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On 07/05/2024 at 15:11, kevtaylor said:
The only other reels that do it for me other than my LC's are the old light blue Shimmy's but I cant remember the model and not paying over 2.5k for a set 2nd hand no matter how carpy they may be.
Big Blues?
Shimano Big Blue Baitrunner M
Apparently the best carp fishing casting reel ever made for long distance casting as decided in tests by Lee Jackson and Paul Forward.
Prices on ebay for them are anything between £140 and £355 at the moment.
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Skinners do some dog foods very close to Vitalin.
The one to look out for was Skinners Field and Trial in an orange bag, but annoyingly they have changed their packaging.
It is very rich in molasses so sticky.
Other than that, try a mix of rolled maize, rolled oats, Layers mash and a ground dry dog food.
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2 hours ago, Leegii said:
Favourite tactics for targeting big carp?
What do you class as a big carp?
A carp is big if it has reached 20lb.
The favourite way to target big carp is not always the easiest, but sometimes the most fun, it may not be the most productive, but may be more enjoyable.
Simply fish a water with those big carp in it.
The majority of carp anglers favourite tactic is turn up, fire in DF's spod mix and a few boilies, cast or 3 rods on the dance floor, hit the chair and wait.
My favourite tactic for 20lb carp is walk round with a stalking rod, look for fish, try to get them on surface baits, cast a dog biscuit where they are and have a bit of good luck, and a big cheer when it hits the landing net.
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13 hours ago, andywilson123 said:
What's your go-to rig setup for fishing in weedy conditions?
My rigs are the same as I normally use, a D-rig or rig ring on the hookshank for pop-ups, a Multi-rig for snowman baits.
I still use run rings, but if the weed is bad over silt I will use the lead on a 150mm lead link of 20lb clear Amnesia.
On the syndicate lake I have tried raking swims, the carp avoid the spot, let them clear it by feeding and they are happy to keep coming back to it.
As an add I DO NOT like helicopter setups in weed, too many missed or funny takes over 30years of fishing.
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6 hours ago, Leegii said:
Any recommendations for affordable but reliable carp rods?
What are you looking at budget wise?
I got these for a friend's son, the friend himself loves them so Benni rarely gets to go fishing...
https://rodhutchinson.co.uk/product/3x-enduro-carp-rod-12ft-2-75lb/
I don't know how many sets are left.
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5 hours ago, Leegii said:
How do you adjust your approach for carp fishing in different seasons?
Bear in mind waters are different, and my session length tends to be 4 or 5 days/nights.
On my very weedy syndicate lake if we use after spawning as the summer, on arrival I flick out 3 rods with either stringers or bags depending on known clear or feeding spots.
Around 4 hours before dark I tend to put in loads of bait, as during the day the carp normally refuse to come out of the weed and only show just before dusk.
One rod is normally a boilie rod, fished with a food source pop-up bait over around a kilo of boilies (a long term food source bait, not an attractor bait), one with a snowman bait fished over a 5kg bucket of sweetcorn, hemp, flaked maize and particles and one rod with a food source pop-up off, but near a baited area.
There is so much natural food that the carp might need loads of bait to attract their attention, sometimes I will need to top it up every day, other days I leave it. Its down to feel and whether the carp or tench have cleaned up.
I carry on doing this through autumn until normally the start of the colder weather usually November.
All of the above have worked so confusion reigns!
In winter it gets harder, the fish don't need so much food, so I switch to a high attract pop-up on one rod, a single food source pop-up on another and stick with the food source bait fished snowman on the last. The last two are fished with micro-mix pellets and boilie crumb in PVA bags.
I still look for fish, although on the syndicate, there is a Winter area where they seem to hold up, so the rods go in there.
Spring is probably the hardest time, knowing when the carp move out from the winter area and spreading up the whole lake.
The first April captures tend to come from a couple of known swims; fish anywhere else and you are likely to have a blank session, although the autumn/winter stocked** fish might come from anywhere.
It's also difficult knowing how much bait to put in, whether the carp or tench are cleaning it up, or tufties, coots and swans are on it, so for me any Spod/Spomb mix is mostly breadcrumb, small micro pellet and powder with crushed boilies, although I do start increasing the amount of loose, throwing sticked boilies in as I leave.
I'm still on the high attract pop-up, snowman and the food source pop-up.
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11 hours ago, andywilson123 said:
What is the best fishing session you've ever had?
I've got a big choice from various sessions:
4 winter carp just after the lake thawed in February on Nazeing, 20, 26, 26 and 17lb
2 Ardleigh carp on the day of the London bombings, a 23.6 and 24.12, both fully scaled mirrors, but the overnight session was not as important as my Mate who was on the tube that day, thank heavens he survived.
A 3 hour session on the river that gave me a 28lb pb at the time.
Multiple 20lb fish from Brackens Pool a couple of times, from Earith Virginia Lake, and even from the 475acre Alton reservoir.
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11 hours ago, Dave812 said:
What baits have been catching recently??
Take your pick:
I'm still catching on the last of my Rod Hutchinson Monster Crab and KMG boilies, other fish are coming out on maize or sweetcorn, one member on my syndicate is catching ON hemp, another on maggot, someone else on worms.
