It's an incredible fish, not the only decent one in there either, well done to the captor.
In reply to Post #72
Quote: It was a vs c4 stockie, went in 14 years ago at 14lb 💪🏻
Right fish. This was apparently a captor from a few years back. According to the DDAPS Bennets lake page. Club is no pub. So no picture as yet. Which I find hard to believe.
No publicity in an age where anything can be shared instantly. I think your on a hiding to nothing
No doubt there would of been a few cameras and phones knocking about. Someone's going to show it to someone and so on.. 😀😂😍😉😎🤔👏🎣
Quote: It was a vs c4 stockie, went in 14 years ago at 14lb 💪🏻
Right fish. This was apparently a captor from a few years back. According to the DDAPS Bennets lake page. Club is no pub. So no picture as yet. Which I find hard to believe.
No publicity in an age where anything can be shared instantly. I think your on a hiding to nothing
No doubt there would of been a few cameras and phones knocking about. Someone's going to show it to someone and so on.. 😀😂😍😉😎🤔👏🎣
In reply to Post #77
so the picture of the fish that has been shared on here is a few years old?? 😱😱
Looks all of 68lb in that already IMO, must look huge now then
so the picture of the fish that has been shared on here is a few years old?? 😱😱
Looks all of 68lb in that already IMO, must look huge now then
You just have to look at the VS page to see it at 68 late last year:
https://www.vsfisheries.co.uk/vs-monsters
https://www.vsfisheries.co.uk/vs-monsters
In reply to Post #79
In reply to Post #80
Cracking fish... but shame its being shared widely if its a strictly no publicity water.
Loose lips sink ships etc, just a whole load of unwanted attention.
Cracking fish... but shame its being shared widely if its a strictly no publicity water.
Loose lips sink ships etc, just a whole load of unwanted attention.
In reply to Post #81
Feel like he might as well claim it at this point, seeing how everyone already knows about it lol
Feel like he might as well claim it at this point, seeing how everyone already knows about it lol
In reply to Post #81
agree
agree
In reply to Post #81
It's not being shared widely. Not one of the photos that are being shown are from yesterday. They are all old photos of it before the publicity ban started. It's on our threads three times on here. Much better photos of it than are being shown.
I have the photo of it yesterday on my phone. Not seen that photo anywhere else on the internet. It's super impressive.
I was sent 50+ photos of big carp from there two weeks ago by a forum member from here. All caught on the hook baits recently. But they, and yesterdays photo cannot be shown, as there is a publicity ban now. It came in just after the recent Korda podcast featuring the fish. Literally a couple of days after.
It's not being shared widely. Not one of the photos that are being shown are from yesterday. They are all old photos of it before the publicity ban started. It's on our threads three times on here. Much better photos of it than are being shown.
I have the photo of it yesterday on my phone. Not seen that photo anywhere else on the internet. It's super impressive.
I was sent 50+ photos of big carp from there two weeks ago by a forum member from here. All caught on the hook baits recently. But they, and yesterdays photo cannot be shown, as there is a publicity ban now. It came in just after the recent Korda podcast featuring the fish. Literally a couple of days after.
In reply to Post #79
Yesterday's photo is taken from a bit higher and further back. It shows the fishes frame and shoulders much better mate.
Yesterday's photo is taken from a bit higher and further back. It shows the fishes frame and shoulders much better mate.
In reply to Post #84
Thanks for clarifying. I didn't realise the water had only turned non publicity in recent times.
Thanks for clarifying. I didn't realise the water had only turned non publicity in recent times.
In reply to Post #81
within the local area its one of the worst kept secrets that that lake holds lots of bigguns.. theres several club/ syndicates locally that will have members who also have a ticket for that club too... as you say people cant keep it quiet can they..
within the local area its one of the worst kept secrets that that lake holds lots of bigguns.. theres several club/ syndicates locally that will have members who also have a ticket for that club too... as you say people cant keep it quiet can they..
In reply to Post #87
I don't know the membership numbers for DDAPS, but I'm absolutely sure that it's high enough that it'll never be truly non publicity. Even with small syndicates (limited membership waters) word of what's occurring constantly trickles out, if only locally.
I don't know the membership numbers for DDAPS, but I'm absolutely sure that it's high enough that it'll never be truly non publicity. Even with small syndicates (limited membership waters) word of what's occurring constantly trickles out, if only locally.
