nice one.....so your not packing it in then ?

Not a chance buddy.............Cant wait to get back out.

Thats nice mate....tired and slimy what a lovely way to be...

Thanks guys!!!! nice comments

And now for a new problem!!

A few weeks back around carp fishing has me dreaming of big fat carp from unknown waters that have never been hooked.......you know the feeling.
From my old carp fishing days I know of a very overgrown and deserted gravel pit that contains or did contain some decent fish.....they must be monsters now im thinking
However I visited said lake today and after fighting my way through bramble bushes stinging nettles killer mozzies realised there is no way to get a look around the lake as the people who owned it before have since given it up to someone else........and I have no idea who!!!
thetre was however one person on the lake that i could see.
He was in a boat in the middle marking spots.
there was no way I could shout to him from my side of the fence so I was left with no choice but to come home fruitless.
Now i dont really know what my next course of action should be as the internet trail turned up nothing the way I see it my choices are:

1,hang around the lake a lot in the hope that I can meet boat boy?

2,screw it just jump the fence and have a look around (hoping that if I bump into anyone they will understand that us carp anglers just cant help ourselves).

3, continue asking around trying to find out who now owns the place and how I can get on it?

I need some advice on this one as the devil in me is saying "Sod it jump the fence"

Brambles,stinging nettles,mozzies.....sounds like my kind of place

Where you based mate?

....somebody on here is bound to be local to you and can probably give you a bit of info via a Private message

Usefull information about lightly fished waters tends not to discussed in the open....thats why I mentioned the Private Message feature.

If it was me I'd deffo ask a few more questions before I made a decision....

If you jump the fence and you get sussed it might harm your chances of getting into the club or syndicate that controls the water.

Local Tackle shops are a pretty good place to start but i'd be surprised if somebody on here can't help you out.

Im based in middlesex.......and the lake is in halliford/shepperton.
Its close to the garden centre.

I know the pit your talking about..dont know the name..its rough.. the pikeys are a problem.. my mate who lives local spoke to a lad who fished there alot last year for nothing ..

OK So its time I updated this but ive been busy/lazy .But here goes.
Since my last post times have been really busy and the result is that I now have three children and not the two I had then.
In the latter stages of pregnancy I didnt manage to get out fishing as I felt I should be at home helping rather than sitting next to a lake but all went very well with the birth and the good lady made a speedy recovery and the end of july saw me back on the banks...just a couple of short sessions with the kids at first but as the weeks went by the misses regained her strength and now I am back full swing.
so since I last posted I have had three serious carp sessions and this is how they went:

Session 1
As i have said I was looking for a water to fish and after a bit of digging I found out how to get on the water I mentioned but after a good look round and some sound advice I have decided this is not the water for a first season back to carping so I have opted for a local pool which I used to fish many moons ago back then it had some lovely fish but was always in bad condition weed choked to the point of being unfishable but hey it had been 8 years since i had seen the place so I went for a look.
What I found was a lake under new management that looked stunning.
Same fish but now cleaned up and looking great and the best bit.......not too much pressure.......heaven.
so I fished an overnighter...........and blanked
I was not too upset by this set back as I did have a good look at the water and learned a lot I got chatting to two local lads and got information about fish/swims etc and once again the place looked lovely with big beds of lillies and deep water in the margins.
Anyway the blank was soon forgotten and another trip planned.

Session 2

OK the plan went like this:
Its an old lake with little pressure.
The fish are feeding on naturals.
Im gonna give maggots a go........Im gonna take the place apart.
WRONG!
Everything about this trip was doomed to failure.
I had made up my mind to try maggots out and had stopped off at the tackle shop on the way home from a busy day at work and purchased four pints of bait my intentions were simple......good nights sleep/easy days work/great nights fishing.
WRONG AGAIN
Thursday night and the baby has us up all night
Friday all hell breaks loose at work and I end up having to work late having planned with the good lady that I was fishing straight from work I head off to the lake........Eventually.
I have a busy saturday ahead of me and although its late I decide to fish anyway.
So plan A goes into practice
By the time I get set up its getting dark but thats life so in go two rods with a popped up bunch of maggots on each and a good bed of bait and I sit on the bedchair thinking this is the life.
I open a bottle of beer light a ciggie and sit back.
I open my eyes its daylight theers a full bottle of beer next to the chair and a burned out fag on the floor and its 6am?????
I felll asleep and boyyyyyyy did I sleep one of the guys I had spoken to on previous trip said he tried to wake me to do some photos but I was "dead to the world"ive got to be away for 7am so I start to pack up when I reel in the rods I discover a small perch on each.......they must have been bleeping away all night and I slept through it!!!!!!!!!Greedy buggers these perch and apparently this lakes full of em........maggots not the way then.
Hmmmmm why didnt I just go home and get some sleep?
Never mind thats fishing and I was just happy to be out after all this time im sure this feeling of just loving being lakeside will soon leave me but at the moment thats how it is and im happy with that.

Session 3
Last night

All week I had been planning this trip and when friday at work finished early I could not have been happier I arrived at the lake to find the place deserted.
It didnt take long to find some fish rolling near a huge bad of lillies and before long I was set up and ready to go.
At this stage I will say that the fish in this lake are not massive by any ones standards(current lake record is 28 pound)but they are nice fish and the lake is stunning.
So when I get a run after an hour and land a common of 12.4 im over the moon and ive broken my blank.
Another hour passed with out action and then a sreaming run on the laft hand rod resulted in another common about the same size this was getting interesting.
My confidence was knocked when the next couple of hours passed without event and then two runs at once!!!!!!!!!both resulted in bream of about 5 pounds each!
At about 5am I get a screamer on the left hand rod again and the instant I hit into the fish I know this is a much better fish and one of the lakes better fish is on.
It takes me a while to coax the fish away from the lillies and im feeling confident when I get it to open water only to be totally bemused when all sudddenly goes solid and the fish is snagged!!!!
3 seconds later all goes slack and I get that sickening feeling thet still hurts now while sitting here.
The morning produced another bream and a mirror of about 8 pounds and the drive home was spent cursing my luck on losing the big fella however I really enjoyed the whole night and my new found love of being back on the carp scene has only been helped by the loss of this fish!!!!!!!! I WILL CATCH IT!.
And i will keep you all up to date but for now my fingers are hurting from typing and im sure your eyes are hurting from reading so..........speak to you all soon!

Keep going, and you'll catch the big fella....


Nice contribution to the Forum...

Thankyou.
Not quite up to the writting standard of Tudge but hey im trying!!