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3 hours ago, framey said:
The top 2 posts have it nailed down
only thing to add is jumping fish do not necessarily mean feeding fish.
9 hours ago, kevtaylor said:Spot on that 👆👀
The only way to find where the carp are naturally feeding is to be watching from before first light IMO, last 2 trips the feeding activity ended by 6am from first light. Miss it and you're clueless it happened. Effort = reward which is this case is understanding exactly whats going on whilst most others sleep.
10 hours ago, yonny said:Your eyes are your most important bit of tackle mate 👀
Think that says almost everything.
Most anglers who walk round a lake choose the middle of the day, yet have missed the first light shows, or have gone before the dusk/dark shows.
I HATE mornings, yet when I was fishing Alton Water to find the fish I had to be there an hour before first light to find the fish. Not easy when you finished work at 11pm!
However on my late night shift before 2 days off, (3-11pm), I would still walk various stretches looking for fish.
On my current syndicate, binoculars are a must, shows can be tiny, just a fin breaking 200metres away, if you don't have binos you've missed it. They could also be a bit more obvious. Another thing, try to find natural food areas, look for 'thick' bubbling, rolling.
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On 08/05/2024 at 17:02, BackInTheGame said:
Hi all
I have just signed up as i have been away from fishing for a few years due to other "2 wheeled" interests taking priority.
I used to be a member of the SDAA (Shefford and District) ticket for many years then moved to the Priory ticket in Weston for a few years. Not been on a ticket for a couple of years but just rejoined the SDAA ticket for the coming season.
I dont claim to be an expert (or even that good) but i just enjoy carp fishing and am hoping to get time to spend some time on the bank.
Hoping to get (and give a little if i can) some advise and guidance from like minded anglers.
Now other bike minded people on here are @welder and @levigsp
Frank (levigsp) is also the person with an immense knowledge of carp strains, bikes, and hunting dogs
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Welcome to carp.com
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22 hours ago, crusian said:
Hi Everyone
I have some Proper Job Pop Ups , lovely and buoyant , but I have this mental thing where I want to have feed Boilies and Pop Ups the same flavour .
Trent Baits I can have matching pop ups ( that stay up ) , and boilies .
Essential Baits , is it me or do their pop ups not stay erect as well as PJPU , and Trent Baits ? .
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Currently I usually have a different pop-up on one rod from my feed bait, one on the same pop-up as the food bait and a snowman of the food bait in 15mm and a 12mm Monster Crab pop-up.
Pjpu's are supposedly the ultimate pop-up, nothing coming close in terms of buoyancy and longevity although I have found that most pop-ups I use still pop-up after 3-4 days.
The only problem with glugging pop-ups is that you can change the buoyancy. I had some that took on much liquid they sank, so flavour sprays are the alternative, but how quickly they 'wash-off' might be an issue.
The only thing that I can suggest is see how long the food bait pop-up stays popped up for.
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15 hours ago, tomgun44 said:
Thanks for reply going to fish there end of may so hopefully weed shouldn't be that bad
Be prepared for it though.
While the winter was wet, it wasn't particularly cold, so might not have died back.
On my lake I don't think that we lost any time due to the lake freezing over, and the weed, (especially the silkweed) is already coming through with fresh growth.
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53 minutes ago, emmcee said:
Think you were unlucky with your bed. As has been said the solar range are top notch in my opinion. I've had several beds from different manufacturers (fox, Nash sleep system plus others) but my solar bed is head and shoulders above anything I've had before in my opinion. I sleep better on that than I do my bed at home 🤣.
I dread to think how many bedchairs I have had over the years, Lafuma sunlounger, Fox, Bison, Chub, Badger, (actually a good product!), and Solar.
I think the usual life was around 6 years other than the Lafuma which was only a year until I bit the Fox bullet. (I can go back to the 1990's and before sometimes sleeping on a mat before a bedchair.
The honest answer is that so far the Solar is the best and most comfortable, I haven't had to replace elastic and it hasn't sagged.
10 hours ago, Whitstable Jack said:I can see that driving to a swim is a great way to go, I just want to be able to move by foot onto fish and move quickly and have less big bits of kit.
Believe me it doesn't happen on every lake, or even on mine all the time. If the ground is really wet we stop cars going round past the inlet (all winter), so a barrow trip might be needed.
Wow, just checking my references on my bedchairs, and found this, a thread on bedchairs:
Strangely enough, I think unless you buy right at the top range, prices aren't too far different or inflated.
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1 hour ago, kevtaylor said:
That retainer looks mint - not seen it before 😎👍
I saw @newmarket have one delivered when I visited him a while ago, so when mine died I had it already in mind.
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More Nutty bait, another 10kg of shelf life, a new retaining sling to replace the old one that's dying, of age, and more PVA bags.
https://rodhutchinson.co.uk/product/folding-camo-recovery-sling-xl/
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3 hours ago, elmoputney said:
I bought a solar bedchair it bent after 1 use, I replaced it with a sonik AXS duralloy, light, strong and seemingly Elmo resistant.
