Latest Activity

Nowadays I’m a bit partial to Emma Willis.. and a secret thing with Zoe Wanamaker

Denise van Outen on Big Breastfast

Linda lusardi or Maria Whittaker was my preferred totty.

Certainly does and much better than the new craze of massive bums - just enormous, lip fillers etc etc look like freaks tbh bring back the old days!

Been doing short 4hr after work sessions this week, had a few, nothing huge, but nice to get a bend in the rod and work a new venue out

Sam Fox, she still looks good for her age now in my opinion.

Blast from the past.

another evening spent behind the rods

another evening with the rods out

There are 'only' about 30 on the lake this year, from over 100 2 years ago. Bird flu took a big hit on them, more so than the geese. The lake, which is just up the road from Lopham Fen seems to be a spot for young swans to grow before they go get their own territory. The 2 dominant pairs, there were 3, but 1 was killed in a swan fight keep moving them about.

That's a lot of swans , Nick , reminds me of Mistley 😀 .

Dusting off my old shimano aero 11ft 2 1/4lb tc carp rods and 6000 shimano baitrunners on a little pond in the Mole valley. Literally fishing under the rod tips, my baits are each side of the end of the boards. I’ve not used these rods in maybe 15yrs, but this lake didn’t suit either my 12ft 3lb fox torque or my 12 3.5lb fox horizon rods, average carp mid-high singles, with the odd low double, so a lovely through actioned rod like these ones are so much more matched and more fun to play carp on.

Yep depends on what you want out of the mix 👍👍

White crumb is a better binder than brown crumb. I've mentioned it in the past, but when Layer Pits banned spodding (hemp), all the anglers just started fishing groundbait and hemp, firing in balls of it by catapult. Strangely enough that was one of the best match tactics on there from years before where they used to use massive floats and groundbait, casters and hemp at range. I know that Tommy Boulton wrote a chapter on Layer Pits match style in Carp, Quest for the Queen by John Bailey and Martyn Page. Some interesting chapters in there on some Norfolk Waters!

Forgot about crumb tbh, might be the answer to bind it up 👍 Thanks Framey 🙂 As for Groats, err I still mix them in too, and used to years ago with hemp (don't bother with it now} as a spod mix.

Cheap bag of brown and white crumb mix it with what ever you want I used to use groats or pigeon conditioner back in the day. add some colours and flavourings if you want use enough water to bind it up I used to make it 24 hours before hand to give it time to blend and soak in the water and other liquids. add some more water when at the lake to get it to stick to the feeder

Deff worth giving it go 👍 Just back from a local club lake and had a few out too. For what it's worth I think the 'vaned' method feeders are the best for 'larger' carp fishing, the 'flat bed' ones are more match fishing, imo. Elasticated ones, deff a no no, from memory, if you break off above the feeder the fish will still be trailing it! As for loading it up, back in the day, scalded trout pellets deff worked on HorseShoe - actually accounted for a lot of 20+ fish. Like others have said Vitalin was great, now sadly gone, I have been messing about with flaked maize. a bit of sweet nutty method mix, oils and blittzed tigers, still cant get the mix to get to stick to feeder when I do a long chuck yet, semolina sort of worked, never mind it's good fun playing about with stuff 🙂

Anchor Meadow is temporarily closed for all forms of fishing. The campsite is closed, too. Big Fish Ken died in 2015 and his wife Margaret has been running the business since then. Margaret died a few weeks ago and her family has closed the business until it's decided how they're going forward, if at all. Ian.

Hello anyone know if you can still fish near the weir and can you get a day ticket if it’s still open

Give it a go, maybe a bit old school in this modern world but no reason for it not to work

I still use it every now and again rather than using PVA bags or mesh. I don't necessarily resort to a Method feeder, but mould groundbait round a flat lead. I don't think Ardleigh ever qualified as a runs water, and that moulded groundbait round the lead produced a lot of fish, and well into the 20's. My favourite groundbait is not quite the same as it was, Vitalin as a dog food company sold the makeup to Gladwells, who now make it as Vitacarp, although I don't think it is as 'sticky' as it was, with less rolled maize in it. I used to pour boiling water over it the night before use, or add in soaked and boiled birdfood, sweetcorn and hemp and allow to stand for about 30minutes before balling it for groundbait and moulding around the lead. Not forgetting some crushed and crumbled boilies in the mix. I wasn't keen on shop bought Method feeders with the elastic through the middle, but there is now a decent choice.