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Well ive repeatedly offered to make a nice pie, but no takers so far! They'll eat the wild rabbits that i shoot, but offer them rosie rabbit? Nooooo! Thats just not right...

You think that dog looks broken? Check out mine... Looks proper knackered! Yes, i gave her easter eggs and told my kids she is the real easter bunny...!

Yeah could be, the temps are getting there, my local lake has switched off too.

How did you get on?

Some things never change! Lol! It had some lovely carp in it. Used premier GLM with mixed herbs flavour over the summer of 98 fished the end (furthest) swim from the car park tight to the far margins, casting to the far bank, walking around and lowering it by hand with a handful of baits scattered around it. Caught virtually every known carp in there, it was one of my most fondest ever seasons, lovely tench too! Is that massive koi/goldfish still in there do you know? Bexhill?? My parents live there, i went to school there in the 90's.

You live nearby? Small world innit?? No, i totally agree with you, the "argos brigade" or "chavvies" as we once called them years ago would descend en masse and just winch the poor blighters in. Its the only place that i got in a fist fight, had my phone stolen, watched a motorbike crash and burn and had teenagers procreating in the bushes... A lot of obscenity for a 13yr old wannabe carper! I used to say that if i could get one wish, i would transport the wish lock stock and barrel and move it deep into the countryside! Ever fish harmers pool or buckshole?

Again i fished there 15+yrs ago, had loads of fish out to 22lb, when i first started there in mid 90's the carp were lovely golden bronzed flanked hard fighting commons of upper singles to low doubles, but i went back many years later and caught small aneamic pasty 3lbers. So either the lake changed or my outlook became rose tinted! Used to fish wishing tree, then Harmers pool (whats that like now?) then buckshole (thats changed too i suppose) then spoon, normanhurst, Kell lake, then up to reading to fish various waters ending up on wraysbury in the end.

Thats it, Broomham, lovely little pond. I had some lovely fish from it. I never saw another angler there, they were all interested in the wishing tree resiviour, how does that fish these days?

Wouldnt suprise me, 10-12yrs ago it was all secluded and overgrown, i dont remember any weed growth at all, certianly not enough to cause any issues to the fishing. What was the name of the little pool behind the catsfield post office on the way to normanhurst? Can you still fish there? Used to fish it in the winter.

I use "tapatalk" and manage my carp.com account on my phone through tapatalk. (free app) I reply to a quote as normal and if i want to put a photo on, hit the camera pic on the toolbar, it opens my iphone gallery and i pick the photo i want. When i submit my post, it automatically updates and shows the pic. I use my iphone camera for everything, so the photos are all on there.

Walked on, down the path to where the lake starts to open out, putting a bait to the overhanging bushes in the oppasite margins. Or heading further down the bank until i was in a position to put a bait tight to the "island" - then get a mate to nip round and pult some hemp/pellet/boilie tight around the hookbait. I fished there a fair few years ago, so things may have changed. I liked to fish the margins and tucking my bait under quiet, undisturbed holes in the bushes.

I used premier baits, matrix, aminos 2000, GLM, Blue cheese flavours. The tackleshop in hastings, A.R. Tackle used to sell it if he's still there, but i should imagine any decent bait will work, i always found location to be far more important here, the carp were very "spotty" if that makes any sense, i would catch a fish from under the rhodrudrendums in the far margins to the right of the swim, yet my mate would blank to the left of the swim. Your bait placement needed to be spot on. It was quite silty due to the proximity of the trees surrounding the lake and its age. Lovely looking lake though.

Jesus!! There are loads! Look at holiday carping, back of magazines etc. One complex i can think of is Wylands lakes in east sussex. Made up of loads of different sized ponds of varying levels of difficulty. Worth a phone call at least.

Thats awesome, well done fella.

I used helicopter rigs on 6-8" braided hooklinks with tiny pva stockings to prevent tangles. Been a fair few years since i fished there and only did winter days to keep my enthusiasm when buckshole slowed down in the colder months.

Heres one from normanhurst

Yes, fished it years ago. Used to fish premier blue cheese boilies tight to island margins. The shallow/logs swim used to have some commons in it in the summer. A bait placed to an island margin or under the rhodrudendrums in the margins in the narrow end of the lake when you first walk on the lake. They like a bit of cover here!

