Dante

Hi Andrew If it was me i would enquire about having some casting lessons before buying new rods for that kind of range (and no im not suggesting you cant cast ) the reason i am suggestng this is, that with a casting instructor you will hopefully have other rods to practice casting with and you may find a rod that you like, feel comfortable with and can compress, as like Den said its all about technique rather than the rod and with some people a fast taper rod is too much as they cant get the best out of them and its not as if you can go to your local tackle shop and ask to try all thier extreme range rods in a field to find one that your happy with.

beautiful fish Den, not often we get to see a fish like that and by the sounds of it a very fitting end of a good week

Dave lane sti brolly for me all the way and its put up with some real strong winds on the pit i fish, spacious, dry and best bit of kit i have ever bought though i did go and get the winter skin for it as well just for a little more comfort in horrible weather (makes it a lot cooler in the sun as well)

Baby wipes, cheap as chips and nothing better for cleaning your hands before eating or after baiting up.

Nice fish and well played, its always nice to catch fish of that quality, dont they just hang on :D

nice fish Steve, its a wicked buzz isnt it :D

Transition all the way for me now i use it for both hooklinks and snag leaders wicked stuff.

Cant fault mine either, top kit

I used to on occasion struggle with hearing my buzzers going off at night (even with extension boxes) until 6 years ago when i bought a second hand set of delkims with the blue l.e.d's now i find the brighness of the l.e.d wakes me and not the sound (i always have the volume really low down now) also maybe worth thinking about the tone of your buzzers as its not always the volume but the tone that wakes you i personally cannot stand high pitched so my delks are set to a high pitch and that sure gets me moving. Maybe its worth going to your local tackle shop and having a play with some different types of buzzers and seeing which ones have a pitch/tone that even on a low volume irritate you then make your choice and if its some of the more expensive ones look to maybe getting a set of second hand ones off ebay perhaps, i paid about 20 quid a piece for my set of delkims and they havent even let me down once no matter what the weather

You mean you actually stop :D

Always worth a try Dan sling in some mixers and see what happens

Thats a very good assesment Budgie and your so so right, sad facts they are.

* climbs on soapbox* Thats why i quit pike fishing and running region 70/p.a.c.e.s. website, peter the hypocrasy (sp) that certain members seemed ok to follow while preaching conservation to the rest, for example on a trip to ireland a large double figure pike was weighed by hooking the scales under the jaw bone, so much for weigh slings and conservation :( After that i vowed never to fish for pike again at least that way i cant be a part of the decline of the species. * falls off soapbox*

Not my cup of T either, tbh i would have thought Pike are too fragile a species to be match fished for but maybe im wrong.

Nice one polly mate a blinding result considering the time of year and the weather conditions, well done mate :)