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A very easy job to do and it is impossible to mix the leads up that plug into the motherboard as they only fit the right sockets. Just take a note what leads go where you might have a spare one from the power supply depending on your processor. Also, go for a high output power supply a min of 400w especially if you have a lot of cards plugged into your motherboard. (a lower one might have been why yours blew up). As for cost even good ones with 2 quiet fans are cheap less than £20. Try www.refreshcomputers.com. Also a good time to have a spring clean inside your pc.

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Many Thanks for the info

I would advise you to contact the boiler makers. They should (mine did) be very helpful and know exactly what the problem is. Far better than trial and error.

Another point. Carp were bred in Europe for food in fact I believe I am right in saying that’s why we have them in England they were introduced by the monks so they must have been a fast growing fish.

Badger are doing there spod rod for under £30 (its on offer)

Interesting this. When I think back what 30 years or so when a 20lb carp was a dam good fish here in the uk and Dick Walkers carp was a one off, hence how long the record stood I don’t think any of us thought of 40lb over here. But now well we all know we have 40 and 50’s. So yes what with the high protein bait we use I think 100lb carp in France is possible, in fact sooner than we think.

O no that would be illegal you can only wear a turban or a bandage round your head if it is your religion!

Well I use a Lee Jackson Mangrove. I like it because its so quick to put up and get down when its raining and the ground is wet. Also it is quite large takes 2 at a push. Not sure if they are made now

well they call them carp but they look more like a sea bass to me. funny looking things dont fancy catching myself!

As you do not say where you live, it would help as there might well me a member close to you who could show you. My advice is to visit a local carp water and talk to the guys. Most will be very helpful and show you.

Wrong my friend the small lake 2 acre has carp up to 30lb plus other fish

No 300 fish in 6 acres there are 2 lakes!

.......It includes suburb accommodation with all mod cons, (handy if we get some wet weather and great to cook a nice meal (I enjoy cooking). As posted in my posting

There is none. The Lakes are Etang Bertie does that help?

I dont really think there is a need at this stage.

Two of us have booked two lovely lakes in France, a 4 acre and a 2 acre for our own exclusive use from 8th-15th April 2006. The 4 acre has a very good head of Mirror and Common Carp up to and over 50lb, Catfish to 90+lb and if that’s not enough big head carp (strange looking carp) over 70lb! The smaller lake has a good stock of coarse fish (including carp to over 30lb. The larger lake has 7 purpose built swims and we are looking for 2 friends who wish to fish in France at a top venue to fill two of them. Although we are looking for two mates if you are on your own and would like to go then feel free to contact us. It includes suburb accommodation with all mod cons, (handy if we get some wet weather and great to cook a nice meal (I enjoy cooking). We have tried to make this a week to remember going for what we believe the best. The water is 1.5 hours from the port of St Malo, 3.5 from Caen, and 5.5 from Bolougne. The cost per person will depend on what ferry port you wish to leave from £400 to £650 inclusive. No not cheap but the best never is! The fact we have already booked the venue and are happy to split the cost between the 2 of us shows what an impressive venue this is. Having said that it would be nice to have a bit more company and have the lakes fished. You do not have to be an expert at carp fishing (advice freely available) just the wish to fish lovely waters with good company, catch a lot of fish and maybe a monster carp. O and you can be any age (we are in our 50’s but young with it) and be sociable (very important). Please read this part carefully.Only reply if you can make the dates, the price is ok and you are serious about going. Like talk to your mate first and if you both like what you read then contact us. Once you have made contact and have the full details we will need to speak on the phone and then you will need to part with some money (deposit). We will not hold the places for you…..first come first served. Everything will be arranged for you. You will be sent the ferry tickets by post. All you need to do is drive to the port you choose, board the ferry, drive off and drive to the venue……then enjoy! If you choose Portsmouth we can all travel together. THIS IS A GENUINE POSTING it is not a scam or a plug for a venue. No one will be asked to pay any money until they are 100% happy ONLY 1 PLACE LEFT NOW

Is that Newby Hall forget what the the river is called long time since I fished it? Oh in Yorkshire

The lake I fish you could not get near to place your bait in the required place. First there are two islands facing each other leaving a channel down the middle and both with large, no massive old trees with low branches x- crossing each other with the lower branches no more than 10ft max above the water and 3ft min. plus on the both sides of the swim continuing along the main bank. The maximum you could fish out in the swim is about 8ft. As I said in one of my previous posts these 2 swims were never fished because it is impossible to cast or place your bait. No you cannot climb the trees it is against the club rules and even if you could it would mean using a boat to get to the islands but then you might as well row out and place your baits so you might as well use a bait boat! Hence this is where bait boats come into there own. I know for a fact if the tress were not protected the braches would have been cut down. There is a well know tackle shop group in South London who own waters in Norfolk. On one on the lakes if you don’t use bait a boat to fish under the bushes on the far side (out of bounds) you will not even get a take. That’s why they hire them! As I have said and will keep saying it. Bait boats have there uses. No not on every water but waters like my local lake where there is a need. I go fishing to catch fish. I always have and always will is that not the aim? Sure if I don’t catch I have still enjoyed myself but far more if I can go home having caught a fish! If you are against boat then that’s fine but as long as the guys using them are not interfering with your fishing don’t knock the guys using them. Good anglers are they ones who do not interfere with others in any way….including those dam loud bite alarms! Oh and bright lights, radios and shouting (unless you are calling for help). Anyway can someone come up with something else we can all get our teeth into?

