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In reply to Post #170
You're so welcome James. Get well soon 
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In reply to Post #1
Would just like to say a big thank you s to Mark for the baits 4 pots turned up this morning put a big smile on my face been a difficult time and a nice gesture was much appreciated. Can't wait to get out
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In reply to Post #168
We will have stacks and stacks ready early next week. I'll say on here the moment they are ready for order. You will need to message your full name and what you require in the Fizz to our work mobile phone. You will be told what to order from our website. This will be next week. We are getting inundated with people messaging asking for them today. It will be next week, we will have tonnes ready to send out instantly. We are making sure we have enough ready.
I have permission to show you this below. He's a longgg term customer from the start who never shows his photos. He's also a forum member who does not post. Self explanatory. Well done fella, thank you for letting me show the message
Forum member Andy, 37+ yesterday on his Kent syndicate, Fizz S2 balanced over ABS crumb/chops
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In reply to Post #1
How do I order some of the fizz s2 hookbaits please?
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In reply to Post #166
Awesome 👍👍
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Just an hour after his first 50+, his second. 57lb1oz. Fizz S2 again. Two personal bests on the trot.
Well done Josh, what a brace!
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Josh's first UK 50+, Welly, 51lb10oz, 45lb8oz & 35lb+. Since yesterday afternoon, all Fizz S2.
Well done Josh.
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In reply to Post #159
Hope all goes well Jim, I found angling to be the best therapy  had my best year captures wise on my syndicate during the four months after my operation before I returned to work.
Be lucky
Michael
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Still waiting to hear from Reedy & Mark1009. Rest of you's are going today, will be with you tomorrow. We are totally up to date with all other orders as of this morning.
Forum member Chris, two new PB's, 63lb5oz & 67lb3oz, Banoffee S2 over Inovate Bananarama freezer baits. Bloody well done Chris.
Forum member Martin, RedBerryVanilla S2
David, Hutchie S2 over Wraysbury freezer baits
Jude, GPB1 balanced over Inception pellet
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In reply to Post #155
Get well soon sir! Have made a donation to Macmillan x
I tried to do it via Stoney&Friends, but sadly their donation portal doesn't seem to be working at the moment.
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In reply to Post #159
Top man mark hope your on the mend jim 👍
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In reply to Post #158
Top Man Mark - hookbaits been doing the business for me again this week. I had a 50 within half an hour of casting in (out in France) on the vanilla/berry then another 24 hrs later on the fish/cheese. They were the two biggest fish for our group. Kinda died after that for me. Turns out the grassies love them too 
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In reply to Post #155
Cheers mark (carp dad) Means alot deffo want pics posted lads to keep me chomping at the bit gona have a nice scar. be about a month before can get out again and cannot wait been about a year since been out with the carp rods first stop baden Hall or wyreside x
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In reply to Post #155
Awesome mark great generosity
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In reply to Post #155
Well that's a big thanks to Mark and James then. Nice one 👍
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In reply to Post #155
That's extremely good of you Mark 👍
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Quote... There is a very long standing member on here (BigJim) who's currently in hospital recovering from major surgery to remove cancer. Jim's no age for that kind of business. To keep his spirits up, we have produced some StrawberryPineapple S2 for him (his two favourites combined) to smash some fish when he gets back on the bank. They take very important bits and bobs from both our RedBerryVanilla S2 & ScopexPineapple S2. We have some extras done. These will be given away on here again in ten days time. All you need to do to have a chance of winning some is be regularly posting on CarpForum in the next ten days. Anyone who receives some will owe BigJim (James) a large thank you. Your chance to have some pretty exclusive hook baits from us, for nada.
The BigJim S2 are being sent tomorrow.
Forum names
BrokenRod
Yonny
Mark1009
Reedy
Aidey Kaye
Well done, you all won two tubs. Please PM your full name & delivery address and what you prefer, 13mm or 16mm, pop ups or balanced.
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In reply to Post #153
Good angling!
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Forum member Rich, seven fish from Wellington Country Park first trip with the Fizz S2. Five of them on the Fizz, one on the Hutchie, and one on the GPB2 fished over his own home rolled bait.
43lb+, 42lb+, 41lb+, 33lb+, two x 33lb+, 31lb+ & 28lb.
Bloody well done Rich!
Stoke Carl's son Jude, one of the most wanted from a local venue. Fizz S2 13mm balanced over Rollin Inception pellet. Well done Jude what a beautiful carp.
Will, Rockford, CherryCola S2
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Getting so many messages asking for more Fizz or Bug. We will have more of both done next week at some point. TackleBox will have more DNA Bug in the shop/online, and some of ours, likely Garlic & pink S2. We will be completely up to date with all our orders again by Monday. We have been so stupidly busy this spring.
FishOn Ricci, 13mm balanced Fizz S2 over crumb. That big common is such a lovely carp
Forum member Ben, three biggest here (116lb+) were caught in less than an hour. Kingsmead. 13mm Hutchie cc pop ups with tiny bags of crumb. Well done Ben
41lb8oz
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Stoke Carl, all these one trip this week! Everyone is catching so many last few days. Biggest one here is a pb common 38lb+. GPB1 balanced over Rollin Inception pellet. Well done Carl.
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In reply to Post #150
Some Mega fish
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Peter, first two trips of 2025 to Wellington Country Park. First trip, the linear 47lb10oz. Second trip back the small tail mirror 53lb+ plus a 48lb+ mirror along with it. 13mm Hutchie S2 balanced. Well done Peter.
Forum member Alan, London park lake, 13mm GPB2 cc over DNA Bug. Well done Alan what a carp!
Connor, RedBerryVanilla S2
Emilie, pink S2
Alfie, first fish from Essex Manor, baby Stella, 39lb+, S4
Forum member Andrew. First trip with DNA Bug balanced and Bug freezer baits.
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In reply to Post #148
That common you sent photos of was lovely JT, well done.
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Had three more this morning up to 31 - the old GPB1s doing the business with a bit of hemp
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Jacko again this morning, what an incredible stamp of carp this lad is catching. Work over nighter, RedBerryVanilla 13mm balanced over Scopex Squid
Russ again this morning, work overnighter, MVF Brooklands this time, chunk. Banoffee S2 13mm balanced in a bag with Essential assorted chops
Forum member Ben, one of 17 bites from Kingsmead on opening nights (stockies mainly). Single S2 pinks. These two are not stockies. That leather is a cool one. Well done Ben
Forum member Ryan has been whacking them the past couple of weeks. Fizz S2. Well done Ryan.
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Lee Jackson again with a brace on our Banoffee S2 fished over Chemo baits freezers.
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Young Jo Bromley's first ever 20+, ScopexPineapple S2, 21lb8oz, one of four bites yesterday. Well done Jo.
Forum member Chris, three 30's from new years day to 37lb+. Part of a six fish catch from Bluebells Kingfisher. S2 & S4 over DT Green Beast
Harvey, pink Hutchie S2 & RedBerryVanilla S2 purchsed from the TackleBox. Lad has been catching some beautiful carp.
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Something i totally forgot to mention.... We are having a brand new website built. The Fizz will be going straight onto there.
The gallery will be good, lots of CarpForum members will be on there.
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Mark with a superb pair from this weekend, 37lb+ & 41lb+. Both caught from a southern reserve on our original S2 over MCNut from Wraysbury baits.
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Lee Jackson with a 30+ mirror on Banoffee S2, caught over Chemo baits freezer baits.
I can't believe I bloody missed this last week tagged to our work page. Proud moment for me. Lee is an absolute Kent legend and a gentleman to boot.
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Forum member Dean, ScopexPineapple & Hutchie S2 as singles. The biggest is 37+. All from a Newbury syndicate. Well done Dean.
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In reply to Post #137
👌🏼 speedy recovery Jim, and great to see Mark
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In reply to Post #137
Best wishes for the recovery BigJim.
That's a nice touch from Specialized Hookbaits too - stuff like that lifts the spirits. Well done mate
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In reply to Post #137
Speedy recovery Big jim 🙏🏽
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Jay with a very special big common, ScopexPineapple S2 16mm cc. This man has caught some incredible fish on our hook baits over many years, that have never been allowed to be shown.
Steve, Hacche Moor fishery in the SW. Steve has been catching them constantly. All white S2 13mm balanced. Those lakes all contain some truly incredible fish that are growing like stink.
There is a very long standing member on here (BigJim) who's currently in hospital recovering from major surgery to remove cancer. Jim's no age for that kind of business. To keep his spirits up, we have produced some StrawberryPineapple S2 for him (his two favourites combined) to smash some fish when he gets back on the bank. They take very important bits and bobs from both our RedBerryVanilla S2 & ScopexPineapple S2. They are never going on general sale. We have some extras done. These will be given away on here again in ten days time. All you need to do to have a chance of winning some is be regularly posting on CarpForum in the next ten days. Anyone who receives some will owe BigJim (James) a large thank you. Your chance to have some pretty exclusive hook baits from us, for nada.
We flew back to Manila for a couple of nights to play in the casinos again before returning to the UK. It would have been rude not too. We absolutely rinsed them again last night on the roulette tables, first night back in there. I'm 100% the luckiest man you know, I know that better than anyone!
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In reply to Post #135
That's a nice one!
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Jacko again, a special one this time. Fish is a rare one, only comes out once every couple of years. Two rods wound in, last rod laying on the deck as he put his gear in the van to go off to work. Off it rattled with this cheese. Smidge under 40lb.
RedBerryVanilla S2 13mm balanced over ScopexSquid crumb. The lad has been ripping them recently again on work overnighters. Well done Jacko
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As an add on to what I wrote yesterday, here’s some Spring information that will hopefully help any of you reading this catch more fish.
