Mr Nice

Cos All Receive Petnames

Cant Afford Real Pike!

Bit of chopped fish works, if you're fishing more than one rod, try putting some near the one you expect LEAST action on, interesting Sounds to me like you fished well, kept searching the swim until you found them, nice one

Agree that the VDE stuff is good, scopex, Pellet or pred+

Hello Elton, Haven't fished either for a couple of years but have done so in the past. Alderson Lake has a good head of tench to 8lbs+ Used to have some nice carp but they grew legs. The smaller pit here is being turned into a carp puddle. Barham is a good mixed fishery, Nice Tench & Bream if you can find them, carp to about 30lbs. Be warned if you're a pike angler, this is one seriously pike unfriendly club :mad:

The angling weeklies are nothing but adverts from beginning to end, even the so called articles that fill the spaces between the 'sponsors messages'. If the advertising revenue isn't coming in, then it wont get printed. That is why the weeklies are tools of the tackle trade, designed to sell first and inform second. Just my opinion PS They can stop naming pike waters for a start.

Seen a Pic of that one. My guess is the scale check will confirm that they're weighing about ten pounds over

I’m not that old but i remember when a Carp used to be a special fish that was rarely seen let alone caught. If everything went right, the gods smiled on us & we had a bit of luck & managed to catch one it was sure to be a monster of at least 8 pounds. I preferred it that way. My local river, the Gipping, has held carp for years but only in the lower reaches, nowadays the bl**dy things are all the way through. Get rid of the carp & put some barbel in. Don’t get me wrong i’m not a carp hater, they’re fantastic bait. Carp Puddles? Small man made water stuffed to the brim full of small carp, is it anglings equivalent to battery farming? Still i don’t care, each to their own & as someone else said, the places i fish will be quieter. However a club in Suffolk which has always been a decade behind the times recently decided to convert one of its established waters into a carp puddle. Being forward thinkers they decided to remove the Pike first. I think it is now a universally held view (except in the west of Ireland) that this is ecological stupidity. A good source tells me that one large specimen was transferred to another water but thirty odd smaller fish had to be killed to comply with section 30 regulations???????? :mad: So we have an indigenous fish removed to make way for an import. :mad: The worst kept secret around is that of a committee member catching Carp from one pit & moving them to another several miles away. Section 30 regulations don’t apply here then? Now that does p**s me off! :mad: Thanks doctor, i feel better now.

Peter, where does the hook usually end up? I'm assuming its the scissors?

I remember Peter & to be honest, we played like that at the time. :cool:

Go for it Peter! Remember Delia done it albeit in reverse. 'Where are ya' PS Hello anglers netters from a first timer :cool: