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i have recently been experimenting with baits as big as 40 mm and still catching all sizes of fish although it does seem to be producing some of the lakes bigger residents dont worry about the size of bait the fish will come.

i almost always use longshank hooks for all of my fshing mostly i use size 6 longshank nailers but have also been using the korda longshank x size 6 and 8 and gardner incizors and i use these whether im fishing a single grain of fake corn or an 18mm boilie and i drop very little fish

I have just had a the phone call ive been waiting for, for a few years now saying that i have a place on the church pool syndicate at patshull. I do know quite alot about the water and have walked around a few times and seen a few of the fish but just wondered if any one had fished it or still does and if you could give away any little secrets about which swims to fish what areas to fish too e.t.c would be greatly apprciated. Hopefully i will bank the wart in my first season lol

i looked a bit like the michelin man when i had the fourth fish the snow had just started to come down when i had the take and it got heavier as i was playing it made some good photos in the morning tho

for around 140 -150 qiud you can buy a twin skin jrc sti bivvy much better quality than the shakespeare stuff will prob last longer too

the water is around 3 and a half to 4 acres depths to about 12ft itsquite well stocked around 120 carp .It just seems to produce well in the winter which is why i joined the syndicate as my other syndicate slows down around this time of year i also caught a 24lb 8 and 19lb 4 mirrors in december and a brace of 15lb commons

I started a session on thursday morning planning to fish untill sunday managed a 13lb common at 5.00pm on thursday the lake started to freeze over nite so i put the rod tips below the surface and had another smaller common at 1 30 am from under the ice. Followed this up friday morning with a 17lb 12 oz mirror as the ice was thawing and had my fourth another mirror of 9lb in a snow storm also fom under the ice which had formed again friday nite around 12 pm pulled of a day early as the conditions were detererating rapidly what are your experiences of fishing frozen lakes recently and what bait and tactics are you finding most effective as you can imagine im well chuffed to catch in such crap freezeing conditions. All fish came to the left hand rod fished in 8ft of water on a fluro home made wafter fruit flavoured 12mm boiie with a very small pva bag of pellets

Difficult to keep condensation out of a single skin bivy buy a twin skin sti i had one for christmas cheap a wickford angling used it on a session over the last two days in the wind and snow no condensation at all

just had a jrc sti crackin bivvie wickford angling are doing it cheap at the moment £159 for the one man plus delivery page 15 crafty this month

put stoke angling association in to google and go to there website through there they have some cracking carp water including the ultra hard redesmere im not far from the stoke looking to join myself at some point.

thats supposed to say 4oz not 40z sorry lads my typeing is crap

the weight was 53lb 40z too see pics go to http://www.that-aint-no-bream.co.uk top angling dave.

ive been fishing a 15 acre shropshire mere for the last 12 months or so and managed to bag me a new pb at 1 am this morn of 25lb 12 oz mirror well chuffed. Bit ****** off tho cus i lost one to at about 11 30 just need one of its 30s now lol.

i have some rogues mate there spot on alot better than the fox warriors the warriors apparently go soft in the tip section quite quickly the wychwoods will last you ages

im using terry eustace pro gold at the moment it is excellent line very strong espeacially good for snag fishing i have also heard some very good reports on krystons new mainline krystonite mite be worth a try . Get yourself a copy of the new tackle box catalogue they have reviewed loads of lines in there .

try the okuma undertakers or interceptors both are good reels i used to use the interceptors before i got my shimanos

i field tested some of the red october before it was released in the shops its an excellent bait tastes a little like tuna sandwhiches seemed to catch more commons than mirrors but thats ok cus most of the fish in my syndicate are commons lol.

2 steve neville alarms with red led £80,00 for pair + p+p email colin_da_carper@hotmail.com

For sale 2 Stevie Neville alarms with red l.e.d £80.00 + p+p very good condition must be sold as pair.

one of the legs deciced to break on my bed last week so i have brought the wychwood rouge 6 leg there 69.99 i used it this weekend for the first time found it very comfy and stable its also quite wide so you cant fall off it.

i always use a hair when i tie the withy style rig works well how do you tie it ?

i have been using tigers on one rod managed to catch 1 small bream on a size 6 hook and 2 tigers on the hair but thats all i have been told by some lads who used to fish it that they had done well on tigers a few seasons before so they've got to be worth a go.

Ive got a bit of a deal on with nashbait so im piling it in ive been told that F1 has caught a few from there in the past im not on that but i have put around 9 kg in ,in the last week. there is only around 50 carp in the lake and hundreds of bloody tench and bream anyway just ordered another 10 kg of bait doin next session sat nite so ill have another go and let you no how i get on.

thanks for the help lads just got back from my 3rd session on the lake had 3 more tench no carp tho.There was a guy packing up in the swim i had baited when i got there tho so imoved in behind him he had a 14lb and 16 lb commons that mornin off my baited area probably the smallest fish in the lake but im still gutted .

cheers rudd thats prety much what im using already im on the right track i think just need that little edge to try and fool some of them wary old carp in there.