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My mate has got the 15lb clear on his shimanos and i have the brown on mine. The brown is far less springy and casts better. He is gonna change his this weekend.

When i started using it on my little commercial lake up the road i couldn't believe how much better the pink was compared to yellow. I think they were pushing the yellow out of the way to get to the pink corn.

Currently fishing a local club lake. 6 acres 200ish carp up to early to mid 30. Hoping to catch 40 - 50 fish this year so not ultra hard but not stupidly easy either. Sort of my step up from commercials i suppose. My method started well last year but i got sidetracked and fished other venues for cats and pike. Have fished the likes of bluebell and catch 22 around the norfolk/cambridgeshire area and had a few on pink corn but didn't spend enough time on them to get the most out of it.

I don't use anything else. Pink plastic corn (on a carp pellet method lead) is the only bait i use for carp. I had two last weekend from my club water (fish 2 and 3 this year for the lake) and lost one. I wasn't feeding anything except the paste on the lead. Ive had everything on it, double bream, nice tench, 30lb carp, perch, pike, eels and some nice roach. Granted i fish a size 6 so it probably limits what i catch but give it a try. Pink corn is my first and last choice everytime. I have found that i get more takes no a single grain (though the biggest carp came on two). People look at me like im taking the micky, but all the lads piling in cell boilies have strugled on my lake this year. Ive only fished it one afternoon and im top rod. Be it luck or skill i don't know (probably not skill), i think its the corn. I think i read once that pink is the last colour to disappear under water (my main reason for trying it). I think it was once an advantage on the lakes that i fish due to the fact that the local tackle shop only had yellow and i had to get the pink off the net but now i its easier to get i think i am at least converting my close angling friends, even if some just tip their bottom baits with it. Everytime they say they had one with the corn on a boilie i always remark that its inspite of the boilie and tell them to just use the corn. Its just a confidence and smell thing i suppose.

I would claim without a doubt, then when the words start flying saying its not the biggest i would run around holding my record certificate singing 'we are the champions'. Because i would have proof and they would have a picture and a set of 'dodgey' scales. I don't care what anyone thinks about me, but the paper would go well on my wall. I fish for myself, not the bloke up the road or in a magazine.

I don't understand all this rubbish about getting nasty phone calls or abusive texts. HOW? Its worse than a school playground. IF, and I mean IF someone gets your number and flaps his or her gums tell them to get bent (i think i would rub it in their noses even more, hell what are they gonna do, jelousy is a funny thing, i do wonder what was said behind my back when i fluked only the second 30lb carp out of my club water (lake record for a while) 12 days after buying a ticket). How can a grown up get upset because someone called them a name, im sure i could think of some abuse to shout back. Surely the only people who have your number are your mates anyway, and if they send you a naughty word its a good excuse to trim some dead wood from your associates list. I work on a building site and get called more names each day than most people have to take in a year and im yet to be upset about it. I think that records should at least be easier to clain if only for historical reasons, Make it free if you get no recognition or something along those lines.

Go to a decent tackle shop to find one you like, £150 would be a more likely starting price, then look for bagains online. Times are hard and there's bargains to be had. I like the look of the chub bivvies but a jrc quad would be a good bet for a two man, they are huge, but they are more expensive than £100.

Always throw the lures about, especially between your deads. A big spoon fished low and slow. It can provoke a take on the deads and get the pike moving. Many a day has been saved for the committed angler who isn't sitting reading a book.

So let me get this straight, in theory they could come and take my house/car to pay off the debt??

So the signs will read, No eastern europeans No taking of fish No Jeffrey Gardner Barbless hooks only Oh yeah, and Wet and/or slippery grass What a joke, and what a tool

Why bother when you can get 'branded' ones for the same money. Think i only paid £60 for my angling intelligence one, that was from a tackle shop too. Would probably have been cheaper if i had got it from the net. As for the shimano stuff, its bloody expensive compared to net prices. The brollies are well amusing, saw two go inside out last weekend, the one with the storm sides and windows is just a giant kite.

Personal preference is a wide gape, korda or jrc (or whateva really). Have lost a few of fish on curves when i tried them. Wouldn't recomend the esp hooks and i straightened a couple, probably on cas to be fair but it annoyed me.

Yeah it was smooth wasn't it. Red and Beige if i remember rightly

Its hard to tell but pike can be hollow at this time of the year, it does look thin, guessing a river fish? Still a cracker though. Harsh, but i would have put it between 13lb and 15lb

To be fair the main reason bait boats as a whole get a bad name is the (few) inconsiderate tools that use them. Boating into other peoples 'water' is a pain. Maybe the subspy is a little over the top (cool though), but echo sounders etc. can be a genuinely handy gadjet.

And if you don't want to fish you could always water ski behind it!

Don't know if i've done the link correctly but i wish i had waited when i bought my viper icon, If you ever thought that your bait boat was a bit slow take a look at this baby. Price is a bit steep though http://www.vdrone-baitboat.com/index.php?id=4

I think thats the one, though i think the only way i will get it is in his will. Might be signed by my great gran, does that count

My old man has an original that his gran bought him when he was a kid, bloody good condition aswell, even if it must be 50 years old

Ive just bookmarked your site, now to convince the Mrs that yes dear, i do need more books on carp fishing.

Yeah thats the one, i bought a 2nd edition (no. 756 of 795) its signed by the author and the illustrator. Its a great little book, could probably read it once a year. Have got 'carp now and then' by rod too, its a bit more technical but still has some good stories in. I would try to find the original if i were you, its worth a nice little bit, otherwise its a good book in your collection. Well Another edition anyway, the one with the black cover

I have an hour of 'compleat angler' starting at 6. To be fair i have probably seem it

Now thats what i call an angling library! looking at my 15-20 carp books on the shelf now and firing up ebay

I have got 'the secret carp', think i got it of ebay for a quid. It is a classic little book and exactly the sort of thing i am looking for. Great stories written by a fantastic author

I have got sky and have watched the compleat angler more times than i can imagine, infact catching the impossible is on now. I don't want to read about some blokes new rigs or great reel, i want to hear great fishing stories i suppose.