[Slipe Lane]

Just a thought were you once called mrjif

 

Good point! I might change my name to 'theartistformerlyknownasjif'

 

Were you once in grange Hill?

[Slipe Lane]

Sounds a delightful place...

 

I don't think it's quite as bad as I've read........hopefully not anyway, or my first trip in a couple of weeks will be my last!

[Slipe Lane]

Hi chaps, thought I'd drag up this old thread instead of starting a new one. Does anyone on here fish this complex? I'll be heading down over the winter for a crack, so wondering what the current state of the place is like. All I can find on the net is that it's very busy, full of rats, and people turding in their swims.........lovely!

From what I've read, Railway is the place to start, though it sounds like a right bun-fight for swims most of the time...is it the same in winter? Not sure I fancy being elbow-to-elbow with the masses.

 

Can't find much info anywhere about the carp in Marsh Pit, so was wondering if anyone here might know.

 

Cheers.

[Quiver tips and set-ups]

You wanna be using the 2.5oz tip mate if your using the method.But id seriously consider balancing your tackle out as 10lb line is too heavy for the type of rod uve got.If you get a caught in a bad snag then your quiver/rod is gunna snap before your hooklink does

 

As a man that has overcast in to many a snag, the best thing I can recommend to do is to point the rod directly towards the snag, tighten up the clutch and walk backwards keeping the rod in line until the hooklink or line breaks (or you pull in the tree your attached to). It should go at one of the knots, worse case at the reel, but your rod should stay in one piece.

 

Be careful of flying leads/feeders heading back your way though!

 

Wrap a towel or rag around your wrist and grab the line just beyond the rod tip, that way you avoid breaking off at the reel, the worst place it can go. When you do it this way you tend to break the mainline at the hooklink/mainline join

 

Even better! Can't believe I didn't think of doing that before.

 

Thanks.

[Quiver tips and set-ups]

You wanna be using the 2.5oz tip mate if your using the method.But id seriously consider balancing your tackle out as 10lb line is too heavy for the type of rod uve got.If you get a caught in a bad snag then your quiver/rod is gunna snap before your hooklink does

 

As a man that has overcast in to many a snag, the best thing I can recommend to do is to point the rod directly towards the snag, tighten up the clutch and walk backwards keeping the rod in line until the hooklink or line breaks (or you pull in the tree your attached to). It should go at one of the knots, worse case at the reel, but your rod should stay in one piece.

 

Be careful of flying leads/feeders heading back your way though!

[Honeys Green Caravan Park - Uckfield, East Sussex]

Hi, I caught my first carp from this place a few years ago!, and now a few of us go back on a yearly trip for a bit of nostalgia/boozing. It's only a small lake of about an acre, and the fish are not very big (biggest out I've seen about 9lb), but there's loads of them in there, and it's quite a pretty little lake.

Nice place to go to use some light tackle and catch 5lb common after 5lb common. We had 40 fish out over two day-sessions between 3 of us a couple of years ago.

The campsite is OK, fairly basic and a bit of a walk to the lake. No night fishing either I think, but it's always been very quiet when we've been, and the owners are friendly.

[Does anyone know any places in west sussex?]

Hi, well firstly....steer clear of the halibut pellets....the tench mug you without fail...early season sees them in the shallows right opposite the dam wall and also the hug the reed fringe in the "swimming pool"....also worth a try is the margin area just up from the sluice on the left....stay clear of the channel as bream will rape any baits going in....also...the do love fishy baits...as opposed to fruity based ones....my big results came off little baits popped up in a stack rig and fished over bags of boile crumb with "equine racing syrup" added to it...this is basically trigga ice glug...at a hundredth of the cost....hope this helps mate....any other questions shout up.....and yes...its a truly lovely water...i miss it on there

 

 

ps. forgot to say...the "swimming pool" is the area that curves off to the left as you look off the dam wall...had some good fish out of this spot with a stalking rod and fishing tight to the bushes on the left..about thirty yards out....silt is deepest here too so change your hooklength accordingly....also....never had a take on the hi viz baits...aside from coots and grebes but on a good day with a spot of sun you can watch them patrol down the reed fringe from the shallows...follow the corner into the swimming pool ...grub around the bushes and then head out into open water again..them polaroids are a must on balcombe...as you know...they dont crash very often if at all and very rarely break surface....if you get chance get right up into the last peg on the right.."fallen tree".....in the shallows...when they are spawning....will give your spirits a serious lift....some proper big old lunkers in there mate

 

keep your rigs simple but seriously well balanced as they are very riggy and i promise you you will of been mugged by them countless times already...and always check your hook on a recast...i was swapping out my rigs every cast...the bottom is seriously choddy in areas.....well any other questions shout up and will try to help...used to live about hundred metres up the lane on the way back into the village...the res is a seriously good water if you can stand having your head battered trying to locate them in 250 acres ...tight lines

 

Thanks for the in-depth reply mate, it's really appreciated.

