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#284427 - 21/04/06 09:23 PM
Re: Zen and the art of Carp Fishing
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THE-MANAGER
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Registered: 03/08/04
Posts: 2931
Loc: Crewe / Nantwich
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Quote:
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yeh that was a awsome bit of wrighting:)
In't irony brilliant 
inerit jussed?
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#284428 - 23/04/06 05:12 PM
Re: Zen and the art of Carp Fishing
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jason3
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Registered: 07/02/06
Posts: 42
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Quality , mate  ..where can i get one of the stoves PM will do 
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#284429 - 24/04/06 11:59 PM
Re: Zen and the art of Carp Fishing
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jONNY bECK
Star FW Member
Registered: 22/06/05
Posts: 1742
Loc: ARGOS
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Cheers Gents..
Pro me and you are deffinately on the same wavelength mate... 
I'll dig some stuff out about the stove Jason and post the links when I get a chance.
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#284430 - 04/05/06 09:13 PM
Re: Zen and the art of Carp Fishing
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jONNY bECK
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Registered: 22/06/05
Posts: 1742
Loc: ARGOS
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As promised for anybody who's interested here's the links for the stove.
Click here to see how it works
Click Here for instructions on how to build one
I’m sat here typing this with the patio door open, kids barefoot in the garden and a peach of a south westerly blowing that keeps gusting and crashing through the freshly blossomed trees at the bottom of the garden.
I’m thinking about one thing……..
The Park Lake…….
I’m plotting and conniving a way to broach the subject to the missus of me disappearing for a few hours after tea, The 6 O’clock's are callin’ out my name and I wanna’ be tucked away down the sharp end in the evening sunshine just waiting for that first fish to show over my bait….
Alas….reality soon returns, and the fact is, that these days the odds of me being able to get within a few hundred yards of the fish to enjoy a secret evenings carping are pretty slim to say the least…No the truth is, that there’s probably 3 or 4 anglers down there now, bivied up, waiting…..I bet there’s probably been a few out anyway…ah well the thought was nice whilst it lasted…
Still….you never know I might just be bold and risk it for a biscuit when she gets in from work…….there’s always a chance….
Well….I suppose you wanna’ know about all those lumps I’ve been baggin’ recently?
Ladies and Gentlemen I give you…….THE 13LB COMMON……tah-daahh
First Fish of the year’n all that so lets start as we mean to go on…anyway I sound ungrateful, I’m not…..but I do catch more than my fair share of the little bleeders I’m sure of it…..still it’s a carp and from little acorns and all that…
This is my only fish to date so far, I caught it on the first trip out after my last blog. The optimism has since been replaced with frustration and I’m having a bit of a girly strop with the place because the carp just aint’ playing by the rules, either that or I’m a noddy who couldn’t catch a dose in brothel.
I’d arrived on Saturday late afternoon, had a good look around and found a few anglers where I expected them to be. This left the area I fancied free. Even the weather was behaving and actually doing as the boffins had predicted it would. Now, I’ve got this thing about fishing in really inaccessible swims…..I can’t help my self …give me a swamp, infested with ants nests and vicious spiky hawthorn bushes and the job’s a good ‘un. I’m as happy as a pig in sh*t, so to speak. Anyway this swim fulfilled most of the above criteria in fact if anybodies a bit of a Star Wars geek then If I say Dagobah then they’ll get the picture. The usual routine of wedging the bivvy on a tiny bit of dry land and getting everything covered in mud followed and I got to the point of getting the last rod in when I had a bit of a ‘Luke Skywalker Moment’ I looked over my shoulder to check for Yoda or Obi-wan but there was no sign. The upshot of this Brain wave was that whilst fannying about, debating where to position the last hookbait…suddenly the penny dropped. I changed my presentation to a method that for some reason I’d kind of forgotten about and yet managed to tempt a few fish on last year….A Stupid thing to forget I know….perhaps I’d better lay-off the ‘Jedi-Fags’
The Conditions for once looked good, wind tunneling in to my Swim, that kept up a decent chop into dark.A nice warm, damp night.……
……. *(WTF IS GOING ON? As I’m writing this the local polling station is only round the corner and honestly I kid you not there’s a Tory candidate driving round with a PA system givin’ it the big one with the Theme from Star-Wars playin’ in the background…..That’s it definitely no more Jedi-Fags I’m scaring myself!)
