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Dale Jennings messaged me via FB and asked if I knew @welder or how to get in touch. He is, sorry, both are, on my FB friends, so now able to keep in touch.

Aye, that can be a problem, as can swans...

Tench will move in almost as quick as you finish, and carp not long after on many waters. Saying that, I've fished waters where raking a swim is the kiss of death ☠ Carp will clear the weed eating particles, but raking it is a 'No no'. I'm on that place now!

Used to happen to me with crayfish on Nazeing. I had the meshed bottom bait attacked and the mesh actually cut, yet the pop-up was left. I landed a number of carp that had taken what was left of the bottom bait and the pop-up. If the little gits had time, then the pop-up was taken after the bottom bait. Switching to wooden balls as snowman, the pop-up was taken, you'd retrieve a thread knotted to the hair loop. The knot held the ball in place on the hair.

I think last year's extreme hot weather was a very good reproduction year, and the small fish have been pecking baits. I noticed on Suffolk Water Park that baits would be pecked to nothing by tiny rudd and roach even in the margins. A standard boilie is softer than a pop-up, so it might be time to mesh them or even resort to wooden balls. I've had to do that to avoid blooming tufties and swans as well as silvers.

Sounds like a result. I have 2 landing nets set up now, for a couple of reasons: If I get a result like yours, and because I often fish 2+1, so there is an accessible net either side.

The type of water will make a big difference, snaggy, clear, whether you need to cast long distances. 15lb 0.35-0.38mm is probably the standard, and newer lines co-polymer are more abrasion resistant than nylon monofilament. I pretty much use 15lb on most waters where I'm carp fishing for carp over 20lb. For smaller fish up to say 20lb, it will be 10lb on a lighter rod.

It's around 100metres from peg to far bank along the whole arm, (just over up to 110m in some swims), the far end of the bay takes it to around 150metres. Don't ignore the area under your feet, it can produce fish when they are on the move.

Welcome to Carp.com. Suffolk Water Park is 10minutes from me and I used to fish it regularly. Pegs 5 and 6, far arm facing into a tree lined bay from memory, around 12feet deep. It's a swim the fish move through, you can't miss the obvious feature, or rather don't hang your rigs up in them. Definitely not my favourite area, I always felt trapped there if anglers were either side of you.

Similar, wind and bow in the line can mean you are well away from your spots. This week with a strong south westerly, I was landing around a couple of metres short of my marker, and for some reason I couldn't hit my aiming point to the right. I had to add another 'wrap', or 3.66m, 12ft to get in line, and that's just in 4 feet depth. And casting... Not sure about the King, don't wish him ill, but not happy that he took the throne after his divorce from Princess Diana and marriage to a divorcee... He should have married her originally

It proves my point that a wrap is not a unit of measurement, whereas a metre, or yard is That has been my argument all the way through.

That's not a silly point:

A fixed lead is a lead that can't come off the line if there is a breakage. To me a bolt rig, is still the Kevin Maddocks description in Carp Fever, a free running lead, held in place by the tight line. An inline lead should be able to slide off the hooklink swivel, so that is not fixed, you then have run rings, that should slide up and over the broken line, a lead clip should release the lead. I must confess, I don't like lead clips at all, that is me, personal opinion. As for helicopter set-ups, the hooklink comes free, as long as the lead has not been released.

There were decent numbers of carp in many rivers around the country. I know in Norfolk, Suffolk and even over to Cambridgeshire areas of The Wensum, Yare, Gipping, Waveney, Great Ouse that carp were a specific target, and you could expect to catch. A few causes of carp numbers going down, poaching to eat by Eastern Europeans, fish theft for other waters, predation by otters, seals even and pollution must have had an impact. I have walked the Gipping for years, and areas where I guaranteed to see carp, I'm not, and sometimes not even chub. If you are catching, keep it to yourself, or be very careful with backgrounds and areas. And enjoy

That's the thing, a wrap is only relative to the individual angler, it is not universal. Metres (or yards) are pretty much universal, understood worldwide. That's what I have been saying. Even if you do go back to imperial, a yard can be converted to metres. A 'wrap' of 10feet is different to a wrap of 12feet, and is different to a 4metre wrap. My point on slang, a Dutchman, a German who speaks English is not going to understand slang, they do not all understand the concept of using the 'haven't, won't, don't for have not, will not or do not, so slang is definitely 'verboten'. A wrap can be confused even further, so becomes even more meaningless: I use a particular spot on the bank to cast, because I measured/marked the spot I'm fishing weeks or months ago. Purely as an example, If I said I'm fishing at 12 wraps at what point does the angler I'm talking to use? Does he use the edge of the water? Or is it from where I cast? 15months ago, I learnt some of the feeding holes, and I measured from the high water mark. If I gave that spot to another angler in wraps, he could miss it by miles. Give it to him in metres, he can get it. I'm actually casting from the same spot I used last year, yet now I'm 2rod lengths up the bank, so that's at least 2 wraps out to his casting. He might not know how the water level has changed. On a gravel bar that means a miss is as good as a mile. Using a Sky pic as an example, that's 10metres of difference between high and low water. Wraps from high water are totally irrelevant. Even on a 'normal' lake, you can see the level difference. Where Sky is keeping cool in the soft rush, I was standing netting fish April 2022! Give an angler a distance, chances are he'll 'measure' it from the water level. You would automatically say "it is 40metres out".

