Been fishing the turf a fair bit this year with a friend, biggest ive had out was a 18.5 common. Went down there towards the start of the season and people were saying it had been fishing rubbish and only about 3 fish had came out in a 3 week period all the people moaning about it were using boilies. Went round the back edge with mate had a quick talk about tactics while getting set up then noticed loads of slugs crawling all over the unhooking mat, bait sorted... had 7 out that day between us when it was supposedly fishing ''rubbish''. Since then have tried boilies/pellets a few times and not had anything but the odd bream and 1 tench off em wheras slugs/worms/catmeat and the odd medusa have accounted for 100% of my carp catches there.
I have had hard days down there where i couldnt even get a twitch/linebite anything but then had other days where the actions been very good.
Got a map drew out of it with the features and where i've had all the fish i can remember from, i'll upload it later if anyones bothered.
Oh and has anyone else notice how daft a big chunk of the fish are in there? I'd say half the carp i catch pick up the rig then just swim straight into you put up a little fight then just swim into the net, and dont get me started on the bream ive had countless ones eat my catmeat show 1 twitch on the tip so i think ive missed the bite sit there for 40mins doing nothing then float across the top like a bit of wood into the net when i reel in to rebait.