Normal rules do not apply in the Spring. Once the weather warms up and their metabolism wakes up you will spook them by casting on top of them. This does not apply in the springtime. As in the previous post, they are still cold water dopey. Cast around far more than you would at any other time of year. Rod tips up slightly with tight lines. You are looking for liners. Just like casting at them, lines will not spook them in the springtime in the same way as lines will spook them once their body temps increase. So use this to your advantage.
If you have no confidence in using a single hook bait, any free bait you do use should be crumb. Something that’s easy for them to process. Stodgy boiled baits in full size take time for the fish to process. That’s no good until the water warms up slightly. Carp will often be active up until Christmas. But during January they will normally always be laying dormant in silt. This is like a hibernation where their bodies slow/shut right down. Early to mid February they will wake up. From then until the water warms, you throwing boiled baits in will work completely against you. Any establishing of a new bait needs to be started in May. Not March/April. Most anglers simply don’t have the confidence to use singles. With our hook baits, there is stuff in there that the fish absolutely crave when they wake up more than anything else. Use this to your advantage.
Shallow water warms first. They will always be in shallow water. Or sitting in the sun. They need heat to wake up their metabolism. Back of the wind, back of islands. Look for what looks like roach blipping just below the surface of the calm water. This will be the entire lakes stock of carp balled up together. The hook baits will pull them down to the bottom.
Look for any fresh weed growth. Onion weed is normally the first thing to sprout. They will be attracted to this like a junkie to his next fix. If there are pads in your lake, the moment these start flowering the fish will be attracted to that area in the same way. Use this to your advantage. Knowing where the first weed grows will catch you so many more carp in the spring.
Learn to accept that carping in the spring calls for a completely different approach to the entire rest of the year. If you are not catching, you are not anywhere near them. Move until you find them. Once you find them they are so easy to catch at this time of year. Anglers will change rigs, change baits, change their entire approach. None of that matters in the spring. You have to get near them. In the summer the fish are spread all around the lake and moving constantly. In the springtime they are not doing this. So you cannot sit on your arris waiting for them to come to you. Simply, you have to find them.
Walk your lake at night. At this time of year they have to de leech themselves. They do this by rubbing on snags, or throwing themselves out of the water, often showing 4-5 times in under 30 secs. This is when you will track them down easily while everyone else is tucked up asleep.
Spring fishing is so easy once you find them. It’s clubbing season now. If you are not catching it’s not your rigs fault, it’s not your baits fault… It’s your fault. The difference between an exceptional carp angler and people who struggle? The exceptional carp angler understands when he is not catching it’s down to his location. Anglers who struggle will look for any other excuse other than it’s themselves being lazy. You can’t wait for them to come to you in the spring. You have to find them.
Once you do, the hook baits will bring you results you can only dream of this time of year. Don’t mess that up by throwing free bait out. It’s hard I know. Carp anglers spend winter at home. Spring is the time when all their winter plans about new freezer baits and tactics are put into effect. That often involves throwing in far too much bait. That ruins it not only for themselves, but for everyone else too.
Singles is the way forward for the next few weeks. That could be your favourite freezer baits, a zig, or a single pop up. You just need to understand that the fish are not woken up properly yet.
None of that is meant to sound sanctimonious or condescending. Just trying to help you reading this catch more fish. Whether you use our stuff or not.
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In reply to Post #132
Quote.... And this funny old weather - roasting clear bright days and near scraping freezing nights/early mornings. Lake isn't fishing too well at all.
In my personal opinion that's the best weather in the Spring. It's all about light levels, they are awake now.
Singles, singles, singles.
No bait company/media that rely on selling KG's of boiled bait are ever going to promote this.... But singles are totally king right now. Putting bait out is often the kiss of death in spring.
They don't want to feed with any gusto until the water warms up. They are still 'cold water dopey' I call it. That's why they fight less now. They are still half asleep and do not want to eat much. They will snatch a single hook bait. Putting out even ten free baits when they might only pick up one out of that ten is just not the one. Keen carpers, with lots of new bait who are desperate to throw in, kill lakes at this time of year. To much bait being thrown in right now ruins it for everyone.
Singles, recast regular to different areas. Once you find them, you'll clump them with singles during March/April. Weather really has little bearing IMO.
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In reply to Post #131
Thanks Mark - totally agree. Total confidence in the hookbaits and feed - not getting close enough it is.
And this funny old weather - roasting clear bright days and near scraping freezing nights/early mornings. Lake isn't fishing too well at all.
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In reply to Post #130
I’m sure you know already… Spring is all about getting near them Andy. They are always grouped together at this time of year. If you are not catching within a few hours with our hook baits in spring… Move. There’s no carp near you. I know it’s not always possible to move these days on busy lakes… But that’s always the answer if you can.
Once you get near the pack, you’ll start clumping them.
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In reply to Post #128
Some great captures there. Always really appreciate a big dark common like that 39lber.
Wish this Andy was getting on the fish anywhere near as well.... having a right old struggle start to the year, zero fish for 8 sessions now  
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Forum member Andy, 42lb from his Kent syndicate this morning, ScopexPineapple S2 over a small bit of K2 crumb. Well done Andy.
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Forum member Andy, the one he desperately wanted from a couple of weeks back, 41lb4oz. 16mm cc Banoffee S2.
The common is 39lb8oz,, the big mirror is 44lb4oz, both white S2 16mm cc, Well done Andy!
Chris, public venue in Europe, Fizz S2 16mm cc
NashBait consultant Jacko, Banoffee S2 balanced over Scopex Squid
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I am glad they are working well for you all. Will be back early next week. Can't say I've missed you all that much haha, it's absolute bloody paradise here, we don't ever want to leave!
We are completely up to date with all orders up until just a few hours ago. We are so stupidly busy now to completely unprecedented levels for us. For the first time since our expansion last year, the two week waiting time is back in full effect from now. This is only on certain products, most orders will still be going out within days.
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Me and a friend fished a club pit this weekend, I hadn’t been there for 12 years and he did one trip last year, both on the complex’s other lakes. Went on the big pit and caught the only two fish this weekend by the sounds of it. Both only 13lb mind you but one on an S2 and the other on a GPB2.
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Took the fizz to Merrington this weekend first time out with them and first time fishing the lake had 2 fish only a 15 and a 16 both on the fizz from the main lake so all is good for me plenty of blanks there this weekend
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I had three fish to 31lb overnight on the GPB1s. Still haven’t used the Hutchys in my bag because I love the old GPBs too much 
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In reply to Post #120
That is a Beaut of a fish.
That lad sure does put them on the bank too... really makes the most of those S2s!
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In reply to Post #120
Nobody's said it so I will. What a simply 'kin stunning looking fish. I'm so Jealous. Well done that man
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In reply to Post #120
Got my fizz today they remind me of panettone
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In reply to Post #119
We are still very much alive 😂. No tourist boats or earthquakes. It's so stunning here.
We are up to date with all orders. I just sent all of yesterdays orders through to work via WhatsApp. If you need to get hold of us regarding an outstanding order please only use WhatsApp for the next ten days. It's free.
Russ with one of Essex finest over 40lb. The one he desperately wanted. Fizz S2 over Essential Kraken.
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Just checking in that you’re okay Mark, saw about a tourist boat exploding in Phuket today!
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In reply to Post #1
Fizz turned up today great service from contacting Mark in Phuket over the weekend.
No rest for the wicked …
Thanks to Mark enjoy your holiday
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Jacko with a recapture of the biguns from his lake. Did not weigh it and slipped it back after a quick mat shot. Bottom photo is him with it last year.
Banoffee S2 balanced over Scopex Squid freezers
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Forum member Ian, 40lb8oz from a Midlands syndicate. White S2 13mm balanced over a small bag of crumb.
Well done Ian
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Chris, 40+ from a public venue in France, Fizz S2. Five bites already, Three on Fizz S2, two on Hutchie S2. He's meant to be moving to a venue in Belgium tomorrow, going nowhere now I imagine. He's going to have more.
We literally have just a few tubs of the Fizz left now.
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We are getting so many messages enquiring about turnaround times at the moment.
We are completely up to date with all orders right up until one hour ago. If you have placed an order in the past three days, they went yesterday, or today.
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Glad you all like them. We have had a crazy amount of messages to the work mobile describing what anglers think the Fizz S2 smell like. Most popular choice is Refreshers sweets so far. Seven or eight different customers have mentioned they remind them of those specific sweets. I don't get that aroma myself, but my nose it pretty dead to it all now.
Refreshers are an old favourite of mine too!
Forum member Andy, 35+ ScopexPineapple S2
Harvey, all three pink Hutchie S2 from the TackleBox.
Carl, Banoffee S2 over Rollin Baits pellet
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Just got mine. Even better than I thought. Wow.
Cheers Mark.
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I'm new here, been reading the forum a fair while.
Mine arrived today too, cheers 🙂
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In reply to Post #109
Mine arrived this morning, thank you Mark 👍🎣🐋
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In reply to Post #108
Mine came this morning, my kitchen table currently has 6 tubs of your hook baits sat on it and the Mrs is starting to ask questions. 
Ill take a tub of the Fizz out to Thailand next week and feedback
Cheers for the help and discussions again Mark.
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Five sacks of Fizz S2 were sent out yesterday.
So many of you reading this should have them arriving today, or tomorrow.
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Russ, 35lb linear and 38lb+ common, along with three others. Fizz S2 over Essential Kraken
Forum member Alex, mid 30, 16mm S2 CC over Rollin Baits Optimum
Forum member Ivan's nephew, 2nd PB in two weeks, Banoffee S2 13mm cc
Forum member Ivan, Banoffee S2 balanced
John, first day of French trip. 58+ 52+ & 48+, all Scopex/Pineapple S2
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In reply to Post #105
sent a WhatsApp message mate 👍🏻
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Not many Fizz left now.
They are all pink at the moment.
Ken, 56lb+ The Pretty Sutton, Wellington Country Park, 16mm Hutchie S2 cc pop up. Well done Ken.
