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Cheers Barry, Looking into the advice to start small shall i say haha. You might be right, i think having a basic foundation of what im doing will make sessions better. Cheers

My Scrambler will be my last bike... I'm 66 in a few weeks so I'll have this one a while till my back says "beggar off, yer done sunshine"...🤣

Somewhere, no idea where, I have the entire set. I can't claim to have collected them myself, they were a gift from a pal who was moving house and downsizing. Wonder where I put them............. Ian.

Stopped doing too much on line when my old photo hosting premium account went south years ago 10 years of hard work vanished over night, when it corrupted my web site and everything. Lesson learnt but I just don’t bother now.

Bought a few when they first came out

Woooow, going back a while there now, jeez. I had 6 binders and (I think) I collected every issue, I can remember they were heavy when full. Had everything in from Seafishing, were to fish in what weather conditions, what rigs and bait, tactics, tackle...

i came to carp after years of being a maggot drowner and as much as i was clueless to begin with i knew some of the basics of fish care and such like. i picked up some cheaper carp rods after using my feeder set up and from there have used this forum and other places to learn rigs and presentation and am now having loads of fun. i reckon if i had started fishing just going for carp i doubt i would have lasted long at it but follow the aboves advice and i reckon you will have both more fun and luck

Welcome to carp.com My personal advice, fish for 'other' fish in waters with carp in. The way I started carp (and tench) fishing was fishing one float rod for silver fish with maggots, bread or worm, and then a ledger rod to one side with a bigger bait, sweetcorn, luncheon meat or boilie. I don't know the Surrey area at all but I'm sure that there is a water around that fits the bill.

Hard work this fish, spombed out a bucket of hemp and pigeon conditioner and a pike decided to chase the Spomb and then sat in the margin. I got the rod sorted and the pike got caught up in the line eventually biting through it and fragging around 50metres which I had to take off. Rerigged and had a frap up and crack-off. Got sorted again and took another 3 casts with PVA bags and a Multi-rig to get it right. 20lb 2oz We've also been through the stocking lists of the syndicate and found it was stocked 2 years ago at 15lb 8oz and apparently there are no other capture pics by anyone else.

Yes mate very disappointing, I can't believe it hasn't been backed up at all. Spent ages reading and writing those over the years.was always nice to see who had caught something,was even better when you had caught one and were really excited to do a little write up, was always one of the first things I did when I got home, feels like such a waste of time now.