……..As is always the case I’d just got out of the chesties and slipped inside the bag to dream of Selma Heyak, naked and wrestling a couple of Big 40’s in a paddling pool when Stevie’s little wonder starts singing. Cue swearing, and muddy feet, a 15 minute demonstration of how not to land a fish that’s swam behind you on the blackest night since Jemini’s Eurovision entry, and eventually the cheeky little fella was having his photos done with my good self.....Proof indeed that the Force does actually exist!
Nothing else through the night and I packed up fairly contented in the morning, save for the mid double pike that’d got caught up in my line and charged full whack jaws style at me, launching it self out of the water; whist I stood warming my waders waist deep in the margins. Thankfully I managed to control my bowels and I untangled the nutter and watched it slip menacingly off through the crystal clear margins hopefully to go and eat lots of Bream.
So, I was back again the following week, I’d decided before I’d had a fish to concentrate on a shallower area of the lake, This area covered roughly 30 acres with a fair few nooks and crannies, so it was still a substantial piece of water to angle in. I’d convinced myself that the fish would turn up there sooner rather than later and having nicked one last week I was happy that things were going according to plan, Its easy init’ this Carp Fishing lark a little thought, a bit of effort and bingo! A few plump ones on the mat……
Yeh right ‘course it is! Two blanks later and here I am no nearer any sort of understanding of their routine than I was a month ago. I fcuked up on Location and got it wrong, end of. There was obviously at least one fish present but my catch rate tends to point to the fact that there wasn’t enough of them present to swing the odds decently in my favour……either that or I’m the noddy bloke in the brothel again! The niggling thing is that the only fish I’ve seen was the one on the bank so I’ve got virtually nothing to go on.
The fish are a bit funny about showing on here. That’s my own observations anyway. In my experience they show in a conventional sense in certain parts of the lake and not in others. In the area I’ve been fishing, I noticed last year that in the summer you spot them laid up in the weed beds but very rarely see them ‘top out’.
There’s a particular area of the lake that’s quite popular and it’s somewhere that I’ve tended to avoid to be honest. I think this is probably getting in the way of catching a few more fish and if I could wind the clock back on the last few sessions, it’s where I possibly should’ve fished. The problem I’ve got now is, especially with the weather forecast for the next few days is whether to persevere with the area I’ve been fishing or go and fish a different area to see what I’m missing, and possibly risk passing the fish going in the opposite direction.
I dunno…Fishing Bloody hell!Time is precious and I hate the thought of ‘wasting’ my fishing time in the sense that trying to force the result I'm after into what is usually just over a 12 hour session is probably going to lead to a fair bit of fustration and dissapointment along the way.Anyway this gorgeous sunny day has passed into one of those all too rare sultry evenings, the clouds have built up thick and dark over the clough and the wind, a deliciously warm breeze perfumed with cherry blossom is just dusting over the tree tops…..I’ll make one prediction, there’ll be some Carp caught tonight as sure as eggs is eggs, and I’ll still be left here pondering over the sound of one hand clapping……..
….Thats a Zen thing in case you where wondering!
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#284431 - 05/05/06 03:38 PM
Re: Zen and the art of Carp Fishing
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DryMatt
Outstanding FW Member
Registered: 05/11/00
Posts: 693
Loc: Straight outta Bolton
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Entertaining and well written stuff mate
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#284433 - 06/05/06 10:40 PM
Re: Zen and the art of Carp Fishing
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Harv
Star FW Member
Registered: 05/02/01
Posts: 1731
Loc: Cheshire !
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Excellent stuff Johnny !!!
Harv
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#284434 - 07/05/06 11:02 AM
Re: Zen and the art of Carp Fishing
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jONNY bECK
Star FW Member
Registered: 22/06/05
Posts: 1742
Loc: ARGOS
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Thanks Gents genuinely apreciated....
Sorry It's a bit dull on the old fish front I swear I'll try harder for next time! 
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