2 hours ago, kevtaylor said:Which model did you manage to bend? The Solar beds are as good as they get IMO
2 hours ago, elmoputney said:It was like a cheaper version of the sp tech maybe called a bankmaster or something, I know they've discontinued this version of it now, I was gutted because on paper it was a decent bed but the frame bent like a banana in the middle right where there was no elastic
1 hour ago, kevtaylor said:blooming unlucky there mate, even the Undercover Pro sleep system which I got for £205 is a sound bed. Did you complain?
9 minutes ago, elmoputney said:I did to angling direct and after a lot of calls got it replaced for a sonik axs
7 minutes ago, kevtaylor said:Well done mate 👍
That's weird!
As @kevtaylor has said for Solar to have a problem is a rarity.
Perhaps a fault in the frame manufacturing?
Sonik items on the other hand i now avoid after cheap rod rings drop inners, and chairs where the extending legs slide in under Nick weight, I'm only 80kg... so they can only be used on a perfectly flat and level bank.
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5 hours ago, Whitstable Jack said:
Hi all,
I have the solar SP c-tech sleep system as my bedchair - it is lovely, really comfy and strong. But I am done with the weight of it, I am really focusing on pairing things back.
It is 17.5kg.
I saw this bedchair by Solar, and it is 8.7kg, has anyone on here got one? Under Cover Pro Bedchair
I'm 6ft 6, 13 stone - so don't need a wide one. I sleep on my side so ideally the bed chair wouldn't sag.
I'd probably use it with the solar sleep system sleeping bag as I love it.
Yes, I have the original Solar bedchair, and yes it's comfy, however the folding legs don't lock in or out, it is you making sure that the legs are fully opened before you get on it, and I have occasionally forgotten to check to my cost.
The strap keeps them in place during transport, so it's not a problem. I also use the legs as 'side bars' when it's on my barrow.
You have approximately 100millimetres on the full leg extensions so you can get flat and level on most ground. The Springloc system locks as well, it does not slide.
To be honest, most of the time weight is not an issue for me as I can drive to most swims on the lake.
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On 23/04/2024 at 12:10, kevtaylor said:
I'm honestly finding Met Office totally different to the BBC, can't understand why, MET Office saying next to no rain this week, BBC says raining daily. MET Office is the one thats proving to be more accurate at the moment, or it has been on my trips so far, strange!
Unless my data for BBC is not refreshing from when I looked days before?
It's not just you, I've had totally different forecasts from the BBC to MetOffice.
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On 20/04/2024 at 23:08, ktc123 said:
Anyone know how these compare? I'm looking at the 10ft 3.5lbs.
I'd go Cotswold every day.
Any reason for 10ft as opposed to 12ft?
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I use Metoffice on my phone as well as the app installed by Samsung as well as checking BBC regularly.
All 3 are giving wet weather for at least one day this weekend.
I've noticed that forecasts are changing regularly, I can check for 2 or 3 days ahead, then 24 hours later get a totally different forecast.
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19 hours ago, framey said:
these have no mention of no dogs on the fishery
farlows
thorpe Lea
henlow bridge lakes
fairlands
stanborough
rib valley
I do recall a friend of mine used to take his boxer dog with him to Rib Valley
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21 hours ago, mrmud said:
I've got :
thermal base layer, 95% merino socks, prologic max 5 thermo suit, hat, gloves, neck scarf.
snugpak 4 season bag, snugpak jungle thermal blanket, ngt hot water bottle
Got a bio ethanol(ventilated but supposed to be odourless) to burn in trangia stove if it's to wet to use gas stove outside. Did look at the candle heater but candles still produce carbon monoxide
This is the main reason I was looking for some kind of heater as it can be the middle of the summer but the other half still wants the heating on.
I'm not sure on the effectiveness of most fishing tackle brand winter clothing, as most are not outdoor specialists in the clothing range. I prefer army surplus, hunting or shooting clothing.
My cold weather clothing is from army surplus, and Hoggs of Fife, along with Merino wool socks.
Top half is usually t-shirt, Norgie or UBAC with a standard fleece on top, and a Hoggs Strathmoor jacket on top, (look at current outdoor shooting or hunting jackets), or a DPM wind and water resistant smock on top.
Bottom half is combats with Hoggs overtrousers, and the Merino under my combat boots.
For the neck I do have either a snood or my shemagh.
That is cold winter wear!
On 15/04/2024 at 20:37, framey said:I also have one the size of a Fag packet that will charge the phone up a couple of times that cost about £20
I have 2 of them. Annoyingly where I fish the phone signal is absolutely awful, half the time I'm on emergency calls only and when it comes up 4/5G is only one bar.
It is often lack of signal that causes phone batteries to die faster.
The Fag packet size chargers I can usually only get 1 charge out of. The Juice long Weekender I can get 2 sometimes 3 charges out of.
I still sometimes end up going back to the car and having to charge from the cigarette lighter.
I really must look out for the Anker versions.
Vitalin
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That looks like the one.
Thanks.
I actually popped into Gladwells today and completely forgot to look. I was more concerned with picking up mixed pellets and a sack of hemp.