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Two carp this week on my day sesh, this being the prettiest.

Yeah Been feeding retro baits ... but double tiger nut was on the hair.

I caught a 10lb bream this summer it still had more discharge than the local Gum clinic 😀😁

Hi, I've been fishing for wild carp most of the past year, getting more and more into it after a lifetime of fishing here in USA. I've caught everything from bass, to trout on the fly, to sharks to seven feet in the surf, but carp has become quite the obsession & I've cared little for any other fishing during the last few months. I've been experimenting with different techniques, mostly method feeders in local creeks, lakes & rivers, using my bass & catfish gear with end tackle and bait from bigcarptackle.com . My PB is currently 14lb common. I've only caught one mirror compared to 15 commons, a small scaled one. Interestingly, we have a carp "scene" here in my state of NC, the "paylakes". They're small heavily stocked ponds that involve mini-tournaments. So carp fishing isn't totally unheard of in my area, but fishing for wild carp is extremely rare. I've not yet met another carp angler on my local rivers or lakes. I love learning about all the legendary UK venues via YouTube, podcasts & forums. I was fascinated by UK carp fishing as a kid when I found a book about it at our local library as an 8 year old, years ago, but then I forgot about carp until recently and rediscovered it with the help of the Internet. I loved the bank fishing taken to high art, unlike the local bass fishing scene, it was similar to the fishing that I did from the bank of my grandmothers farm pond for bullhead catfish and bluegill. I'm hoping one day to make it to the UK to wet a line. Anyways, I hope you all don't mind me lurking and posting occasionally in the Europe forums!

Thanks for the welcome! Here's some pics from this year. Cats are a fact of life fishing on the bottom here, especially in summer. I've not found a bait they don't like, even fake corn.

Managed to sneak out for a couple of hours to the club lake this afternoon fished like an idiot to the far bank for a while and wasted an hours fishing made the switch to the margin bush and reeds,I had thrown some baits in already and bang within minutes in melted off with this one Then I got that back out and within minutes it screamed Into action again,whilst playing the 2nd fish my second rod whacked round with another angry carp on, managed to quickly net the 1st and play the 2nd one into the net, so that was a good way to save a blank, 3 carp in the last 1/2 hour of my session It was a nice day, there was a young family walking with there kids and I asked them to take the pics for me it was nice to share the moment, they don't have to be big to put a smile on your face naturally I make them all look smaller 😏

This is the kind of lighting you can expect with the rhino beam plus built in flash buddy. Not perfect, but very good for the low price.

Just had another common but only a baby ...mid teens I should think . Was supposed to be on our way today but going to stay another day or so ... it was a brave phone call to the misses 😂

What he said !!!! Go get em,mate. 😬😎🎣

Can I suggest you watch Julian Cundiff multi-rig on YouTube........ all will be explained if your thinking of using the multi 😉😬

Still trying to work this lake out .... I did the first 24hrs of fishing from the chalet as the wind was pushing down that end & Dave had first pick & quite rightly set up where a few were showing further up the lake . I know I've only been fishing really for 24 hrs but just not feeling it . It's screaming out to fish tgat end because of the wind but there absolutely nothing showing . With the couple of days being here it would appear that night time is when they give them selves up. So spent the day out in the boat finding harder spots in amougst the silt further up the lake where I heard a few crash out last night. All set know & just hoping moving off my bait & starting a fresh so early in the session will pay off . I've still got a visual on my original spots so in effect I'm still fishing them (if you get what I mean ). The winds still pushing nicely down there , so they might turn up . Dave had a nice grassie in the night so we are off the mark as a pair.

I had to make a DIY bobbin out of a rig puller today 😀

It has been a very healthy year weather wise. No mental heat waves has meant the carp have continued to feed throughout the entire summer and this is reflected in fish weights. All over the country fish are coming out at top weights, MASSIVE weights. It's also done the environment the world of good. The grass is green and the water is clear, unlike last year when the grass was brown and the water was pea green!

Think we need a carp.com northwest meet/session 😆

Good grafting! Not just about sitting behind some buzzers half a sleep as some would lead you to think... 😀💪

Well today it became apparent why we've struggled all week , biggest hatch of damsel fly's I've seen . So should think the carp have been pre occupied with the emerging/ changing nymphs. Just bad timing ... been scratching my head all week & I think I found the answer today.

Every kids party is planned for 10am Saturday mornings (in my book)...

They certainly have...but the Mrs usually has jobs at weekends now she has finished her hobby for the season...but on a plus note she can start taking the lad to his footy games and hopefully some autumn/winter mornings for me 🤞🤞

20 is about manageable giving a favourable wind and a good size boilie

Whenever I have ordered freezer baits, if they turn up frozen I'll say "Good" and whack 'em in the freezer. On the other hand, if they turn up thawed out, or "fresh" I'll say "Good" and whack 'em in the freezer. I've never noticed a reduction in catch rates. or longevity of the bait.

ha I do give great hugs 😀😉 I quite like doing the short sessions, they are good for making you ring the changes and think fast I still think we could learn a lot from match angling they don't sit about waiting for bites they make them happen

Brilliant thanks that's the confirmation I needed as I thought that may help still got to catch one but when I do will be nice to get some decent shots of it

Imo it's essential to light the scene for self takes. The flash on modern DSLR's are good - good enough to produce well lit pics imo. The problem is focus. With no light source (between shots) the camera will struggle to focus. Therefore the shots my be bright enough with just the flash but they will be of poor quality. The floodlight type lights (Rhino Beam etc) are a very cheap way of achieving great self-take pics at night. I would recommend them highly.

