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The pond at the Hamworthy end of Upton park is in a sorry state and the lack of rain has left the last bit of water with so little oxygen that the fish are dying. Some plucky kids and their mums have waded in to save some. Just a few of the dead fish are lined up in the foreground. They were concentrating on saving the live ones so many more still in the muddy water. They tried phoning various agencies without any sensible answers so they felt that something had to be done. What a fantastic effort. I take my hat off to them. 👍 Upton Fish.mp4

Back to a new drift..........only pollack (too big) as livebaits. Weather was good and spirits had been lifted. Talk was about how good a fish this was and how few bigger fish Adam or I had ever caught. Halfway through the drift after the 'big one' and Liv was not to be outdone. However, there was a twist in this one.....I went to check the bait on one of our rods, weed was everywhere. Covering baits and putting bass off. As I wound in, there was a thump on the bait and it is let go, it felt heavy, really heavy. I said to Ad "that felt big'", the ones that get away always do!! Anyway, I have it line and let line spill out to the float, just incase it was still about. 10 seconds later, the float slowly moved against the tide, slow and steady. Hmmm, looks interesting "Liv, come here". Well, the next few mins were exciting, Liv listened well, prob having just watch Ruben helped. I backed down on the fish as it had taken quite a bit of line. Again it was staying on the surface and kiting back and forth. It came to the net and wow, beast! Having just landed a 9.5, this looked biiiig! Having just whipped the head on the net, it was used more delicately! The fish went 12lb 12oz and was a beaut. Big old belly and very thick across the shoulders. Sent from my SM-G981B using Tapatalk

yup, the payback period has gone up significantly based purely on feedback tariffs. i am looking at getting a powerwall installation when i eventually get round to doing extension works to get around this too. Rough costing for two powerwalls (which would allow enough storage for heavy usage) and solar panels is between £15 and £20k. That used to work out at about a 10 to 15 year payback period, but with energy prices tripling, looks a lot better value right now.

Enjoy your sunny day..

Belated but sounds like you’ve had a good one, well done. 👍🎂

Dont get a smart meter. The amount of calls I get to properties with no gas is amazing. And 9/10 are down to the meter locking it's self. You are not legally entitled to have one. Just read your own meter and send the numbers once a month. Also the displays that they use to tell you how much electricity you are using, use electricity . So straight away you are using more than before. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

They are lauded as being the answer to lower bills and lower consumption, thus saving the world. I can't for the life of me figure out how they save power. Terry.

Went to drift with one bait and we'd try and feather on the drift, whilst using frozen joeys where we needed. The joeys failed and nothing else worked for sometime. The weather was awesome along with the seasl state. 12:00 and beers were opened, puls some food, bingo! The only live mackerel was grabbed. Ruben on the rod with plenty of instruction and guidance. The fish came to the surface and went back and forth for some time...... eventually coming to the net and on lifting the net head fell off! One more job on the list. It went 9lb 8oz and we were buzzing. Next fish was going to be for Liv which ever team's (families) rod it came on! (Scales pressed and held at 9:6, but it was 9:8) Sent from my SM-G981B using Tapatalk