In reply to Post #121
Sadly its a reflection on society. Many of us old timers in here will look back with rose tinted glasses, about how we did our time migrating from catching skimmers, bream tench and then carp. We probably blanked for many sessions before we got our heads around it, sponged some advice and help form the serious carp anglers and spied on them across the lake with binoculars to see what a hair rig really looked like or what particles they were using. We had to trash our mums blender to experiment making boillies. Our first fish were so rewarding because we felt we had done the time and hard graft.

Very few of the guys I know (50+) who have fished for years started as Carp anglers in the 70's. We were just kids who enjoyed fishing and that's were we migrated to, and we have a different perspective.

Today, there is no patience,people wants instant results and some fisheries cater to that and there is so much advice out there to help people catch. I also use these fisheries sometimes when I do fancy a social with some friends who used to fish, or perhaps do fish and want to try carp fishing for a change. You can still do that and be a respectful and considerate neighbour to the bloke in the next swim.

I came to terms with this a long time ago and just remind myself why I like to go fishing and just try and select the lakes that give me the experience I want. I still get more excited when i'm leaving the house to go fishing than I do if i'm heading to the airport to catch a flight to some exotic location.

In reply to Post #2
I'd been in touch with him over the last couple of weeks. He's definitely open but does have a bit of a back log and was quoting around 4 weeks to do a repair and service.