Carp Today
- Moley
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Southill Park 1200-1530hrs
In between fighting the local swans and duck flotillas coming into the swim, six carp and two roach of about 8oz came to see me:
Only four pics are worth showing as the others were too shakey.
The last pic shows the biggest at 12lb or so.
Packed early as the local birdlife started chasing me up the bank for food and would not take NO for an answer and it was getting very cold and windy!
As ever,......
Moley
In between fighting the local swans and duck flotillas coming into the swim, six carp and two roach of about 8oz came to see me:
Only four pics are worth showing as the others were too shakey.
The last pic shows the biggest at 12lb or so.
Packed early as the local birdlife started chasing me up the bank for food and would not take NO for an answer and it was getting very cold and windy!
As ever,......
Moley
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- Mark
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Well done Moley.
Mark (Administrator)
The most precious places in the English landscape are those secretive corners,
where you find only elder trees, nettles and dreams. (BB - Denys Watkins-Pitchford).
The most precious places in the English landscape are those secretive corners,
where you find only elder trees, nettles and dreams. (BB - Denys Watkins-Pitchford).
- AshbyCut
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Nicely done indeed, Sir.
"Beside the water I discovered (or maybe rediscovered) the quiet. The sort of quiet that allows one to be woven into the tapestry of nature instead of merely standing next to it." Estaban.
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Well done Sir!
Where the willows meet the water...
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Good fishing Moley, well done.
God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling.
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A good session with good results and pictures, well done!
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall!
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Re: Carp Today
Very nice Moley.
What method and bait were you using?
What method and bait were you using?
There is no peace on earth like the peace of fishing in the early mornings
- Moley
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Julian wrote:Very nice Moley. What method and bait were you using?
I was using a 4gram waggler, 5lb line and two red maggots on a size 16 hook.
The reel was an old Mitchell......I have a love hate relationship with them but still find, after numerous flirtations with other makes, that I come back to them and can't think why I fell out with the reel in the first place
Due to my permanent illness light rods are now the order of the day; the lighter the better.
Now the cold weather is in, the best baits seem to be maggots, particularly reds. I'm not sure why technically reds are better than other colours but trust me after a life time messing about by water, I have found they just are
Carp, roach, tench and perch just can't resist!
As ever,....
Moley
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- Carp Artist
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Re: Carp Today
Well done Mr Moley
Not a fish was visible that first time I visited Beechmere; an utter
stillness brooded over the place and I felt the strange and sinister atmosphere which, so the story goes,
has been the cause of several suicides.’
BB – Confessions of a Carp Fisher
stillness brooded over the place and I felt the strange and sinister atmosphere which, so the story goes,
has been the cause of several suicides.’
BB – Confessions of a Carp Fisher