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Boo

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#1635 7 Jun 2023 at 10.02am

In reply to Post #1634
Some cracking fish them

TCarper

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#1634 7 Jun 2023 at 8.10am

Ricci again. Beautiful common. GPB2 over Sticky Krill

TCarper

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#1633 7 Jun 2023 at 5.22am

Aaron done 'rather' well at Papercourt this spring. S2 fished over Wraysbury Baits MC Nut.

TCarper

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#1632 7 Jun 2023 at 5.15am

Lee, GPB1 fished over Nutrabaits Trigga.

Andy and friends went on a social lake exclusive to that place in Hampshire with the 60+ fully in. Andy had 10 on S2 & GPB1 fished over Baitworks Creamino. Andy gave his mate who was blanking a couple of Garlic hook baits for the last night and moved him closer. His mate caught nice fish on both of them.

Ricci, Masons, S2/GPB2

Russ, new water, same result. GPB2.

TCarper

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#1630 1 Jun 2023 at 1.21pm

That's my last post for a good while anywhere online. I have so much to sort out in the near future, and we are so stupidly busy on top of all that. I will still pop in every now and then and blast a few photos up, & I will be back. Just not right now. We have a two week waiting time. Contact regarding any outstanding order is always via text or WhatsApp message only. We simply never see anything else. We will see your message rapidly. The work phone is on silent, and is never answered for calls. If we did, we would never get anything done whatsoever.

Be very lucky all of you.

Alan, Woolpack S2. That top fish is just beautiful.

Ricci, Masons, GPB2/S2

Forum member Tony, Wraysbury North GPB2

TCarper

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#1629 1 Jun 2023 at 1.04pm

Something that had gone on other social media but I had forgot to post on here. It's only a copy and paste. But it's very relevant info regarding our hook baits.

It's now that time of year, when everything naturals wise in the water has sprung into life, and not just the carp/fish. Our hook baits are all very soluble, and made of 100% premium food and natural cork. Crayfish, mitten crabs... Even just a shoal of roach or naturals sent into an absolute feeding frenzy by the food signals being pumped out by the hook baits, will all have their say on a bad day. Our GPB2 in particular, will send all of these creatures just as wild as they will send the carp. 99.9% of angers will resort to plastic, or even wooden balls in this situation. Here is the big problem with that though. Those crayfish and mitten crabs, their babies will be the main food source for those fish. A heavy fishmeal based feed bait and hook bait is by far your best bet in any such water. By a long, long way too. You just need to know how to keep your hook baits in the water.
Wrap your normal hook baits in shrink wrap. We would highly recommend Korda super wrap for our hook baits. This stuff is amazing, it's one product, that will catch you a lot more carp when facing the situations above. The two fish in the photos, are both Thames carp. The photo of the black common, is a scan of a print. It's from 1997. The area of the Thames where that fish was caught, has always been infested with Chinese mitten crabs since the 80's. The photo of the linear is from 2017, the general area of the Thames where she was caught, is infested with crayfish.
The other two photographs were taken in Brazil. Me and my missus often spend the evening on the pier fishing, watching dolphins and the like while watching the sun go down. The going bait is shrimp. I very quickly worked out, that by keeping the shrimp on the hook for more than two seconds, this was the key to hauling big fish, after big fish. This was not lost on the local fishermen, who were soon all over the 'gringo' like a rash to see why he was outishing them all 10-1... Whilst catching monsters. They found out that 24mm chunks of jumbo shrimp, shrink wrapped in Korda super wrap, then hair rigged was what the gringo was up too. One of the local fisherman Mateus, he fishes to feed his family (often struggling)... I gave him all of my fish, and the two packets of the super wrap which I had left. Showed him how to do it. The next time I was in Brazil, we went fishing as usual... As we walked along the pier, we could see Mateus. He had a bag of big fish next to him, a small crowd, and brand new Nike trainers on. He also had great stories of Amazon deliveries of Korda super wrap to Brazil, and more fish than he could ever feed his family with. Now he sells the surplus.
If we used a wooden ball soaked in shrimp juice... Yes we would beat the small Piranha type fish and catfish, and undoubtedly would have caught a few... But we would have caught a tiny, tiny fraction of what we were hauling utilising the Korda super wrap around a proper bait. If things are really bad, double wrap your hook baits 'both ways', to completely encapsulate the hook bait in shrink wrap. The holes allow the bait to still pump out all of the goodness/signals. Fish these on a simple resetting rig, that cannot be tangled.

Fishing, is fishing, and 'edges', are edges, all over the world.

NWCarper1986

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#1628 31 May 2023 at 9.53pm

In reply to Post #1627
Mega fish that 🔥

TCarper

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#1627 31 May 2023 at 8.52am

So many big fish were being being caught before the lakes all shut. Again I am really not supposed to be doing this at all. But that one, is a rather special old carp.

Chris, a fish called the Strawberry from the Woolpack. White S2 balanced.

Boo

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#1626 29 May 2023 at 5.52pm

In reply to Post #1625
Thanks Mark. Had a 16lb common that trip also so was very happy when I came home 😃

TCarper

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#1625 28 May 2023 at 10.11am

Big fish coming out left right and centre, loads of proper ones. Not meant to be posting anything at all. But that�s forum member Boo and self explanatory. Well done mate.

popcorn

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#1624 26 May 2023 at 11.25am

In reply to Post #1622
Cool, thanks

TCarper

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#1623 26 May 2023 at 11.22am

popcorn

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#1622 26 May 2023 at 9.51am

In reply to Post #1621
thanks, just what I wanted..... I will place an order

AndyClark

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#1621 26 May 2023 at 9.49am

In reply to Post #1620
I'm sure Mark will give a definite answer,but just incase he's away from the computer for a while the ones I have received have been more pastle pink,definitely not flouro that's for sure.

popcorn

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#1620 26 May 2023 at 9.34am

How pink are the pink S2's - bright pink, pastel pink? None of the pictures on the website appear to be of pink baits...

thanks


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