F1 carp

[terry t shirt]

I dont think so the carp in the canal are all the offspring of the tring resevoir escapees of the 70's and quite honestly a lot of them are huge. I think MK itself had one out at around 34lb. I dont think its a majority just the blinkered vision of an out of date commitee. As so many of these large clubs are now.

[Will Wilkinson]

This ia a large club not nescasarily dominated by matchmen they just appear to think everyone wants carp and the chances of calling a meeting are slim to none. BTw the Club is MKAA and i now believe everyone of there lakes has been stocked with these critters

 

I don't believe many of those they stocked into Dimmocks Pit 3 years ago survived - caught plenty the season they were stocked but not seen a single one caught in the last 2 years - given the head of small pike in there I suspect they found the 1000 or so 6" pasties rather a nice snack. Also not heard of them being stocked in Willen or seen any evidence of the same. I don't see any evidence of them in Caldecote either.

 

I agree that their stocking policies leave much to be desired though - where re-stocking's needed then Tench would be a far better choice than F1s.

 

Will

[Steve Walker]

I remember the (match dominated) committee of a club I used to be a member of seeking to do a deal to swap the lake's large carp for hordes of pasties. They seemed genuinely puzzled that the club's carp anglers were horrified by this; "but there will be more carp for you to catch".

[terry t shirt]

Will they have just stocked bradwell coldecotte and wappenham with a these things put 700 in caldecotte on june 18th and about 350 in the other two. I know the south pit at willen got these a cpl of years back.

[Will Wilkinson]

Will they have just stocked bradwell coldecotte and wappenham with a these things put 700 in caldecotte on june 18th and about 350 in the other two. I know the south pit at willen got these a cpl of years back.

 

I knew about Bradwell and Wappenham (don't fish there anyway), hadn't heard about the Caldecotte stocking - but if they've only put 700 in then they won't be a problem in over 90 acres of water and anyway the pike could do with a bit more food . They certainly don't show up in catches in Willen South either (not that I fish the south lake much - far prefer the north as that's where the biggest bream hang out). Bradwell needs a bit of stocking up - the cormorants had a big impact on stocks before they put the fish shelters in, should have been more silvers though, not F1 pasties - there's a healthy tench population and some good bream but the roach and rudd have pretty much disappeared.

 

Will

[terry t shirt]

It just seems to me that its to easy and probably cheaper to stock these F1's than it is to stock species like tench , bream roach , crucian etc. To the extent that there stocking them to the detriment of the existing species.

[ColinW]

Kiss goodbye to plant life, natural food, clear water, fine tackle and say hello to mud, pellets and six pound line!

I can understand why commercials do it but I'm at a loss to see why a club would want all their waters stuffed with pasties.