Forum member Matt, lovely mid 30, ScopexPineapple S2 13mm cc pop up
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In reply to Post #101
There was a pic of pink and yellow earlier in this thread but mine are pink thanks
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In reply to Post #101
The ones I was kindly sent are pink and I don’t think Mark has mentioned variations of the specials so would stay with that.
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In reply to Post #100
Hi Mark what colour are the Fizz S2 thanks?
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The Fizz S2 are available now. Please message our work mobile on WhatsApp where you will be told what to order to cover the Fizz S2. Please start your message with the full name of the which will be on the order. Followed by what you would like to order. For example....
Mark TCarper, 1 x 13mm balanced, 1 x 16mm balanced, 1 x 13 cc pop ups, 1 x 16mm cc pop ups.
They are the variations available.
You will be give instructions as what to order from our website. They are the same price as our other special edition S2. Once you have sent your message, please do not message again until you receive a reply, or you will lose your place in the queue.
If you are one of the many people who messaged this week asking for some early, apologies that you did not get a reply, please message again today. We have a lot ready, but it is only a certain amount for now. I will say on here when they are gone.
They will be being added to our website in around a months time if you do not need them now.
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Received mark, much appreciated. Got to say i shall be ordering some more from you...they look and smell phenomenal.
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In reply to Post #95
Received with thanks. They look and smell amazing.
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Can’t wait to get my hands on some and get them slung out on hinges💪🏻
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Russ with a lovely 30+. 13mm ScopexPineapple S2 cc pop up over Essential Kraken.
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I'm glad you all like them. Anyones who did not arrive today it will only be RM. They go 24hr signed for with RM but often that is not 24hr anymore in certain cases.
There are two different fruit oils in the Fizz S2 from S America. That's partly why you are all picking up such heavy citric notes. The back notes are S2.
Wait until you go fishing with them this spring.
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In reply to Post #93
Mine also came today just before i left for work, just opened them they do smell well, there seems to be a lot going on there i seem to get different smells each time i open the pot at one point i thought i could smell the original nouvelle fizz and as others have said sweet and citrus at the same time.
Thanks again mark, it is very generous of you
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In reply to Post #92
Just managed to retrieve my delivery from the neighbour. Thank you Mark, it’s much appreciated.
Got to agree, the fizz smell awesome. Citrusy and sweet. Tacky in the pot, maybe something to do with the fizz part of it?
I’ll be sure to have one out when I’m next out in a few weeks.
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In reply to Post #91
A couple of pots landed here too - very generous.
Powerful and complex aroma to the Fizz... has that Rod vibe with something else to it. A slightly different feel to your other baits too, more lubricated.
Will give these a wet this week. Cheers!
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Hi thanks mark for my prize they smell better than what I thought the citrus 🍊 smell really hits you and also thanks for the bonus
A massive thanks again
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Steve again, following on from his lake record last week. Hacche Moor syndicate lake again, 13mm white S2 balanced.
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In reply to Post #87
End of this week Jeff. Could be Friday, could be weekend sorry don't really know yet. We have a shed load ready and they are only being sold as special orders on here. They have only ever been mentioned on here, so you should be good.
I'll post on this thread when they are available with details, you will need to message our work phone on WhatsApp first with the full name on the order. You will get told what to order from our website to cover the Fizz. They are the same price as our other special edition S2's. We only have a certain amount done for now and it will be first come first served.
They should be on the website within a month or so.
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In reply to Post #86
Looks like the fizz doing the business already them sweet smell getting them going
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In reply to Post #86
Sorry Mark, but just to be clear, the S2 Fizz will be available as a special order from this Friday?
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Chris, first fish banked by anyone out of Woolpack 5/6 this year. Everyone else zigging, Chris caught this one from the deep water on a single S2 Fizz 16mm balanced.
If you need to use zigs in the Winter/Spring, your hook baits are simply not soluble enough to get the fish down onto the bottom in cold water. It's the best time of the year for seeing how good all the bait companies bait really is. If their anglers are all using zigs, the bait (hook baits) are not that good in reality. You should always be out fishing the zig anglers using foam with your real bait at all times. Always, no exceptions. If not, the bait is simply not good enough.
Roy again, big common, S2 Fizz over home rolled freezers
Forum member Andy, his first fish of the year from his Kent syndicate, 35+, ScopexPineapple S2
Stoke Carl's first two of the year, Banoffee S2 balanced over Rollin baits freezers
Dave, Northey park, pink S2 over Trent freezers
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You're all very welcome. Will go Monday morning should be with you Tuesday. FishOn have a large stock of Banoffee S2 today. TackleBox will have loads of pink Hutchie S2 tomorrow. We do not do these in pink normally.
Hacche Moor bailiff Stevie with a new syndicate lake record last week. White 13mm S2 balanced
Roy again, the mirror is ancient and flooded into his new lake from a different pit altogether. Both S2 Fizz over homemade freezers.
Forum member Dean, ScopexPineapple S2
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In reply to Post #83
Congratulations chaps. Hope you catch some whackers.
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In reply to Post #82
Lo9king forward to getting a few pots of them
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In reply to Post #75
Thats a great gesture Mark, thank you
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In reply to Post #75
Very kind of you Mark
Awesome fish from Orellana those!
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In reply to Post #75
That's awesome cheers Mark.
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In reply to Post #75
Thats really sound - a nice surprise there - cheers Mark
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In reply to Post #76
What a venue and what a result. Good angling on those guys chasing around a 20,000 acre lake... got the rewards there.
look at the mouths on both those weapons! 
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In reply to Post #76
Thanks mark I never win an argument 🤣
Look out Merrington here come s2 fizz
Congrats to all others who have won this great prize
True gentleman no need for the competition these would have sold out anyway
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Mentioned these two were off to Orellana last week. Copy and paste from Faceache.
Parky & Tony holding two very impressive lake Orellana big carp. They had to move numerous times to find the fish on the 20,000 acre Spanish public venue, but it all came good in the end.
Andy's common weighed 54lb+, caught on one of our GPB2 cc pop ups fished as a snowman with NBD Nutrition bottom baits. Tony's stunning mirror weighed 52lb+, caught on one of our Hutchie S2 cc pop ups fished over two large tigers, snowman style. Fished over loads of Dynamite Pepper Squid freezer baits and corn/tigers. What incredible photos, well done both of you. Superb angling.
That top photo is one to treasure!
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In reply to Post #73
You can find out Woody and tell everyone else what you think.
I said when I was back I would pick some winners to try them. I've been so stupidly busy. Made up on the spot now. Last five posters on this thread and last three posters on whole site from the latest posts button. Please all PM your full name and delivery address. We will send you a couple of tubs of the soon to be released S2 Fizz.
Please do not all PM or message asking for them. We have loads done, they will be available as special orders end of next week. We cleared all orders completely up to date yesterday. FishOn have bundles of yellow Banoffee S2 on the way to the shop today. TackleBox will have bundles of pink Hutchie S2 this weekend too. This allows the Fizz to come end of next week.
Forum names below.
D J Strauss
RKB
DaleG 2008
Greekski
Woody71
Whitey79
Andy C
Karmh
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In reply to Post #52
Fair play! Only just came in second. Good use of a free bet e/w for me. It’s only little wins my end but £54 up from free bets today isn’t half bad. Think it’ll be well spent with you Mark!
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Hi Mark what are the s2 fizz?
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Any news mark on the fizz release date can’t wait to get my hands on them and some garlics looking for the fizz for a trip at the beginning of April thanks
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In reply to Post #67
Thats a proper early spring carp pic ain't it?
A good read those long posts too - just had a slow read over a coffee, thanks for sharing. Always like reading about the adventures and tricks you guys who are really really into it and have a propper eye and drive for going after it.
Braving carrying hooks/rigs on a lilo... hope it was one of those pink ones with the glitter inside it
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Richie, 38 & 32 this morning. First trip with 13mm balanced S2 Fizz.
The 38 is another one of the special ones from his lake. Good angling Richie.
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Well done that man belter fish and ever better to the fella who gave him the bait to try
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In reply to Post #62
Incredible Mark. Got the juices flowing. There's a private estate lake 2 miles from my house which there's no fishing on and that hasn't been fished for ten years or more. which I know used to hold some high 30s...this has got me going ten fold to have a cheeky fling. Good writing too.
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In reply to Post #66
Dave Little was in the pub with the Woolpack bailiff yesterday night. The bailiffs friend has been really struggling the past winter. The bailiff asked Dave for some advice. Dave gave him three S2 and told him to try them.
The bailiff's mate caught his first fish in a long time from Woolpack this morning, after casting out one of those S2 for the first time.
Well done the bailiff's mate, that is a beautiful carp.
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In reply to Post #65
Thank you Dave & Chris. That first photo of the fully is the best photo I have of any carp. The way the natural sunlight is coming through the trees and pinging up the blue hue on its back makes that a personal favourite. I only showed that particular photo anywhere for the first time when Paul F died. That was five years after I caught it.
There’s plenty more to come yet.
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In reply to Post #63
Thanks Mark love these stories and great pictures
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Love these stories Mark , please keep them coming , i'm not a carp angler as Barbel is my passion but i love reading about the lenghts you went to and the results you had , incredible stuff mate 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
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Milton Pan, Swirly the common, around 1993-1995 I think.
