bluelabel
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Awesome track...👍
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Welcome to the forum... have a look at Lyn Y Gorse for some serious Wild Carp fishing or Pant Y Lin... not big, but you'll be astounded at the fight a little wildie can put up
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As you may surmise... I love Blues
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Had a bit of an odd day... blanked me bottom off for most of it and at 3 pm all hell let loose with 3 fish in 20 mins... a 14lb 14 mirror a 16lb1oz mirror and a 25lb oz7 Fully scaled... it was carnage... mats, net and rods everywhere... cheers to me mate Bully for the pics... nice to get a bend in the old girls today
- commonly, elmoputney and B B
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A banging fully scaled... fought like a demon and gave me a hiding on the bank
- B B, chillfactor, Carpbell_ll and 7 others
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- Carpbell_ll, yonny, commonly and 5 others
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Soz... not a scooby...
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The issue I had was that a Dwarf rod did not fit into a scope bag... the reel seats are in different positions so the reel did not sit in the reel pouch correctly... IIRC the Dwarf reel sat is closer to the butt end of the rod than the scopes and the reel snagged in the pouch section of the bag
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A couple of lessons from someone who can chuck it a long way would probably get the distance with the kit you already have...
I could just about manage 100mts... an hour with Terry Edmonds and I was hitting 140mts (admittedly with his rods 12' 3.5lbs casting 2.5 - 3oz weights) with a spod/spomb rod and a loaded spod/spomb you should hit the mark, it just needs someone to show you how
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In winter their metabolic rate slows as does digestion... less movement means less food required... therefore less protiens and fats needed to maintain condition
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4 hours ago, DubVader said:
I dont fish with any vintage gear but I do something similar when I'm beating myself up when not catching many carp or just little ones, I will go out with just a single light rod small reel and a tub of maggots and go for roach and perch and just enjoy being beside a nice little water or a river and enjoy just catching what comes along
Did that yesterday...
- salokcinnodrog and finchey
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I stopped using oiled pellets ages ago... I use coarse pellets as they break down quickly... That said, I've often found that pellets tend to make carp pre-occupied with them... especially micros and flavoured ones more so... I used softened 2mm and Goo-ed pellet in bags, the fish were tearing up the bottom to get every morsel of 2mm pellet, yet ignored the hookbaits... now I use a matching hookbait and pellet glug and I get better results
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Yes there are a few... I used one a good few years back... Les Quis is the one I used... they are still going I think
"Your Trip - Les Quis" https://www.lesquis.com/your-trip/
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26 minutes ago, elmoputney said:
I think that is the key mate just to enjoy your fishing, then it doesn't get tough, it's just nice to be out 👍
Spot on mate... When I blanked I used to beat meself up mentally every time.. "why didn't I catch ? What could I have done differently ? Was I in the wrong spot ?
Now if I blank... so what...? Since I took the pressure off I have caught more and enjoyed my sport from an aesthetic point of view taking more notice of nature and surroundings... enjoy the journey as well as the destination...👍
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Putting carbon on the back burner and fishing with vintage gear... best thing by far in all my fishing... I packed up match fishing and started fishing for myself once I stopped using carbon... now pretty much all my fishing is done with old gear... I doesn't catch me more... but I'm happier on my days out now the pressure is off
- elmoputney and dayvid
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Theres the Danny Fairbrass Embryo waters up there... my buddy fished The North bank lake last week... few nice fish out... not cheap though
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What are you listening to?
in Non Carp Banter
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Have a listen to Pink Floyd's "High Hopes"
From the Division Bell album... Awesome.... as always