And the cord length of those that come with a cord, because not all do? After digging through various adverts Some are 4m, some 12feet, some 10feet, so a wrap is not a guaranteed distance. In other words, to be sure you still have to convert to your preferred genuine measurement. It may be slang, but to be honest I rarely use slang in my everyday speech anyway, expletives maybe, usually aimed at swans and tufties. @carpepecheur makes the point, almost every country uses metres as base unit of measurement, USA being an exception, but even then for scientific or aeronautical after an imperial measurement being used on a space shuttle. Mind you, an American gallon is different to a British gallon, and an American pint is different to an English pint.

@framey, I can understand the confusion, because arithmetic is a dying subject, nearly as dead as Latin... I think that possibly most sticks don't come with a cord, so the angler (a) uses his normal rod to set them around 3.66m, 12feet apart, as originally done in the Carp Championship. No matter what length fishing rod used, the number of wraps is the same. Easy figures, 10 'wraps' times 3.66m equals 36.6m distance However, we have another angler who has 10feet rods, puts his distance sticks at 3m or 10feet apart, so the number of wraps he uses is different. 10 wraps times 3.04m equals 30.4m. And this is the whole point of the thread, a wrap is NOT a distance measurement, which to many it has become. It is why I and @Golden Paws use real measurement distances, whether we prefer imperial or metric. And after that explanation and point ban him...

I was brought up with metric at primary school, carried on at high school and on signing up cleaned and fired 7.62mm rifles... The confusion arises because we are supposed to be metric, but other than the Falklands, the only battle Margaret Thatcher won was against the European Common Market in keeping Roman Imperial measurements for UK sales, but now the metric has to be the first unit shown. You don't run a 110yard race, nor a 440yard, it's 100 or 400metres. I actually think that the 1000 yards being a mile was from Roman soldiers, 1pace (left and right). The foot came from a king, the size of his, 3 equalling a yard. As for a metre, it's a particular percentage of the total distance totally round the earth from North Pole to North Pole, and being decimal, a 1000millimetres (mm) or 100centimetres (cm) equals a metre. When I use sticks, I simply use a rod length, and I enjoy working out the times round the sticks x 3.66 (actual 3.658) to come up with the actual proper distance. With that though you are talking to the person who enjoys playing with mathematical calculations for fun.

Doorman, and that is exactly why I don't go to less than a number 3, because I used to work the doors earning extra money Friday and Saturday nights when I went back to college as a mature student, Thuggish was not a good look! Cripes, thinking back while I was at college, part time in the tackle shop Thursday and Friday afternoons and all day Saturday, running a social club bar Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday Friday and Saturday evenings, and then onto the doorwork. In all that I was getting on with my partner, and playing rugby for college and American football for Ipswich Cardinals. Sorry, totally off track, newest purchase was another 6 gas canisters at bargain price, more PVA bags from Dave Goring at Alacarp.co.uk, and some more RH KMG, Infusion and Monster Crab boilies, and not forgetting the naughty Naturalz...

Weird, once I went back to Firefox I was able to get back on, although on Firefox I do know how to get round snertificatez... I dislike Google Chrome myself, and hate adverts, and pop-ups.

You can get Firefox to go on Samsung devices😉 I spent ages going through the CP trying to sort the blooming certificate, had to drop it onto RichardF when my mate who designs webpages went back into hospital.

I know many people have had major problems accessing the site recently, Android and Google Chrome refused to go to the forum after the ssl certificate apparently expired. Those with other browsers, Mozilla Firefox, Duckduckgo were able to continue using it.

As much as the grade 1 would be easier, I look like a thug

Just before Covid lockdowns in 2020, my barber retired from his shop. I had used him for hair cuts for over 25years, and with lockdowns I wasn't comfortable finding a new Barnet trimmer, so bought myself a set of trimmers. I can do my own grade 3 all over. Once it's shorter not so much grey shows up, but when it's long...

I rarely used anything other than straight from the bag boilies on the hair.