At this time I was working in a Mayfair casino in London. I have a Ted Baker flannel shirt on purchased from some expensive designer shop. Burt Bruin Nike, ltd editions. Those trainers would be worth an absolute crazy fortune now second hand. How mad Ted Baker help produce OMC fishing kit these days. This was my second session on Milton Pan. A Mid Kent fisheries venue. At the time Conningbrook and Two-Tone were their flagship, but rammed with full timers. Milton was such a gorgeous lake back then. Barely fished, it had an incredibly tough reputation among the locals. The lake itself is full up with gravel bars. On my first trip I saw a few fish out in the middle. I never used to use a bed chair back then, but always a lilo whenever the banks allowed it. It was a big edge. I had gained the unfortunate nickname of Lilo-Lil at Littlebrook. A character from the TV show Bread. I was mustard on an inflatable lilo. I used to carry a long wooden seven foot handle in my holdall. This would be laid across the front of the inflatable, while a rig was hooked into the wooden stick at either side, hanging a few foot clear of the inflatable. The stupid things we do when we are young. A bucket of bait on the front and off I would go 3.30am just on first light. Two rigs placed on a dinner plate with a bucket of corn over the top. I had gone out to the middle on a lilo and placed a couple of bags of frozen corn behind a bar. I had two bites, but lost a really big fish which ragged me down the bars and cut me off. They loved the sweetcorn, but I was going to have to fish a lot closer in if I wanted to land them. The next trip was fishing next to the little wooden gate in the corner by the entrance bay. On this day the bay was full up with most of the lakes fish. There was a tiny little bar that ran out from the margins, on that sunny day the bigger fish loved that spot so much. It was instantly recognised as the ‘spot’. That very first day that I fished it, I got two 30lb+ mirrors feeding right in the edge. They were absolutely mowing down the 1.5kg bags of frozen value corn. I would add brown sugar and allow them to sweat in the sun. Before I could even think about placing a rig, the queen of the pond came in and started bullying the two mirrors off of the spot. Although I had no clue what fish it was at the time, it was the best common swimming around in Kent that I was looking at. She was demolishing the corn at a rate that I could barely keep up with. All day I fed her, little and often. She would pick up the rig once, blow it out, and would not feed again until that rig was removed. We played this game of cat and mouse for many hours before I eventually got the bite. I fed her, alone, 17.5kg of sweet corn. Watched her trough every single grain up close and personal. You could never imagine that one fish could eat this much food, this quickly. But if the food is the right stuff, they can literally eat it as fast as they are crapping it out. They cannot do this with boiled baits. Imagine that spot being out in the lake. I would have never known I was getting done over and over again. I would have never banked her. I had to move the rig likely twenty times that day. Once she knew it was there, she simply would not go near it again. She was without question the most intelligent carp that I have ever watched. It was actually quite scary how simply she could deal with the rig. In the end it took a single grain of corn, on a 2” rig to get the bite. I never went back stupidly. I met the dearly departed Brett White that day. He wanted to catch Swirly, he did so a few years later.
Swirly was still swimming up until just a few years ago, she got huge at one point. The 30+ mirrors that she was bullying…. One of them was the Milton Mirror which went on to become another famous in Kent carp.
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In reply to Post #61
The Nursery poaching pit, Sonning Eye, close season 2017.
Within a few days of leaving Burghfield, I was baiting the Nursery. The tackle company hat had come off through my choice, never to be replaced after what happened on Burghfeild. The poaching pit, is a SSSI, former no fishing venue owned by Lafarge. It lies directly next to Sonning Eye, very close to the river Thames. At one time, half of the Nursery, was actually a part of the montros Sonning Eye gravel pit itself. The lake, is an L shape, one original half of the lake being much shallower than the other, much newer and more deeply dug half. The shallower part of the lake, was the bit once a part of Sonning itself. A causeway was built across the entrance to a large bay, which formed the original part of the Nursery pit. For years, every year during flooding, this causeway would be under water and fish would enter and exit the Nursery at times of flood. In exactly the same way that they always have from Sonning itself, which very regularly floods into the river Thames. Often the Thames can be flowing in and out of Sonning, in various different places in the depths of winter. At a much later date, Lafarge dug out the newer much deeper half of the Nursery to extract gravel. It would be this 'new ground', which would lead some of the fish in the pit to grow on to truly incredible sizes. The pit is approximately fifteen acres or so at an uneducated guess. The Nursery gets its name, from the Nursery centre which backs onto the lake on the Henley road. At some point, the barren causeway separating the Nursery and Sonning Eye sprouted gorse bushes. As the gorse bushes grew denser and denser, they formed a natural impenetrable barrier, which would eventually stop the fish being able to enter or leave the pit during times of flood. At this point, the pits stock became more static. The entire stock of the pit, was made up of former Sonning Eye (ex river Thames carp). When I fished there in 2017, me, and anyone else who fished there before me had to hide in the bushes. It was a strictly no fishing venue which very few people knew about in reality. The pit lies directly in between Sonning Eye, and CWA Long lake. In 2018, CWA fisheries got the fishing rights for the Nursery pit from Lafarge, and a small five man syndicate was formed on the pit. It's not a secret anymore. My fishing on the pit in 2017 was so very brief, but ultimately incredibly successful. The very momentous to me personally fully scaled which I went on to catch, has never been banked again since unfortunately. Since my time on the pit, otters have had their say, clearly decimating the stock. Although no bodies of the specific fish I am about to speak about have ever been found. It’s looking more and more likely with every year that goes past that this is indeed the case and otters took them all. The pit contained some absolutely incredible carp, the like of which I have never seen before or since. Monsters, left alone to grow to incredible sizes in a totally unmolested environment. The account below, details my fishing on the pit from Late April 2017, until June 2017 when the river Thames reopened. 2017 was a great year for me in fishing terms, I had moved out of London, and was going to take full advantage living close to the river I loved. I had already been chasing the former, and now long dead river Thames record over two stretches for a few years. Me and my friend Sam had enjoyed some truly incredible pike fishing on the Thames that winter in 2017, culminating in Sam catching the third largest pike ever banked from the Thames at 32lb8oz. With me also banking numerous large 20's. On the last day of the river season I had got it into my head that I needed to christen some new Darent Valley 1.25lb Avon rods my friend Gary Peet had given me from the Tackle Box. So I baited a swim on the river for barbel with spiced meat and garlic hemp. That evening on a very flooded and powerful river, after a stupidly long battle where I was completely under gunned with those light 1.25lb Avon rods... I landed what I was told at the time was the third largest barbel ever caught from the river Thames, on my first ever Thames trip specifically targeting them. I had fished the Avon & Dorset Stour extensively as a child targeting them, but that was my one and only ever Barbel session fishing the Thames for them. What a session that turned out to be.
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In reply to Post #60
I had previously seen photographs of two, very special ex Thames fully scaled. Both of which had previously been caught by friends from the Nursery pit. These fish interested me massively. Unfortunately, one of them had since blown up spawn bound and died. It’s the one Cooperman is holding in the attached photos. But I knew that there was another, also that she was one of the most beautiful carp that I had ever clapped eyes on. Being a lifelong Thames angler, she was the ultimate prize for me. But I knew of some other very special ex Thames carp in there as well, and I simply could not wait to fish the pit. I knew I could have access for parking, I knew the pit would fit in well with me needing to work constantly. I would just need to keep myself well hidden away from any birdwatchers that would so regularly walk the lake, and the out of bounds on the back of RDAA Sonning. I would also need to make my hard earned time fishing really count. I would always wear 'normal' non fishing clothes, and anyone who approached my swim would be cut off long before they got close to seeing any fishing kit. I blagged two bird watchers, and a Lafarge employee during my short time on the pit, none of whom ever saw my rods or my kit.
My first walk around the pit, revealed very clearly that the much older more shallower area closest to Sonning, was the area anyone fishing the lake previously had mainly concentrated their efforts. Once you got behind the maze of impenetrable gorse bushes, a hidden world was revealed. A hidden world of truly lovely swims completely cut off from the outside world’s knowledge. Clearly lovingly prepared by anglers who had poached the lake previously. The last thing I wanted to do was tread on anyone else's toes. So this area was immediately written off. Little did I know, that I would have the pit to myself pretty much for the next six weeks. I could have fished where I wanted, but I did not want to fish near anyone else, so I went to the opposite side of the lake to where it was obvious anyone fishing was going. At the end of the main path on the opposite side, there was a fence, with access to the back of the Nursery centre. It was here that I chose to start fishing up next to this fence. It had a large plateau to my right, with bars running from the more newly dug half of the pit like roadways. The swim that I chose, was right on the meeting point of old and new Nursery. Basically on the outside corner of the L shape. To my right, was the much deeper, heavily weeded newer part of the lake. The weed was the thickest most horrible you could imagine. Full up with zebra mussel at all depths. Directly opposite me at range, was the shallower, much older part of the pit. I would later find out that the pits very small stock of carp, would spend the vast majority of their day time in this shallower area. All of them. They very rarely visited the deeper, more heavily weeded part of the lake. But when they did at night during darkness, they just had to use the road ways right out in front of me in my mind. I knew the first time I went out in the boat and looked, that this would be the area for me to target. The two bars that came off the side of the plateau to my right, both ran for around ten to fifteen yards and broke up directly in front of me. Both bars were completely covered in really thick Canadian pond weed. My first task was to clear this weed. An eight foot bamboo cane was placed at the start of the furthest bar, which also ran slightly longer than the closer bar. The cane was placed, so as I could see it from the bank. To normal people it would just look like a stick caught in weed from the bank. The photo with the rod leaning on bivvy was just after the fully was banked. If you zoom in you can see my cane. At the time I was living very close to the Nursery, having moved to Sonning for a year. I was working every single day, but I could visit the lake just before dusk and bait it. And that is what I did. My fishing time was kept to the bare minimum really.
