been fishing a local club water for 3 years people have been fishing it for 30+ yrs few odd tails of people getting snapped by something huge broken rods alot of match / general coarse fishing goes on here but it could be many of things but the other day i pulled out a 36lb wells cat that nobody has ever landed or knew existed......put a massive scrap in i thought it was for sure a pb carp it still never entered my brain it could ever be a cat but its probs the most significant fish i have caught in a long time which i never even thought of catching from there.. 9 acre water and had easy over 100+ carp out so it really is like the gem of the place...named it and everything still only me now and a select few people now know it exists and hopefully one day will bless somebody else too

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yes mate all i want it for is to map the swims explore the lake aswel, i know fully well how good the deepers are its just that pretty much all bait boats as explained below have the chinese ones installed. Thanks for the input though mate i appreciate it as said you can pretty much pick up the deeper pro now days for not much money more than these lucky ones that are installed on the boats its just that ones castable and the other isnt.

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could be just me but i actually struggled on them but my god they smell pucca haa ofc im a big believer in finding the fish first but i couldnt for the life of me tempt them with the ns

So having just acquired a Big lake boat for a new water i will be joining come march i cant find much infomation on the above question.

With the deeper pro coming down a fair wack would this be the better option for telling the depths / bottom im not really fussed on the fish finder option, bare in mind it can go 90ft in some parts as i am told.

only draw backs i can see are with the range? but with such a open space might not be a problem but i suppose it gives me the option to cast it out when i am not using the boat.

other than that i seem to be seeing that unless your spending a big amount on bait boats with sonar fitted, they all seem to have some form of lucky fish finders or so it seems?.

the one i am looking at on ebay at the moment seems to be rated for around 150m with a seperate colour screen which comes in around the £130 mark. The benefit i see here is that it has its own screen and having a bloody huawei p40 pro phone, they dont run android anymore it could seem troublesom getting the deeper app on my phone. Other option is buy a cheap tablet for such job.

Anyway looking for a little help and opinions here cheers people

all the way for me with wafters not fished a pop up all year at all last year but then again i never needed too, put it this way never lost a fish on the german. Its become my fav rig over the last couple years, strip the hook link back a inch below the hook add putty and it also works as a belting pop up rig too

i have 1 club water 5 mins away put the parking situation really puts me off so generally drive to my other club which is about 30mins away, but i would be willing to probs do an hour ish away for the right place!

literally trying to get on a syndi in the next year or so dont know if i fancy it now hahahahah seems like alot of idiots about

Hi everybody from the north west manchester hope your all doing good been a long time lurker

the catch is a decent play

Hi all been fishing on and off all my life got into the carp scene about 4 years ago and never stopped since hope to stick around as i love a good old forum !