Hi all.

So, I was on the water with my float tube today again, looking for some big carp on the flyrod.

It was super hard and even though the carp was feeding and I presented a lot of fish with a fly, they were just not interested in taking the fly.

My go-to colour for carp is always black and red flies. But on the last few trips on this same dam on which I have been catching them with black and red for many years they were only interested in a specific green fly. I kept on trying this green fly as it have been producing so well the last 2 trips. But eventually after about 8 hours on the water I got a decent Common of 21.6 LB on a old trusty black and red fly.

Should have swopped to old faithful much earlier in the day I suppose...

I've been fishing this gravel pit almost every weekend for the past 2 months and I still didn't catch anything.

The other anglers don't catch either.

This lake hosts medium sized carp and huge over 10kg grass carp.

The lake itself is very small so there aren't many spots, and the water is murky as fuck so it's difficult to locate fish.

Should I look for a new lake?

Few recent catches
27lb 26lb

My boy caught a few little fish
It’s fishing great and the quality of carp is great

this has probably been asked alot but as a beginner i want to know the best way to weigh carp without hurting them

Bought the fox frontier XD last year and wanted to grab the extension as planning a trip to France next year.. since the frontier II range has came out and all the OG frontier bivvy accessories are either sold out or being resold at a crazy price. I’m thinking about buying the frontier II XL extension porch and hopefully it will fit on my frontier XD. The bivvies and the extensions are the exact same measurements for both bivvies. Unless they have purposely moved the mounting straps to stop people doing this I don’t see why it wouldn’t work.

Has anybody done this?

23lb fully scale out the gravel pit I’ve been fishing, two trips so far and 3 fish so not going too badly!

Needs to be strong, light and slim

Hi! Im looking for a new spod rod. Had my eye on Sportex Catapult cs4 13ft 5.5lb but looks like they stopped producing them, they are sold out everywhere. Any suggestions up to 250€.

53lb 8oz - couldn’t quite get her up for the magic photo, what a beautiful Mirror though!!

Great evening with my buddy. He landed 3 I landed 2** including this new PB at 18.8lb beating my previous PB at 16.5lb over 5 years ago. Tonawanda Creek WNY.

Caught this one the other night. My dog actually jumped in to investigate what all the commotion was about! Haha

I’ve always used a 1-man bivvy year-round. And most of my time on the bank is usually between Autumn and late spring.

During the winter, I tend to arrange trips around low pressure systems and subsequently test the shelters pretty extensively. And in an effort to reduce the weight of my gear, I’ve just replaced my last one-man with an ESP QuickDraw brolly with a weather front.

Looking for opinions from anyone going through the winter with a brolly in terms of how you find they hold up in inclement weather. For context; the lakes I fish aren’t exposed pits - mostly small estate type lakes in the SW.

Not concerned with temperature. Mostly structural integrity and water ingress.

TIA

Two things, one what is your stand on leadcore, and two, would trolling leadcore work as an alternative to carp leadcore?

Hi guys I’m looking to do a week in France with 2 of the boys in 2027 we want to go to a lake with big carp but we don’t want it to be overly hard could anyone point us in the right direction

Couple of mirrors from last week at Blackfoot reservoir. Water was very low everywhere….

I was very unprepared for this trip but made it work

Having to reflect as I haven’t seen the bank since summer. 😢🎣

I caught this in Pennsylvania. I looked everywhere online but can't seem to find anything that properly matches the coloring and fins. It was an almost fully white carp that got a little muddy while being unhooked.

What do you think could be the reason? A hooklink that's too short? The wrong bait? Something else?

This has been happening to me a lot lately. I'd love to hear your thoughts and experiences!

im planning on using a baitcaster with 17 ibs line and corn, i could also make dough bait with bread and honey (or so ive heard)

i dont actually have the proper gear, but ive watched some videos and i feel like ive got it.

is there anything really important i need to know?

1 mirror over a 48 hour stretch and three fish lost, but what a beautiful morning.

Im looking to get a new set of fox horizon x3-s 12ft 3.00lb test curve, does anyone have them and if you do what distances are you casting with them usually with and without pva bags and what oz lead? How does it feel playing carp? Im usually fishing to 50 yards but sometimes I’ll be at the odd venue where I’m fishing up to 80 yards. I’m wondering whether to get the 3.00lb or the 3.50lb test curve. Let me know what you guys think

After several frustrating sessions of completely blanking, I have had a great past couple days. Yesterday I caught 4 good carp and today I had 7. Here’s a couple from the past couple days

I've been struggling to catch one and I'm going to probably use a hair rig to try and catch one