No publicity these days is really just a social media ban - the old days it was just a publication ban. Anyone will still talk about the club, it’s stock and it’s waters and I don’t believe it is ever supposed to be some masons secret society.
It just stops (maybe belatedly) a situation where suddenly every week there are fish put up for sponsorship deals and meaning a queue for swims. Wether deliberate or not, it has meant that any angler lucky enough to catch only has the personal glory - I say only as that would be enough for many of us, but for others the need to showcase what hook, swivel and mainline to keep the coin rolling in means they keep away and focus on waters that do allow media exposure.
We live in a world where the names are hiring ponds for a month for thousands until they catch a fish - or talk weekly on a pod cast about a poor employee that hasn’t had a 50 so put him in situations where breaking this duck is all about publicity.
It now looks like a record fish stocked at a low weight in a club water is a record - what a story - a fish that isn’t up for auction- one that is safe (er) from a campaign that focuses just on nailing them, meaning the anglers fishing it are not all of the mindset of moving on once that one is in the album. Clubs have their challenges but I find it wonderful in todays world that a record has such a brilliant back story with no debate about it being some swimming pool fed short term aqua pig.
As always there will be captors in the future that will want and need the hype and will forgo the ticket for likes and love once they have this in their album - in the grand scheme of things do any of us really need more info? Pictures etc?
Previous records came with aspersions of maybe one day getting in redmire, or facing the brutality of the brook etc. this one should bring to us all that mad things happen, and that cheap club ticket could one day rock the country - enjoy that fact, celebrate it, and for once it seems the names won’t all be able to take turns hauling it out no matter how deep theirs of their employers pockets are.
It just stops (maybe belatedly) a situation where suddenly every week there are fish put up for sponsorship deals and meaning a queue for swims. Wether deliberate or not, it has meant that any angler lucky enough to catch only has the personal glory - I say only as that would be enough for many of us, but for others the need to showcase what hook, swivel and mainline to keep the coin rolling in means they keep away and focus on waters that do allow media exposure.
We live in a world where the names are hiring ponds for a month for thousands until they catch a fish - or talk weekly on a pod cast about a poor employee that hasn’t had a 50 so put him in situations where breaking this duck is all about publicity.
It now looks like a record fish stocked at a low weight in a club water is a record - what a story - a fish that isn’t up for auction- one that is safe (er) from a campaign that focuses just on nailing them, meaning the anglers fishing it are not all of the mindset of moving on once that one is in the album. Clubs have their challenges but I find it wonderful in todays world that a record has such a brilliant back story with no debate about it being some swimming pool fed short term aqua pig.
As always there will be captors in the future that will want and need the hype and will forgo the ticket for likes and love once they have this in their album - in the grand scheme of things do any of us really need more info? Pictures etc?
Previous records came with aspersions of maybe one day getting in redmire, or facing the brutality of the brook etc. this one should bring to us all that mad things happen, and that cheap club ticket could one day rock the country - enjoy that fact, celebrate it, and for once it seems the names won’t all be able to take turns hauling it out no matter how deep theirs of their employers pockets are.
Well if it is a VS stock fish and it went in at that weight, i wouldn't argue with that. I said for a long time the record fish should have an history and a capped stock weight if so, i had 10lb in my head 😂
I think we need to realize carp fishing is no longer what it was. Gone are the days of the black mirror and such fish, that for me was a truly iconic moment in carp fishing history, the one we all dream about, unknown monsters.
Stocking at a reasonable weight is acceptable, fish come and go, that is a fact 🐟
What carp fishing has turned into is the difference, people cashing in on it, the popularity of the pastime, everyone wanting massive fish in their arms and people providing it for them for financial gains, Waters a getting stocked up, a ridiculous amount of bait is going in and the fish are under extreme pressure. Its a money making machine, that's then difference between now and then
I think we need to realize carp fishing is no longer what it was. Gone are the days of the black mirror and such fish, that for me was a truly iconic moment in carp fishing history, the one we all dream about, unknown monsters.
Stocking at a reasonable weight is acceptable, fish come and go, that is a fact 🐟
What carp fishing has turned into is the difference, people cashing in on it, the popularity of the pastime, everyone wanting massive fish in their arms and people providing it for them for financial gains, Waters a getting stocked up, a ridiculous amount of bait is going in and the fish are under extreme pressure. Its a money making machine, that's then difference between now and then