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1 hour ago, yonny said:
Same.
Spot on ,exactly the same as well..
If I do more than a 24 I got a lidl cool bag that I leave in my car as a hub ,is that the right word lol,so I return to it every 24 hrs ,
Also water is really heavy ,so I only carry 2 litres, so I have back up or use a farmers tap ,I also use on occasion a sawyer water filter ,but only now and then ...
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18 hours ago, framey said:
It’s the mats that do my swede in…
blooming cumbersome unwieldy things.
didn’t worry about it in the 80’s and early 90’s lol
my latest try is a Aqua atom self inflating one…
Probably got 20 mats of different t types and sizes in the shed
What do people think.of those pop up walled mats ,like the Carper,or NGT,Korum and Fox versions ..?
I quite like the look of the Carper version with handles ..
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10 hours ago, yonny said:
Nah, you're doing it all wrong fella. The correct way is to clear it all out in spring, then slowly add it all back in, plus more, over the course of the year 😅
Yeah it's tricky to justify hauling stainless around nowadays with such decent ali, carbon and titanium stuff available. The obvious answer is your mrs buys you some new stuff 😅
Good advice Yonny,looking at carbon stuff now...😊
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Today ,I went down a new little club type of water...I was after anything other than carp ,...I had a tuberculed bream ,which fought like a carp,honest...
And around 10 carp,which I didn't want ,was after Perch if I'm honest ,prawns n pin ,I call it ..
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Mate ,the 'golf ' word must never ,ever be mentioned on a forum devoted to piscatorial leanings
I learnt the hard way ,I became an outcast ,as I once played pitch and putt,...( know that grating feeling only to well )..😏
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1 hour ago, elmoputney said:
I quickly went through my rucksack this evening, i removed a dozen leads and that was about it,still have about 10 spares but it still feels quite heavy, but everything in there all seems to serve a purpose. My tackle box didn't seem that heavy, just a few things that weigh a bit combined. Will try and reduce all my other stuff next.
What I used to do is ,if I don't use it on a couple of trips ,it don't come along anymore ..it sounds ruthless ,but I'm an older angler now ( 😭 )..so less is more
One thing I won't get rid of is my original lockey stainless ,my wife bought it for me ,so I appreciate it even today ,when there is much light options ..to be honest ,much of my inspiration comes from the Bushcraft/wild camping crowd,they seem to have it down with minimalist ideas
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I've been following a visual patrol route from the shallows to a mega patch of dead and decaying pads .
It's pretty shallow ,but you can see the stems and rhizome entrails moving around ..so I plonked here for 24hrs . 11 takes ,and 8 landed ..including this one ,which was stocked nearly 5 yrs ago ,when it was much ,much smaller..soon those pads will be impossible to fish until next year.
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I love threads like this ,minimalist I be, after many years of trying different ways of carrying our essential kit ..
I find it very interesting seeing others kit,as in reality I don't fish with or see many other anglers ..
So 40 litre ESP rucksack
27ul Trangia ,+ bit of fuel
Old skool fox Alarm pouch plus bankstix underneath
Bit of bait front pocket, coupla head torches, and my monster sized pouch .lol...
..took me years and years to refine it ..
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1 hour ago, yonny said:
British Army NI Patrol Pack.
These are getting tricky to find in good condition. Most of the surplus stores now show as sold-out. I used my old one for 15 years+ until the foam padding in the straps and back plate became brittle and it became uncomfortable to wear. I managed to find a dealer on e-bay so messaged him and he went through his stash and found an absolute corker..... almost looks new which is mad since they've not made the DPM one for almost 20 years. That's me sorted until 2040 now 😁
OK Yonny ,..I gave my son my original NI patrol pack ,he uses it all the time for fishing and shooting on the moors..
If anyone is interested,Kombat UK do a klone version of the NI packs and I've seen the originals for sale in the local surplus store..
Kombat ones are good ,but not as good as the proper ones ..
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Still getting the odd frost til last week ..glad of my TB long top discontinued
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I fish some big ressis or small private waters so I try and go minimal as I can
I use a 45 litre ESP rucksack ,all my cooking kit plus bait and alarms go in that bag ,cook kit is a Trangia 27ul triggers broom version..tiny cup, spork that's it ...
Food is frozen ,meant to last one day til cooked ,rest of food is easy cook stuff so I don't have the extra hassle of a another big bag ..my little food bag is the NGT tiny version ,my car is my hub ...
I try and keep everything in its place ,so I know where it tis,...
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6 hours ago, OldBoy said:
Hello mate. sorry you don't have a name on here,
Thanks for the background info on Boscastle, I have visited it a few times, like to get to Kernow at least twice a year.
Remember very many years ago going to Bolingey lake.... before White Acres took it over. think Jerry savage used to own it? caught lots of easy carp on tinned black eyed beads on float
Anyway, as for a lot more interesting fishing apart from water pigs, do you know anything about river Neet or Strat?
