Hello all

I am new to this site and recently back to carping after an 8 year lay off enforced by the arrival of children.
Anyway the kids have now got to an age where I could take them fishing so a few weeks back I found myself back on the bank.
To say I got the old bug back would be understatement of the year and I now find myself putting all my spare time and effort into fishing.

Firstly let me say I think this forum is a great idea and I have really enjoyed reading all the blogs etc as they seem to be written by very competent anglers giving sound advice to others.And some of the banter is highly amusing
However this does NOT seem to be the case at the waters edge these days.
After looking aroud a few lakes that used to hold decent fish and fishermen recently I was stunned to see the trend for sticking as many baits as you can on a hair and lobbing it aimlessly into the middle of the lake!!!!!
Not to mention that there are now 10 other people lobbing their bait to exactly the same spot..............Please tell me this is not the norm.
I was looking at lakes over the bank holiday weekend and easter so it could just be the bank holiday boys were out in force!!
Whats going on?

Good or bad thing.....but in the 8 years you have been away carp fishing has seen a rapid rise in popularity and looks as though the trend aint stopping.

You just have to look a bit harder for the quieter lakes mate....they are still out there.

You should move to Scotland, it's like a carping time warp, peace and quiet is great but the fish need to catch up 20 years or so !

Cheers
Saul

Not really sure if its a good thing or a bad thing....and im probably not the best person to comment.
I was just shocked at the boom in numbers of bivvies on the bank.

Think I will take the advice and hunt around for some place quiet!!!

However before that I need to catch a few fish........think Ive got rusty.

Fished bury hill last week.........hooked 7.........landed 1.
Ouch!
Went home with my tail firmly between my legs!!
Never mind 8 years is a long lay off cant expect to get things right first time out i supose.

Not too sure about scotland mate seems a long way to go!!!!

POSTED ON BEHALF OF GEO 30. Editor.


What a session!

Hello all

As I have said I am recently back to carp fishing after a long lay off and embarassed myself on my first outing by losing all 3 hooked fish on bury hill last week.
With this in mind I decided I needed to put a couple of fish on the bank to "blow the cobwebs off" so to speak.
So last night I put in an over nighter at thorp lea and what a night it turned out to be!!!

When I arrived at the lake I saw that most people were northern bank and very few were in the shallower area of the lake.........where most of the fish were showing!
So this is where I set up.
I decided to spod a good bed of corn and pellet on top of the fish and see if they would really get their heads down.
I fished bottom baits over the baited area and runs came thick and fast all night.
I ended the session having caught 20 carp including 4 twentys.
The other fish were all between 15 and 18 pound
This is a person best for me as ihave never had that many runs in one session and im now sat here with a big smug grin on my face feeling like a pig in muck.

Cobwebs well and truly blown off.

Thanks Paul

Was going to add story to this blog but could not find it.
Still trying to find my way around FW.

No problem... ... and congratulations on the fish....

Nice result geo, well done fella!