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Hello matey , cant help you out with the venue i'm afraid but what i can do is welcome you to the asylum . If you really are mad then you'll fit in well

Couldnt you take him to somewhere you are familiar with ? Sorry just a thought ... Cant help with the venue but heres wishing you have a great weekend .

Nigel , you never really went into in any detail , what you did to combat the Crays ? I've read your review of your weekend ( very well written by the way ) so was it just a case of meshing your hookbaits and fishing off of your baited patch ?

Morning fellas . I'm going to do something which i never ever do here but it's something that i'm very pleased to do and that is PRAISE KORDA In all the years i've been fishing i've never so much as glimpsed at Korda's website but for some reason , yesterday , i did . I found , under Rigz , a detailed , well explained description in language that even i can understand , with cracking photos , step by step guide to tying about 15 different rigz ( see what i did there ). Now i'm probably trying to preach to the converted here , but i think it really is amazing . Anybody starting out in Carp fishing or ( like me ) who has trouble tying rigs for one reason or another could do a lot worse than bookmark that section on there pc / mobile . I'm convinced that the Korda website is the first stop for most youngsters and carping newbies so im probably teaching you all to suck eggs here but i am really impressed and i , for one , will be referring to it on a regular basis . So WELL DONE KORDA :) Bu the way , the free Crafty Carper App is very good for rig guides as well

..and the bluntness :) :)

Or the chase at rush green . My regular haunt and fine there too

http://www.carp.com/topic/14653-gloucester-park-basildon/?fromsearch=1

Well yeah maybe but they do look familiar to something that has been banned in the past but cant put me finger on it .

That must be a screenshot Neal cos my eyesight IS awful and i cant really see very well to comment tbh . I would think there will be a reason why they dont make them in bigger sizes though . They bang on about specimen fish but theres specimen fish and specimen fish ...

Or , if you post using a mobile fone then downloading tapatalk will be a godsend for posting pics .

Might be a good idea mate . I know that the mesh on my fox warrior net is a lot smoother , finer and smaller than the mesh on my cheaper no-brand net i had before ? I cant believe its the way you net the fish

Sounds like the mesh could be too big si but i cant believe that in this day & age . Which nets are you using ?

Hi there welcome to the asylum

Or me But Messrs Gamakatsu , kamasan , Gardner , Fox might :)

I dunno how you can say that bivvy ? Do you just use one brand:type of hook for all your fishing ? Blimey i've got about 6 or 7 different brands & patterns that i seem to be forever chopping and changing , i dunno whether i'm coming or going :)

How important do you think length of hooklink is when fishing with bog standard running lead set ups ? I can understand chopping and changing hooklink lengths when using semi-fixed leads , trying to bring the weight of the lead into play , at the same time trying not to let the Carp use the weight to throw the hook etc . But with running lead set ups , changing length of my hooklink IS something i do to try & ring the changes so to speak , and sometimes it even works . I just dont understand why ?

Agreed we're always banging on about carp safe handling etc . This is even more important imo .

Side cutters a must-have . Just in case

http://www.carp.com/topic/8214-unhooking-hooks/

http://www.carp.com/topic/19680-barbed-or-barbless-the-safest/?fromsearch=1

I take it the wife put it there Phil ? :) Sorry i'm on my way ....

Lovin' it Nick . Proper fishing

The pva bag merely a decoy Andy mate , and when i say pva bag i mean quite a few of em and stringers , necklaces etc all catapulted out to create a bed of bait especially for the crays , hoping it would help . I think it did to a point , though as i say , just Bream . I was adding oyster shell to my xxx basemix at the time too Just like to say that im glad im nowhere near a Crayfish infested lake now . I'd probably fish zigs