I think you have taken some of my points wrong. I think the hair rig is a fantastic advancement, as are the rods... I was meaning the whole set up of modern carp fishing as opposed to years ago. No one has made any remarks about the tents (sorry bivies), the bed chairs the bait runners and the bite alarms to wake you up or the 3 or 4 rod set up! As I said I soon got all the modern gear and as I said I love carp fishing. I think I just go along with Chris Yates thinking (I think he knew how to catch carp) and his views. Anyone who watched the BBC program (the best bar far fishing program ever made) A Passion For Angling will know what I mean. (I bet he would be against bait boats). A lot of my carp fishing was done free line by the way and the touch method. My favourite way to catch carp is off the top and that includes using fly fishing gear. Anyone who enjoys this method should give it a try…..you are in for a treat! Casting a dog biscuit where a carp rises and it takes the bait is a fantastic thrill and skilful. Let me ask you this, the guys that are against bait boats. Your local water or part of it is impossible to fish because of overhanging trees and bushes but has some lovely carp in it, and no, you can’t cut them down! Are you really telling me you would not consider using a boat, you would rather go home? If the trees were not there you would have no problem casting to the fish. But they are and you can’t! Well that’s when I use a boat! Oh and I do remember not many years ago there was a competition between carp guys and match fishing guys. The Match guys thrashed the carp guys! I do think we make carp fishing more complicated than what it is. We call some waters hard and the carp are very crafty. But really there are not many carp in the water for a start. Others waters are full of carp but they are hard to catch. I was one of 12 invited to fish private water for 3 days and nights, and had never been fished and was full of big carp. Catch them? No way, they were just not interested in whatever bait we tried! And these had never been caught! You could have netted the dam things as they were happy to swim in front of you. Most of the carp guys were very experienced carp anglers. That water has not been fished since as far as I know and never will be. Why at some waters carp take off the top? Others they don’t? Of course there are some fantastic carp guys out there with tremendous skill and the more skill you have the more fish you will catch. Would I go back to my old days? No Way! I am too dam lazy and now need my sleep lol. I have enjoyed reading your comments it’s been interesting. No we will never agree but it would make interesting chat round the lake. In the end you fish the way you feel comfortable with. Tight Lines Guys.

We might have laugh at this organization but they are serious believe me. Yes we know they talk and say a load of crap but kids do listen to them. Of course they never talk about the good things anglers do. You know cleaning up lakes and rivers, helping to keep our wide life etc. Most of them do not have a clue what they are talking about they repeat what they have been told and treat it as fact, children listen and grow up believing what they are told, that is why we send them to school. It is important we question our children what they know about these groups and what they have been told. I did with mine as was shocked what they told me and even more shocked they believed it! They don’t now

Well as I started this and have been reading all the postings with interest I thought I would post my last posting on this subject. You see I have been thinking about some of you guys reasons against bait boats. Your thinking takes me back to the way I use to think when I started fishing again after about a 10+ year lay off. I thought about carp fishermen as you guys do over bait boats. I did I use to laugh at the Green tents where you had a bed so you went to sleep using bait alarms to wake you up when you had a bite, and then the pods with 2 or 3 special carp rods and those bait runners to give you time to get up and reach your rod…….this is fishing…really that’s not what I called it! O and the rods already made up! Before when I use to carp fish I used the old silver foil attached to the line about 1 yard away with a candle so as to see the reflection of the foil as the fish ran. (We never thought of back bites). As for sleeping you must be joking that’s what we went night fishing for, we would catch a bit of sleep during the day…..under an umbrella! I moved and joined a local social club and made some friends who all went carp fishing and was invited to join 4 of them for a 2 day session, my first fishing for over 10 years. By 23.00 they were all in there tents going to sleep or watching there little TV’s. Me on the other spent the night fishing for carp and catching carp using the old silver foil. (Ok I admit using a hair rig borrowed from a mate). One of them had a carp the rest blanked! (They did have bleeps). I on the other hand had 5 or 6, the biggest was 24lb the smallest around 7lb. (I had to wake a few mates up for scales). Very soon I joined them and had all the modern (designer) gear. I still think it is a very lazy way of fishing but I do enjoy it and most times I stay awake all night grabbing some sleep during the day. I can’t believe the gear I carry now, in fact so much that I have to use a barrow! I personally think bait boats are ok on some waters. No I do not use them all the time. I fish we 3 rods and probably only use my boat to put one rod out, sometimes maybe 2 (Unless I am fishing the swims with the overhanging trees). And of course I find them great for putting bait out just where I want it. As for upsetting other anglers I have never had a problem BUT one thing I do know. For every angler who uses a bait boat and upsets a fellow angler there must be more than 20 who upset people with their bait alarms. They really do get my back up. Is there any need to have them turned up so dam high? And why don’t they turn the dam things off when setting up there rods and swingers. I fish with mine on nearly the lowest settings (If there is no volume control put tape over the hole) and use a remote next to my ear when I go to sleep. I don’t mind so much when they get a run, it adds to the excitement. But when they fiddle and play with them…………………xxxxxxxx

Many Thanks

Thanks for the info and yes I have had a look there are some nice looking waters picked out about 6 that are of interest. If you are interested in joining us then can you contact me by e-mail. I will then send you details of the lakes I think are of interest and also more details. John

A couple of hours for a ferry port have found a few interesting waters