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Decided to try and fish one of the new lakes on the complex this year, first time out had a walk round and found the motherload of the fish all tucked away and chilling had to barrow through a swamp and lots of flooded pathways but when my rod ripped off this morning I knew it was worth it, what I realised pretty quickly though was it felt pretty heavy, when I saw it I knew it was quite heavy, I chucked my other rod in the reeds and made sure I wasn't going to lose it by playing it as delicately as I could, I needn't have worried it was nailed on the ever faithful spinner rig, as I sit here contemplating what just happened I've realised I still haven't had a proper cuppa yet today so kettle on and chill time. 31lb not bad for a first night on a new lake 😊

Great result Elmo !  A 30 nice 👍…how long you got left to fish ? 

I'm on borrowed time but I'm only just having breakfast and it is nearly my birthday so a couple more hours at least I think 😂

What gem mate.
Sounds like like it was well earned.
Happy days👍👍👍

Yeah mate it's like grass 🤣 I'm thinking of moving my baits to the edge of it, I didn't have anything last night but they were jumping close in and I reckon they getting amongst it 🧐
Lovely morning tho 👌
 

So the rods are put

I'm fishing off the bottom of a slope, roughly 15ft in depth 14 wraps out. 20 spombs of tigers/hemp/flaked maize.
So the traps are set, rods been out for about 6 hours. The fish have just started showing in front of me but like 5 or so wraps off where my hookbaits are.
Now deciding whether to wait it out and hope they move out towards my baits or put a rod on them 🤦‍♂️anyway its good to be back on the bank🤣

Had a couple of nights on the res.
No fish, again. 🥺
Always nice to get out, even when the bivvy decided it was going to leave without me, a few times in the wind this morning😳

Unexpected 48. Mrs said as long as oi take my 11 year old. He's loving spombing out the bait. Happy days
 

Back on the res helping with the carp removal 👍it's full at the moment so will be cool to check the depths etc.
I believe it goes down to 130ft and some old building out there.
But yeah just set everything up only to realise I've left the spomb in the car 🤣🤣

Worked for you last social bud. Pulled a stunner! 🎣😉

Some of my tackle is still muddy from that adventure 😳

Just doused this on my boilies, splash of brut and I'll be right on the dance floor later. 
 

Hopefully fish can't help acting on it! 🎣🤣

You mean to tell me that Olivia doesn't actually want me to go over to her place and check out her plumbing?

Hey all, I'm Dan from South Wales and started fishing roughly 3 years ago. Wish I had gotten into fishing a lot sooner. My current PB for carp is 14 lbs and hoping to hit the 20 lbs mark this summer.

Renewal of res ticket. 
Gone up £40??? For what??
 I'm not too sure I'm getting my moneys worth.
However, after visiting a commercial day ticket recently, I feel very lucky to fish there and have all the space I could ever want😊 
Now, I just need the time to put in a bit of effort and find the fish

For all the members that have difficulty owning up to tackle purchases to their better half’s here’s a trick I came across …but be warned tho if you get greedy and abuse the said trick you could end up permanently damaged …
 
 

Renewal of res ticket. 
Gone up £40??? For what??
 I'm not too sure I'm getting my moneys worth.
However, after visiting a commercial day ticket recently, I feel very lucky to fish there and have all the space I could ever want😊 
Now, I just need the time to put in a bit of effort and find the fish

Renewal of res ticket. 
Gone up £40??? For what??
 I'm not too sure I'm getting my moneys worth.
However, after visiting a commercial day ticket recently, I feel very lucky to fish there and have all the space I could ever want😊 
Now, I just need the time to put in a bit of effort and find the fish

Renewal of res ticket. 
Gone up £40??? For what??
 I'm not too sure I'm getting my moneys worth.
However, after visiting a commercial day ticket recently, I feel very lucky to fish there and have all the space I could ever want😊 
Now, I just need the time to put in a bit of effort and find the fish

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Hi I’m Jay from kent and getting back into carp fishing after 3 1/2 years out 

Thanks guy, I was fishing with a snowman 20mm bottom and 15mm top(foam inside to help balance the bait) that's why I'm thinking of going double 24mm
I've already stopped with particles, crush and other small freebies. They've found the PVA bags no problem. I've had the things in all over the lake.

As Nick rightly says, there is no rig that is bream proof.
That said, I can honestly say that I've never caught a bream on a chod rig, tench yes but not bream. Obviously not saying you won't catch bream on them but for some reason I never did and I used them a lot and on waters that held large shoals of big bream . 
Also as has been said above, what you feed and how will determine if bream become a pain. I know a few angler's that only use 22mm / 24mm baits and hardly if ever get bream problems.  

I think that there is no such thing as a bream proof rig, but how you feed can be the trigger.
Small silver fish and bream are attracted to heavy baiting, especially with particles, pellets and groundbait. The more you bait the more interested they are.
Bream tend to be vacuum feeders, they get onto food and they clear it up, and that includes the hookbait, no matter how it's fished, bottom baits and low lying pop-ups are especially vulnerable.
To avoid them feed less, or try boilies only.
Don't put any free bait in, and fish just PVA bags or stringers, or fish boilies where although you may put 100 (example) in, they are not so close to invite or become a feeding trigger.
The other thing is bream tend to avoid the margins, preferring to feed out in the main lake. They can have particular patrol routes!
Now saying that, I used to fish Ardleigh reservoir and you could catch bream and then the carp would come before the bream pushed them out again. I caught both bream and carp on baited spots, yet on Alton, I never caught a bream despite using loads of particles.
My rigs on Ardleigh and Alton were simply line aligned knotless knotted  snowman baits on braid rigs, nothing special.