In reply to Post #254
Thanks for your great response,

I will try to ask a question in the correct thread next time, or start my own.

Great photos by the way, it has certainly inspired my to try again.

In reply to Post #252
Hello Everyone,

I am new to this forum and have a question but don't know where's best to post it, its my first post so this thread seemed appropriate.

I have been fishing on and off for 8 years but over the past 2 years I have been gradually been trying to focus on catching carp.

From reading online I quite like the idea of catching a canal carp, and apparently its good to do this at night. Last night I used my new bivy for the first time and slept on the bank with my fiancée and blanked, best I had was a very small knock. This is fine, my problem is that this morning I hooked into a barge! Fortunately the bloke stopped and wasn't too upset with me. Despite the line being around his rudder he reversed and I rescued everything without any line snapping. The rudder picked the line up from the middle so when my other rod got knotted I could untie both rigs.

My question is why did the boat pick up my line? I had two ledgers out, both with backleads on. The spot I was fishing was a barge turning spot, both rods were cast into this area close to the weeds. My rigs have a 1oz inline lead on the back lead is 1.5oz, are my leads too small?

Any help or advise would be much appreciated.

Sorry for a long first post.