until now i had been visiting carp net every day and sifting though endless posts. this site is superb i see a few of the old carp net regulars that disappeared have found thier way here.darren bivvy up you could have left a post telling people to look here.i may have to really give that oat a piece of my mind now.
lofty

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this sight ain't half bad

get home

Hello, Lofty. Nice to see you here.
You ain't seen nothing yet!

Hello Lofty

I stopped using Carp.Net after suffering the same thing that Paul has endured from users disagreeing with his posts and views on things. Didn't even give it a thought about letting people know about this or other forums due to the unwritten 'no-soliciting' rule.

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Darren Wilson

I used to think The Dukes of Hazzard was a comedy until I discovered Carp.Net.

Lofty, we miss you, please come back now.
Oatmeal Jack

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Hi, Jack!
Nice to hear from you. Catching? Send me your news with any pics.
We'll be setting up a BB just for you guys before long, so us Brits can argue amongst ourselves, share tips and a joke between ourselves here. Our carp fishing is so very dissimilar to yours Jack in many ways.

why do you think i came here oat,
i would like to share views with sensible likeminded people,it seems i am not the only one judging from the response.talking to you about carp fishing, i may as well be talking about golf, you guys do things very differnt to us.
i dont want this to go on, can we be civil please.
lofty

interesting last post on the other board lofty.

I think there is room for everybody. Lets face it, angling is so diverse. This entire site was conceived to help ALL anglers. The louder the voice the bigger the area on the site. We will always promote 'smaller interests' say specimen eels or sea-trout. But the point is that this particular area will deal with mainly UK carp angling issues. We are planning a USA area - with hopefully much cross questions - as and when we get visits.

Hope this helps

Steve

I was hoping we could all come together to share our carp fishing adventures and not keep dividing up into smaller and smaller groups on 100 different boards that keep getting more secluded from each other, we should be using the net to join together.

Oat

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The problem is Jack, that there are something like 100,000 carp anglers in the UK alone and probably half a million across Europe. Our carp fishing is very much different in key respects than US, and many American posts coming here
don't help that much and can confuse the issues for beginners/inexperienced carp anglers. That's why we will be setting up specific US pages where the cross-overs can take place.
We are totally committed to and supportive of our American friends and the CAG, it is just a practical approach.

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Thats cool Paul, we wouldnt want to confuse any of your readers with all the American technicalities of carp fishing when they have a hard enough time learning which end of a boilie needle to use.

Good Luck

Oat

Paul, only 600,000 across Europe?
How many carpers do you think are active in US??
I think that the problem here is that many of US carpers(I am not one) are getting tried of the standoffish behaviuor of the UK anglers. I know that most US carpers have look to the UK carpers for true expert adivse and tactics, in return we can(and do) offer back a new vein of thought...........
bottom line is we are all anglers,
shouldn't that be enough?

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Nice to hear from you.
On Carp Net for years you have had a section on the BBS called 'UK and European Carp Fishing' or similar.
All we'll be having is a US scene section or whatever -on the same basis to provide the same sort of focus.
That doesn't stop anyone contributing to any other section does it?
I can't quite see what you guys are going on about. The point I'm trying to make is that a newcomer, carp fishing a small overcrowded park lake in the middle of city centre Manchester England, where the biggest carp is ten pounds - and there are not many of them - might be a tad confused by however well-intentioned advice about chumming, fishing with dough balls and fishing with vertical rods etc!

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Hi Paul, I never ever thought you guys got so easily confused but I see from your post worrying about us confusing your readers that it might be so. I think you can give your (and our) readers a little more credit, once you learn to tie the No Knot things just keep getting easier. I never heard anyone in the UK section of www.carp.net complain that we confused them, actually they exchanged techniques with us as our pay lakers are extremely good paste bait users and fish very highly pressured waters.

Oat

Carp.net, thats really good at least half the links do not work.

Chris S

You've just confused me, Jack!

And me Jack!!!!!
Run that pass me again will you.

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All the best

Delkim Dave

Is it a riddle maybe.

Chris S

i gave up trying to understand the nonsense he comes out with.
he in his own little world,just leave him to it.