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hey all i'm piers 20 from colchester just joined here looking to find out some good tips & help aswel as find some good lakes day/night fishing i started fishing about the age of 6 with my dad My uncle used to own a house with plenty of land and 3 fishing lakes in copford so fished there pretty much all the time pulling decent sized carp out aswel as silvers and some eels ERGH! stopped around the age of 15 as other things took over my life girlfriends mopeds etc now all the fun is over i need some time to myself to relax after a weekend (i dj fri/sat) looking to go do some night fishing aswel as just during the day stuff & maybe a spot of fishing after work for a few hours now we seem to get a bit more light so any places that are ideal i don't drive so unfortunatly the mrs has to drop me off or stay with me or bus route possibly push bike to closest the better sorry to go on thought i'd give you a heads up on my previous fishing years
Cheers guys
Piers
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Hey everyone,
just found this thread a little late but should be still ok if i wrote here.. My name is Dorian and I`m from Brunswick/ Germany. I`m just about 16 years old but i have already been fishing since the age of 4. In 2007 I first saw some fisherman fishing for carp at a little pond and became very impressed by that way of fishing. From that perticular moment, I became more and more interested in carp angling so i bought my first carp rods just 2 month later. Most of my fishing time I spent and will spend with my friends at our lakes, knowing there will always be someone to be with , to joke with or just spend a very nice and important time with as a community. Since my beginning, i`ve been using to be member in some german forums but from time to time I wanted to get new experiences and get to know a different way of fishing, so i just searched for an english forum, hoping not to be confrontated with too many problems languagewise 
Best regards from Germany,
Dorian
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In reply to Post #3
Hi, my names matt im 19 from birmingham and love fishing and only recently started carp fishing. ive been looking at the info on this site and helps alot. 
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Hi Everyone
Just joined and not sure how to post hope Im doing this right. I was after info regarding ingredients to make you own boilies
Mark
Anglesey
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In reply to Post #1000
Hi my names Ally new to forum been carping for years in Cambridgeshire and Norfolk where i holiday
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Hi everyone, I am new to the site, but have been fishing for 1 year now. I am looking to up my game a bit now, and want to go for some bigger carp, my PB after my first season is 16.8lb common caught on single 15mm Mainline Cell from Higham Farm near Derby. I am pretty sorted with all my tackle, I started off with a £50 argos job and after a few good catches and learning some of the good brand names I soon went shopping for better stuff. I am now fishing with confidance a 3 rod Fox setup.
I would like to find some advise about any good lakes in the Derbyshire\ Midlands area, somewhere I can mabe get away from the single figure fish, I would like to be targeting doubles really.
Is there anything I can do to target the bigger fish on my local lakes or is a change of water needed to find bigger fish?
Any help and advise would be great
Cheers people
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Hello, I'm a newbie in the carping world.
Registered here and now have the enduring task of getting my post tally to 100 
HELP!
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been lurkin for a few months joined the other day. names ray, i live in the luton area. been fishin since about 94 (i was 10) had a hiatus for a few years (im 27 now) n just gettin back in since beginning of this year. mostly into carp n barbel but im down for a lil bit of anythin. good to be part of a forum thats insightful whilst bein good for a laugh to. hope to speak to you all soon
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In reply to Post #1000
Mark, from Nottingham, been fishing for 30 years, but now just concentrate on carp and barbel,
Reaaly want to catch a river carp now and not a stock fish!
Any ideas where I might get any luck?
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Alright Guys new member here although ive been lurking a few years finally thought id start posting to share and give advice. Tight lines all.
Pedro
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hello all, im new to carp fishing (spec). ive course fished for about 20 years and its time i went for the big one 
Im going to rakers after they spawn to give it a whirl for the day as i dont have a bivvy just yet .
Any chance i could get any advice on what methods, rigs and bait are the most effective.
regards matthew
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Hi All .
Just getting back into carp fishing after I gave it up when some tea leaf broke in to my uninsured garage and took everything including my terminal tackle.
(no I am lying they left me a landing net handle but took my broken one) .
Most of my stuff was second hand or last years model but i had built it up over the years and could not afford to replace it. so my fishing days were over . so i thought anyway !
The Best Tip you will ever get on this site is KEEP YOUR STUFF LOCKED UP or GET IT INSURED .
Anyway after picking up some cheap and nasty rods and reels from the back of a carp mag
I decided to get back into it this year and after 3 day sessions I have had 3 twentys (26 biggest) and 8 doubles most being high doubles . Not monsters but when your the only one catching on a pressured lake you suddenlly remember just why we all love carp fishing.
Its not your rod reel or bivvy that catch fish! its your brain and whats under the water that counts so dont be put off like I was by the tackle tarts and get out there .#
Tight lines
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Hey am Ben am 25 i have been fishing since i was about 7 and my passion has grown over the years but sadly a few years ago i stopped and recently started again and have taken very much to carp fishing.
I had my biggest so far last week and weighed 9lbs which i was chuffed with and now am after some big boys 
so will be very handy for tips of you more experianced carpers if your willing to give me some help also wanting to start night fishing as well so tips for that as well would be nice
anyway hello
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There aren't any good carp forums for the USA. So I thought searching for a UK site would be best. And so I have found it!
I have been fishing all my life, mostly Bass and Trout on light tackle. Recently while talking with my dad on while fishing for trout, we got to talking about him fishing when he was much younger. He went on and on about catching carp from the Charles River, (in massachusetts for those who would like to look,I also grew up on this river but fishing for bass) and how good of a fight they put up! We ended our trip at our normal time (2pm) and I went home thinking about carp, Now, the river just down the street from my home has loads of carp in it as I had been told (merrimack river lawrence,mass) So I drove down with my bass rod (7 foot mitchell with 10lb/line) and setup a egg weight rig with a big bread ball on the end. in about 25mins I had a run! And running it was! Peeling line from my reel like no bass or trout had! I had the fish almost to the bank when it made a sudden 180* turn and snapped me clean off! I packed it in for the eve and went home for dinner. Tried the same thing the following night around 7pm and had the same thing happen!
I am now very interested in this fish! Which has lead me here to all of you. So, please, Go easy!
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