well i went fishing today and met up with a mate. the lake we were fishing was absolutely packed, (a lot of which were some minibus people that came down for teaching)

it was fishing very slow.My previous session had resulted in 16 carp lost 5, but today, probably due to the amount of pressure and lines in the water, the fish weren't having it.

eventually i managed to get one from my left margin but it was only small.

after another hour or so my impatience got the better of me and i grabbed my gear and moved on to a different lake which was quite a trek and needed two trips, but the other lake was more more empty, so i thought i'd have a better chance.

I set up in a nice little carpy corner and put both rods in the margins... nothing. put a lot of bait in the left margin which had produced well before.... still nothing.

I then stuck my right rod into midwater and after an hour + i had a blinding take which resulted in another small carp.
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