Hello mate,yes I too have fished Bolingy ,but before Gerry and John Castle took over from Major Phillips ...I remember Gerrys wife Jill a lovely lady ..they owned a very smart bungalow in Bolingy village itself..called either Lake side or Lake View,which is what Dave Daws place at Lanivet was potentially named after as Gerry ran long island Lake at lakeview Lodge..
Gerry unfortunately lost his life at Oakside ,now known as Dead Gerrys ,sad but true..
Lake view ,held the biggest common in Kernow,although it came originally from Kennick ressi,I learnt a lot from Gerry ,I still use his mantra from him,which is LPB,location,presentation and bait ,in that order .. as you may know Gerry was the modern instigator of winter carp fishing ,where he pioneered it,..along with PYM baits ,and was a ardent advocate of Fred Wilton HNV theories and early user of the hair.
Gerry and his mate Chris Bannister ,from College ressi fished Bude Canal together during the winter. ,right opposite the Bude Canal, waterfront fishing tackle shop..
He also wrote extensively about Cornish carping in the History of Angling,to be found at River reads ,online called the Early years ,in Cornwall, which has to be taken with a pinch of salt as the most influential angler of note would be Ken Townley and early members of Roche AC ,and my mate Jim Richardson from Delabole RIP ...
Anyway inso far as the Strat or Neet ,I've heard of perch being caught and seen Mullet ,but never fished it due to being mainly in the summer time,busy etc...
I keep being asked by younger Cornish to write and publish and share my photos before the Cornish carp/course boom,when subsidies were handed to farmers to diversify..
Cheers..
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On 16/03/2025 at 07:53, salokcinnodrog said:
Welcome to carp.com
Thank you
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Hi mate ,you can spod or spomb on any sized lake.I find on smaller lakes it can ,and does put the fish on edge and pushes them away from your traps ,on bigger waters ,places that see a lot of beds of bait it can also limit your chances..I hardly ever use a spomb etc now ,it's my least used bit of kit ..I tend to use 3 or 5 bait stringers with a catapulted, scatterbait method ..
Recasting,I try to keep my baits in as long as I can ,especially if I feel the position, landing of the rig is clean,...everytime you recast you could risk spooking that one chance you have...be mindful of the hookbaits longevity..trust your innermost feeling..
Plastic baits ,well I've caught all year around ,in all conditions ..I mainly use them with a small mesh bag with crunched up baits ,however it's venue dependent ie are you allowed to use them etc ,..they work great in and around a significant patrol route or feature with no,or hardly any freebies..I don't use them much for full on carping now ,only for roaching to be honest ..to stop the imitation corn getting taken off the hair etc..
I go with the Hutchy approach, if no visible signs of fish activity, no visible features ,I go ,if possible in the middle swim ,and go from there, one thing I never,ever ignore are the margins,ignore at your peril...lol
Good luck...
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Thanks both chaps above ..😎
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On 26/04/2024 at 17:08, B B said:
Now that’s a view you don’t see often in a pic of a carp 😀 so not damaged just deformed a bit
It's 100% regeneration from otter attack ,I seen it lots of times on ALL the local waters..
From being bitten it takes around 15 months to get the stage in the pic..
Some heal better than others..,
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15 minutes ago, buzzbomb said:
Welcome to the forum!
Thanks very much indeed..
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On 06/03/2025 at 18:53, OldBoy said:
Any facts about that mate?!!
Suspect a lot of peoples housing now flooding because of... new builds on flood plains, to much overbuilding over natural drainage... concrete drives, artifical grass etc etc.
Bring on the beavers, might have stopped the flood disasters in some where like Boscastle if they could have stopped the dredged out river to cause so many lost lives?
Oh and poor farmers will no doubt be bleating on later... what about the toxic waste they (some of them) allow to pollute our rivers...
Tin hat on but just a cynical old git lol
Hi I'm a new poster on here but not new to carping or traditional angling..
I grew up in Boscastle, fishing the Valency for small brownies up as far Biscombes farm where there was a lovely area where you could even run a small float down the river.and on one side of my family 16 generations are buried near to the head waters of the Valency river.
The Valency has always flooded ,in 1958 it was really bad as a local man was killed,in 2004 no one was killed...you can see the height of where the water level hit in my brothers cottage ,near the harbour ..he's put a plague in the level ..my brother was also in the cliff rescue based in the village,but now at Camelford Station.. The National Trust, has made a natural phenomenon much worse by raising Cobweb carpark and straightening all the river from Emma Giffords pool to the new bridge ..My family live in the old part ,the proper part of the village, and the Jordan and Paradise streams destroyed our cottage, it ran under and out through the front door ..it ruined my mother's mental state ..
As far as Otters go ,there is not one single water in the county that's not been predated ..places I've loved and grown up on..Beavers well,they obviously don't eat fish,however the legislation involved to remove them is immense ,I have seen at first hand damage caused by Beavers that have been let go on purpose ,potentially Beaver release could be as bad as the otter releases in the future..
I think it was well over 130 different waters that have been collated in the county...
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To be fair that's quite a clever mindset here...well written..
Do they allow bait boats ,cos if not I'm out ...lol 😂