The lake is stocked with 3000 carp and it regularly apears in magazines and on the television, they even have a latest catches page on the website
http://www.linear-fisheries.co.uk/index.cfm?fuseaction=latestcatches.start
it seemed before i started fishing there every time i looked at it, it was filled with that particular lake with these mass hauling of fish
But ofcourse since i started fishing their the fish arent so easy to come by.
The lake only opened a couple of years ago and is heavily fished, and the carp i guess have wised up to regular tactics. Thats why i mentioned small hookbaits and small hooks. People turn up there spod out kilo's of bait and expect to catch ( i did ) so im thinking maybe the fish avoid these big areas of bait because they have wised up and associate it with being caught and they just feed on for example the back spray of the spodding or have become very wary of rigs. I have heard (especially in the winter) single small hookbaits and hooks can often be very productive when nothing else catches.