wayne baker

I understand what you are saying. Barbless hooks from my experience do move a lot more than barbed hooks and can result in excessive tears in the carps mouth, Maybe having more than one point of contact with the fish my reduce the damage. I personly dont use barbless hooks when after carp tench etc unless the rules say so. As for using trebles for carp something else that would worry me would be stapleing the carps mouth shut during the fight and could cause it extra distress and lack of oxygen. Which means it might fight harder and you would still pull out of it causing serious mouth damage

I think your best to keep that one like you say hypothetical. Most carp these days suffer enough damage to their mouths as it. Your better just experimenting we your normal rigs and fine tuning them the best you can. Carp anglers are well know for thinking up rigs and so much in the monthly mags on the latest super rig.to try when a lot of them havent been tested much more than in the kitchen sink. When i go carp fishing these days, Which isnt much now i still pretty much use the same rig i always have and it still works for me.

I have tried whiting before but i never really had a lot of success. As i remember whiting dont really smell of much. But anything is worth a go. Failing that you could always make some fish cakes out of them

When i first got married, It seems like years ago now i moved up to scotland. With my missus who is from inverness. All my time up there i kept fishing for pike mainly, And i managed a few naughty salmon ssshhh. But most over species were very thin on the ground and to be honest i really missed just wandering down a river with a bucket of bread mash after chub and stalking a few carp on a summers eveming. To cut a long story short after about two years we moved back to essex, She must love me ha ha. I still miss the mountains and that wild piking though

2ib grayling would be very niice, Ive never even seen one let alone caught one.

Ive heard of them before. I think it is probably where the words scuttling, As in scuttling about. And scuffle, As in fighting comes from. I might be wrong by just my thoughts

Out of those three i would only say carp. Even then once the cold weather kicks in you are going to be doing a lot of sitting around waiting for a take , Unless you are concentrating on a particular venure where you can get in tune with and put in a campaign. Ive been there and done it, Wasted a whole winter for a handful of fish when my time would have been better spent chubbing or pikeing. Saying that theres some good carp to be had this time of year they got their heads down in ready for winter.

No bright sunny in old Essex at the moment. Mind you my missus is up in Inverness visiting family amd she said they had a good covering this morning. Shes due back next week, Hope she dont get snowed in. What the hell will i do with myself.

Like you sayCory We all got to be wise these days There might not be many Wayne Bakers in colchester, Theres probably more Andy Macfarlanes in Glasgow. But its still isnt enough for them to get your ID.

Why on earth would a good looking girl like that want to marry a Matt Hayes lookalike. Let alone let him choose her dress

No realtree? They obviously wasnt after carp, All a bit far fetch and a waste of time to me. They could of made something a little more as it is.

Like Andy I dont see any point in hiding your identity. If your are on a forum. If you are genuinely putting up posts and replying to others. I know theres a lot of people about who like to have a laugh and a bit of a wind up, But thats part of it aswell and i think you will find most of them use nicknames and there info is usually quiet vague. If i had something to say i would rather people knew who had said it.

I would say yes to most of those questions. I always liked the idea of a submerged crocodile head myself might scare the tufftys off aswell as the cormarants

Dont think you can beat using a front indicator aswell as a electronic backbiter. You get a good early warning of line movement before the backbiter is activated. With the added advantage of the open bail arm for low resistance. But dont neglect the good old float aswell

Like norfolk said. Stick with worms you wont go far wrong this time of year. I have caught perch at all depths and its just a matter of how they are hunting on the day.

Cant recall ever catching any perch on a sea bait. Live baits amd lobs would be my first choice. Maybe red maggots as well if theres no to much small stuff about. When i was a kid we use to catch big perch by fishing for tiddlers and not reeling them in straight away and waiting for a perch to take them. Thinking back it wasnt particualy clever as we never thought of te likelyhood of a pike grabbing the bait.

Dont do a lot of carping these days but on my last excursion i used these and they worked well on their own in the depths of winter. poped up and criticlly balanced, Winter secret nice colour lol

Its one of those mysteries. I know a lot of waters with large heads of carp which never seem to have any small fish coming through a good example is Layer pit in Essex I have seen carp feeding on their own fry many.times there over the years. You would think there would be a few come through to adulthood. And another ressie i fish regularly has small carp coming through each year,, There are obviuosly many factors that are envolved etc predation and the like. Maybe carp are just very vunerable and easy prey when small. Im no expert its just my thoughts

I know what you mean, I wasnt talking so much about those weirdos on TV talking to he dead and that load of old B*****KS I was referring to you. And those moments when you go "hang on i been here before"

I dont belive in a god as such, I think we all have a choice of which path we take.We can be good or bad, Take your choice. As far as evolution goes i think we are still evolveing i spelt that wrong i think but who cares, Maybe not physicly but mentally. One day we we have six sences that is why some people show the traits of it now. We get all these pchychics and the sort on tv etc. And how many of us think about something and then it happens, Knowing what someone else is thinking, etc Those of us that have that are just got the early signs. My thoughts anyway. What do you think??????

I have read a few of the replies on here and o lot of you obviously thinking hunting means a lot of jolly old upper class ladies and gents riding round with a pack of hounds. Hunting in my opinion is a pursuit of a quarry. Where ever it be fish , fox, rabbit, or Game bird. I still go ferreting and i go lamping with my friends with rifle now and again for rabbit and fox. At the end of the day I love my fishing foremost. We are all into fieldsports what ever form it takes and we are all the same boat. Those dope smoking unemployed hippies have one victory. Whos next? I understand not all of us do other branches of pursuits. ThatS your choice. We need to be united or we will all lose what we love in the end

Cheeers fellas i thought they were kosher.

My missus has just come back from scotland. And shes got a few scottish notes left. And shes worried that the shops down here wont accept them. I told here that im sure they will. Can anyone verify that they are legal tender in England Thanks

Dont let yourself be put off by the remarks. Go and enjoy yourself. You have a rod licence the same as them and a right to fish the method of your choice Tight lines fella

Hi tiddler Marridges mill Is at the bottom of east hill. Its where the old seige house is. Near east gates rail crossing. Thats where the tide meets the fresh, Down to the hythe and then down to wivenhoe rowhedge. etc. Im sure if your over half has enough wine in her she wont mind you dangling your worm in the river for an hour or two lol