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My first session since getting my gear stolen in December and having to buy it all again. I felt rusty but I managed to get a couple on the bank.

Caught this one yesterday on a quick day session. Beat me up on the way in and on the mat also 😅

One from a recent session.

Well in @salokcinnodrog👌

Best one of a three fish hit on a midweek sesh. 👌🎣

Lovely dark one mate well done.

It would be interesting to know peoples preferred baiting strategies as I’ve always found the thought of fishing on big baited areas hard to get my head around, no doubt it works and the results are there to see, but I’m happy to go on a 48hour with a couple kilo of boilie some pellet and a few tins of corn. Even when I track down fish and I know I’m on them I’d still chose to put a couple of hand fulls of bait on them after each capture. I suppose thats one of the attractions of carp fishing. Two people could go on a lake use total different tactics and still have good results.

This morning was busy with 3 takes off 2 different spots. Back home now planning my next session.

A common from early this morning, over 24 hours left. Another full moon tonight 🌕

After a couple of blanks recently I managed to get back amongst them, hopefully there’s more to follow.🤞

Thanks mate, it’s always nice coming from you with the high calibre of fish you’ve had mate 👍

48 hour midweek, four landed. Can’t wait to get back looking like lakes are gong to freeze this week tho 🥶

Edit: Reposted pics from the other day for some reason latest fish here

Rip Paul, listened to some of his interviews on YouTube. legend

Safe to say I’ve uncovered a cold weather hang out, when lapping the lake and almost falling in when standing on the withered bullrushes I’ve realised there must be a good 2 to 3 metres of covered secluded water underneath them. Definitely a safe warm spot the carp are gavering up in…. Two more falling to the maggot and corn loose feed combo, with a trimmed down yellow pop up and maggot topper as the hook bait.

2 second rule?😅

@commonlythanks mate

Thanks mate, and good luck. Also don’t forgot your maggots. I reckon there’s a good chance I’d of blanked with out them. definitely a big edge this time of year.

@crusiani was saying "that’ll do" after one fish, never mind four… 😅

I managed to get into a few on an early February session. The mild windy conditions seemed to have them moving around.

Thanks mate, I was looking through some catch pics the other day and realised how miserable I look so thought I’d smile more and show I’m happy to catch 🤣

Thanks mate I appreciate it, I’ve found being confident with my bait and rigs has allowed me to focus more on my water craft which has resulted in more fish on the bank👍