be on friendly terms with a black cat. Turn your money under the new moon. Walk round ladders. Don't start on a Friday. Stir the materials for Christmas puddings, and wish. Perform all other such rites as you know or hear of. These things are important in Carp fishing''. Date- 1912.
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In reply to Post #31
Are you sure you meant to say squint 😂😂😂
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What a load of crap effort equals reward
As the great man himself once said “ superstition my ar#e “
Rods go on a pod what ever way they land bobbins all over the show net slung on top of reeds or in a tree
Looking for signs from the gods a fish hurling its self from the water is normally a good sign if this doesn’t happen then chose a peg on watercraft or past experience that’s hard work not superstition
Jinxed alarms b/s jinxed anything b/s it’s life you chose the wrong peg or the wrong spot in the peg
I am a tackle tarts nightmare and ocd killer
Fish next to me at your peril as for one magpie his mate is dead it happens to us all get over it
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Avoid old ladies who squint.
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In reply to Post #18
If a jobs worth doing!
How can you live with yourself knowing your rods are close but not perfect.
Come on it will only play on your mind, you could blank! 
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In reply to Post #11
"2 - Magpies - a single magpie is natures way of saying your heading for a blank - spitting and saluting furiously whilst muttering 'good morning your lordship; how's your ladyship?' in a weird voice can help but its hit and miss . . ."
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It's not a superstition, but I do use a spirit level to get my bed level, I got fed up of having to hang on to it to stop rolling off  . Guess what. As I have it with me I also use it to get my pod level. I find it easier to see if anythings moved if it's level, i e. Horizontal to the lake. I threw my "lucky sweatshirt " into the skip at the lake many years ago. When I realised it was actually cursed by the witch I used to live with.
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In reply to Post #26
You need to step up your boilie application game - 6 should be 7 . . . (the hookbait does not count) a dozen should be 14 . . carp know and are trained to spook from even numbers of freebies 
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