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In reply to Post #59
But I maximised my preparation time. 30kg of particles at a time. Mainly fermented garlic hemp, but also masses and masses of tiger slime and some nut mix freezer baits to hold it down there. During these initial bait ups, I bumped into a tench angler. He had been poaching the pit for a number of years. We quickly struck up a mutual respect. He left me alone, and I left him alone. During our early conversations, I had asked him if he had caught any decent tincas from the pit. He flat out told me there was no big tench in there, that he had never even caught a double. I started to notice bait being eaten, at first not to much, but it was a start. My first night fishing the spot, I banked an 11lb6oz male tench. This is an absolutely montros male tinca. Just ounces off of the largest male tench ever banked in the UK. I chuckled to myself about tincaman, Fair play to him too, I'd do the exact same. If the pit contained male tench of this size, it very likely held a British record female. It was my first glimpse of the potential of the pit. The new ground Lafarge had dug, had created an environment where all the fish in the pit could REALLY flourish on that fresh ground and complete neglect. Any lake is very rich during the first ten years after it is dug. The Nursery fish had come from the Thames via Sonning, into a rich environment, made substantially richer by Lafarge work to extend the pit previously. It was all like the 'perfect storm'. An environment where fish could really flourish on neglect.
Over the next week the pits bream moved onto my area. They stripped quite a bit of weed for me, but ultimately they became a real pain in the backside. I was doing over night trips after work, and being kept up all night by monstrous slabs. I would not be at all surprised if the Nursery also contained a British record bream at the time. I stopped fishing, but carried on baiting. I knew that I would be able to visibly see when the carp eventually got onto the spot. And they very soon did just that. I arrived one evening for a bait up, the moment I got above the bar I could see everything was completely different! It had been absolutely smashed to bits. Every strip of weed was now gone. Large glowing areas clearly dug right out by carp. As I scanned the bar gleefully knowing my work was about to pay off, a 40lb+ mirror glided under the boat. This fish was probably the most ugly carp I had ever seen in my life. Although the pit contained some very beautiful Thames carp, it also, like the river itself these days contained some absolute munters. Fish that had been washed into the river from Oxfordshire day tickets, which had survived in the river and ultimately found their way into the Nursery via Sonning. Simmos, but horrible simmos in the main. The Thames is now full of them, Sonning’s big fish are made up of the same type. The one which drifted under my boat that day had been christened 'the blow up doll' due to having and very strangely permanent open disfigured and deformed mouth. Clearly a birth defect. Whatever the cause, boy she was so ugly. But the carp were there, and now it was time to capitalise. Stiff hinge rigs, with pink S2 crushed cork pop ups, with either a fermented tiger, or fermented peanut on top would be the weapons of choice. These would always be fished spread along the bar as single hook baits.
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In reply to Post #58
My first night after the carp arrived, I landed a 21lb common. This first fish was added to the following night by the blow up doll at 42lb+. They were clearly now 'on it'. Every time I went out in the boat to place rigs or bait up I could see the bar was being dug right out. They were digging right down into the gravel in various areas. I would very regularly see the blow up doll, she was so greedy she was always on the spot. One day she had another carp with her. I have been lucky enough to catch and also see some very large UK carp in my time. I have viewed the Machine from Theale swim under my boat at 60lb+. The carp I watched from the boat that day, was far larger than any carp I had ever seen before or since. It had to be in well in excess of 70lb, I would have put it closer to 80lb. It absolutely dwarfed the blow up doll. Easily by 35lb or more. I nearly fell out of the boat. It was the most impressive sight which I had ever seen whilst carp angling. A carp that would have shook carp fishing to the very core if it was ever banked. I could not stop thinking about what I had seen all week at work. It really totally and utterly blew me away. I mentioned it to Cooper who ran Long lake and had fished the Nursery before me. I described the fish to him as having one large scale on its side. Alan showed me a photo of a carp which he had caught from the pit some years previously. It had long been feared dead, or flooded out, because it had only ever been banked once from the Nursery at just over 30lb. Well I had just seen it without any doubts, it was a British record in waiting. Without question the largest carp swimming in the UK, and completely 'unknown'. Things had just become so much more exciting. On a whole another level of exciting! My following trip saw me bank the fish of my dreams. I have caught so many much larger UK carp. But being a lifelong Thames angler, she simply meant everything to me personally. She was literally carved from oak, she had no silly name. She was completely unknown to the masses. She had been caught some twenty five years previously from the lock-cut on the Thames at Sonning at 18lb. I met Jason Bowsher of old Dinton fame briefly while on the pit, and he confirmed the same as I’d been told. She weighed 40lb8oz when I was lucky enough to catch her. My friend Ben who had a Long lake ticket came to help me do some photographs and a little video. As we slipped her back, I never dreamed she would be the very last carp that I would ever catch from the pit. It was June 5th, just eleven days later the river Thames would open and I would be chasing my nemesis again. I caught some absolutely breathtaking carp from the river in 2017, stacks of them, but I never caught my nemesis, who would be dead within six months.
A small syndicate was formed on the Nursery whilst I was away on the river, and after catching the fully, I was not given a ticket that I was previously told I would get. That really hurt. Yateley-boy business. I should never have opened my mouth about what I had seen to anyone. The fully has never been banked again. The single scaled fish which I saw from the boat was never caught. The largest carp I would guess that has ever swam in the UK. I hope and pray that both are still there, even the ugly blow up doll. Plus all of the other very special carp which the lake contained in 2017. But some of the best anglers have fished the lake since my time on the pit, neither the fully or the monster have been seen since. Otters moved onto the pit sometime around 2018. In all likelihood they have taken them both and many of the others. I barely get to fish these days, work has become an all encompassing monster. I often look back on 2017 with so much great joy. When I do get to very rarely go carp fishing these days, it can only be on pits similar to the Nursery. No bitching, no dramas, real fishing, for very few carp. These kind of places are the essence of carp fishing to me. Long may there remain just a few places in the UK, like the Nursery that I knew back in 2017. At a time when syndicate prices have gone through the roof. The best carp in the UK are often swimming around in pits that can be fished for free, by anyone who has the balls.
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The sister to the Thames fully I caught, that blew up spawn bound and died the year before I fished there. Caught on one of our hook baits.
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During the start of the closed season of 2017, I had my one and only session on Burghfield, which resulted in three 40+ and two 30+ mirrors in five nights. I had located the carp at extreme long range before my ticket had started on April 1st. I walked the pit for two months in the freezing cold at night and the early hours of the morning before my ticket even started. Prior planning prevents piss poor performance. Once I found where their winter holding area was, I saw or heard in darkness over two hundred big carp shows in the same area for a month leading up to my ticket starting. I put lashings and lashings of fermenting tiger nut slime out there by the bucket load, soaked into boillie crumb to keep them in the area once they woke up. Carp crave easily converted energy above all else when they wake from their winter slumber. It’s one of the specific reasons that our hook baits work so exceptionally well in cold water. Attraction through an easily converted energy source. If you give the fish what they actually crave more than anything else, you will see what is really actually possible in terms of the attraction of a carp. It really worked on there too the tiger slime. Exceptionally well.
You could very easily walk onto somewhere like Burghfield, be overawed. With the attitude that it’s going to be really difficult after listening to stories from your hero's. Tie yourself up into knots, and then struggle. Even the best do it. When really in reality, you should be walking onto pits like that, thinking you are going to catch them all with great ease in just five minutes flat. Carp fishing is so easy in reality. You will be told it is super difficult by people who want to make themselves seem far more intelligent than they actually are. On the very last morning of my five nights on Burghfield, I watched the common clear the water three times at long range on the spot, that will remain with me forever. A truly incredible sight. Others saw it too unfortunately. As I was wrapping my kit up, the rod ripped off again. It was a 42lb+ mirror. I have never been more gutted to catch a 40. The entire way in while playing the fish from range, I was absolutely convinced that I was attached to the Burghfield common. That would have made it the ultimate one and only session. Probably for the best for carp fishing itself that I did not catch it anyway. You are not meant to walk onto that place and catch the ultimate chub in five minutes flat. I had that first and only wonderful session, completely ruined by a few sausage members, who clearly did not like what was happening in front of their eyes. One of them had watched it before on Roach Pit and they were determined to stop it from happening again. The absolute childish messages from grown men who had never even met me being sent to the owner and his balliffs were all shown to me. It was so tragic. Best was explaining how life works in the real world to their fweind squeaky. What a monster I am. That's all cut throat carp fishing these days. SHB changed my life, but it ruined my personal carp fishing. Little did I know anyway, that this was to lead to me catching the absolute fish of my dreams within a couple of weeks anyway from elsewhere. Result for me. It was the very first year of a new five day rule on the venue, so I had to leave after five nights. Anyone else in history before me could have stayed as long as they wanted, and they did. The bloke who moved into the swim singing to me about how him and the other normal blokes could never get anywhere near any decent swim due to swim rotations by the chosen ‘few’ from the clique. The same ones trying to create chaos as I was starting to smash them. He was promising me that I could return in a couple of days if I let him move in behind me. He was outed from the swim by said members after just twenty four hours. They terrorised the poor old fella all night in the bushes behind him. Told him I was getting banned, he would be getting banned with me. All bull**** I never left my swim once. No one came to see me at any point, apart from the balliff to tell me what was happening in the background after every carp landed. The BBC was caught from the exact spot I banked these fish from I was told, but from a different swim. Three days after I left. It was caught by Scott Lloyd on a single tiger nut, a great capture by the lad at over 60lb. Clearly, that was the end of that for me though. Because of what had happened, I was offered my money back if I wanted it with the promise I could return whenever I wanted. I took it. Getting banged up for a stretch over carp fishing, with idiots who can't even read or write properly and stink of stale piss just ain't worth it in reality. Three 40’s along with two others in my one and only session was enough. Free too. Easy lake. The Nursery poaching pit was calling, and the Thames would be open again really soon. Once the river opened everything else would mean nothing anyway.
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In reply to Post #54
Are the cheese barrels also delayed with the fizz mark?
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In reply to Post #49
Have look at this thread in FAQ's and help section...
