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There was a low 20 in a little complex I was a member of,it was the biggest in the lake ..sadly  it got dropped and landed side on ,on  a scaffold pole, on a bordered a bark swim ..we all thought it was going to die ,injuries were awful ..but on advice it was put in a salt bath and survived and grew ..
The amount of Carp I've caught with predation damage is unreal ,and yet as long as the fish actually survives ,regeneration can occur ..here a pic of my first fish from a little water   ,its clearly been munched at some point ,and has started to grow back..
 
I guess I'm trying to say carp are proper tough creatures.
 

Thanks very much for all your answers , and I must change my fish care procedures .
I started to read Yonny's 1st. post , and I thought " he's going to mention sealing nasties in " - oh poo I've been using MCP's Propolis .
So reading all the replies I'll go back to my Gardner Intensive Care which is a few years old . I've also got some Kryston Klinik which is even older .
Also I'll stick to treating just wounds where the flesh is broken and there is bleeding .
😃

Quick 3hr session this afternoon produced this nice common 

I don't ever want a repeat of yesterday.
A friends lake, troubled with 2 large fallen trees, excessive Canadian and pond weed, lack of any rain (which usually helps keep good water quality).
8 gone, between 15-30lb.
Sad day

Yeah tried that looked great but no bites, also tried real snail meat popped up inside a real snail shell - looked MEGA - no bites! 🤣
I do think anything like that will work and well - my attempts were just wrong time and place.  I like the idea of small deadbaits tbh for the busy waters that see it all I will be trying that at some point, the dog has dried sprats that look good and I have a big bag of small roach in the freezer.
I'm changing my approach for a while from tonight - back to pop-ups and sticking baits out (small amount), think it is the baiting that is wrong not the rig - fishing for single passing fish not big groups the baiting is just too much.
 

" but I love it thankfully.  Lots to keep you busy 👍
Do it while you're able to hey - to the max " .
Well that says it all , Kev. , as long as you are enjoying yourself .
Some  of the lakes I fish have a number of swan mussel shells about , and I remember about 50 odd years ago chunks of swan mussel on a big hook were used . I wonder if that would work ? .
😃 

They feel like a miracle at the mo tbh too few and far between, must do better, 2nd proper season fishing just this lake, 4th year on the complex and still dont know where they go overnight and indeed whether they feed at night with the weed growth?  I have seen some dawn showing but when you move onto it the next day and next trip not a sausage showing, no pattern other than the assumption they're doing laps through the day.  Few sessions ago a few of us had 4 hours of showing fish over our traps and no bites whatsoever, so bizarre - never happened since - like what?!?!  Where they eating naturals that were on the baited patches?
I know exactly when and where the 2 main targets get caught from in spring (ones now dead) but the behaviours outside of that are a mystery and noone has really sussed it - certainly testing me to the limit but I love it thankfully.  Lots to keep you busy 👍
Do it while you're able to hey - to the max, one lap exceeds my daily step target so small wins! 💪🤣

Ah , all this forward planning must give your captures extra pleasure 😀 .

Iv had a run in with a deliver bike he must have been going 20mph he skidded to a stop and we both went down, sadly I lost my balance as I got up and stood on his front wheel damaging the spokes then would you believe it trying to untangle my foot I stepped on the back wheel 🫢

Finally got out and caught one this weekend. Got to the lake Saturday lunchtime to find only one other on. Had a look around in the island half of the lake and as usual found a few mooching about. It was really weedy everywhere so I continued walking, looking at the bigger end of the lake I just thought it looked good, whilst it was still very weedy.
I got the plumbing rod out to look for a spot I used to know. It still existed a bit but was a lot smaller. Did quite a lot of leading about and didn't find a lot else so raked a spot close in for a 3rd rod, one mountain of weed later it was done, flicked in a load of pellets to let the Rudd go to work, I stuck a rig on it straight away but a couple of hours and it had stunk out my pineapple pop up. Continued baiting it and left it for the morning.
2 rods went out to the bank of pads and weed onto a plateau baited with a good few spombs of boilie and pellet mix and just chucked the 3rd onto another clear spot I had found in the other side margin.
 
