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All alone with the wind hacking into my face. Come on monster carp!

Good morning all, the cars all packed ready for a 24hr sesh on zombie sheep lake. Not been there in over a month and I’m absolutely itching to get going! It feels like June 16th all over again. The heats dropped, it’s breezy and cool here, let’s hope the carp feed their nuts off and I can snare a few.

I'll do the odd social through the year but I want to fish alone - having someone there holds you back and clouds your judgement, worrying about if they will catch and staying together when you just know you have to do something else or be somewhere else is too frustrating for me. Predator fishing a different story it's just a fun day out, carping in the main is completely different I'm in hunting mode when on the hard pits.

Not a bad session, I had 3 and lost 3. Biggest was about 7lb. My mate had his first carp and a pb of 11lb 4oz 👍 was nice to get out with someone instead of going alone 😆

Welcome to the forum... carping is a never ending quest for summat bigger... Take care it doesn't consume you...👍😎

the lake is a flooded WW2 anti-aircraft position built to protect Lydd Aerodrome. The rocks are huge concrete towers that once supported the searchlights and AAA guns. It’s got to be one of my favourite waters ever, which is strange as when I first fished it, I absolutely hated the place and packed up early. It’s not a huge lake, but it’s full of lovely pristine commons which are pretty clued up, you earn each fish from here. I love it now.

It's always the way 😆 I've got as close to them as I could, probably about half a mile away tho 😂 My friend is just getting into fishing and is on his first session today so we are having a bit of a social, got him set up on a bed of vitalin, he's been hauling in the bream all day and isn't fed up yet 😆😂

Found the carp on my 90 acre reservoir... Up in the no fishing area, they were sat in front the bird hide box thing. I managed to stick my phone out and get a few photos 😆 There was a common further out, probably one of the biggest fish I've personally seen in front of me, it was so wide, the scales on it were huge as well. I would like to say it was over 30! Anyway that was a enough for me I've been sorting my kit out and heading back up there today for a night session 😆

You could maybe have a look at cyprinus they do some spares like groundsheets , I think the bunker may be based on the atom, I have the bunker I love mine if that helps, might be worth an ask anyway if nothing else turns up

That sounds cool man, what an interesting place to fish 👍

Those rocks look mega - what an unusual lake, good luck the weather looks bang on, I've gotta wait till next week

I've started doing more nights/sessions on my own now, mates don't seem to be bothering....Uncle has started Carp fishing so I'm trying to get him out with me at some point.

Just spooled up last week with the original tiger line. Still £69 for 1000m.

Right behind you on this campaign, I'm hoping it's the one that brings the changes we need, enough is enough 😎

I haven't been hacked. I've just had enough https://wesayenough.co.uk/

Morning everybody , sorry I’ve not had time to update this thread , had lots on . I actually fished the weekend after my last post above , since when I’ve spent a couple of weeks in Egypt doing naff all except a bit of scuba dooba diving which I thoroughly enjoyed even if it played (and still is) playing havoc with my ears . I was hoping to get a spot of fishing in but it would appear that since the last visit (pre-Black Death) the Egyptians now frown upon fishing and just about every species in the Red Sea is now a protected species. That don’t understand the concept of catch and release so that didn’t happen unfortunately. Anyway I digress . Yes , weekend of 29th of July I hit my syndicate lake again , the challenge , if you recall , being to avoid constant tiddlers with huge 40mm+ hookbaits … you know the ones that kept cracking 🙄. Due to the hot weather the water levels were amazingly low . It’s not a deep lake anyway but certain parts , in particular a couple of the swims I had my eye on , were alarmingly shallow . I’m talking 18 inches deep shallow …not the type of depth I could imagine a 20lb+ Carp to be lying up in. Anyway with the whole lake to choose from I decided on the same swim as my previous visit a month before . They say familiarity breeds contempt , I say I breeds laziness lol. I had a very good weekend . I broke the habit of a lifetime and actually weighed most of the 20 or so fish I banked …just to compare with my previous session ….lightest this time 12lb . The stamp of fish as a whole being bigger this time around . All my hookbaits were 40mm+ B5 and Black snail . The boilies that were cracking stayed intact mostly and those that had split in half stayed on the hair beautifully to get the job done . As most of the fish I caught were obviously having difficulty getting them in their oversized gobs. The most frustrating thing was having to sit on my hands when the transmitter was going into overdrive . They were moving the baits resulting in 3/4/5 second blasts and obviously then dropping them . Being patient and waiting for fully fledged runs was the name of the game . This was the largest of the session , a tad over 18lb .

Standard mate 😅