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In reply to Post #51
Took me 27 seconds to upload it to photo host and post it on here. I timed it
Maybe I just need some practice. Better go catch something to put up hadn't I?
on the tip btw
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Cheltenham very soon. Below is a post from my personal social media a few days ago. The horse is still 16-1 with bet365 right now, 10’s now everywhere else. If you fancy a little wager, that 16’s is far to big. The race has since I wrote that below been named after the young jockey who died.
“First race of the festival on the Tuesday. Supreme novices hurdle. William Munney, 16-1 bet365 ante post rules this time. Fav is odds on from Mullins. False price. William Munney put up a performance already last time on certain mid race sectional speed figures that see him winning 8 out of the last 10 supreme novice hurdles.. He’s only run three times over hurdles and improving at the right time. If you heard the tragedy of the young Irish jockey who lost his life last week. This was his stable. They won that race together. Same owner same trainer. The first race William Munney is going to attract a lot of money from the Irish for sentimental reasons alone. I’ve got more than £2k on him to win at prices north of 16-1 already. You should back him é/w in the antepost market. He runs only in the Supreme barring a leg falling off in the next two weeks. He’s 12-1 NRNB if you would rather be safe.
He’s an incredible bet at 16-1. A pure class horse without doubt 100%. If he jumps and takes to Cheltenham, he’s no 10-1 shot whatsoever, let alone 16’s. I think he’ll beat the odds on favourite who very likely will not handle the occasion”.
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In reply to Post #49
It’s so easy Andy to post photos once you know how. Just as simple from a mobile as from desktop.
Top of non fishing chat, photography thread, copy the link. Post that, delete the capitals where it says INSERT LINK HERE, then copy & paste the direct link from the photo host. I can do it in seconds now.
This is a nice message from a hauling forum member from yesterday as example. Took me 27 seconds to upload it to photo host and post it on here. I timed it 😂
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Can’t wait to try the fizz
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In reply to Post #48
Some absolute corkers on the bank there - Nice. Got me even more looking forward to getting out next week. I have some S2s that have been top and tailing in a pot with some GPBs since November (unintentionally) and smell pretty funky and due an airing 
Mate - I don't know how you managed the patience to do all those photos from a mbl.... I was absent from the forums for a few years and coming back they've actually made it more fiddly to post a pic, and thats on a desktop
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Dave’s mid 20 from Northey Park today, pink S2 13mm cc
We are completely up to date with every single order on the website right up until two hours ago.
Me sitting in some poxy hair salon for four hours today in Manila, posting those photos on CarpForum earlier 🫣
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Dave Little, part of a five fish catch from Woolpack lake 4 earlier this week. Pink S2 on SHR. He’s also got one in the sling at the Northey Park syndicate right about now. Well done Dave.
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First chunk that I can actually show caught on the S2 Fizz. Part of a six fish February haul for Royston. Caught over his own homemade freezer baits from a venue that he should not really be banking six from in a February session. Well done mate, good angling.
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In reply to Post #44
Thank you mark for your honest words warts an all it’s refreshing
Expect another order when you release the pink fizz 😂
Looking forward to the fish spawning to release the fermented hemp on them
And also to show there French family some garlic specials
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Thank you all for the kind messages on here. It's really all so appreciated honestly. It's 04:30 am here. The work phone has received the most incredible number of kind messages over the past day or so. Some of them truly humbling too.
Meanwhile, I'm having sleepless nights on the other side of the world worrying about the sheer number of new carp anglers (to us) who have our stuff for the very first time. These shops are bringing in so many new customers to us. The carnage that this will bring when these blokes all go use them for the first time is worrying slightly. We released six new hook baits last year. This will be the first Spring that the newer S2's will be set free on pits all across the UK. When the carp start to wake up, I already know exactly what sort of mayhem is coming, just from the few blokes who got them last Winter/Spring. This Spring everything is going to be very different indeed. They are the same old cold water S2's, but turbo charged to a different level. The number of new anglers currently about to use them for the very first time on slightly dumbed down Spring carp, are about to find out all this for themselves at any moment. That's an exciting, whilst also at the same time very scary thought for me currently. To you lot nothing has changed. To me/us everything is about to change in a gigantic way.
Then the Fizz is about to get released as well.
Forum member Ron (Chris), his first carp of the year. 34+, DNA Bug balanced with a slither of pepperami added. Well done Chris.
Dynamite consultant Tony, seven to over 30lb from St Johns at the very start of February, when it was absolutely bitter still. Pink S2 over Monster Tigernut freezers and hemp/corn.
Tony and Parky are both off to Orellana in Spain tomorrow morning. Tony caught some incredible big carp last February's trip, they are both buzzing for tomorrow, Parky's first time. They will have them.
Josh with his Jan brace from Wellington Country Park. Two in the net at the same time in freezing conditions. Standard brown S2.
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Rest easy Jack. This country needs to do so much more and quickly to make mental health support accessible for young working class lads.
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Suicide is definitely on the rise I have family and friends who have done it not nice for those left behind the internet and socials have a part to answer but also drink and drugs also play a big part in the demise of peoples mental health
They are troubled souls with men we are conditioned to be men and we shouldn’t show weakness we let me tell anyone who thinks this your wrong it’s good to talk
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In reply to Post #39
Absolutely outstanding writing Mark. What a world we live in. My son had a friend over to play last week. His friend told me that his dad had committed suicide a few months ago. It is beyond words, the horror.
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In reply to Post #37
Your friend is a very wise man Darren.
It’s so tragic that it defies belief Andy. Especially looking at his young children who have lost their dad. Mental health is affecting so many young men in the UK now. Life is constantly getting tougher, the pressure and problems that brings with it are making mental health issues worse and worse.
In a world now completely obsessed with social media. There is only one thing to blame really for me. I feel lucky to have been born and grew up before the internet. I feel sorry for the generations that have come after me, of which Jack was one.
It’s so sad. I hope his family and friends find peace.
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In reply to Post #36
That is such a shame to read.
Still a young bloke too - in his 30's.... looked like he could catch them as well.
Terrible to think of the young people who get to the point where they feel that it's their only way out.
RIP mate.
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In reply to Post #35
RIP Jack.
As a friend told me years ago, sometimes you just to take a deep breath for a moment.... take one step backwards... have a think, or a cup of tea/coffee, take your time, to take 2 steps forwards.
Little steps.
As you said quite rightly, everything has a solution, just maybe not obvious at the time.
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This photo has been taken from Jack's friends memorial page for him. The big linear in the middle is the Cotton Farm Lin. An incredibly special carp for me personally that I was so DESPERATE to catch when it lived in Littlebrook. I fished the big lake next to the Dartford bridge for two years trying to catch it twenty five years ago. There was only three mirrors in there, all linears moved from the back lake to stop Essex robbing them. I caught the other two. I never caught the special one that Jack is holding there though.
Jack caught it when it was around 55 years old.
Rest in peace Jack. So tragic for his family & friends.
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In reply to Post #34
Thank you Darren.
It really had a big impact on me. I was the other side of the world, and burst into tears moments after reading it on a friends feed. Jack had sent me a friend request just weeks before. He had a young son & daughter. I'd never met him. He was never a customer as far as I know. But i cried like a baby when reading it.
Sometimes I am the worst for explaining myself. So much rubbish goes on via the internet, the reality is very little of it matters, not really. I've had numerous problems on this forum. The actual reality is one group, the Enzyme lads were absolutely desperate for me to roll hook baits for their former bait company. That reality, is proof there was no flies on Pete or Dean. They were the very first to try to get me to make their bait into hook baits, put through my process. For damn good reason too. I was never in a position to ever do that at the time for them. That clearly caused much offence, because what came afterwards when they came forwards with the enzyme liquid was always a very bitter reaction to only that. The fact remains, they actually wanted me to do it for them. How that led to what happened on here, with all the fake profiles I would never be able to get my nut around. I gave up trying a long time ago.
Me and Wayne have had our problems. Reality? Wayne purchased one tub of GPB1 from us and caught loads of pukka fish on that single tub. He sent me the photos. I unwisely did not use them, as I did not like the way he was treating another forum member who's mate had died of Covid. I'm not the old bill, should have just posted Waynes photos. That was five years ago now. That led to mucho mucho trouble in various forms that was still going on until very recently with him and Braders. Do I give a single feck? Not at all.
I'm in the very fortunate position where our products results do the speaking for me. I do not need to court the media. I don't need a Teflon smile. I do not need any of you to even like me. I do not need to plow Faceache or Insta. Used to, to get the word out. But our customer base incapsulate the more long standing, better class of carp angler.... And they, via the grapevine are always capable of finding out all the information for themselves, without the internet. Word of mouth is king for long term customers in this game. The internet is not. If a man watches his best mate turn into TH over night, the first few times he uses our stuff. Him, and then all his mates become customers for years and years, or even life. People can chat all of the chit they want on the internet. Nothing can ever stop or even slow that down. You only realise that personally with time.
I'm intelligent enough to know all of my worst faults, I'm a hot headed ***** sometimes. But it's often for specific reasons that people reading do not understand. That's from me not explaining myself clearly. We are all products of our personal environments. Mine was quite a brutal one. That's all.
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In reply to Post #33
Nicely wrote Mark
If it changes the darkness for at least one person, writing it was very worth it.
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This is for Karlos, something I've wanted to say for a while.
The day I mentioned the S2 Fizz would be available in a couple of weeks, we received 74 inquiries to the work mobile. We got many more than that, but that was in one single day. Not even a full day. My guess, is the almost the entire amount were non forum members looking in as guests.
If you are reading this and you work in the carp fishing industry (Hi guys  ). Despite the fights about bait and constant moaning/biatching.... This forum is actually a truly incredible place for UK carp fishing, and also for your brand.
We command among the very largest numbers of anyone when it comes to 'reach' on one of the other larger forms of social media, more popular with the yoof. But this forum is an incredibly special place and needs supporting more than Faceache.
There's a very good chance now that the S2 Fizz will only be available as special orders for now, to people looking in at this forum when I get back. I will post on here. But they are certainly not going on the website as soon as I thought now.
