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No more worrying about leaves...... I spent Saturday building some netted covers. I made 3 in 2.4m x 2m rather than one biggun - A) to give some flexibility in coverage, and B) because a biggun would weigh a tonne. Quite happy with the result and it's nice to know that not one single leaf will be in that pond from now on. The fish are slowing right down now, winter is defo on its way. It's a bit gutting after such a short space of time to enjoy the pond, but at least I know we're in good shape for next year. The water quality is the nuts, the fish are looking very healthy, all set to grow a British record in the coming years 🤣

Not really, sometimes get the odd bit of weed on the knot but nothing you wouldn't probably get otherwise.

Has anyone heard of any issues with the loop getting snagged on stuff? I'm gonna give it a try, see how I get on 👍

Yeah I always use loop to loop, never had an issue.

It is used to do it years ago

Is it safe to attach leadcore leaders/solid bags by looping it together? I'm tying them on at the moment but being able to loop solid bags on would make it easier lol

Couple from my year to date for you all. One from my new ticket, one of 2 trips I actually got over there since July. Mountains of weed cleared from the swim!

My new mk4 carp rod, this is a lovely copy of a mk4 built to my request, it would of been wrong to put walker name on it so its a "Rod Storey mk4 Avon"

Sadly that is the reason why I often have to put post moderation and human verification on new members. It's when new members who immediately start spamming after joining that we get caught out.

all sorted

We all need to chip in for better anti virus software😄 If I win , I'll gladly pay for ir

It would appear we have been blessed with a spam javelin.

Yeah weed, pretty much stops it on the lake I fish.

Does it ever even stop ??

Cant wait thanks. After last year's success, I fancy making it my winter go to this year.

After xmas imo 🎅

I'm getting keen to get the flips flops out again.

They're two separate tickets mate. The estate has about 2 miles of bank, over 4 stream fed lakes in a valley, a lot of it is unfishable. It is lovely, with natural English carp rumoured to e around the 30 mark. Just talking about it is making me want to go

So this weekend was great. I've been doing a lot of work to improve water quality/clarity and on Saturday morning I realised I can now see the bottom in 2m of water. Result. The skimmer I put in is working a treat. A decent weekend all round. Fish are still happy but the feeding has slowed right down in the reducing temps.

If you still have the estate ticket fish on there, dont rule out the syndi venue it may be that you go back and have a great session

I'm quite lucky where I am mate, the river and canal hold some really good fish, although the river is on the decline because of otters and they haven't done any restocking, but they do keep stock the canal every few years. Love a bit of perch fishing too, 0.5g - 7g rod, dropshot setup on holes of weed 👍 I think we can get a bit caught up with the carp fishing and sometimes a change in species can make fishing enjoyable 👍 I'm back on the complex tonight and just done some photos for my mate on the other side with a 20lb linear 👌

The canals sound like great fun. I've tried a little bit of river fishing for perch and pike recently with my boys. Carp fishing time is very limited and precious to me, there's just something (mainly daft rules), that's just not giving me the buzz

Im not sure its open to fishing now

It's took me a while to adjust from the ressies as well mate, I love everything about it. Fishing at range, spodding big beds of bait out, hauling multiple 20s a day 👌🤣 I haven't really done any fishing on the reservoirs this year, its been mainly the canal and the complex. Totally different type of fishing imho, really weedy waters, trying to find little holes in the weed then trying to present a bait over it lol. I think out of the last 30 days I've spent about 5 at home, and only had 2 carp (same fish 🤣) Starting to feel burnt out from it now, ended up coming home this afternoon, but now I'm watching the weather forecast and we've got some low pressure coming in and now I'm thinking should I go back down 🤣

Like @yonny I never fish as well on a social as I do on my own. However like you I have lost interest in carp fishing at the moment, despite having a good syndicate, for a couple of reasons, most of which revolves around my dad. I'm also slightly bugged by issues that happened around members who only fished when their other syndicate was closed. I tend to catch when I can do 3 or 4 days, and either setup on fish, or prime an area for them to move onto. However I do know I love the lake and when things work out I will be back on there aiming to catch both Chestnut and the BC along with any other fish that just happen to come my way.