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I know mate obviously good and bad trips and area specific but when it's on it's on!  Can see me doing another trip or two at some point.  He was freelining from up a tree pulling the bait away from what he thought were 40s and 50s because there was one giant lurking at the back.  4 days later he finally allowed the biggest fish on the spot at the time to take it and it went 66lb and he thought that was a 50 at the most at the time, so what he'd been pulling the bait away from all week who knows, but the lure of that possible 80 at the back kind of forced him to refuse the others.  Was up a tree all day like 10 hours in the rain, wasn't pretty but exciting he wouldn't come down, I did find the spot as well it was mega!
Over a day a fairly small group would get through a full bucket 1ft from the edge, wish we had a go-pro.

I can remember when Taverham Mills was sold, a 25acre lake, stretch of river, a house and I think another 20acres of land.  The Carp Society put in a bid, but were outbid by Anglian Water with a bid for £1,000,000. Anglian Water managed to fence the lake trapping otters inside the fence.
What irritated me is I had built the fence around the roadside and the woods at the back when I ran it and had no problems. Anglian Water ripped the fence down to rebuild it leaving it down for weeks, allowing otters to get in. Those same otters were getting the barbel and carp in the river before they got into the lake, so AW would have known otters were in the area.

When I was 19 a v large water near me came up for sale at 40k.
I pleaded with the bank to lend me the money and of course they just laughed at me. Ten years later it was sold again for more than a million.
I still haven't forgiven the bank 🤣

I know one venue that's up for sale for less than £300,000

Even if we did save the cash and became millionaires, what would the first thing we would buy?? 
 
a carp lake… you know it makes sense! 

Don’t forget the carp anglers prayer… 
 
“dear lord, when I die, please don’t let the wife sell my carp gear for the price i told her I paid for it” 

A granddaughter who pinched and ate a couple of chunks of luncheon meat dusted in turmeric and garam masala... 
 
Bromeswell is on a few estate agents and as much as I would love it...

Sorry , Nick , that was clumsy of me . I just wanted you to have some " Nick time " so your head didn't explode .
I should have remembered how important hospital visits are from when I was in hospital , and my Wife visited me .
All the very best .

A 29lb 5oz mirror on Friday evening. I had 3 rods about a rod length from an island but saw 3 shows really close and so lengthened the cast to a really shallow spot. Did a 54 hour stint and that was it and didn't hear of any other fish coming out. Strange as Saturday conditions were perfect as the temperature rose a bit and a pretty strong Southerly wind picked up and chopped up the water. 

My son has been trying to catch a carp from the park lake for 11 months. (Doesn’t help it’s a tricky water, he’s only been able to do weekend days, taking whatever swim is left and to top it off, I had the 3 out the other night while he blanked)
 
Today he finally had the bite he’s been dreaming of all this time that photo says it all I think… 
18lb 8oz (whilst wearing my lucky fox hoodie…) 
caught on a home made premier superaminos boilie with shellfish sense appeals and belachan. Freebies were 12millers that I rolled. My little girl rolled some 25-30mil baits from the scrap ends, he caught it on one of those! 
 
buzzing, when it hit the net, we both screamed for joy! That’s what this game is all about, that buzz 

Sacked off an overnighter with my youngest, we didn't fancy packing up in the rain.
Went to a little farm lake instead for a few little ones.
He caught his new pb log.

Did a quick overnighter on the park lake last night as my current seasons tally stands at: 
nights fished: 1 
days fished: 2 
carp: 0 
I’m still sat under the oval winding down the last few hours of the session. September being my favourite month for carping, l felt o needed to get on the score board for this season. 
This one went 23lb 

34lb 10oz mirror 

Hopefully my dad should be going back to the community hospital for rehabilitation tomorrow. He has managed to get around using a walking frame with the physio.

As I put the last post in the wrong section have a recent rod shot - changes afoot for those with a sharp eye! 👀 Tarty!

Snide rod in the boat??? 😎

the boys rods out on the spots 

Little intimate water I found recently,Tranny and 2+1...

I really don't know where to start!
It's been a difficult few weeks with my dad in hospital since a fall at his flat in August. Just when we thought he was recovering, he had a chest infection turn into pneumonia while in the rehab community hospital at Aldeburgh, so got rushed back to Ipswich Hospital A&E on Saturday night, where he has been ever since.
Back in August I made a long Facebook post https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1JEEY9X2sB/ 

Sorry to hear that @salokcinnodrog. I hope he pulls through.
Those waits @ A&E you refer to in your FB post are horrendous. A very close friend of mine had a stroke last week. He was taken to hospital and dumped in A&E for 12 hours before receiving any treatment. It's completely unacceptable.

Thought we were in for some bites over the weekend with some favourable conditions at last.  Only fish seen were in a section with no swims between points - absolutely choked with weed.
Plotted up nearby in whats become the usual swims for a little while now - 6 weekends.
Changed back to pop-ups but rained the baiting right back to just a few boilies with the catapult.
10pm a decent one clatters out in my water, we both hear it and think game on.  But as usual that was all the activity all weekend, what a kick in the nuts!
Think the fish was just telling us he was off somewhere 🤣
Plus points - bivvy pegs are good and seen dear on the island again - sorry for the phone pic.

Conditions were next level by me last night.... had me standing by the window wishing I was on the bank!

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