muftyboy

Hello sunshine. Hope life is good for you mate.

Very shallow lakes here mate . Gonna go down in a bit and see if I can't spot the big common that's gone missing for 3 years.

Yep.

3 weeks ago the lakes were frozen and today the carp are spawning.

Good luck mate.

Wasn't comfortable going any closer to be honest mate. If I was using braided mainline then I might of. Know what you mean though , that 6 inches can make all the difference, oh er missus lol.

Got to the lake about 3pm today. Had a walk round and found a few fish sitting under a fallen tree. Put a bait within 2 feet of the tree. Had liner after liner for 7 hours. Proper frustrating.

My 1st 20 from my local. Taken nearly 4 years.

Just about to go home and load up the car for an overnightrr. It's hammering down. Big fish Thursday.

The algae and oxygen has been a problem long before he came down to lake . The difference is since they started cropping on both lakes we haven't been seeing fish go belly up.

They do the barley straw every year and have put a couple of areators in . I think the problem is that it's very shallow and warms up so quickly. There was a massive fish kill about 5 years ago that wiped out around 2 thirds of the stock and I'd say it was still overstocked. After removing the 40 I'd estimate there to be 60 -80 carp left.

To be fair mate since Andrew came down they have put a lot of work into the lakes and taken his advice . The only problem is we get massive algae blooms and oxygen crashes as soon as we get the 1st bit of proper warm weather.

Started on my lake about 2 weeks ago. And has coincided with me catching fish from different areas of the lake. Makes sense

All the fish I've caught so far this year have been in great condition. The club removed 40 carp from the lake back in October hopefully it will help the remaining fish to grow on a bit.

I'm using a sonik 50 inch net on a jrc spreader block that was originally for a 42 inch net.