muftyboy

You must of been gone a while?. Carpmachine has been banished, for treason 😂

Unbelievable Jeff. Think I'll keep nicking sharpies from work and marking my line with them.

Petition has been going for ages mate. Signed it a couple of years ago.

Mosquito angling. Been using there hooks for a couple of years now . Had carp up to mid 50s on them and never let me down.

How did you get on mate?

I try and do a week long foreign trip every two years. Sometimes a week just doesn't seem long enough. I reckon I could do a month easy . The last couple of years though I've been doing a lot more short sessions , 4-12 hours mostly instead of the the 48 hour sessions i used to do. I think I up my game on shorter sessions and to be honest my catch rates compared to hours have probably improved because of it.

On the rare occasion me and my friends get together for a beer we always have a little debate at some point about a football match, the year a song or film came out etc etc. And Google will end that debate.

Sorry but I'm gonna do a bit of a hijak on this thread instead of starting a new one. A while ago somebody posted on here about another manufacturer that does scope type rods . Anybody remember?. Cheers.

Google takes all the fun out of it lol.

Looks similar to zander. Subspecies?. If that's the correct word?.

At least your sliders were warm lol

I managed around 15 perch at the weekend in 4 hours fishing. Biggest probably pushing 2lb but a very good average size around the 1lb Mark. 2 guys fishing opposite were using live baits and had some crackers. One of them looked absolutely huge from where I was and actually heard him say the weight , 3lb 10oz. I walked around at the end to have a little chat and they said there biggest was only 2lb 2oz. Obviously trying to hold a bit of info back.

Just watched a video on it. The springs at the back end look like they could break or come away if you're heavy handed like me. Looks a good concept but only time will tell if it's up for the job.

One more from me. I started to fish billingford lakes just after it opened, it had been unfished for around 20 years according to the locals. I had a few sessions in the summer and autumn but not a single carp. It was a freezing cold new years eve and the 1st time I'd ever used maggots to target carp. About 1 hour in had this beauty. As far as I could tell it had never been caught before. Not a scratch on it. Felt quite guilty for putting a hole in its lip to be honest.

My plan is that in about 5 years time my daughter will be more grown up and independent and I will have a few more quid in the bank to start venturing out to all these places that hold these sort of carp. But then again the plan 5 years ago was that I'd be retired by now and fishing every day lol.

I wasn't having a dig mate. I love seeing other people's pics. Especially when they look like that. Gives me motivation.

Alright show off lol. I think I've said this before but I don't think I've ever seen you post a pic that was not an absolute stunner mate.

For pure exitment it has to be this mirror from the ebro. My mate already had a mid 40 common in the net so the guide just jumped straight in and grabbed it with hands . I was buzzing for days after this. Helps if I put a pic with it eh.

A stray match away from serious burns lol

I had one of the e17 hats when I was teenager. Bet I looked a right *** lol.

This is it 12 years later.

Stunner mate. Looks like someone stopped drawing the scales half way through.

I think it was a good decade after e17 mate. Didn't think they wore beanies, they wore them really high noddy hats lol. Anyway,take that were better.

There was a similar post on a Facebook post the other night and 1 guy posted a pic of a lovely ghost carp at 37lb and I just sat there thinking I've seen that fish before. So I messaged him and asked where he had caught it and it turns out i had caught it 12 years previous at 23lb. At the time it was pb and my 1st ever ghostie. Any way , here it is.

This is my fave from my local park lake. As far as I know nobody else has ever caught it. I've had it twice.