Nothing much happened until I was asleep and about 2am I had a series of beeps and line was being taken so I hit it and instantly it was weeded up, it came in like a big ball of weed for a while when it got free of that went nuts and found another weedbed, this continued for a while and I just kept trying to gain line, until it got to the weed In front of the swim I tried and failed to get it round the side and it locked me up solid. In the end my only hope was putting the rod down. Luckily after a vape I picked it up and it came free I ended up landing it and a free ball of weed. 
Couldn't find my tripod, or water bucket, and my intervalometer batteries were dead so had to find some more of those. Luckily I could use a picnic bench that was in the swim as a tripod. Not the greatest photo but at 3am it was the best I could manage. 

31lb 3oz of hard earnt carp. I also lost one to my line parting (happened straight away off a drop back) , caught a massive rudd on a size 4 pop up I had a couple of what I thought were liners because my raked spot was fizzing, sadly no takes because of the Rudd, and I also had a pretty big tench with weed ball also on a pop up.bith slipped back because I needed a nap, The trig hammer XT got a big test and passed with flying colours. 
I had a little nap and came home a happy but tired and achey man. 
These were the biscuit of the week in my world, they came alive when you dunked them. And pink what's not to love. 

 

I use these for my caravan awning. I bought them from Aldi £10 for 10 you get the the drill attachment with them. It’s a lot quicker and less noisy than hammering pegs in.

Yes mate, you have to ring a bailliff for assistance.  It's usually locked up so was prepared to take the risk if needed.
Moved swims for my last night where I wanted to be, if anything just to bait up ready for the weather next weekend 👍

Hi Kev. Is the boat just for the bailiffs use for lake maintenance , and when anyone gets weeded up ? .

Couldn't get the swim I wanted, busy bank holiday weekend, hopefully bait it when he's gone.
Done a bit of cutting back as usual and this swim will certainly do for now ❤️

View left side of the swim Sunday morning, glad I opened it up 👌

I agree, everyone should have a dog full stop - brilliant little mates to have around 👍

Great shot. If you look closely at his eyes you can tell he thinks he's spotted one 😅

Jack probably has spotted one , which is more than Kev. does 😁 .

Jack probably has spotted one , which is more than Kev. does 😁 .

What a fishing buddy , every angler should have a Jack 😀 .

He's great lol
Follows me up trees - out over the water and everything, then remembers every climbing tree and looking spot on our laps and pulls me towards them. he also thinks every car in the world is mine and tries to get in each to go home lol
Not as interested in the waterfowl as George was but still barks if someone goes past or enters the swim 👍

Jack looking fab, Waterside Fishery, back in spring - keeping an eye on the snags for me ❤️

Oh grief!
I am so wound up. My father is 84, and has dementia so my brother and I split visits with him a few times a week each as he is still independent and living on his own.
Today was my day, and I had to be there from 10am until his normal medication delivery arrived, but immediately after had to go pick up his antibiotics prescription from Boots and do him some shopping, which involved a trip into town.
So one of the 'homeless' trying to 'help' at the car park ticket machine, in other words beg.
This idiot chose to give me verbals in Ipswich town centre, and then decided to try to push me when I refused his assistance as I paid on my card. I put him down and left him tangled up in the post at the car park. Got back to my car and he was taking photos of my car.
He then tried to carry on with the mouth and wanting to fight. I just picked his bike up and moved it and him out of the way.
You can see what happened to his trousers when I left him attached to the post by the waistband

I waited until dark to avoid the children, paddle boarders and kayakers on the River Wensum.
4½lb chub on half a cocktail sausage, size 10 Solar Tackle 101 hook.

I am absolutely shattered today, and my right knee and hip are agony.
Yesterday was a busy day, from Ipswich to collect Bruce Lait and take him to the airport at 2.30am. Back home grab a couple of hours sleep and then go collect my son Levi from Basildon and back to Ipswich via Poplar Nursery at Marks Tey for coffee and a doughnut. Definitely a cafe/restaurant worth a visit.