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At 11pm, as I had the carp stacked up on my side of the swim, with my boy not having a bleep for several hours, I switched swims with him, moving all his gear into my going swim and all my gear into his quiet swim. He put his rods out over the spots I was catching from and he promptly had a screamer which resulted in a 21lb 2oz common, a mighty fine carp for this pond. E185C7F8-4DCE-404E-9B19-526C230F6868.thumb.jpeg.f4c5feb57f9a41abb731a41166ce6885.jpegwe had one more each before it was time to wrap up and head home.C5367831-9F3D-4527-ADE4-061FBE6F0ADD.thumb.jpeg.ad9c1b7ad512baa228c9376758e4714f.jpeg4649EE54-B4B9-4D1B-AB1C-F790E8C76A11.thumb.jpeg.b4eca5882df58bbf39147ddae078506d.jpeg

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27 minutes ago, ouchthathurt said:

At 11pm, as I had the carp stacked up on my side of the swim, with my boy not having a bleep for several hours, I switched swims with him, moving all his gear into my going swim and all my gear into his quiet swim. He put his rods out over the spots I was catching from and he promptly had a screamer which resulted in a 21lb 2oz common, a mighty fine carp for this pond. E185C7F8-4DCE-404E-9B19-526C230F6868.thumb.jpeg.f4c5feb57f9a41abb731a41166ce6885.jpegwe had one more each before it was time to wrap up and head home.C5367831-9F3D-4527-ADE4-061FBE6F0ADD.thumb.jpeg.ad9c1b7ad512baa228c9376758e4714f.jpeg4649EE54-B4B9-4D1B-AB1C-F790E8C76A11.thumb.jpeg.b4eca5882df58bbf39147ddae078506d.jpeg

You ain't kidding you were kept busy, great session 👍

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An afternoon at the lake and a better fish to show for it. Alas, no pictures, but I did get a short video in the net - https://photos.app.goo.gl/XjBjMgxd3YiJ3uhR9

The fish wrapped up solid in weed, so I set the rod down until he kicked free. He came in with a cowl of Canadian, and plenty of energy left! So much he was thrashing about and I had to pop him back for fear of harm.

Pva bag with groundbait, mixed pellets doused in fish hydro, and a home rolled Infrared fishmeal boilie. The scent when rolled reminds me of Activ-8.

The scales gave me 18lb 9oz. 🎣😁

 

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In other news our other local lake, the bigger if the two, had a fish out at 47lbs last week! I was told by two separate, and reliable people.

It's entirely possible that one of the two forties in the lake will break the magical 50lbs this year.

Obviously I am now on a mission! This lake has always been my nemesis, having yet to give me a single fish as yet. No small task then. Nonetheless, roll on Saturday 🎣🎣

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20 hours ago, dalej2014 said:

In other news our other local lake, the bigger if the two, had a fish out at 47lbs last week! I was told by two separate, and reliable people.

It's entirely possible that one of the two forties in the lake will break the magical 50lbs this year.

Obviously I am now on a mission! This lake has always been my nemesis, having yet to give me a single fish as yet. No small task then. Nonetheless, roll on Saturday 🎣🎣

A 50lb Carp in Suffolk ! 

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2 minutes ago, B B said:

Why is it that when you use a barbless hook the fish sometimes drops it and when they don’t it’s easy to remove it… but iv been trying for hours and can’t get the hook out  🙄

 

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You might have to cut the skin over the bit of hook, harsh but should work....

Looks like a Hali Hamidi River Po scenario. 

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8 minutes ago, Highy said:

You might have to cut the skin over the bit of hook, harsh but should work....

Looks like a Hali Hamidi River Po scenario. 

I could do with the SAS guy that helped him… now’s where did I put the Stanley knife 🤔

Best of luck for your trip Highy 🤞

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12 minutes ago, B B said:

I could do with the SAS guy that helped him… now’s where did I put the Stanley knife 🤔

Best of luck for your trip Highy 🤞

That's what I'd do, little knick, plater on, job done....rod back out, then worry......no seriously, make sure its cleaned afterwards.

