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In reply to Post #534
No massive fish for me, but two little 'uns in a couple of hours this evening. This is the better of the two and just scraped a doule. Bits box is just under 10 inches long. (Hopefully the linky thing works!)
Both on naked chods with pink squid wafters from the rather nice Handcraft range  Cheers Gav!
https://photos.app.goo.gl/7anvkxoFHKL5cS6Y8
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In reply to Post #555
I guess it depends on how the lakes ran, easier to justify I think on a day ticket rather than a syndicate. I should have a ticket coming up fairly soon in a lake where the owner is fastidious about an optimal ecosystem in the lakes, trying to get them big nautically and it’s working well, unfortunately the tickets expensive because doing things properly isn’t cheap, but the plus side of that is you see where the money goes, an extra 50 quid on a 50 man syndicate ticket is 2.5k which is a nice bit of supplementary food for em. And as you say there are certain times of the year those who own the lakes knows it’s important to have food avaliable for them
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In reply to Post #554
Supplementary feeding is always important. I often wonder how big carp would get each year if they had a longer rest and they were fed in between! It’s something I have done for 15 years now, I’m adamant it’s why the fish look so pristine and make good weights all year round. Especially for the month after spawning. Mine get double rations for 3/4 weeks 😉
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In reply to Post #553
They had a quarter of a ton of BP Milling Gold fed to them last year Gav, they were generally left unfished for until this April, we had a little dabble in the Christmas break to see if they had done anything which is when I caught the one common at 19.8, we have about a dozen or so of the 44 fish we put back in go from 6,7,8lb weights to 15lb and upwards now to 19.8 being the best, surprisingly it is the commons that have done the better weights rather than the mirrors although the mirrors have done 4/5ish pounds on average and only 25 of the 44 of the stock have been out so far so there may be a few more surprises, the futures certainly looking good, we will supplementary feed for this year until October and then its purely down to the anglers bait.
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In reply to Post #552
Fair play Ian!! Growing well!!
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In reply to Post #551
Nice Carp looks like an old Sutton strain. 
One on a dark sting recently no great shakes but the fish has put on 8lb and 9 ounces since we put it back in the lake last May after all the work we've done.
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In reply to Post #549
No 50s jesus
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In reply to Post #548
There have been 8 U.K. 40s reported to us today!! No 50s though 😲
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In reply to Post #547
Well done Wayne, keep them coming fella! And Carl…..you have been on a very good roll recently!
Not sure why some of the photos have gone from below! Took me ages to bloody post them too 😂😂
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I’ve had some stunners lately including an old slate grey 35lb park lake mirror on the squid hookbaits.
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Had another fish on the dark sting over SLK…….not big but a dark scale perfect linear…….
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In reply to Post #544
Underground angler; Greg Richardson with a nice upper 30lb caught on The Herb and matching hookbaits.
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In reply to Post #543
Marc Cav... lost track of how many 40's this bloke has caught this year! He loves The Herb and Eton Mess!
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In reply to Post #542
Glen M with a 61lb UK Mirror caught on The Herb and Sting!!
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