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I've started with PVA solid bags with mixed carp pellets and crushed boilies, inside I'm putting in a hair rigged 15mm popup hookbait - on a very short (3cm - 5cm) 20lb coated braid hooklink, an inline lead size-appropriate for the water, connected to 15lb sensor mainline. Trapped a couple, 8 and 9quid respectively, the biggest in this tiny water is 11lb so it's not too bad! I'm off work all next week so spending this weekend assessing venues to target some bigger fish 😉

Hello everyone - Been fishing all my days and recently retired.. I’ve also decided to give up the game fishing scene which has become far too expensive with little to no return.. My imagination has now been stirred by YouTubers landing stunning carp in wonderful surroundings and I’m up for some of that.. So, I’ve invested in a couple of old Ron Thompson Warlords coupled with early Shimano Aerlex 8000’s, curtesy of ‘the bay’, plus a motley bunch of other ‘green’ preloved stuff to keep me comfortable and on the right side of the fishery owners.. Im looking forward to investing a lot of time (and more dosh, no doubt) in this new ‘adventure’.. Hope to see you out and about.. Cheers for now..

Exactly as I did! It absolutely is "one of those" ponds, I'm going to take a float on there soon - that's definitely the way to fish it, the stock has always been very response to luncheon meat for 20 years, a little cube under a float will catch fish after fish, I'm just too hooked on "getting runs" at the minute, I used to think watching a float go under was the most exciting way to fish, but hearing the delks warble and spool spin yesterday was something else - I regret that I've ignored "proper" carp fishing for so long!

Only because a little pond like that would have been right up my alley when I was a kid and that , in turn , brought up a good few happy memories. In the good old days before I came over to the dark side and spent thousands on tackle 🤣

I did as a kid 18 - 20 years ago, used to catch tench and perch on the smaller pond (there's 3, it's a local urban woodland), what makes you ask?

God save the King! Seems weird. RIP Liz