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No Happy Meals for your kids then , Elmo ? .
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Exactly mate.
If I do see feeding fish on my visits I'll have the rods in the car ready.

They seem to have gone back on the deal mate.
And even if they let us we have already cut out the places that we are able to.
Would need a digger and a lot of hard work to make swims anywhere else where it is so overgrown.
It's hard enough in the summer so reckon it's just a waste of time in the winter.
Just gonna keep priming spots for next year.

David, Alan tells me that Kites and Buzzards follow different feeding regimes so, theoretically, should flourish in equal, but different, measure.
Ian.

There's Buzzards where I fish in Suffolk , Welder , they always circle high in the sky with a very distinctive call ; only trouble is I need a proper camera , rather than my 'phone , set up on a tripod ready to roll - the Buzzards don't hang around very long .
Don't get me started on the Kingfishers , stand still , dam it !  , although they're beautiful in flight .

It has been a very healthy year weather wise. No mental heat waves has meant the carp have continued to feed throughout the entire summer and this is reflected in fish weights. All over the country fish are coming out at top weights, MASSIVE weights. It's also done the environment the world of good. The grass is green and the water is clear, unlike last year when the grass was brown and the water was pea green!

Hi myself and 3 mates turned up on Marios lake at 6:30 Saturday morning. we had no problems getting a swim each, the lake looked lovely and we couldn't wait to get set up, we all fished 2 rods but unfortunately none of us had so much as a nudge all day. we also fished Sunday until 7pm with the same result not a damn bleep,,, all 8 alarms were silent !!   from my swim I could see around 6 other swims and no one had any action at all over the two days,  obviously I'm not totally condemning this lake as I know to little about it and I'm sure there as been some great days on it BUT I was told on the Friday it was fishing really well and we would all be landing decent fish so like some of the other guys on here we were all very excited to get there, we had a 2 hour drive,  very disappointed and will not go there again, 
 

Good grafting! Not just about sitting behind some buzzers half a sleep as some would lead you to think... 😀💪

Upper 40 common in the sling looks over 45 ..... pb common . Absolutely buzzing what a scrap ! 
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Will get it weighed in a bit 😎

So does this mean you're going to get Ziggy , Chill ? .
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So does this mean you're going to get Ziggy , Chill ? .
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What he said !!!! 
Go get em,mate. 😬😎🎣

With a life jacket on , pls. ? .
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I know the feeling mate.
Was doing a night at my dad's caravan sat night and had a screamer at 2 am.
Something didn't feel right during the fight and when I got it close I realised there was a group of mussels the size of a football attached to the line.
Had about 3 foot of tubing on and it was an inch above the tubing.
Managed to get what looked at least a mid 20 mirror over the net and then ping.
Didn't get the net up quick enough to trap the fish but was close enough for the lead to land in the net.
 
 

Still trying to work this lake out .... I did the first 24hrs of fishing from the chalet as the wind was pushing down that end & Dave had first pick & quite rightly set up where a few were showing further up the lake . I know I've only been fishing really for 24 hrs but just not feeling it . It's screaming out to fish tgat end because of the wind but there absolutely nothing showing . With the couple of days being here it would appear that night time is when they give them selves up.  So spent the day out in the boat finding harder spots in amougst the silt further up the lake where I heard a few crash out last night.  All set know & just hoping moving off my bait & starting a fresh so early in the session will pay off . I've still got a visual on my original spots so in effect I'm still fishing them (if you get what I mean ). The winds still pushing nicely down there , so they might turn up . 
Dave had a nice grassie in the night so we are off the mark as a pair.  

Can I suggest you watch Julian Cundiff multi-rig on YouTube........ all will be explained if your thinking of using the multi 😉😬

You can but imo it's still not wholly effective. It's a pop up rig mate.
A wafter will work much better on a multi imo.

Imo the ronnie is no good for bottom baits. It's too heavy to be taken correctly, you need the pop up to take the weight out of it.
Smaller hooks on ronnies is a no-no imo. They lead to inconsistent hook holds. Bigger hooks work much, much better in my experience.

Hope you've had a good sleep - did you put your bivvy up , or is their a lodge of some kind for the weary traveller to crash out in ? .
When the guys on the forum describe arriving at their lake after dark , finding the fish , casting out baiting up , bivvy up and finally getting to eat when I would have been asleep for an hour , well hats off to them I would have cast 2 rods into trees and had a massive hissy fit ! .
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Words from my mouth! I've done France many times, often after travelling well into the night. My list of priorities upon arrival:
Erect bivvy.
Install bedchair , sleeping bag and/or peachskin.
Get onto bedchair.
Sleep. Like a log. Several logs if necessary.
 
Ian.

A good tactic to use on lakes stocked with smaller carp is the method feeder fished with a short supple braid of about 3 inches and a piece of plastic buoyant corn. 

Well spotted good advice, I think your bait /hook combination is perhaps too big something seems to be stopping it going in far eniugh, I would maybe try 15mm with a size 6 and maybe with a longer rig of 7/8 inches and see what happens with that 

are you casting long distance? If not I’d lower the weight of your lead to 1 oz maybe 1.5. Also use a smaller hook, size 6 maybe if your fishing for 5-10 lb fish.

Hope you've had a good sleep - did you put your bivvy up , or is their a lodge of some kind for the weary traveller to crash out in ? .
When the guys on the forum describe arriving at their lake after dark , finding the fish , casting out baiting up , bivvy up and finally getting to eat when I would have been asleep for an hour , well hats off to them I would have cast 2 rods into trees and had a massive hissy fit ! .
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Hope you've had a good sleep - did you put your bivvy up , or is their a lodge of some kind for the weary traveller to crash out in ? .
When the guys on the forum describe arriving at their lake after dark , finding the fish , casting out baiting up , bivvy up and finally getting to eat when I would have been asleep for an hour , well hats off to them I would have cast 2 rods into trees and had a massive hissy fit ! .
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