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i can beat for foul hooked had a big pike on my deeper took it like a surface lure hung on to it until the edge too, tell ya if i could surface lure fish and catch like that i'd be a happy angler. Had my first carp from the new water, it was with the deeper finding areas to fish found some loveshallowkow bars out in the middle fished chods for nods on all three rods due to the silk weed, got a bit happy with the large spomb and put 4 kilo of bait out. around the 24 mark on my prologic scales.

Was at the Park Lake for about 9ish, quite busy, managed to get a decent peg. Alot of open space to my left, as next peg down is about 80mtrs....alot of overhanging trees, baited a spot further down for later.

18.5lb, first fish out this season.

depends on the size of the lake really, a 10 acer lake just needs the anglers to not fish into spawning areas smaller waters might need to close, i'm going to get out at least once more before june they i've thought british carp a few generations in may spawn earlier than they did 20 years back. my club lake only had me on doing overnight, few other anglers doing the evening. the other big lake hardly had anyone on, had a good look around that, said to be a few fish in there that hardly come out, not surprised there are lakes with in the lake, plot up in the wrong area and you might not even see em.

I’m not moaning though , just bringing up a topic for discussion. Until now the prices at Essential ( and I’m only using them as an example because I actually know about it) have been the same on bulk deals as they were in 2016 when my final purchase was made pre-sabbatical. I understand from the forum that the price of everything else has been slowly creeping up since then but this appears to be quite a hike , citing not only overheads but Brexit and the massive energy price increases affecting the cost of raw materials… the EA being such an example. And I wondered if it was just Essential or whether other bait companies have followed /are following suit ? Personally I blame that donkey Bojo and his toy soldiers 🤣