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Something different and far more important today before more fish talk. Tragically, another young carp angler with his whole life in front of him took his own life last week. RIP Jack. He was a young carp angler from London. This really hit me hard despite never meeting Jack. But it really struck a chord with me. For reasons you will read below. There is an epidemic of this now going on in this country. As a community, which is made up of mostly young men, this is something that needs speaking about. I understand most if not all of you on this forum are strong independent men who don’t need any advice from me. So just scroll on past and ignore this. If what I am about to write changes one young mans outlook in the bleakness so many face these days, it will be worth it.
Carp fishing offers us something that not many other things can in today’s climate. Not only a love of what we do, but also a chance to absolutely change your own future. As an evolving and fairly new ‘thing’ in the greater scheme of things, there are many opportunities for you reading this to change yours and your family’s future, forever. If I can do that, absolutely anyone can. It does not matter however dark things get, or how much it seems like there is no way out of the situation that you are in…. YOU ARE WRONG. There is always a way.
I had a very privileged start in life. After being born into poverty in Brixton in the 70’s, I watched my father turn himself from a man who could not even read or write, into a millionaire by the time I was ten years of age from scaffolding. Just through sheer determination and pure hard work. Me and my sisters went to a great school, we got an amazing education which I will always be grateful for. When I was thirteen years of age, everything changed in my world. Consequences of which would go on to haunt me until this day. My father lost it all. He owned properties. One of which, a very large mortgage was taken out, in my name to try to rescue the sinking ship. With the help of a dodgy mortgage broker, they set up an identity fraud in my name, before that was even a recognised word. Falsified documents, opened and funded bank accounts to say I was a lot older than I was and earning a great living. All to take out a massive bent loan in my name. He lost it all his business, was declared bankrupt. But for a few years he still had a line of credit in my name. More credit was taken out, including credit cards in my name. A long stream of credit that all got abused and left on me. My mother left my incredibly violent father not long after this. They had been off and on for years. I was now a young man with a pregnant fiancee, about to get married. Little did I realise the consequences of what, or how much he had done, and how badly it would affect the rest of my entire life. At the age of around twenty I woke up to the beast of a man that my father actually was. But I was in a situation where I could do nothing whatsoever about it… Not without my own mum going to jail as his accomplice, as they were still married at the time it all happened. It was nothing whatsoever to do with her. So for the sake of my mother and my younger sisters I decided to swallow what he had done to me. I have never had a credit card in my life. I have had no line of credit ever. I was a complete financial ghost. Even my original birth certificate had been stolen to try to stop me resolving anything. As if that could stop anything if I really wanted to. I now had a young son and was married. I was working cash in hand as a labourer for buttons, but things were good. Until my former wife found out what had happened to me. She was a clever girl, and knew instantly that there was likely not much future for us with the gravity of the situation, and my complete lack of resolve to sort it out, due to the threats of taking my mother down with him. Within a year of her finding out, we were getting divorced. My son was two years old. I lost it all, and knew it was not my fault in the slightest. My son never grew up living with me because of this. I went into a depression at first, where I thought about taking my own life.
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I got a job in a London casino. This was my chance, and I excelled at it. This was my future, I had a kids type bank account with a card that you could only deposit wages into. Basically the lowest bank account with zero checks that you could acquire at the time. Nothing like that even exists now I'd imagine. Anything else I had tried, would have alerted financial institutions to what had gone on in my head. Which would lead to big trouble for my mum, and creating serious problems for my two younger sisters who were still at school. After a year I was promoted. After two more years I was promoted again. This involved a far more rigorous background check, including family. To be involved in sometimes counting tens of millions of pounds in cash in the count room. Then everything went wrong again. One day I went into work and was called in by security. All casino security tend to be ex police officers. I was being questioned as to who I really was, and what my real purpose was. They were convinced I was there to rob them eventually. None of my details added up to who I actually was. Add onto that my mothers family and it would of looked bad. The story was explained and I could prove it too. I had to beg them not to take this to the police and fraud squad. This was the end of my career instantly. I had it all taken away from me again, when it was not my fault whatsoever. I toyed very seriously with the very serious ideas of taking my own life again. I could see no way out of what my father had done. The sheer distress that this causes inside your own brain, to think that the person who helped bring you into the world and you idolised. That they could totally destroy their sons life before it even started, was a crushing one that it’s hard to even put into words. When something follows and haunts you for your entire life, it weighs heavy on the brain and leaves you with serious trust issues. My father may have been an absolute beast of men, but he pails into insignificance on that front when it came to members of my mother’s family. Karma taught my so called father a harsh lesson in life, when the truth eventually came about within. But that never helped me exercise any demons. I come from a place where grassing just is not an option. After the casino I went back to plastering. I became really good at it. I could earn real good money. I would never own a house in my head, or even have some fancy bank account. But I could earn money from hard work. That was one lesson I did learn from my useless excuse of a father. I've lived my life trying to be the total opposite of him, in every way. One day, while at work late in the evening I blacked out while standing on a pile of bricks. This would happen more and more often. It led me to having a tumour removed from my adrenal gland. If that tumour was cancerous, I would not be here now. It’s one of the rarest forms of cancer you can get, because of the tiny location. Normally always fatal without exception. But I am a spawny little mofo and someone up there still had very different plans for me. Terry Dempsey was one of the people who came and visited me in a SE London hospital. I then spent two months in a cancer ward, watching young men die in front of my eyes. I was so lucky that mine was benign. This was when I joined the RMC forum. Whilst in recovery. One of those young men I watched die in the bed opposite became my inspiration. I still think of him a lot.
I spent two years living on a mattress on my mother’s living room floor. I could barely afford to feed myself. I was to proud to ask anyone for help. I had one thing to my name. What would eventually become the S2. They came about from my sheer love of carp fishing. The exact thing that brings us all together. Through my absolute obsession with my carp fishing, I had discovered a way that I could ALWAYS catch more than everyone else around me. It did not matter who they were, or how great themselves, or everyone else considered them to be. This was the future for me. I set up SHB with a £150 loan for a bag of 5000 cork balls from a girlfriend. From that one bag of cork balls which equated to 142 tubs, some of the most special carp in the UK were banked. An incredible number of very special big UK carp. Anyone who used them properly, saw a monster improvement in their catches, including some of the best anglers around. I was being told by anyone and everyone and anyone, that no one would ever pay (at the time) £13 for a tub of pop ups that cost a lot of money to produce. Not when the most expensive tub available at the time was around £5. That though for something that cost absolute pennies to produce. I knew this was all absolute crap though. As an experienced carp angler, I knew that anglers would happily pay for something that would completely change their whole fishing. Anyone who had them, would literally beg to pay for more.
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One friend took 16 S2 corkballs to Abbey. He rinsed it. Not just him, his two fishing companions ended up using them as well. They were drying them out in spare landing nets and reusing them after every fish. They banked a truly stupid amount of big carp on half a tub between three blokes. It's things like this that will make it work for you. Not chit chat. The moment that other people got their hands on them on Roach Pit, there was never any looking back.
There was at least three times during that account above when I could see no way out from the situation that I was in. I came very close, to calmly taking my own life. As bad as things can seem, when there seems there is no way out, there is always hope. Everything happens for a reason. Those two months that I spent in a cancer ward were in fact the best thing that ever happened to me. Without it, you reading this would never know who I am, and you would NEVER have got to use the Sugars2. There is always hope, no matter how dark things get. You are lucky to be a carp angler, we are a strange and obsessive bunch of weirdos. But the carp fishing industry has grown out of all imagination over the last twenty years. This gives you an opportunity to make your future different to what the darkness is telling you right now. You just have to be willing to work like a crazy dog, and listen to absolutely NO ONE. Every sausage will tell you that it can’t be done. Every sausage will try to copy you if what you do works out for you. Just remember….
“Imitation is the the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness”
However dark things get, you will get the chance to be great in your world. Carp fishing will give you that chance. The mediocre ones will always tell you and everyone else that you are wrong, whilst at the very same trying their best to imitate you. ‘Friends’ will suddenly become competitors. This just means you are doing things right. **** em. Block it all out, listen to no one. It does not matter if you already know the end result. Anyone worth listening to will never be watching someone else or trying to bring them down. Your inspiration has to come from yourself. No one else. Otherwise you can just join the back of the queue with the mediocre ones doing the imitating. Carp fishing is full of it, in every single way imaginable. If people see you doing alright, there will be ten companies set up tomorrow doing the exact same thing. There is no future in that though for them, no matter how hard they try. Whatever you come up with, it has to really make a big difference. It also has be original. When you find your thing, listen to absolutely no one who tells you that it will not work. There will be many bitter old men doing just that. That’s just life passed them by, or people applying their personal logic to things. You can make anything happen if you want it bad enough. Just be original, and be yourself. Trying to be someone else, will never work.
Five years ago I was very fortunate to see a catalogue in the largest and most respected fishing tackle shop in the UK. In the catalogue, there were handwritten figures next to every single product sold in the shop. These figures were the previous yearly sales of every product. I was never meant to actually see that information. But I did see it. The yearly sales of the best selling hook baits on the market were all there. A few weeks ago, we sold close to three times that entire yearly amount of that best seller. But in just a few days in the very same shop. Read that again and take it in. My younger sister now owns the largest independent real estate agents in London. Built from scratch. My other younger sister works alongside her. She lives in a £14 million house next to premiership footballers and the like. Does that mean I did the right thing? I think so. Does that make me proud now? You can bet it does. That could have all been so different if I had made those different decisions in my life. Or taken it. I have still never had a credit card in my life through no fault of my own, and zero forms of credit until recently. Don’t want, or need any of it whatsoever. Time moves on, and it eventually heals. it all made me the person that I am today. That’s what your scars do. My life is so incredible now for me, I am so lucky and I damn well know it better than anyone.
