Well i've just completed my first mission of getting a carp (any carp!) out of the specimen lake at the syndicate. The vid tells the story and it'll be posted here in an hour, so i'll just leave the pic now. Fish weighed in at 20lb 10oz, a small one for the lake :)

Well I have finally done it and uploaded a video to Youtube... My Channel is Kingfisher4522 check it out and let me know what you think. I've got a long way to go to beat a BOTLN video LOL:-/

Hallo again!

Well, first time i have been down syndicate since 29th April (royal wedding, and my first capture down there)

Got here at 7am, took rods out of bag to set up, bars in place with snag ears, receiver on, and small pva bag made, and cast out first rod, and scattered few boilies around area under tree.
My second rod got all tangled up in my bag so i decided to untangle it and got a nice fresh size 8 hook under the nail which woke me up to say the least! Just going to put the rod together when receiver went off, and looked around to see the bobbin and rod tip bouncing like mad, and fish was on after 30mins of casting in, i was happy as i was into a fish early into the session, then realised one thing........
DIDN'T SET UP THE NET...... B@LLOCKS!
After playing the fish away from the snags and lilies into open water, i put up the net, the 5second job felt like 5mins.
landed the fish with ease, called my old man up, and he came round to take pics.
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Well just done my first 24hrs on my new Syndacite. Been up a couple of times over the last week just to get a look at the lake and speak to the other anglers. I got to the lake just after 3pm Friday from work. Loaded the barrow and headed towards my swim. Speaking to the other members the peg I was aiming for is neglected. No one ever fishes it so I thought if give it a bash and see what happens. Got set up and put my new marker rod out for a bit of feature finding. The only way to describe the bottom is like an egg box! Up and down up and down. Anyway found a spot and clipped up. Recast my marker just to check I was happy with the spot and the clip on my reel smashed up. Doh! So any way I baited up a few spots and fished over these. Tried a few different things, solid bags, PVA stringers, zigs etc. and nothing. Bit of a shame not to have anything out on my first visit, but hey. It was nice to get out and managed to pack down before the rain. Looking forward to getting out again, but next time I'll try and fish a more favoured peg but still keep baiting the neglected swim...

Hey guys, just a quick pic of my 2nd carp from my syndicate specimen, first one was 15lb, nothing special, this one was 20lb, one of 12 20's in there.
All good:D


youtube - theyeovilcarper

Me and jay got down here at 6, and just managed to get set up before darkness fell. Good news is one has already hit the back of the landing net!

Just got back from a dream session at a local lake in Dorset! Not only did i catch my pb and my first 20 i also beat it again in the same session!
Firstly a 23lb Common beating my old pb of 19lb 8oz, then a few hours later a 19lb fully scaled mirror was caught at around 2.00AM
At 7.00Am i did not expect to get woken by my alarm which had on the end a 24LB mirror, new PB! (also fully scaled);)
What a session!
see photos below

Got to the lake at about 7.30, and baited up with a nice scattering of cell. Both jay and i have had a few knocks but nothing substantial yet.

Hi everyone ... my first few fish of 2012 ... ok so far i guess ... the mirror was 14lb and the common was 8 ..Thanks

Well i did my first proper night fishing session after carp last night and all tho things did go wrong i still enjoyed myself

i had baited up a swim i wanted to fish and put my rig out there it got to about 4am and i was just fishing with a nightlight just to pass the time until hopefully i get my first ever run on my bite alarm .

as i was putting back the baby barbel i caught on the float i got a few beeps on the alarm then it just burst in to life i through my float rod and struck into the rod then as i tryed to reel it in the reel jammed i looked down and the line was tangled round the reel where i had the bait runner to light and it has pulled the line off reely quick it was devastating by then i thought the fish shook the hook so i quickly fixed the line and started to reel in then i relized when a bit of tension got in the rod the fish was still there it made a fast run towards me i got the line in fast and began playing the fish the fish hit the surface and i could see it was a mirror carp without a doubt...

I'm new to the forum and new to fishing too, me and a couple of mates done a night at the woodhouse lake in St Helens/Newton (North West Area).

About 7am the next morning my rod screams off, and i catch my first ever carp.

8 pound 5oz



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