I usually fish the swimming pool when it's available, though tend to fish over to the snags opposite (in to the reedy bay on the left as there seems to be an old weedbed over there, and over to the old staging), and not round the corner, so this could be worth a try. It's frustrating only having the bank on the right of the dam open for certain parts of the year as the shallows in that far corner are always appealing.

Was up there last year when they were spawning, and yes, at least it shows they are in there, even if they do go in to hiding after that!

Think I will tinker around with the rigs some more as it's interesting what you say about the possibility of being 'done'.

I've used fishy baits there lot's, in fact funnily enough I'm using Trigga Ice!.

A few visits ago a take on a double 18mm got the pulse racing at 3am, only to find out a 3lb bream was the culprit!

Interesting what you say about the channels as well, as most people have tended to say try and find them, but maybe more open water might be worth a try.

 

Thanks again, and I might pick your brain some more over the coming months!

 

P.S. Ardingley looks good, but I don't think I'm quite at that level yet. One day.

[Does anyone know any places in west sussex?]

try HHAC mate...they have a few on their ticket that are very nice waters...Slaugham, Balcombe....I was the bailiff for balcombe..a few years back...lovely quiet water with very few fishing it with some good fish in

 

Hi,

Don't suppose you have any tips for Balcombe do you? Been fishing it for just over a year, but only had one fish out (excluding lot's of tench & bream!)

 

They never seem to give themselves away, which makes locating them tricky to say the least.

 

Not complaining too much though as it's such a lovely place to fish.

 

Cheers.

[Noah's Arc, Buxted]

Anyone fished there before?, I'm going on a scouting mission next week, and then hopefully to fish it in a few weeks time. Was wondering if anyone had fished there before, as there seems to be hardly anything on the web about it.

 

Any good swims to look out for, baits to use, particular rules, how busy it gets, friendliness of staff/other anglers etc.

 

The only thing I have heard is that the fish tend to hang around in pairs.............

 

Cheers.

[simple rig set up]

I was under the impression that the length of tubing (usually 1 & half times the length of your hooklink) was simply to stop tangling and also to help sink the line, though I'm a newbie as well so might be wrong.

[Hooklink]

I did ask a similar question recently about braid/mono and got a good response, but nobody answered this part;

Most specialist hooklink materials I see are all of a fairly high breaking strain. Is it of upmost importance to have a hooklink that is of a lighter breaking strain than your mainline, or does it not matter as the knots are likely to give first?, I notice a lot of people seem to use the same strain of mono for both, and I was wondering if you could say, use a 10lb mono mainline, and 15lb braided hoolink material.

 

Thanks.

[Breaking strain/braid]

Many thanks for the in-depth replies, much appreciated.

[Breaking strain/braid]

https://forum.carp.com/carp-forum/viewtopic.php?t=25114&start=0&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=sinking+braid

have a look here but in all honesty do you need to use it? some waters have banned braid and if your new to carping it can be a bit hairy when you hook into a better fish due to the lack of stretch

 

That's what I'm asking really, the 'do I need to use it?'. I think I know the answer already and will stick with the mono to mono for now. All these books, videos etc don't half complicate matters though.

 

Cheers.

[Breaking strain/braid]

A couple of novice questions from a novice angler....

 

 

 

1. Is braid only available in high breaking strains (10lb plus?), and if so, why?

 

 

2. Is mono stronger than braid?; i.e.if I tied a hooklink of 10lb braid to 8lb mono mainline, which would be first to give?

 

Just wondering really, as most fishing tips tend to lean towards having a braided hooklength for presentaion, camouflage etc.

But I only really like using nothing heavier than 8lb/10lb mono mainline. You also don't seem to be able to buy any ready tied hair rigs in braid below about 15lb breaking strain (if someone knows of somewhere, let me know)

 

Or is it all rubbish and I should just stick to a hair rig of mono thats slightly less breaking strain to the mainline mono?

 

Any advice would be appreciated.

 

Cheers.