Not really a live update coz at Shearwater you are lucky even to be able to text let alone post on the forum. Took two young lads (age 7) for their first day fishing, couldnt get them to wait any longer no matter how cold it was!! Decided carp could be a problem in the cold and my 3 rods didnt produce more than a single bleep all day. Managed to get both boys a skimmer or two by fishing 10mm live system over a load of pellet, just what you wouldnt do normally on the lake. Two very happy boys, two new very keen anglers and one relieved coach!!! Bonus was that an 11 year old sister who only came for the day out is also a convert too and wants me to sort a rod for her next time.
All in all a very successful day :-)

Well set up in my second home, peg 15 on woodland lake at coking farm fishery. 3 fished last night but only a couple of fish came out. Looksike 3 of us on tonight, it's got a bit busy since Dave had 2 thirties out last weekend. Still looks like there are still several more thirties that haven't been out yet!! Fingers crossed!!

Here we are again back on woodland, all set up and fishing. Conditions look perfect although it's still February, but full of confidence after last weekend. Come on you carp!!!!

Here we are again, bivvied up and having another go on woodland lake. Weather good and there's been a couple out in the early hours. Never seen so many on here though but I'll give it my best shot. Fishing hard and super confident !!! Will keep you posted if I get any action.

Went with my mate for a day at revels specimen lake fishing a couple of rods for carp and a couple for pike.

The lake is currently very weedy with only around a third of the lake actually fish-able, which on a lake under an acre, greatly reduces your options. However first cast on one of the pike rods, I managed a fish of around 10-11lb on smelt. It was a good few hours before any further action came, with my mate landing a 4lb carp (probably the smallest carp in the lake!) off the top on chum mixture.....pretty impressive for November.

The afternoon went without a run on the carp gear, and the pike rods were not producing. However as the sun began to disappear the carp really came active, with plenty of movement in the weed and lily's with both rods getting knocks. My mates margin rod shot off, but before he lift into it, the bait was dropped. Around 30 minutes later my rod near lily's shot off and I was soon into what felt like a good fish. Unfortunately, the fish kept deep and snagged me under the lily's. I did manage to...

had a little session at wallys weekend just been had anouther good session 6 fish in total biggest being 23lb. I am a reagular there fish it evey weekend have had the 29lb from there but this 23lb was such a nice looking fish. i know chris and jay fish here alot wonderd if they fancie a trip togther soon. let me know? cheers

im just about to finish my holiday in the dordogne region of france,ive been out fishing every evening on the vast river that runs through the caravan park in staying on.All in all its been very tough going this year with many anglers catching nothing at all,so my results are even more pleasing the list goes like this

15lb catfish
13lb catfish
11lb barbel
10lb 13oz barbel
9lb barbel
8lb 8oz barbel
4 small barbel that i didnt weigh
14lb common
2lb 1oz roach
i stinking eel
all were caught on a feeder plugged with dynamite meaty marine groundbait and my home made boilies.

went fishing with 2 of my mates, one has had afew carp under his belt and the other hadnt ever had one, this was my 3rd time at millhayes, its an awsome lake and on a realy sunny day with little wind you can see litterally upto 100 carp just swimming on the surface,

I had 3 carp, all around 6 - 10lb, first was the smallest but just my luck everytime I got a nice carp my mates rods would go off and id have to run him the landing net, so i got no pictures of the doubles or near doubles,

between 3 of us we had 9 carp in a 6 hour session, I had missed afew runs while trying to net the carp for my mates,

6 carp were caught on my homemade tuna and dog biscuit boilies and 3 came off one of my mates rods which had 3 corn on the hair,

enough talk, heres the pics


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9lb common, bens first ever carp
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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...

Caught my first fish (mirror) at board hill lake, i didnt have anything to weigh it so im guessing it was about 9lb but im not sure completely, What do you think? , In the evening i was dropped of at sparks farm where i caught a beauty 5lb common remembering my scales which im very pleased about, lol. just baught a new rod pod and tent so going for a 24hr session on friday so im looking forward to that, Thanks Ladz :)

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Connor, p.s SORRY ABOUT THE PICTURE, I HAD TO RESIZE IT BECAUSE IT WOULDNT FIT ONTO THE ATTACHMENT :s

Just finished a 24 hour session at Lyons Gate, fishing the main lake.

It wasn't the warmest of days on Friday, and went down to around 7 degrees over night, but I still managed 12 carp (3 doubles) to 12.5lb and 10 tench to 4lb. Most were caught on N-tice polony, although I did take 2 off the top on Saturday morning using bread. Always a nice buzz seeing the bread sucked in, and the line zip off.

It was my first time fishing at Lyons Gate, and will certainly be back there fairly soon. There seemed to be plenty of carp in the 4-8lb mark coming out, pellet and tutti frutti boilies seemed to be working for others. A couple of other doubles came out while I was there as well.

I'd highly recommend the big boy breakfast (needs to be ordered in advance), and they also made me cheeseburger and chips and brought it to my swim. If anyone is thinking of fishing overnight, you need to let them know in advance, as there are a limited number of pegs for night fishing.
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before i start i was going to put pics on here but my little girl has somehow wiped the camera lol. just thought i would let u know how we got on anyway!

it was a very slow moring but the afternoon was manic it 4 hours we have 14 carp between us(biggest 15lb) i have a 5lb tench and we had countless bream.

all caught on mainline cell and todber manor red factor boilies tip with plastic corn

As you can see, a pretty dissapointing session at the usually prolific Wadmill lake. The night was absolutely freezing, but it was nice to get back out there anyway.








I suppose the only plus was i caught my pb bream, 7lb 2oz!

We have all been there. The classic dilemma when you have been sat there for a while and after a few hours farting, the enevitable becomes clear - you need a poo. A glance to the swim next to you and the couple of lads fishing there will surely notice your activities. A few hours more and the sweats start, it leaves you no option but to have to go into the bushes! And why is it at that point the bite alarm goes off! A tip from me is to always remember the 2 bags and a bog roll rule. One bag to poo on, roll to wipe and another bag the collect the whole thing up. The skillful part is the aim on bag no.1. If you land it in the midde, the whole mess can be cleared up without hand contact. If at this point you have alcohol gel or a dry hand wash - definately use it. Remember guys, always clear up if you can. We have all seen the dark corner of the lake with a collection of mucky toilet roll and some semi fox eaten poo. Lets hope the only runs you get are with the rod - otherwise it could be messy!
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