Cheers pal, just doing a few home tasks now, gear out into car, then be on way about 12ish.

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9 hours ago, commonly said:

I got my wish

Have you got pliers or snips BB? Try & cut the hook in half

I ended up cutting the hook with pliers which was difficult as I’m right handed then threaded it back through the finger. I asked a couple of the lads if they would snip the hook but they didn’t have the stomach for it.  🤢

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Posts will be bit by bit I’m afraid… 

rods out on the first night. My new 9ft Kodex “stalkys” Txi 2.75lb getting a flex. AED3E908-34E6-4188-A126-BD52372595D4.thumb.jpeg.10fcee7b1bd945488e9215eb249f2698.jpeg

rigs were simple 1oz running rigs with 4” 12lb fluro hooklinks with braided hairs on size 10 nash hooks, (those weird short shanked hexagonal looking ones, I can’t remember their name!) 

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first fish soon popped up to a 12mm bottom bait with 7 bait stringer. Me and the boys posing with carp number one. 
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this was carp number 2 as the sun set behind me (poor photography! Apologies!) C86A8417-285F-4D1F-9E82-CC5B5E69BD63.thumb.jpeg.ba28fd9420886d1a48c10641a4dc0bbd.jpeg

carp number 3. Not bad for a few hours on arrival. 

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My son was float fishing beside me but was having no joy, so I said he could hit the next run as they were coming at a rate of one every 10mins or so. When it screamed off, he went to action E6AC5B43-23DD-4E81-9E15-797FDD3C6A39.thumb.jpeg.6302fe61d5c2be50e75291bc13c14eb6.jpeg

landing the first mirror of the trip, a proper prehistoric looking thing! The “mirror” issue became more pronounced as the days went on… 

next morning I woke up at 5am and headed to the swim, I had 3 small commons that went back unphotographed then my son arrived wanting to fish. So he plonked beside me with his float rod. As I was setting up his rod and plumbing the depth, a rod screamed off - I told my boy to hit it, which he did… 7E5F0BB9-7559-43FF-BF20-F13C0778CE9D.thumb.jpeg.1a2458a555e25b296aa2a8c4b508d952.jpeg

another mirror! 
he wanted his carp rods setting up now, so he ran back to the tent to grab his carp rods. I moved my rods over so he could cast to my going spots and he promptly landed another mirror. FC0A91A9-3687-4501-832D-575087E2A886.thumb.jpeg.7afe07b5d8644ffc48b2da76df93d712.jpeg

I wanted a mirror yet all I was getting were commons. 61DAF154-893A-4FDE-BF8B-A12962890707.thumb.jpeg.66d06ceb45e5e0e7c671835ebf3eb12a.jpeg5DD25EED-826A-40C1-ACE5-5E68C00D0427.thumb.jpeg.accbb6e3463837813b4147b94633b4b4.jpeg

We then headed off to Shrewsbury for the day and on the evening we gathered at the lake for a final few hours. Now armed with maggots, my boy got going with the float rod while waiting for his (and my) carp rods to rattle off. 

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I had a few more commons and both boys had one on at the same time DB6E07EF-5317-461B-B9CD-EDC766346CA5.thumb.jpeg.5fbd6aea428c8527610e11f16bc78f91.jpeg

even wifey got in on the action E1A67D2F-5EBE-47D3-AF0C-4691DF185885.thumb.jpeg.fede5fd76c522f2634253b4c8c299e4e.jpeg

as it got dark, I had finally done a bucket of pellet and several kg of boilie, so I started to pack away in the dark. My boy had one more carp on his “big rods” BC282377-3097-4CBF-9159-B6943B34AC54.thumb.jpeg.8d787c11d8cb8cd3821aa94fc624789b.jpeg

he continued to fish with the float rod while I packed everything else away ready for the early morning run to wales the net morning. My boy was mocking me for having caught all the mirror carp to my none! I told him to bring the float rod in now as it was dark and time for bed but he wanted one more fish to end on a high, 5mins later his night night topped waggler dipped and he was in…

you guessed it…

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a mirror!  

 

 

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