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Welcome to Carp.com. I have moved your post into UK Venues section of the forum. The only information I have seen on Linbrook is on the internet, if thats the one you mean near Ringwood in Hampshire. Some nice looking fish with pretty sensible rules

No worries, sometimes a bit of provocation gets you to expand on your opinions, I wanted you to open out a bit. No offence was intended I think the amount we see of the EA varies across the country, and definitely in the number of bailiffs we see. Admittedly the EA don't help themselves at times; a friend of mine was fishing a match on a Sunday on a river. A whole row of anglers, probably not all with a licence, maybe they all did, who knows. Anyway, he fished on the Monday, the only angler on the stretch, when it was tipping it down, in a peg that had thrown up a couple of big roach the day before when he was 'disturbed' by the bailiff. The bailiff commented about not checking licences the day before with 'we don't work on a Sunday'. Do non licenced anglers not fish on a Sunday?

I was being slightly sarcastic It was made to get you to see what the EA do, there is no distinction between syndicate, club or season ticket. I think you will find, Bayeswater had already been warned by the EA that the amount of weed could cause a potential oxygen crash. The aerator was already planned. A syndicate local to me had the same issue with their water, and so did a club. The EA provided an aerator until the syndicates aerator was repaired. The local club chose to get committee members to de-weed the water. In the Lea valley, a water had an oxygen crash after sudden rainfall cooled the water at spawning time. The EA did the post mortems for free, even though the Lea Valley have their own fishery manager. Not being funny, but any club or day ticket water that does not have otter fencing is a fool unto themselves. £100,000 on stock and £10000 on an otter fence. Don't fence it and you spend the same on stock again next year. To me that is not necessarily an EA problem, that is a fishery problem, but the EA are putting grant money to the fencing. The EA will prosecute for a fly tip, members clearing it themselves means no prosecution can take place, or getting a private company to do it. The EA will investigate. I hold by my point, if you as a syndicate want immediate help from the EA, then you should pay for a licence for that help. A dog walker could see that lake 'explode', call the EA, and help is given.

You may never have been checked in 23 years, but I actually got checked 5 years on the trot, and on more than one occasion in a year. I was checked on my season ticket lake, a park lake and a stretch of the Lea. If a lake is syndicate and suddenly develops a problem, it will be the EA who reacts, although under your scenario they wouldn't need to, after all, your members can deal with it... Or maybe the EA will bring an aerator in that you need, as fast as they can, and its done for free. Some areas have a major problem, its not just fisheries and fish. Its dealing with fly tips in watercourses, although maybe your syndicate would be able to clear up the rubbish if they got tipped...

Thinking about your situation, and wonder if the JRC Defender shelter would work for you? http://www.jrc-fishing.co.uk/jrc-bivvies-jrc-defender/jrc-defender-shelter/1454191-0300.html#start=7

I get my dog to keep the spare canister warm, saves getting cold feet on one in the sleeping bag.

Quite simply YES! I also think fisheries themselves should be licensed, especially Day ticket commercials.

Get Butane/iso-butane/propane gas canisters, rather than plain butane propane mix. Simple tip; never boil more water than you need. I do laugh (and cringe) when I see 'go petrol stove'. After issues with Coleman stoves on the bank I will never ever use a petrol stove on the bank again. I had a Peak1 stove fail on the bank. It refused to open the valve, despite being properly serviced. After taking it apart, servicing it on the bank, it eventually sprayed me with petrol. Thank goodness my Mrs had the foresight to tip a bottle of water over my face and head. Add to that, carrying a spare gas canister in the rucksack is easy, extra petrol is more awkward, needing a fuel can explicitly, plus the added risk of petrol on the hands as you fill up.

I prefer red, white and green indicators to match my alarm heads. I have got them set very tight here to cope with tow on The Lagoon. The actual reel is quite loose in the event of a take though.

Best way of keeping them sharp when fishing? Don't use them You may find some waters your hook will go blunt just being cast into the lake, and sharpened hooks can be worse for that! Anything can blunt a hook, snags, running over gravel, sticks, twigs or stones, or even sitting in silt. Personally, I don't sharpen hooks, I use makes that are sharp enough out of the pack to bring tears to the eyes. If the brand is not that good, then find a brand or make that is.

If you fish Ardleigh, the good guys like James (Shakey on here) will often put the kettle on for you. Its the ones who don't you worry about Saying that I've gone coffee only, a Bialetti stove top coffee maker

I use the Fox Warrior 42" net, standard one piece handle; they do two versions, the two piece handle or the one piece. Have a word with Buzzbomb, he can probably tell you what tackle can be imported into the USA from what shops to use.

