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You clearly fish all the places this type go to, which would suggest that you are one of them! 😂😂 that’s in jest of course, but you are clearly fishing the wrong venues.

Here we go again 🙄 🤣 Friday I made it back to the syndicate lake, and was surprised to find someone else fishing, but no problem on 45acres. Easy swim choice, back to the previous area, which just happened to be where Andy had moved out of. Left hand rod, 40metres, small MC pop-up and a PVA bag of pellets. Middle rod, LT snowman at 50metres, a stringer over around 200 throwing sticked boilies. Right hand, over the bucket of garlic birdfood particles which with the wind was easy. I'd just finished Spombing and the left hand rod bleeped, pulled out of the clip, and I discovered a numpty pike of around 3 or 4lb. I got it into the margins and just grabbed the line to lift it out, at which point it unhooked itself and bit through the mainline, losing a lead in the silt. The rest of the night passed quietly. Saturday, I walked Sky round, again, no reason to move, no signs, no shows. About 1am heading into Sunday I was woken up by a decent run on the middle rod, but as I picked it up it didn't feel right, line taken against the freespool, and as I tightened it just broke off. I don't know if the male swan had swam through the line and smashed me, or if it was a take. I do know that setting up again, fresh run ring, 3oz lead and rig is not easy in the freezing air at 1am! Monday, around midnight, the swan did the middle rod, swimming through the line, causing another recast in the frost. As I reeled in this morning I am positive that both pick-ups were the swan as my line looks badly twisted and kinked. Reality, could do without it...

imo, The whole 1980's was the BEST of the best in the carping scene, (maybe the 70's but i wasn't carping then) super lovely times, hardly anyone carping, cheap tickets for plenty of lakes & pits to fish, this was the era of 'no one told ya nowt, its Secret! etc' ...which i liked cos it made ya think and do ya own thing /experiment... fast forward to today: what ive witnessed over the last 20 years, around 80% of modern so called "carp anglers" have NO etiquette, are loud, have ZERO water craft skills, their modus operandi is: sitting in the latest £1k + bivvy, complete with the latest super doper broom handle carp rods, catapulting out ripoff shop bought boilies that some d.i.c.k.head that thinks hes famous cos hes on youtube, told 'em to buy, together with there paid subscription to some BS carp fishing channel!🤡 RANT OVER!