In reply to Post #338
In reply to Post #346
So you angle with a single rod, parboiled potato and no alarm?
So you angle with a single rod, parboiled potato and no alarm?
In reply to Post #348
Its a mental statement Noj....
Especially on an open forum..
Its a mental statement Noj....
Especially on an open forum..
In reply to Post #349
I wouldn't go that far mate.
If I stooped low enough to hook the BC with a bait boat placed rig I'd shake the ****ing thing off at the net
I wouldn't go that far mate.
If I stooped low enough to hook the BC with a bait boat placed rig I'd shake the ****ing thing off at the net
In reply to Post #348
No but it's just my opinion and how I see things.
No but it's just my opinion and how I see things.
In reply to Post #349
It's my thread and I'll post what I like and it's my opinion.
It's my thread and I'll post what I like and it's my opinion.
Have to chuckle at the people using the old Green eyed monster when anyone has a differing opinion to theirs bit like throwing racist into a conversation to try & shut down debate 😂
In reply to Post #336
But there were the morons who knocked it because they used bait boats. Someone catches carp, a load of people take the moral high ground, this is no different.
That will always happen, carp fishing is many different things to many different people so what floats one mans boat sinks another. I guess the difference in this case is how they respond to it. Be prepared to take it on the chin for publishing it or don't bother
There is the underlying truth in every capture that only the angler who caught it knows and people who witnessed it. Whether they decide to tell the truth or not is a completely different story
But there were the morons who knocked it because they used bait boats. Someone catches carp, a load of people take the moral high ground, this is no different.
That will always happen, carp fishing is many different things to many different people so what floats one mans boat sinks another. I guess the difference in this case is how they respond to it. Be prepared to take it on the chin for publishing it or don't bother
There is the underlying truth in every capture that only the angler who caught it knows and people who witnessed it. Whether they decide to tell the truth or not is a completely different story
In reply to Post #354
Good point. If you don't want people to comment on your capture don't tell them.
As regards merit what has more merit, dropping a bait and freebies 120+ yards onto the size of a dustbin lid with a boat or doing it by casting and using a throwing stick?
Good point. If you don't want people to comment on your capture don't tell them.
As regards merit what has more merit, dropping a bait and freebies 120+ yards onto the size of a dustbin lid with a boat or doing it by casting and using a throwing stick?
In reply to Post #342
Spot on Andy
Spot on Andy
Anyone else noticed this tendency for there to be a back story to every big capture?
Usually along the lines of "after months of searching I found that particular fish in 100 acres and did 1000 casts until I found the particular shiny pebble that it likes to feed off. I then spent more months baiting it half a boilie at a time watching it come and go building confidence until I finally hooked it and lost it at the net. But I kept going and found it's new shiny pebble trying 100 different baits until I hit on the one it liked before having to try dozens of rigs until I discovered the one it couldn't eject and finally caught it after the most almighty scrap where it found every weed bed and snag in the lake".
Last time I had a sought after fish I arrived to find matey in the car park cursing whilst he packed up cos he'd been called into work and he told me fish had just started topping like mad in his swim. I hot footed it round chucked out a zig and caught it. Doesn't quite have the same ring tho and wouldn't make a very good advertorial.
Usually along the lines of "after months of searching I found that particular fish in 100 acres and did 1000 casts until I found the particular shiny pebble that it likes to feed off. I then spent more months baiting it half a boilie at a time watching it come and go building confidence until I finally hooked it and lost it at the net. But I kept going and found it's new shiny pebble trying 100 different baits until I hit on the one it liked before having to try dozens of rigs until I discovered the one it couldn't eject and finally caught it after the most almighty scrap where it found every weed bed and snag in the lake".
Last time I had a sought after fish I arrived to find matey in the car park cursing whilst he packed up cos he'd been called into work and he told me fish had just started topping like mad in his swim. I hot footed it round chucked out a zig and caught it. Doesn't quite have the same ring tho and wouldn't make a very good advertorial.
In reply to Post #357
In fairness there is a long story to all of my special ones. Let's face it, fluking the biggun out on a pub chuck doesn't happen to us every day.
In fairness there is a long story to all of my special ones. Let's face it, fluking the biggun out on a pub chuck doesn't happen to us every day.
In reply to Post #358
Yeah agreed, a monumental amount of time, effort and money goes into just about every fish I catch (I don't catch many lol) but I couldn't hand on heart say the bigger ones couldn't have just as easily been smaller ones.
Wasn't it Terry Hearn who'd had just about every fish out of Wasing before the big one he was targeting? So if he struggles to pinpoint a particular fish what hope the rest of us?
As I say I'm not questioning the effort and skill that goes into catching, more the back story that it was that particular fish and only that particular fish they'd set out to catch. It seems to happen an uncanny amount of times on the big ones ime.
This isn't aimed at Greg Ellis by the way it's a general observation.
Yeah agreed, a monumental amount of time, effort and money goes into just about every fish I catch (I don't catch many lol) but I couldn't hand on heart say the bigger ones couldn't have just as easily been smaller ones.
Wasn't it Terry Hearn who'd had just about every fish out of Wasing before the big one he was targeting? So if he struggles to pinpoint a particular fish what hope the rest of us?
As I say I'm not questioning the effort and skill that goes into catching, more the back story that it was that particular fish and only that particular fish they'd set out to catch. It seems to happen an uncanny amount of times on the big ones ime.
This isn't aimed at Greg Ellis by the way it's a general observation.
In reply to Post #357
So true
How about, I had been blanking my arse off for months, I saw a fish stick its head out on the other end of the lake, not over my usual heavily baited spot, I walked round, cast out and within half an hour I had it on the bank
Wouldn't sell many papers or create many entertaining videos though
So true
How about, I had been blanking my arse off for months, I saw a fish stick its head out on the other end of the lake, not over my usual heavily baited spot, I walked round, cast out and within half an hour I had it on the bank
Wouldn't sell many papers or create many entertaining videos though
In reply to Post #360
It can happen both ways, it just depends how honestly the story is told... The difference for me is that the truly great anglers catch the biggest/best fish in each lake they goto, be that in short order or over a longer campaign... You can't fluke them consistently...
It can happen both ways, it just depends how honestly the story is told... The difference for me is that the truly great anglers catch the biggest/best fish in each lake they goto, be that in short order or over a longer campaign... You can't fluke them consistently...