And Alton prices:

I keep going on about it, but most of my sessions on Ardleigh were all based around work. I would finish at 6 or 7 at night, and drive straight from work to Ardleigh, before my next shift starting at 11am. If I ever managed a couple of days off together I would fish, but it was mostly the overnight sessions that produced fish, hence why I know it was 8 fish in 19sessions. An overnight trip would see me park at the main lodge and ticket office, walk down past the sailing club and boats to the next entrance at Lodge Lane, walk back to the lodge, so I was 'double checking', drive back to Lodge Lane, then walk and look to Wick Lane dam, then back to the car, drive down to Wick Lane and walk along the opposite bank from Wick Lane up. It was then a choice of where I reckoned was best if I didn't see anything. I rarely fished the Butterfly arm!

Every fish I caught from there was hard earned, and I enjoyed everyone, no matter what the weight, but those two big fully scaleds were special.

It was, the red sweatshirt pic, thats a Fitness First sweatshirt, so I had gone straight from work to fishing. Hard life, playing American Football, and working in a gym. I lost around 2stone when I retired from playing! Bruce drove down to photograph the 13.8 and I had that fish while he was there, had to wade up to my knees to net it.

Ardleigh is known as a water with potential for carp, and numbers were moved from the Wick lane 'pond', which was a carp fishery years ago, before the main ressie became available to coarse angling. Alton has long been a mixed coarse fishery, good and bad spells, but now with a good head ranger who is very pro-angling, some excellent fishing at times; its not easy fishing by any means for any species, simply because its so large and it doesn't receive that much bait. A match last year was won with 5lb, although every angler caught, the next day the same stretch produced weights to individual anglers over 50lb. The fish had moved onto the bait introduced the day before. Carp fishing is in its infancy on Alton, helped by the allowing of night fishing. Those carp will also move onto bait, its easier than finding natural food I guess. I have had roach sessions 'spoilt' by carp and pike getting into the swim. The few carp anglers who have caught have been lucky enough to drop onto fish, or seen them, and set up for them, as the surface caught fish proves. I don't think however its easy, the roach and bream can disappear from day to day, be at Lemons Hill today, then the same area can be blank tomorrow. The pike are unknown, usually following the roach around, and hanging midwater in the deeper areas. Not every area has swims along the bank. From The Wonder you have 10-15 pegs, then no swims until you get past the bird hide towards the main entrance. Lemons Hill, a few swims, then a blank bank towards The Wonder area. Thats just the areas I know, so trying to find carp in that... That top fish came on the same overnighter as the other fully scaled, remember it for strange reasons. My mate who always came out to do pictures wasn't answering his phone, and I found out he was on a tube train in London when the bombs went off. I got another mate to come down, but my mind was more concerned and worried for Bruce, then first light the second fish came, as a bream angler set up just down the bank, he was amazed at it and did the photos for me.

Most of my fish came on overnight sessions, only a couple on longer trips. 8 fish in 19 trips, most being over 20lb, 3 being 24.12 The other fish were 13lb8oz mirror, (i weighed it because it was the first fish I caught from there,) a couple of 18lb commons and another mid double mirror. If you found them, multiple catches were the norm.

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I've been very lucky then, I have never purchased a bad Spomb, never had one open on the cast, unless I have overfilled it, (blocking the fin end from closing), or gotten mix in the closure pin. I have however had a few casts where it stays shut, usually when the cast flattens as it hits the clip hard. I do turn the front closure round as well, and when its in the rucksack, or not in use set up on the bank, make sure I put the rubber band around the outside to keep it shut. When I was in the tackle shop, all those moons ago, we did have a number of Fox Impact spods come back with front closure problems, where they would not stay shut.

It wasn't just hinge pin faults with the Impact spods, it was also the front closure on them, they had a tendency to open in flight, or even not to close properly in the first place. With all due respect to Fox, I would avoid the spods, and stick to the Spomb. I have bought a few Spombs, (and lost a few) and would not consider the Fox Impact spod at all. The only reason I have lost Spombs, is my own incompetance, I have never had an issue with the opening in flight, unless I have overfilled it into the mechanism, or the fins.

I love them. I use the short arms myself, not just for carp, but for feeder fishing for big roach as well. From super slack, from swingers to quiver arms, locked up mega tight, long or short range they seriously do do it all.

Not sure Layer was KHV or SVC, think it was actually oxygen crash from algae. There are problems with drip baths. The first is that UV light and a dry net is the best way to kill any disease transmission, not dip tanks. You have to be sure that your dip will kill any virus or parasite. Next problem is the solvent strength, as it gets used solvent may get into the lake, which may be harmful to fish, so dip and rinse. The tank as it gets used may actually decrease in strength of the solvent, weakening the solution. The real answer is to use a different net for each fishery, so a fishery providing their own net and mats may be the answer. I found the FB post I mentioned above, I linked it into the quote.