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#301684 - 07/11/06 06:19 PM
Re: Jonsie, Away With The Carp.
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Rastacarpa
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Registered: 15/05/06
Posts: 42
Loc: MOSSIDE.
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Keep it up jonsie , it does your head in dunt it when your catchin and muppets move in on you and start poachin your swim B4STADS   
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#301690 - 31/12/06 09:43 PM
Re: Jonsie, Away With The Carp.
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n jonesy xt
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Registered: 23/07/06
Posts: 172
Loc: Essex
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Sunday, 31 December. So its the last day off 2006 and I decide to go fishing and have my last chance of catching a 20 before the new year. Now...I have just started to use more complex rigs. So yesterday I went to the tackle shop bought a few terminal tackle bits to tie up these so called complex rigs. Last night I poked around on the net found the rigs I was after and tied them up, checked them in a glass of water to make sure they were sitting how I wanted them, perfect I fought cant wait until tommorow. I woke up late, but oh well life's a bitch, so I load all the gear onto the trolly and rush to the swim I was hopping for known as the three bays. I cast one rod into each bay, the first rod with a single 15mm mainline pineapple juice pop-up on, the second rod had a snowman with a small bag of solars bag mix and the final rod had a single nash 10mm white chocolate pop-up. The first 45 minutes went by with one fish showing then I had a few bleeps on the snowman rod, but failed to produce a take. Ten minutes later I get an absolute screaming take on the pineapple pop-up, I leant in to what I felt like a good fish, could this be the twenty I have been waiting for? It fought well for just a few minutes and then it basically just swam into the net. Rob lifted the fish out in the net and i could see it wasn't the twenty i was after  but was still a fair good size for the winter. Rob took a few shots and we weighed it in at 15lb 7oz(see attached image), just as we put it back the snowman rod rips off its a little scrapper at about 3lb. I baited up both the rods again, cast them out and sat down for a brew. A few hours passed with no action at all and not even a single fish showing. A few bleeps on the 10mm pop-up registered a slow take which produced a 10lb mirror. The rest of the day passed with no more action. Complex rigs, maybe they are the way foward for me, the seem to work well in the particular swim I was in as i doesn't usually fish this well in the winter with a standard hair rig.
P.S. Happy New Year everybody have a good one  and hope the new year brings plenty off decent fish your way!
n jonesy xt.
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#306562 - 27/01/07 01:59 PM
Re: Jonsie, Away With The Carp.
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rcrossmk11
Enthusiastic FW Member
Registered: 24/11/06
Posts: 147
Loc: essex
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good blog jonise keep it up m8 hope to be on the water again soon
(had sum good days together in 2006
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#306905 - 31/01/07 04:00 PM
Re: Jonsie, Away With The Carp.
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n jonesy xt
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Registered: 23/07/06
Posts: 172
Loc: Essex
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#321766 - 07/10/07 07:48 PM
Re: Jonesy, Away With The Carp.
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n jonesy xt
Enthusiastic FW Member
Registered: 23/07/06
Posts: 172
Loc: Essex
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Have been putting a lot time in on Hadleigh Resovoir of late, bagging the odd twenty here and there with mainly high doubles in between. I went through a 'phase' through the summer were i kept pulling the hooks on several good fish and also losing a few to the dense weed, this had reall started to get to me. Now the carp fishing has started to slow up now the water temperature has started to drop, so i've been trying to fish as much as possible before the fishing becomes rock hard in the heart of winter. Arrived friday evening and the lakes pretty empty to my suprise, i headed for a swim known as the bush. With the wind pushing steadily in towards the bush it looked like the ideal swim. I began to setup slowly taking note of the several fish rising to my left. Got both the reads out to the chosen spots, the left was put in a bag and cast to the showing fish and the right was fished fairly close in. I woke up saturday morning to see that my hangers had not moved as such as a centimetre, Decided to leave the rods out until around 10:30am in hope off an early morning carp, but i failed miserably. So rods were wound in and new rigs attached, i decided to go for the pop up approach, fishing one at around 2inches and the other 4inches. At around 2pm i recieved a one-toner, only to lift into the fish and it drop off almost instantly. Its now nearly 6pm so i decide to wound in and rebait for the night ahead. I fished one rod with a mainline pro-acitve - pineapple dumbell topped off with half a fruitella pop up and the other rod still with the pop-up at 2inches. At 11pm i got another screaming take, short lived it turned out to be a tinca. Rod re-baited and cast to the same spot hoping the carp will later on move in. 2:00am got a few bleeps then another screamer, fairly legnthy battle resulted in a mint 18lb lightly scaled mirror. The wind was very chilling, i could bearly feel my fingers, so i decide against rebaiting the right hand rod. Its now sunday morning and to my suprise the right hand rod cast to the showing fish hasn't had so much as a single bleep. Again i waited until around 10:30am trying for the early morning margin carp, but once again it failed to produce. Both rods wound in again, realising all the action was coming from the bottom baits i opted to fish one rig snowman style, a stiff rig with a supple braided hair, the chosen bait was nash formula one bottom bait with a mainline fruitella pop-up. The other rod was kept with the pineapple dumbell and half pop-up. As i was sorting out the new rig i noticed the fish had started crashing to my left again, so rigs were place inside PVA bags of pellets and crushed boilies and cast to the showing fish, back leads were attached, its all a waiting game now i thought. Was just about to give up hope when the left hand snowman ro let out a few bleeps and then a loud screech. I lifted into the fish, and i knew it was a good fish from the off. The fish continued on a powerful runt, until i managed to gain a few yards at a time. As the fish was getting closer to the net i knew it was one of the lakes big boys. As the head of the carp hit the spreader block, i let out a loud cheer. I knew it was the patch and i also knew his time i was going to go 30+. I zeroed the scales to the dampened weigh sling and hoisted up the best, past 27lb my previous personal beast past 32lb and back to settle on 31lb 4oz, my first thirty. The photos were taken and the carp was released to fight another day. so my session ended with a new personal best and a mint high double.
Tight Lines and Wet Nets all, Jonesy.
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