theobeeus

amazing river quite possibly best coarse fishing river in England too, massive perch, great pike, amazing barbel, all sorts

No but please let us know what it's like as I have a feeling it will be better than the handful of high profile carp books I read that I thought were all rubbish and have put me off carp literature quite a bit to be honest

I can sort of see your point, but leadcore doesn't lift scales, and barbless hooks are far more damaging than microbarbed, and carp do not suffocate out of water for a good few hours.. Hopefully most people are are very carefully playing fish, landing them and treating them right o the bank, and weighing, photographing and returning them with less than 3+ hours faffing, and also keeping an eye out for bad anglers, otters, gill nets, long lines, litter and pollution and providing carp with a valuable food source while they're at it. In short, bad fishing is most definitely worse than safER fishing, which is the point of the thread.

Still you would be better off with a proper snag safe bore ring/link than just a swivel hanging on the line. Like I said Enterprise do good ones. Also you would probably like the Angletec system. It is very clever, I bought a whole load of them. I don't use em as I prefer helicopter rigs at the moment, but will I'm sure switch one day: http://www.angletec.co.uk/dynamic-lead-system.html

Enterprise snag safes all the way Cut those horrible lead swivels off with pliers I do it all the time

If you want fully anti tangle mate, ditch the anti tangle sleeve and the massive blob of putty and slide a pva bag down the hooklink with the hook embedded in it, use a wafter instead of a pop up, and while you're at it ditch that horrible curve shank hook because they cause mouth damage

I had dreadful problems with 8lb double strength and found it to be the worst material I have ever used, snapping at a measured 3-4lbs

thanks for that I was just giving an opinion post reported

When was the last time you put a few of your beloved nuggets in a water tank mate? Reeling in to find snotty white residue all over your hookpoint, as well as seeing, every day I went past my tank the same expensive 'premium brand' nuggets floating there after several weeks kinda put me off the things a bit somehow

In my experience you have to do your own digging mate. Just being honest here but nobody knows what level your carp fishing is at or anything so they are not going to throw venues at you just like that. there are hundreds of different types of venues everywhere that suit an individuals level, what they want, what kind of skills and tackle they have etc. etc. etc. I worked out exactly what I wanted: good value fishing, good chance of getting takes with a possible twenty or thirty when I got to know the water well, small water, beautiful venue, and not too hard, I also believe strongly in trying to 'crack' one venue at a time rather than drifting around to all sorts of places getting a bit despondent cos u don't know the place well enough to catch em That suited perfectly my style and level of angling.. I don't take it too seriously and am more of a pleasure carper.. I still enjoy it fiercely though mind Settle in a bit, relax, and start patronising a local tackle shop and fishing the easiest to find local dayticket. Things will just pan out naturally. It took me years to find my club water as it is a bit secretive.. no wonder as it is an absolute jewel and incredibly good value. just take it slowly and keep your ear to the ground mate good luck

You haven't seen my club lake.. Besides, syndicates are ridiculously expensive (way beyond my reach), and often very stuffy and cliquey full of intolerably arrogant twits frankly.

I feel pretty confident I fish the best club lake in the UK! Seriously though I know I could never even begin to verify that in any way as there are thousands, the point is that it is such a cracking venue, beautiful, wild, exceptionally well run, full of mystery and big fish that I cannot imagine why anybody would want to spend vast fortunes fishing only dayticket venues. I spend in a YEAR what a dayticket would cost to fish for 2.5 nights!!!!!!!!! How absurd is that???? AND it is BETTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! JOIN A CLUB!!!

Not quite sure what you are asking mate but as regards bait I always tell people that there is a whole world out there beyond boilies if you use your imagination

Onions mate. I have pet onions.

I have bailiffing experience on French lakes that went very well indeed, am an exceptionally good cook and professional chef, have a great attitude and thorough passion for and good experience in carp fishing, as well as great conscientiousness, and the 'common touch'. I might be interested in talking to you about a position. Please PM me if you want to discuss things further mate.