ray carper

single strawberry pop up. no freebies fished about 5yds away from one of the islands. funny thing is i was reeling in to re-bait and thought i'd snagged bottom when the fish woke up and took off like a steam train. arm was killing me when i finally got it in the net.

well good luck if you live anywhere near kent give elphicks north lake a try lots of big fish mirrors commons grass koi ghost leather carp some big cats and pike in there too. http://www.elphicks-fisheries.co.uk

absolutely 100%true about the wet sack and going crazy in the net. tried to pick it up to get pic had to give up in the end. don't know if there's any truth in the tigernut theory had my one on 1 fake piece of corn sandwiched between 2 real pieces over a bed of corn and hemp.

CHUB RAPID XS easy and quick to put up roomy warm sturdy and less than half the weight of any pram style quick erect bivvy. had a jrc sti bivvy you need to take a barrow just to lug it to your swim. (IMHO)

27lb 4 oz elphicks north lake in kent also had a 16lb 7oz grass carp as well as a couple of mid doubles.

got it eventually

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<img src="http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y187/ray22758/telefonepics010.jpg" alt="Image hosted by Photobucket.com"> just a baby don't know if this is going to work

i would put pick of my tiddler on but don't know how.

yes i too will be one of those fools sitting round a puddle of water hoping for a carp. only because i promised my son i would take him before xmas. bloody mad the lot of us.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

thanks for pointing me to that site wizard they are early nash butt crackers. found a set on there.

does anyone know if nash and solar swinger heads and inter-changable. thanks

the problem with the sti al is the weight factor it's gotta weigh 3 or 4 times as much as a chub xs bivvy.

thanks budgie. no def not solar been told there early nash butt crackers but look like cheap copies to me. will have a quick shifty at that site wizard. thanks

chub xs quick to erect twin skinned sewn in ground sheet had mine now for eighteen months never go fishing without it. in my opinion the dogs danglies.

bugger thought i'd be able to put a pic on here of them.

or can anyone tell me if these are nash butt crackers. <img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v456/paddy123/nash.jpg"> edit note: you can post pictures but rather than the html code, you put image tags around the url so at the end and omit the other code. That's all I did to get yours to display. edit note 2: Oops - just now read down far enough to see Budgie had posted a copy of the picture. Well now we got two. [ 02. December 2004, 11:40 PM: Message edited by: Newt ]

anyone got any ideas where i can get a pic of an early nash butt cracker or tell me if nash did make a earlier design of the butt cracker. thanks

thanks a lot peter. and everybody who replied.

yep thats the one elton

does anyone know the address or phone No of monks lakes that are due to open on the 30th of this month. or better still do they have a website. thanks all

hi all just wondered if anyone knew if maidstone victory angling society had a website. thanks

thanks everyone for the links to the clubs will have a look at them all tomorrow.

no got to be in kent thanks chesters