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  1. Jon Young

    Looking for a similar chair

    I use the korum transition ruck bag and the chair clips to that and goes on your back. You used to be able to buy bed chair straps so you can carry your chair over your shoulder in sure you could still get them
  2. Jon Young

    Barbless hooks?

    Used to always use barbless and rarely lost a fish but when I changed rods I was losing probably a third of the fish I hooked normally under the rod tip so it wasn’t like it was a poor hook hold as I’d played the fish to the bank before losing it. After losing what felt like a monster on the...
  3. Jon Young

    Unhooking mat or not?

    It’s not always possible to unhook the fish in the water. If I can I do. But if the banks too high off the water what option do you have but to remove it?
  4. Jon Young

    Unhooking mat or not?

    I don’t see a problem with people having hand held shots with the fish as long as it’s looked after. Personally after netting a fish I’ll let it recover for however long it takes before taking it out the water to unhook. If I think it’s worth weighing I’ll put it back in the water for a bit then...
  5. Jon Young

    Podcast recommendations

    Not fishing related at all but if you’re into 90’s football Quickly Kevin is quality.
  6. Jon Young

    Water/ air temps

    Generally if I want to go fishing I’ll go no matter the water temperature. Only exception really is if there’s a load of snow melt recently entered the water along with all the road salt. My general rule though is if the air temp is 3 degrees or less when I get there and only going to get colder...
  7. Jon Young

    Big Cat sightings

    I’m not that convinced either but even if they were escapees that weren’t used to hunting their own food it would still come as second nature to them. There is enough food out there for them to never need to come into contact with any humans. Stealth in ingrained into their dna so you could...
  8. Jon Young

    Big Cat sightings

    Iv seen a couple of videos where it would be hard to argue against it being a big cat. Not sure if it’s this thread or the other one where someone mentioned kinver and I remember watching the documentary with that clip on and soon as it started I said that’s kinver before they said it was. From...
  9. Jon Young

    Big Cat sightings

    Not sure if Iv mentioned this on here before or not but one of my mates used to work with me in the week then go to his dads in Derby on the weekend to help him out on his farm. He knew I was into this kind of stuff and remember him coming back one week and saying you’re going to love this, he’d...
  10. Jon Young

    Bad barbel pics

    Got loads on my phone
  11. Jon Young

    Merry Christmas

    Happy Christmas guys
  12. Jon Young

    Heated socks

    I brought a box of something similar few years back. Can only really feel the heat if I stick them directly to my toes or inside the sock not on the outside like they recommend. Problem then is they move if you walk around. They don’t give of that much heat either but they do work a bit
  13. Jon Young

    Photos of river scenes

    I can remember fishing a couple of pegs down from there once under that big tree that overhangs the river and they started a duck shoot over there. I was covered in lead shot falling out the sky. Had a duck fly into my line as well and honestly thought my rod had snapped. The cracking noise it...
  14. Jon Young

    Anyone had any scary/paranormal experiences on the bank?

    The odd sounds definitely put you on edge when you’re on your own so it’s not just you that gets freaked out by that. I find if you fish a peg often enough you learn the sounds in that swim. Unless an animal starts creeping around you then you’re back on edge til you see what it is. Whenever I...
  15. Jon Young

    oohh at last its hit the fan !!!!!!!!!!

    He’s saying he can’t say much but if it’s not him he could easily say it’s not me without compromising any case that is going on
  16. Jon Young

    OCD and fishing.

    If I fish 2 rods I like to have them either side of the peg so that if I get a fish on one the other isn’t in the way. Only time I’ll have them next to each other is if there is enough room to play the right hand rod stood to the right of them and the left stood to the left.
  17. Jon Young

    Are you happy to pay to watch fishing videos?

    I miss the days of discovery shed where it was non stop John Wilson, mat hayes, Kev green, Rex hunt.
  18. Jon Young

    OCD and fishing.

    I don’t do it as much anymore but if I hadn’t had a touch for a while and was going to recast I always used to try count 60 seconds in my head then normally add on another 10 seconds before I reeled in. You’d be surprised the amount of times I’d get into the 50’s and get a bite
  19. Jon Young

    Storm Babet

    Was planning on going after work but recon the Severn will have burst its banks by that point so not sure if I’ll bother yet. Good luck though
  20. Jon Young

    OCD and fishing.

    I used to know a lad who was big into fishing until he had most his gear robbed. He never bothered replacing it cause at the time he had just got into scuba diving so spent his spare time doing that instead. He used to go diving in carp lakes and used to tell me about how you could swim right up...
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