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Looking at that really does make a big water look appealing, I might do a session on the big part of my lake next time as I've got size envy 😁

Any joy yet? looks a nice place wouldn't mind seeing more pics if you have time 👍

Good luck hope you get off to a winning start 👍🍀🤞

This may help you a bit, Alfie Russell has done lots of bits round the London park lakes so there may be more to watch, but they do look like some stunning carp, travel light and walk round getting to know the place maybe dropping some bait in some likely areas and keep walking,

I generally get a night, I would be 24 in the car park and home, it's not that far from me really maybe one day I will venture up there it does look nice , but I think I would steer clear at the moment sounds like a nightmare

I watched Paul heseltines vid on there this week he said he had to do 2 nights just to get a swim he wanted to fish , sounds terrible 😢

I've been having a good play with this one recently, and I've really started to see the benefit of using the mouth trap doubled over like the multi rig, its solid as a rock, I don't think it would budge if blown out, i pulled one at both ends last night with hook pullers and the hook snapped before the chod link naturally I will put a boom on it but I think this one will be tough to eject, can't wait to try it now 🤔

It makes sense to me as personally I think I probably catch more bigger bream and tench these days than I ever did when I used to try and catch them by design, 😁

So if whilst scaled down for bream, you happened to catch a lake record carp would you not claim it? I mean this as a general question BTW, as it seems lots of anglers don't think a big bream should count if you happen to be fishing for carp, so surely a big carp wouldn't count if you happened to be fishing for bream, 🤔

Not bad is it 😁

No worries can be a faff sometimes when you want to upload a few pics, tbanks for taking the time to show me. Looks pretty good stuff I might see what I can do with it, will get some. Ordered thanks

Its amazing isn't it, I'm sure I read it was 4ft long somewhere, it's just so different looking, a real fish of a lifetime

Have you seen the recent capture of the saddleback lin wow that is an amazing beast,

Ive never had my rod licence checked tbh, and never had a rig or bait checked in all my time fishing, I get them banning certain things like bait and only wanting people to use certain types of pellet etc, there lake if it helps keep it open and make it pay so be it, Also think more lakes should ban bait boats, them people always break other rules 😜😜😁

I think the point he made in 2015 was more about the fact he knows bread isn't that good for them, but that it keeps catching fish, and that they don't necessarily stop eating things that aren't good for them,

What water have you been fishing maybe someone will know about it? There is no right or wrong to how much you should or shouldn't feed, we will all tell you different answers tbh, depends how long you are fishing for and what the stock is like and whether they will be in the mood to eat

Just keep going and keep watching the water, if you want to become a better angler get watching reading and learning, YouTube has so many decent videos to watch, you can learn things all the time which will help, look at the Carl and Alex tutorials they will help you get better

That does look like a beast, I'm struggling to allow myself to spend 70 though at the minute 😳 If you blank just pretend you had it with you then you can use it next time, I gave up worrying about the curse of the new thing a while ago, I pretty much would never catch anything 😁

I've now pretty much stopped using my brolly in favour of the bunker it doesn't take any longer to put up or take down it's lighter and it just feels a bit more like home, 😁 Can have the front off, on or pegged open has a back window if it's a bit windy inside 😉, got a 7 quid mozzie front, over wrap and it's rock solid love it

Hi guys Been looking at a new cradle mat or unhooking mat, I've looked at the aqua ones, trakker ones, thinking anglers one and this one seems to have the best of all worlds it's walled so should be nice and safe, padded kneeling area for my ageing knees, a pocket for scales etcbut the middle bit is removable like the thinking anglers one with a fish cover so could be useful as a stalking mat or just so I could leave the cradle set up for photos and just use the inner part for unhooking near the water so i could transfer the fish to the retainer easily whilst setting up for snaps? Anyone else have one or can recommend a good mat or cradle that will last and keep the fish safe, Does anyone use any of the cradles with legs?

this is the stiff part of a hinged stuff rig, it's not the one for a bag will sit far too high I think, if you want to use a pop up in a bag I would still keep it simple and just add some shot to a simple rig and check the presentation and that it doesn't sit too high above, which is why I like a wafter as it looks like a part of the mix not a beacon on top of it, my thoughts on bags are that all Ingredients can be sucked in together at once, then hopefully the hook sticks In the lip as it lifts off, I don't think you need a complicated rig in a bag as the surrounding bait is all part of the appeal, I don't think 2.5oz is a deal breaker tbh just make sure your hooks are sharp,

Something dave Lane said on his latest vlog may help you if it's weedy, the fish will make it easier for you if you can find clear spots as that may be where they like to feed, so mainly just find and concentrate on those and that might be a good starting point and then you can ignore and rule out large chunks of weedy water 👍

Proper jobs are great and the standards are better than a lot of other brands I've tried, you just know it will still be up in the morning, they do some lovely flavours too, you won't look back, I just wish they did wafters too

It does a little but it seems to tangle less and still pushes the hair out the side of the hook, I found I was hooking them in the scissors quite a lot with a normal kd set up so I tried this little kicker and it now turns better

I was having a little play with mouth trap the other night, this is the first rig I've tied using a krank chod type hook where I can see the benefit of the hook, and in my head this rig will work well