carp back in the day

[Daz]

did a bit of carp fishing back in the day

30lb 2oz caught in the last 15 mins of a 48hr match



18lb



33lb 8oz suffolk water park



29lb 14oz bills lake france



pretty 12lber that is now over 20lb



18lb 14oz this fish broke a 4 month blank spell



40lb first night in france



14lb now over 20lb and a very pretty fish



19lb 4oz now over 30lb



few lake shots











memorys and loved every day of it....catching or blanking

[Izzetafox]

Did you throw the big ones back Daz?

Some nice fish there.

[keithyg]

I never used to be able to understand why carpers used to sit for days waiting for a bite but as I have started piking lots I know understand its about the experience aswell as the fish and these photos just prove that point.

Great pics

[greygoose]

That suffolk water carp looks a right water pig does's she? lovely fish mate.
Time stands still when your there doesn't it? love every minute every memory

[cam]

reckon if my hips dont get sorted i will be going back to it Daz ....some nice carp mate here are a few of mine













not huge at 22lb but its a river fish caught on a 1lb 6oz avon




i suppose my best carp as it was from a difficult water does half a dozen fish a year some years




this 23lb fish went forty nine last year







and an hour

later




i miss the mud sucker fishing i really do ...work has got in the way ..that may be all changing and quickly as well ...oh well there is always fishing ...

[Daz]

some corkers there mate....think Ive seen some of them pics before....cant imagine where

[Izzetafox]

Christ Cam, that's specimen barbel, chub and Carp.....are you going to show us some of those roach that are in some of your rivers?

Nice ones mate.

Terry

[cam]

well here i must admit to being useless seen others catch some lovely fish .i once had a really good day on a lake and caught twenty five roach over two pound up to 2lb 6oz ..i never even took photos back then and my pb roach also a lake fish of 2lb 8 oz i have no photo

nor of my 20lb 4oz pike ..poor at perch i have three equal pb perch of 2lb 2oz.
but isnt it strange there is another fish i fairly regulary catch from both lake and river and have had many over double figures up to around twelve pound ....i dont even weigh them let alone photograph them ...and yet i call people fishist ....i refer to urrrrrgh ..Bream .i had to wring my hands after typing that word.
So pictures of roach well i caught this one a couple of weeks back while gathering livebaits for bass fishing in the harbour i would say its not two pound by a cats whisker ...




and i caught this roach of twopounds seven from the river while i was actually trying to catch the biggest chub i have ever seen...



so cant help much with the roach showing off but what about some rainbow trout showing off




and finally finally first specimen fish freshwater caught from a yak ......oh ok i was collecting livebaits again ...

[Daz]

that is a big live bait mate ;D

[HomerJ]

I got a pic for you Cam..... ooppppsssssss ;D

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[cam]

i can smell the stinking thing from here .mind you if i had three hands i could do all sorts of things
my misses feels the same about Bream .i walk in through the door and she immediatly knows ..put all your clothes in the washing machine now and get that net out of your car and put it in the garden

[Daz]

bream stinking things that dont fight......if i was in a match though it would be a different matter i suppose

[HomerJ]

3 hands are better then 2 That was caught on my sons 4 foot Woolworths "special" rod while I was trying to sort out his birds nest on the line and also line wrapped under the spool.....

[Izzetafox]

" Woolworth Specials" ;D

Didn't we all own a bit of 'Winfield' kit ....back in the day that is?

Terry

[Daz]

i have a woolys multiplier that is still working fine ;D

[Izzetafox]

Oh I do love big commons, they are 'real' carp.

[cam]

Proper carp not like the horrible Simmos . Hasn't your hair changed colour

[scooter]

Oct 28, 2012 10:31:58 GMT cam said:

Hasn't your hair changed colour

;D I'm just pleased to have most of it still left. I did so much fishing in that glorious summer of 1976 the sun bleached my hair blonde.

It was a also a time before I could afford separate fishing clothes, so it was night fishing in my full denims. Must have been keen but cold in the lunny meat days.

[Daz]

1976 i wasnt even born

[Izzetafox]

I joined the police in 1976......I was one of the lucky ones that saw men on the moon and even rarer England winning the World Cup

[cam]

i was nine when england won the world cup .still burns bright in my memory .Terry my sistor was in the police force ..she would be picked upby car and would get into the back ..i cannot remember her rank but her husband tells me she was brown glover if that means anything ..she died young at sixty just before she was due to retire ...1976 i was in the states ...Royal Navy ..

[Izzetafox]

Brown glove Inspector and above but if she was collected probably Superintendant or above.

Ah memories..... our generation had the Worl Cup, Kennedy and Luther King, the Moon landing, Doctor Who and THE Who, Beatles and Stones, No 6, No 10 and Sovereign, Camp coffee and steralised milk, ' Beer at home means Davenports, refunds on pop and beer bottles, Moggy 1000, MGBGT, Vincent 1000 and Ariel Square Four, the arrival of Jap bike and cars, Raleigh Chopper, donestic fridge and freezer, making toast and roasting chestnuts on the coal fire, frost on the inside of windows, pressing button B on payphones, Barbarella and Clockwork Orange, Concorde, enough snow to have a sledge, Saturday matinee at the pictures ( not the cinema!!), bows and arrows, catapults, making dams, birds nesting, climbing trees, mushrooming, darned socks, elbow patches, re-soling shoes and 'Segs' in the heels, Commando war books, Eagle, Victor Beezzer, Beano and Dandy, Tales of the Riverbank, Torchy The Battery Boy, Joe 90, Stingray........Oh God chronic case of nostalgia!!!!

[cam]

wasnt all good we had milk at school i dont do milk ...and my mother my actual mother ..she liked dripping ..has there ever been a food so plain nasty ...if you had an extraction under gas it was touch and go if you suvived ....the test card would wake you up if you left the telly on .and of coarse we thought GARY GLITTER AND JIMMY SAVILLE WERE ALRIGHT ...SEE IT WAS BAD REALLY ...BAD

[Izzetafox]

Beef dripping sarnies with plenty of jelly.... kill you yes but I loved it. Vey occasionally have it nowadays.

GG & JS Makes you sick but look how many Brits emigrate to the Phillipines. I know a 59 year old who is living there with a 17yr old, she was 16 when they got together. My 12 yr old granddaughter looks older !!!
They don't go there for the architecture pervs!! Hopefully this time GG will get convicted in the UK and not buy his way out of a long gaol sentence.

[cam]

JS....GG.....and BD.......room 101 Bring back the pop delivery man with recyclable bottles the kids loved it .pictures on sat with the luminous badge ABC Minors .and bring back the prawn and cockle man in the pub .....

[HomerJ]

In pub near my way we still have the sea food man they set up in the car parks

I'm not old but I can remember most of them things , even the lead paint on the cot..... hasn't affected me much , honest!!!!!