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I agree mate, November is still prime carp time nowadays. It's normally well into December before I finally admit to myself that it's over for another year.

RESULT! Have fun lads.

Autumn and winter are worlds apart imo. For autumn my baiting levels go through the roof. For winter they drop to almost nothing. Regards tactics stick to what you know/what you're confident in. Likewise. Every target fish I've ever caught bar 2 have been in Autumn. My fave time of year by far. Big fish time.

I like that too lol. Just don't expect to take the lift and get any credit from me !!!🤣

Imo they are cheating but I have a couple mates with one and I've also seen an entire lake mapped out with one. What do you want to know? Mapping is one thing but fish finding fish really is taking the wee wee. Carp fishing is suppose to be hard - that's why it's so rewarding when we catch. I think replacing watercraft with sonar is blasphemy of the highest order lol. But hey - that's just me. I couldn't live with myself if I caught a special'n that I found with a fish finder that proper anglers had been chasing for months or years.

Imo mouth damage through weed fishing is caused by inexperienced anglers trying to drag them through it, particularly with braid. I have never seen a fish tethered in weed. Imo they just use it to their advantage. Hence when you lose a fish (in the weed) it's always easy to retrieve the rig. In my book as long as the rod is locked up in weed, the fish is still on, otherwise it just pulls through. It can be a very long and arduous task extracting them without a boat and without damaging the mouth. That's just my observations of course. Most jetties were built for either boats or for match anglers as a peg and in many cases they were built before carp angling was mainstream. I'm sure most waters that are built as carp lakes nowadays would consider building them big enough for shelters.

Out of interest @Gazlaaar, did you hook them on the same type of rig?

Twins for sure but not identical twins lol.

They're very similar but one has a mouth that is far more over-slung than the other and the lower lateral lines look very different. One is more chesty than the other and one has an area free from scaling above the anal fin.

Imo no. Quite a tricky one tbf.

For sure Smuft, it's just a debate buddy, it's healthy👍 See in open water I don't see that as a problem. I'm sure if I timed myself in the middle of the night I'd exceed it. Imo it's safe

I've told people that before lol😜

The place looked awesome in Nige's vids @chillfactor. Glad you enjoyed it mate. I've done that too. Not fun lol.

+1. Absolutely brilliant stuff.

Although there are two kinds of the corn starch ones - taste them - the good'n's taste of pretty much nothing, the bad'n's have a horrible burnt taste!

Same thing mate. There's no such thing as PVA foam - it's just what guys call the corn starch foam.

I think he explains quite clearly in the video something that I've said on here before - that being that carp that don't know they're being fished for are infinitely easier to catch. If that means setting up a 2 or 3 second dash away from the jetty I'd have no problem with it. It's not like he's fishing snags - he's fishing open water. Yes there is weed about but at worst that means he'll lose the fish. It's not like he'll tether it. For me it is safe angling and that is ultimately what counts. I thought it was another brilliant vid from ESP. "For those 2/3 hours at dawn I'm a millionaire". So true.😃

I did a write-up of a session on Stanwick in the catch reports last April but it's not what you guys want to read - it was a nightmare, stuff getting nicked, couldn't get on fish..... it's never normally that bad so I won't post it as it'll put you off!

I could be wrong buddy but I'm pretty sure it just weeded him up.

I think we must be watching a different video geez. He doesn't let the fish get to a snag. The fish weeds him up half way through the fight. This is what happens on weedy waters. It happens to me all the time. Usually you can get them out. Sometimes you can't. Part and parcel of fishing proper carp waters imo.

Bowler is one of the greatest anglers of our generation. He knows what he's doing and I'm not going to question his methods.

I think we should put it to the rotary!

See, you can always count on good advice here @Stoney!!!

Based on the decent syndi's I've been a member of and the waiting lists I'm on I'd say 600 is about average nowadays buddy, maybe just less than average!☹️

No idea mate but Monster Munch are well nice, especially Flamin' Hot flavour!😋