WOW,
What an excitable lot of carp anglers lol.
Having scanned thru postings carping seem s to be different things to different people.
Ive fished for carp for 30 years,25 in the north west.i can honestly say ive fished or looked at, at one time or another most waters that may or may not contain carp in n/w.
IF fishing toe to toe (combat fishing the yanks call it) the likes of wyreside,pendle view,highcroft and all the other commercial type fisheries in the north west floats ya boat then great.
I will say that the commercial fisheries in n/w have taken advantage of the people fishing them knowing full well they have little choice of were to go,the take it or leave it attitude of these fisheries beggers belief,but they are aware theres always another carp angler round the corner.
Ive enjoyed fishing the likes of sale,pilsworth,lymm,redesmere etc etc.over many years on and off(and a few other waters, i must be that secretive carp angler everyone must be paronoid about lol).
So the upshot is if you want to get the best out of all that expensive tackle,set ya sights on what you want and do it.
I personaly travel south, be it the midlands,south east,france etc.the old addage id rather spend 1 hour with fish in front of me than 24 hours with nothing in front of me does hold true.
And the cost i hear you cry, well the cost of memberships, day tickets are cheaper, more choice, better run, better faciltys and cos theres more choice more fish better fish and best of all you catch a lot more and bigger fish.
kind regards and HAPPY fishing.
Andy