Some absolute Stunners there @chillfactor...fish of dreams for some people (ME😂😂). Keep it up pal...how long left ? 👍🎣

How satisfying to catch after your plan worked out , nicely done , Chill . 😃

Thanks mate .... smiles crossed with a bit of shock I reckon . I managed to find the deepest part of the lake , was very silty but thought it has to have visits from the residents at some point & so it proved to be. Was using a little stick with a couple of pva nuggets inside to stop the lead plugging & hold my hook bait in the upper layers. Worked a treat .

Cracking fish chill you look about done bet the drive home will be a slow one. 💪

What a stunner well in mate, well deserved. 😁👍

Nowt wrong with a big bream or tench! I tend to do quite a few scenic shots as well, never thought the ipad or phone did them justice. The scenic shot below, when I took it on my phone, the colour was missing from the sky, yet its the colours that make the picture. I also found with fish pics, even on timed self takes, I could get better framing.

Don't worry I have since come to my senses for the time being I think 😬😬🙄🙄🙄

It's proving tricky for me at the moment too everytime i think there is a window opening something seems to slam it down hard on my fingers, I thought Saturday night could be an option til the misses reminded me the kids had two parties Saturday one of them 5pm -7pm outrageous party planning don't these parents know I want to go fishing

Don't necessarily think of a rig as just a pop-up or bottom bait rig, although the Ronnie rig is pretty much pop-up only. I have used both the D-rig and Multi rig with bottom baits. My standard 'bottom' bait rig can be used as a pop-up rig, just by using a shorter hair, tying the bait tight to the rig ring, and adding a pop-up weight. I can use the same D-rig, Multi rig or bottom bait rig for snowman baits. On heavily stocked lakes it may be that there are not enough freebies around your hookbait, that could be pellets or particles, or groundbait. With a pop-up it could be that fish are wary of picking a bait that is 2inches off the lakebed. A single or double may recognise its not nailed down. A 20 or 30 may not. The kicker may or may not be the problem, there can be a difference from water to water, area to area on hooking fish. On one water I fished a standard knotless knotted rig failed to hook fish. I had to add a proper line aligner to hook them. Just lengthening the tubing on a straight shank can create better hookholds, a bent or curved kicker is not always necessary.

I'm Lancashire (Wigan) too...i look within 30 mile radius...Shpock, Gumtree, Ebay. It's like the saying..."Buy cheap Buy twice". Go for something decent.

It's a fire fighter plane. This lake is huge, is very usual to see them here in summer... I thought fire season was over

I have to confess it that was me, although I was a few years younger then. I do have a bit of a reputation for eccentric ideas but very occasionally it pays off in spades. Here is an earlier version of the same thing. J

I can get 2/3 boilies at a time around 80metres in anything other than a headwind. A stick does have an advantage in that you can put in around 5 boilies in at a time rather than just one, so it can be faster than a catapult! Straight or curved, you have to find what works best for you. I can use straight and slightly curved, but get some of the more severe curves and I am baiting the margins or my feet...

🕒 🤞. We're on the edge of our seats buddy

always remember theres always another day

I’ve posted it on the Facebook page see if anyone claims it.if not I’ll message the bailiff if I don’t see him..hoping there wasn’t a fish on it can see the end of it tangled in low branches off a island but sadly it snapped off trying to get it back

That's one way of putting it lol. They're ripped off.... they buy the the same bivvys from source and re-badge so yes they're identical. They're waterproof without the wrap buddy.

You can but imo it's still not wholly effective. It's a pop up rig mate. A wafter will work much better on a multi imo.

It's all you can do at this point by the sounds of it buddy. You got to fish where the fish are. Best of luck.

Agreed use a multi if you want to use a similar rig

I agree. Frozen baits straight from the manufacturer make more sense than from a shop.

Hope you've had a good sleep - did you put your bivvy up , or is their a lodge of some kind for the weary traveller to crash out in ? . When the guys on the forum describe arriving at their lake after dark , finding the fish , casting out baiting up , bivvy up and finally getting to eat when I would have been asleep for an hour , well hats off to them I would have cast 2 rods into trees and had a massive hissy fit ! . 😃

They should send them in polystyrene boxes so they don't defrost. However, unlike the others I will never refreeze boilies. Best way to get 'frozen' boilies delivered is before they have been frozen after being dried.

That’s the one and only me holding a carp looking all serious look,Mufty. Was a bit of a micky take on another group....... normal service was has resumed 😉😬

Still in the baby league compaired to the rest of you but a new pb for me today just shy off 11lb

I love to fish doesnt matter where! 😀 But now this one is the closest to my home, i go there when my time is limited! I have a river at 8km from home, fished some carps and nice barbels, but right now is completly dry

Ten minutes after taking this pic I went in up to my waist and my boots still didn't touch the bottom.... I was hanging onto a bucking rod with one hand and the scaffold pole of the platform with the other... The rod was bucking due to the blooming great Brown Trout I had on the end... it went behind the rushes on the right of the pic and I tried to follow it and went in.... The Trout got hung up in the rushes and got off whilst I struggled to stop meself sinking into 9' of cold water with wellies and an oversuit on...