If you read this, it means you are a carp angler. If you are suffering with similar thoughts at any dark moment like poor Jack who took his life last week, please think again. Carp fishing will give you that same chance. You just need to take it.
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In reply to Post #28
The express Asia diet is amazing if you can deal with virtually dying Andy
A stone in five days. I done my belt up to notches that have not been seen for five years today. Even my wrist has shrunk, my watch does not fit now.
Feel like a million dollars today. Ten fruit smoothies and a trip to TGI Fridays for a rack of ribs has done the trick. I was hank marving
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In reply to Post #25
Ah no! Gutted for you  5 dayer as well... you soon get fed up of that hotel room.
The pendulum of life.... swings just as far each way. 
Best of luck for whenever the journey home is. I've had one of those - still ill and got to do a long flight.
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Richie fishing a new lake. Catching the special ones straight away. The first fish is a true Leney descendent. Both Banoffee S2.
Parky, 37+ ScopexPineapple S2 over Creamino freezer baits
Forum member Ben, Kingsmead. Pink S2 & ScopexPineapple S2
Forum member Ivans nephew. Just started carping recently, new PB 18lb & a great smile. Well done young man. Banoffee S2
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In reply to Post #23
Quote... Is there any news on the Poacher TNM specials you spoke about previously?
Yes mate. I will get Gavin to drop some liquids & base into the TackleBox for me for when I get back. So much to do and so little time to do it.
Glad they are working so well for you.
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In reply to Post #22
As a grade one Mayfair trained croupier, you get taught to cheat better than the best cheats ever could Andy. If I tried to walk into a UK casino facial recognition would pull me out instantly. Security would never let me make it past the front reception. While holding a licence it's actually illegal in the UK to even try. Even once no longer a licence holder, if your level of training was such, you will never be allowed in. They have the right to refuse entry to whoever they like.
No more casino for us, I've been literally dying of some horrific gut rot the past five days. Lost more than stone in weight.
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In reply to Post #23
I never knew the GBP was a nut bait. Might Wang one out tomorrow weather looks superb.
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Hope you are keeping well Mark. Keep taking their money mate! Everyone loves seeing the house lose 👌 Hopefully the GPB2 keeps doing what It does again for me this year. Is there any news on the Poacher TNM specials you spoke about previously? They sound like something I would definetly like in my armoury 🎣🐟 Keep doing what you do mate, creating those little balls of magic. Lets hope 2025 is another blinder for all those that know👍 #StayOfTheCardboards
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In reply to Post #21
I didn't know that was a real thing - if you were an experienced dealer you know all the vulnerabilities and general weak spots and can rinse various games at a Casino so you are generally not permitted/banned anywhere else. Naughty 
Watch out you aren't surrounded by some heavies when you are next enjoying a fruit smoothie minding your own business and next thing you know you are coming to in a janitors cupboard on the basement level gaffa taped to a chair staring at a table with a rusty set of pliers on there
On a different note.... are those Fizz S2s going to be in the TackleBox soon did you say? Have some bits to order from there soon
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In reply to Post #18
This will be the first ever time I have gone away, and returned with far more money than I ever went with. When I worked in Mayfair, other older dealers would go off on busman’s holidays to pillage casinos across Europe. I never had the dollar back then. When the internet came about, that became impossible with information sharing about gaming licences etc.
I’ve had a such a great time. Wish I could sit down and play blackjack. Can’t risk it with the missus with me. If I was on my own I 100% would. Trying not to get to greedy or we will get permanently banned. The missus has been placing all the roulette bets to try to cover slightly what I’m up too. I put the section of the wheel numbers on my phone and she places the bets 🤣🤣🤣
Def coming back!! It’s 01:05 in morning here.
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In reply to Post #19
I wish 🤣
He’s my favourite character from any film ever I think
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In reply to Post #14
You aren't by chance Alan from the Hangover movies are you?🫣🤣
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In reply to Post #14
from £300 to £20,000
Thats the same kind of magic that happens on my family holidays..... only in reverse
Sounds a sweet time
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In reply to Post #16
No, you are spot on.
I would have no problems using the 2's either with the garlic hemp.
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In reply to Post #15
Thanks mark for your response
I knew the gpb2 was a fish meal just wasn’t sure what was in the gpb1 wether it was a nut base or a milk base
So I’m assuming that gpb1 should be my go to this year as I am planning a campaign on your fermented hemp being nut based I’m assuming it was designed to fish along side this method or am I just reading into this to much thanks
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In reply to Post #11
Quote.... What is the difference between the standard garlic and the garlic 2 the food baits.
The (garlic) GPB1 are a heavy nut hook bait. The GPB2 are a heavy pre digested fishmeal version of the same hook bait. Attractor packages are identical.
The (cheese) TC1 & TC2 follow the same ethos. The 1 is a heavy nut based hook bait. The 2 is a heavy pre digested fishmeal version. of the 1.
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In reply to Post #10
Quote.... No worries fella hope your holiday is going well.
Thank you. We have had the most incredible time Chillen. It really is the most beautiful country. Bit of a busman's holiday too. It’s one of the only places in the world where I can actually play in the casinos. We are staying in-between the two largest casino complexes in Asia. We changed up £300 first night. We have rinsed the roulette tables every night we have played. Just walking the floor for ten minutes first, looking for weak roulette dealers with repetitions in their spins on the electronic boards. The roulette dealers here are absolutely terrible luckily. Steered well clear of blackjack, or we would have got kicked out instantly. In and out every night. Don’t think any single night we have spent more than fifteen minutes total on the casino floor. We have won nearly £20k from that initial £300. The biggest shopping mall in the entire world is right next door to where we are staying, we have spent plenty of time getting lost in there. I don’t want to come home.
We are completely up to date with all orders on our website right up until yesterday afternoon. We are experiencing a massive surge in new customers who are purchasing our products from FishOn & The TackleBox for the first time, then coming and purchasing the entire range from us. I would guess the two week waiting time will be back within the next couple of weeks.
Over the next two weeks, just by posting on CarpForum you will be entered into a comp to win some of the new S2 Fizz. You don't need to do anything, except be actively posting. We will pick multiple winners who will be among the very first to have them.
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In reply to Post #11
Yeah, fishmeal and GLM I believe are in the GPB2s.
I've only used the GPB1s (and s2) and rate the GPB1s loads, always have a pot in the bag and they have been blank savers.
Every time I think I have my own hookbaits spot on and nailed.... if there's a struggle then these go on and have been good. I occasionally wonder whether I may be better going all in with the hookbaits and instead faffing around with feed boilies only. I do like faffing around though in general - the more faffing the better
I will say that the GPBs are better once the water warms up from my experience.
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In reply to Post #11
Fish meal in the G2s
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What is the difference between the standard garlic and the garlic 2 the food baits
Is it just the base mix that’s used and which one is the preferred for what reason thanks
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In reply to Post #8
No worries fella hope your holiday is going well 👍
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In reply to Post #7
Thanks Mate - just in time for spring.
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In reply to Post #6
I just saw your PM Chillen. They went yesterday. They go 24hr signed for, but Royal Mail seem to have been a bit more lapse since the pandemic regarding those times. Often if it's further away, up North, or Wales for example it now takes two, or sometimes three days for the same thing.
If they did not arrive today, they should be there tomorrow. If not please get in contact via WhatsApp message. It's free, even international. Text is not. Your message will get seen straight away, unlike PM's or emails. It's all tracked. We always sort everything, even if Royal Mail lose them.
Number is on your PayPal receipt, and on the contact page of our website mate.
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In reply to Post #6
I did not see your post Chillen.
One thing that was forgot yesterday. These below will be available in two weeks. We are building up stock levels before they get released. The TC2 barrels will also be available (Ron).
Everyone who has seen these so far has literally fallen in love with them. It's for specific reasons that these have been held back for release on their own. They are going to change everything.
FishOn are having the Banoffee S2 & the Garlic. TackleBox will have more stock of the DNA Bug hook baits for those asking them, more Hutchie S2 as well.
On the long flight to Manila, instead of watching films, I was writing. I wrote so much. As soon as I sort out all the photos I will start posting the personal stories on here again. First up will be the rest of Burghfield trip, then the full poaching pit story. Then the Ocean, Larkfield 1, that story has never been told properly. I already showed the video of the bar at the poaching pit that had been stripped in the last thread and spoke briefly about the biggest proper carp that has likely ever swam in the UK. There's much more.
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In reply to Post #4
We are getting so many messages asking for special orders, or different colours in certain products. I am so sorry we simply cannot do this currently. Previously at this time of year this was always possible, but it’s simply not anymore.
The TackleBox sold out of all the DNA Bug hookbaits within 36 hours. They have very little Hutchie S2 left (had 3 x the amount). It’s impossible for us to do any special orders whatsoever I’m sorry. I would like Johnson Ross & Yateley angling to be stocked with our products along with TB & FO before the spring rush. Please only WhatsApp message the work phone regarding current order status. We are as of today completely up to date with all orders on our website, right up until this morning.
Again, please use only WhatsApp messenger for any contact/outstanding order queries. I’m currently in Manila with my better half for the next week or so. All orders are going out within two days currently.
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The TackleBox now have Hutchie S2 and DNA Bug hook baits in stock.
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The 38+ that Russ lost off his camera last week. Banoffee S2 over Essential Banana freezer baits.
Forum member Andy 25lb. First fish of the year a few nights ago during the rainstorm. ScopexPineapple S2
I'm not going to be about much at all over the next couple of weeks. I'm about halfway through with the personal fish pics etc. When I get some time I will be back and they will start again.
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Wellington Country Park has only done four small carp in the past few months. Josh had a double take today, two in the net at the same time. Josh was pretty blown away. Both S2, you can see one floating about at the end of the video. Well done Josh
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