[How much gear to take]

Just had another thought, I forgot the amount of extra kit we bring these days for fish safety that I never used to have when I fished as a kid.

 

Care for our catch's is much better these days and I often bring 2 landing nets with me when fishing. One standard one for my general fishing, plus a large Carp net just in case I catch a monster. Add to this the unhooking mats, Carp care kit, weighing sling and things start to snow ball

 

 

That is a very good point about the fish care too often I see people not using a landing net to land

 

big fish, but the thing that makes me mad is on a hot day keeping fish in the keep net in water

 

that is too shallow for too long

[Thunder]

Strike a light ! Not many people can casually say they had a few roach over 2lbs! Out of interest was it loch or river?

 

 

 

 

We had a talk about this in a thread last year i think you or someone asked what a loch was ( Its was loch Fergus) in Ayrshire

 

David

[Sea trout]

Sea Trout can have sea lice when first up from the sea. Brown Trout can have freshwater leeches [like lice] but they are different from sea lice which can't live in freshwater.

 

 

Thanks they were sea trout I was told it was a bit early for them to be coming up the river but stranger things happen thanks again

 

David

[New to Carp]

I tend to use a braided leader of 15lbs dont know if that will help

[Where did all the fish go]

Its a small loch on the west coast of Scotland about 1/2 mile long and 1/4 wide with a small island in the middle of it

[Whither to debarb or not for roach and perch]

Good point will try to make sure to make it clear so as not to give any bad info

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[Whither to debarb or not for roach and perch]

Yes you are correct I will always the rules of the waters that I fish on But if you have an option it lets you use your own preferences

T T F N

[Whither to debarb or not for roach and perch]

I am new to this site but having been fishing for many years and go with the flow of only part de barbing IE micro barb as this should stop the hook moving around but should be easy to remove. But it is up to you what you do T T F N