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Bag of each, hemp, Vitalin, GLM pellets when I bought Sky a sack of Armitages working Dog complete. Her food is VAT free, well the dog food, she does get my meat and vegetable trimmings (except onions and garlic) added to her food. Got plenty of hemp and a kilo of Birdfood prepared in a bucket ready to be used tomorrow, sack of Vitalin is still in the car

We had ours start last Monday, groups were backwards and forwards until yesterday. The syndicate reopens tomorrow, but I reckon the fish will go again while the heat holds. We've been told not to fish the area if they do go again.

Sad to hear of an incident at Farlows https://www.facebook.com/100064622144369/posts/pfbid0D92R7igwTuhds7h6AikpsYbuoqk8AYttreL3qpasuWDqUnzzY4ZMpf1BgizNAVfUl/?sfnsn=scwspmo

A quick Google produced this: Tirley Court has two pools on site, Pete’s Lake for the match and pleasure anglers and the Specimen Pool, with carp to 25lb.Tel. 01452 780208.

No, I tried to (tidy), sorry minimise my loose tackle, tried putting hooklink materials, bits and pieces in a rig pouch, and it just doesn't work for me. I'm still using the Plano tackle box, with all my hooklink materials, swirls, run rings, quick links etc, and the bottom tray still has baiting needles, stringer needles, although the rubber fake baits have been binned. It still looks remarkably similar, although it did get cleaned a few times. Stonze have gone in a rig bin that lost the foam middle, the rest of my leads are in the top compartment of the Plano

I wonder how many places people think they are spawning when they are not. These North Quarter winds and temperatures not reaching 18⁰C are holding the fish back in my syndicate, and it is 1st June. They are full, and looking spawny, but nowhere near the known spawning areas, although a few males are hanging around the edges. I don't think that they will feed properly either until spawned.

It's a work in progress. RichardF is keeping me busy as he gets everything online basically item by item.

Because you are buying from Carp.com.

Such a shame, you will have to get fishing more to christen it all.

Go for rubber o rings, they look tidier, or file down the edge of the leather ones.

JS is the same in real life, and not as nice as his books portray. I won't wash laundry in public, but I've had run'ins with him, and I know additional stories, not just hearsay. I miss Richard Gardners posts, and articles. I recall some articles he wrote years ago about both fly fishing for carp, and Nile Perch in Africa. Moorsey used to be prolific. Newest purchase, after rod licence last week (disabled get concessionary, wow!) to replace the 3 year old chest waders that started leaking in both legs after finding cracked off leads, rigs and hooks in the weed, I ordered a new pair Wednesday night, they have just arrived. £30 well spent.

I have a system along the lines of a started canister is in the rucksack, so I put a full one in. The started canister runs out (usually) mid session, so as soon as I get home I put a new one in the rucksack, ad infinitum...

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/184140662761 If anyone is interested, although they are not my favourite, Coleman canisters at £28.45

Items found in bucket of bag/spod mix: Braid blades, Gardner baiting needle, spoon for coffee stirring and Sky's bone...

It was 20th May last year on ours, but they are still holding back this year. I know a few other waters locally have started though.

Always plans going forward. The main problem as I mentioned in News and Announcements is Google only picking up on threads started less than 5 years ago. So the database of threads going back to 2005 became almost worthless, which as so many threads had accumulated was rather sad. So far I have deleted 60,000 threads, goodness knows what that is in posts! No it's not a Fox only shop, it should be everything.

25lb Merlin, critically balanced meshed bait with a size 4 Solar 101. There is enough silt on the deck for the lead to sink into, but this presentation does work with the actual hooklink sat on top of the silt.

You might struggle. TFG no longer exist as a tackle firm, so spares and repairs could be impossible.

Thank you. On the low stock fishery it can be quite difficult to get fish feeding on bait. Even fresh stock fish, which have been brought up on course/carp pellets can switch onto natural foods and become difficult to catch, although some do become catchable. Some however do become bait eaters, particles and/or boilies, that is new stock and 'originals'. Some fish can go on 'the missing list' for absolutely ages, or be seen, yet not caught. To give some idea of that, on my syndicate lake we have a number of commons. The Parrot, The Pug nose are fish that are well known, come out around 23lb. There are 4 fish, 3 commons and 1 mirror that since being (legitimately) moved with the correct paperwork have not been caught, one of that stocking, I had on its first capture last year at 23lb, the only time it's been caught in 3 years with a 5lb growth rate. The biggest common I would think is close to 50lb, its been seen, yet has never been seen feeding on bait. The best known common or Queen of the lake went missing, not banked for 2 years. She came out again last week 5lb heavier than her last capture. There are some stock fish from 2021 that have put on 10lb in 13months! One of the fish stocked in 2020 at 18lb is coming out at around 32lb, and this years January stocking a couple have put on 2lb, yet others have not even caught since being stocked, some caught within a month of being stocked then avoiding capture, yet we are seeing them. There is an 'accidental' stocking, a koi that appeared after coming down the flooded inlet, it has never been banked, few have seen it, but how that bright white fish can disappear I don't know. I've been out in the lake in chest waders, I've disturbed bloodworm beds, I've found swan mussels, snails, and stepped in massive feeding holes; some are only just past the margins, some are out in the middle of the lake. I have access to a massive picture portfolio of the lakes stock, from originals and their capture weights to the stockings and stocking weights and all captures since. I also have some pictures of Tench and pike, so I know that there are occasional recaptures.

I took on Taverham Mills as a 'stop gap' between the sale by Schroeder and the purchase by Anglian Water, so had to do the research myself. I was learning the best stock levels and fish growth from a gentleman near Harleston and correspondence courses. At the time the lake was not heavily stocked. Although a few carp had gone in a few years before the sale it was never overstocked, there was a mix of tench and bream (to double figures), some carp to probably 30lb from a few sources and pike. My strong point was the bankside security, fencing, bailiffing and actual fishing management.

That sounds like it's healthily stocked, it's probably the same number of carp as in my syndicate lake which is 45acres. Your lake is not going to be a pushover, depending on features, other species, you aren't likely to catch every trip as I expect the carp have plenty of natural food. If you do expect to catch every trip then give up fishing... Seriously years ago when I was running a fishery, I learnt that the average fishery, with no bait, can hold roughly on average, 800lb of fish ( all species) per acre. So this could be 800 1lb fish, or 20 40lb fish and all variants in between. Many fisheries overstock, well beyond this figure so that fish have to be caught, they rely on anglers bait to survive. It is not always healthy. Then you have the fishery that is below that 800lb, the fish have room to grow, to develop.

That's a small one!

I can't post the direct video as it's too big, but a short video on my FB https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid0aDQ2KF8WoVxvcxRZvxgkyJhDJtN2pe8Q9rUkYBrMfmcA4rk9mhoWsmZeR7y29iLYl&id=100000347282223&sfnsn=scwspmo

The Brackens I fished was part of Nazeing Meads in Essex