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Good grief , Commonly , no easing yourself in gently , great stuff 😄.

Just had my first 48 on a new syndicate water. Managed a 33lb linear around 1 this morning. Made up! No pics allowed on SM, I'm afraid.

Yes it seems to be, made my own and it deff makes the mix a lot stickier / firmer 👍 tried it on Monday on a new lake, no fish caught but obviously early days yet.

I will have to get some tips off you, I kill everything I plant nearly, only just learnt about dead heading 🤣😂🤣😂 Well done Kev looks lovely

Lol well I do love it, this was 2 levels of grass with a 2 tonne concrete slab separating the two last year. Didnt know what to do and came up with this, not bad for its first growing year 👍

Maybe you could take up Landscape Gardening , Kev ? 😁 .

Another blank, another swims view sorted out but bad news this week, my target fish has passed 2 weeks back - gutted! 👎 Still I didnt join to catch a particular fish so nothings changed really, still loving the complex so carry on regardless 🤷‍♂️

Happiness is two landing nets drying out in the morning sunshine

He was an angry wee beastie, this lake isn’t heavily fished, the carp in there are in good condition, except a few that have deformed spines and sores, but they are very much in a minority.

All the Carp in your 'photos look in excellent condition , Ouch , and your last gasp one is displaying itself beautifully 😀 .

last gasp fish, literally put my hand around the reel seat to bring it in to pack up and it ripped off in my hand

Finally got an overnighter in for the first time in a while, had 4 runs, one I lost when it beached itself just short of the net and the hook came out (my fault, I knew the water level was down and that margin was shallow!)

sun up on a productive overnighter.

Amazing fish mate, better than any pale water pigs on so many venues, and no mouth damage too, they are certainly to be respected hopefully will go on in some undiscovered places and be left in peace 👍

I travel along A30 when I go to Kernow, actually there is a quarry on the right hand side as you drive that always strikes me as looking very 'creepy', never turned off to investigate it tho 😨 Think it is near the 'Nearly Home Trees' ? Also good to hear there are still places that still have Leneys... I am old but if they have been undisturbed some may be my age? lol

Got to the canal a couple hours ago, just had a bream lol, first night under the stars in ages, feels great. Best of luck to anyone on the bank this weekend 🤙

Also ,if you travel into the hallowed county/country on the old A30 ,that's along Jeff Rowes ,old night club ,you will see a string of deep quarries ,some of which were stocked by Peter Mohan ,CAA and Cypry the Carp Author ,some of those quarries held fish from his time distributing carp all around that area .. wether age and predation killed those remaining fish off,I don't know...however ,unbelievable as it is ,my long term fishing mate at the time ,bought and lives in ex quarry managers house,right next to a deep pit ,and that does hold decent History fish ,although its margins are steep and the depths still have remains of tools and crib hut.. It's fascinating history ,I can confirm also that there are still places around that hold those special Leneys ,100%...

@emmcee. lovely looking fish, glad there are still some around 👍. @salokcinnodrog Frensham ponds still on a Farnham angling club ticket, sadly as you say had a massive fish kill and tbh the big lake is now just unfishable, even if you wanted to in summer as rammed with swimmers and tourists. Used to be a lake near there many years ago that was an old skool venue tho, think Andy Little used to fish there??

I was trying to think of the name of Frensham Ponds, that's the subject of Chris Ball's chapter in Big Carp, I'll Let you Be in my Dreams. He had gotten the stocking records from Chris Yates. Sadly hit by a fish kill after a stocking of new fish.

The last time I spoke to Tony (2 or 3 yrs ago now) he still did base mix and the odd bit of rolled bait, maybe he still is if you really wanted some. Like you ive still got my premier clothing , hoodie in my case. Was a top bait firm in my opinion. My mate has gone over to ABS bait with Geoff bowers so if you still want premier bait then its pretty much identical.

There are certainly some still around. My old syndicate lake had 4 known originals in it when I fished there, all from an original stocking of Leney's. As far as I'm aware they are all still in there, I stopped fishing there 5 yrs ago but I still chat to mates on there and the usual one was caught last year and the most sought after one came out this spring. Some members had been on there years trying to catch one but luckily for me my second fish from the lake was one and the most sort after one at that when I fished there. I had it in 2017 and it was 50yrs old then. It wasn't caught last year but made an appearance this spring so still going strong at 58yrs old. Another lake that may well hold some original Leney's is Frensham ponds.

Funnily enough I am still using an Aqua rod sling. I mentioned it earlier in this thread, the bait market became saturated, from one man bands to bait companies and the big difference in costs. If a tackle shop is buying boilies at £7.99 per kilo then to be sensible they will have to sell at £11.99. If an angler is buying direct at £7.99 then they won't be buying from the tackle shop. It is an ever decreasing circle. I suppose I am as guilty as anyone in that, although in my defence I was originally field testing rather than just getting discount. It is where there was the 'big split' with tackle brands, or bait companies selling only to shops, ( or rolling companies) or those that chose to sell direct, and to compete one man bands went straight to anglers.

Sadly, I suspect no true Leneys now exist.... I still have this 'romantic' notion that there are still undiscoverd / ultra private waters where they do tho 🙂 I used to correspond 'email' years ago with a bloke who actually knew Chris Yates and he mentioned the Leney stock records, it started with my mention of a certain surrey water who Yates had 'guested' on and he lived near the place and knew nothing about it, probably mentioned the place on here but a deff no no for visits or fishing tho now!

There were quite a few waters stocked with fish purchased from the Redmire spawning explosion in the 70's and early 80's. I don't think any of the fish did as well as the original Redmire stocked fish which was a very good year, but they did have the looks.

Lidsters portable loo....!! Game changer ,as some places don't have a loo..!