I started to take pictures of my fishing back in the the late 1970's but sadly many of them are now lost. However in 2014 i went out and got myself a scanner for old photo negatives as luckily i still had plenty of them stashed away. There are still plenty of pictures missing but i did unearth a few gems and the beauty is i remember the moments when i took them. This one is of Newport pit out Saffron Walden way and shows my early setup with matching mitchell 300's, one of my first sets of homemade alarms, homemade buzzer bar, wine bottle tops as bobbins and needles for monkey climbers. What i remember so well is that i was trying out a new bait with sodium caseinate in it and unfortunately i had used too much in the mix. After i baited up i noticed that all my baits were floating away down the lake!