There is a bit of metalwork, it is a proven rig but it needs to be used for its correct application, IE "big fish" angling. Basically, its not designed for commercials or runs waters where the average size of carp is not too small, for reasons previously mentioned. Although i have seen it "advertised" as a usual pva bag rig which would suggest that it will end up on the nearest commercial where a poor little 3lb carp will stitch itself up royally on it. The Whithy pool rig, this spins on contact as well, and has the benefits of longshanked hooks with less risk of damage. As the tubing straightens out during the fight. Its a bit of a rig to get your head around visually, it was invented by steve renyard to combat the super riggy carp at withy pool that were mouthing the baits. this is my basic pop up rig that i use all the time. the bait blows back along the shank on ejection, i have used the small bait big hook principle for years having caught many carp on it. 35lb Pb. 28lb 21lb 22lb. The most simple pop up rig here, yet had lots of 20-30's on my rig, and never felt the need to complicate it further, after all, the correct application of bait in the right swim for the prevailing conditions is far more important than some fancy over complicated rig. The most fancy all singing all dancing rig still wont catch a carp thats not there! Get the location right before worrying about "advanced" rigs, the most consistant "big fish" anglers use real simple rigs and put watercraft and location forefront in their minds.

The business end of the 360 ( degree) rig. (thank you fox international for the pic!) Just tie a braided hookling to the swivel ring. Gotta be a longer than average hooklink, does not work as well with short links. Personally, if i want to fish a longshanked pop up presentation, i would use the half withy rig, as it was designed to emulate the longshanked aspects but with a shortshanked hook. The hook spins in a similar fashion as the 360 rig when the curved tubing touches the lip, it spins and places the hook hopefully in the bottom lip, which is the same mechanics you are relying on with the 360 rig. As the curved longshank comes in contact with the bottom lip, with the swivel, the hook should spin 360 degrees (hence the name!) and hook in the lip.

No dramas!

Rob maylin also outlined the dangers of the bent hook rig in print too, once they became known. The 360 rig is attributed to dave lane who stated it was a "big fish" rig where the likelyhood of doublehooking/stitching the hook is less likely. Some mouth damage will be down to poor unhooking, refusal to cut the hook if required (or even not being aware this is an option, how many people truthfully think to snip a hook?) also using the 360 rig out of the context to which it was origionally designed. I think that its use on smaller fish, high stock runs waters (for which it wasnt designed) is another reason why mouth damage may be encountered. Personally i think there are other pop up rigs out there that are just as effective.

Damn it!!! Roger, emptying it now!

Its a lovely pond with a hikers map in either lake road car park, or the havan car park, to show you where to walk, if not just ask, its a tiny nature reserve and people can show you the way. Depending what end of the lake you wanna fish determines what car park you use. I used to prefer the havan car park, myself.

Google "hamworthy lake" in poole, dorset - its council ran, deep crytal clear sand pit with some lovely carp in it its a stunning pond, just has a few problems with pikeys, but ive personally never had any problems myself. Had some lovely commons out to 20lb+ but its fairly tricky, also still enforces the close season, but it is FREE TO FISH! woohoo!! Its off the haven holiday camp in poole, at least worth a walk around mate. Its one of my favourite waters. Also, looked at broadlands lake off the M27?

The 360 rig is sometimes pinned with mouth damage due to its mechanics, in the same way the long shank bent hook rig was in the 80-90s - indeed this rig was banned in many places. The long shank aspect used to "double hook" (hook through the lips multiple times, otherwise called stitching) and then tear in the carps mouth, the bent hook, if not bent correctly, would open and close at the point of bending kind of like an old fashioned can opener causing damage to the carp. The fox series 5 - the first commercially available long shanked curved hook brought in to try and emulate the success of the bent hook rig. It was found that smaller, more frantic carp could "double hook" themselves which then tore, ripping the lips. The readon shrink tube became so popular was it allowed you to fish a "bent hook" which didnt cause the damage with the hook opening and closing like a can openerin the carps mouth this is why we bend and curve shrink tube, to emulate the bent hook rig.The link has been made between the longshanked aspect and the 360 rig, it has been said (by "them") that it can cause the double hooking which leads to mouth damage. The evidence is not exactly solid, in the case of the bent hook rig, the damage and its cause was obvious, and lots of lakes banned it. The 360 rig is used by many top anglers, mr dave lane being one of them, it is seen as a "big fish rig" mostly down to the fact it utilises a longshanked hook which can hook multiple times in a smaller carps mouth. It is also designed to be fished heavily weighted as opposed to critically balanced. The idea is that the pop up spins 360 degrees and hook in the bottom lip. The use of a longshank hook has always been linked to mouth damage to smaller carp. Whether its true or not? Well thats open to speculation, the old bent hook was brutal, but the 360 rig is well popular and well used, if it was as damaging as the old bent hook rig was, then we would know by now, its been out for years, i dont use it as its too much metal in/around the hook - plus the use of a longshank puts me off a bit, as i remember the mouth damage from the 1st longshank curved hooks and bent hook rigs. I havent seen the series 5 on sale for years, although fox do sell the armapoint LSC which look near as damn it identical.