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Specialized Hook Baits - Catch Reports Oct 2024
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Stokebloke

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#15 10 Oct 2024 at 8.35am

Very sad loss to the forum. Banning Mark is a joke!

thicky

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#14 10 Oct 2024 at 5.38am

In reply to Post #12
Blimey mark was it really that long ago.... lovely to take the pictures of such pukka fish from the old father those 2 r absolutely mint... still in touch with toddy a few times a year the nicest of men.

TCarper

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#13 9 Oct 2024 at 10.22am

2013 Roach Pit. Second capture of the biggun within a couple of months. The plateau swim had slowed down. At the other end of the pit the fish were sitting in the main snags in front of the pipe most of the time. Loads of fermented garlic hemp out on the main gravel hump would see this greedy fish instantly take over the spot within hours. She showed constantly on the area for the early part of the night. Then all went quiet until the bite at dawn. When the biggest fish in the lake is going crazy like this, she is marking the spot as her own. Making it clear to all the other fish, that this larder is for her. There were others I really wanted to catch more than her there and on it before her, but she scuppered that when she decided the spot was for her. She would do the same thing to me again a few months later. That was when it was time to leave. This fish would bully others in the snags. If she wanted to sit where one of the others was sitting, she would aggressively nudge them until they done what she wanted and moved. That's a very common occurrence among big carp. They have a hierarchy and it's normally determined by size, not sex.

There has been a recent thread on here with recommendations for a Cannon Pro1. I couldn't agree more. The best compact fishing camera ever made. In these photos, Scottie can be seen holding my old Pro1. I sold it to him when I purchased a Nikon SLR. The other photo is taken on that very Pro1 for example. Look how happy that mug looks when he used to actually go fishing. Jock of Cotswold Baits fame took the water shot. If you can pick these Pro1 up for �50 now, as a photographer mentioned on that thread, they are exceptional cameras for that money. For anyone on a budget that is a superb option, or if you cannot be bothered with an all singing dancing SLR.

TCarper

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#12 9 Oct 2024 at 9.21am

River Thames, Weybridge, 2011. When the comedian David Walliams swam the Thames from Oxford to London for charity. This is a forum member and friend, the northerner Toddy with me in these photos. All photos taken by another forum member Thicky. This was Erics�s first trip to the river, we rinsed them. I can�t even remember how many we caught but it was loads. Toddy had 10kg of ABS fishmeal in his freezer, I had 5kg of Poachers fishmeal, we salted it all right up, crusted the surface with salt and left it in the bucket for a few days to work some magic. Snowman presentations. The beach swim we were fishing, was always very kind to me without being baited. It�s slightly downstream of a lock system, so at night, any fish wanting to travel upstream into the stretch above would all need to gather in the lock cut. In the nighttime period between the last boat going through the lock at 10pm, and the first boat the following morning 5am (approximate times in the summer). Carp will wait for the boat to enter the lock, then dart in at the very last moment before the gates shut. It�s a well rehearsed daily action for a lot of born in the river Thames carp. If you don�t get them in the night, you have a great chance early in the morning, when fish from upstream that have been waiting, descend upon you when the lock gates open. Applies on all rivers that contain carp. Just upstream, there�s the weir where the river Wey river & Wey navigation comes in. It�s a real junction. This session was amazing. When the comedian came past, our swim was surrounded by camera crews, and the most beautiful well to do ladies from the local area who all came to watch the action all day. I�m not sure they were ready for us. Stinking & covered in fish slime. It was all good fun. The fishing was exceptional. Erics mirror and the leathery one are both old Thames fish, the smaller long mirror is also ancient. Erics big mirror smashed into a moored boat on our side of the river in its desperation to get away. A real angry Thames carp with attitude.

TCarper

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#11 8 Oct 2024 at 11.23am

The fish this lad has been hauling on work overnighters on a new lake are insane. Well done Jacko. RedBerry/Vanilla S2 16mm balanced over Scopex Squid.

TCarper

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#10 8 Oct 2024 at 8.22am

S2 specials page was added to the website last night.

As promised, someone who donated to Gerry (OldGeezers) charity post for his hospice and put 'for Gerry' on the donation is going to get picked at random later and sent some Banoffee S2 & Plum/Strawberry oil S2 for free.

TCarper

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#9 8 Oct 2024 at 8.02am

Lovely message from customer Peter. 3 x UK 50's last two sessions. White S2 pop ups and balanced. Bloody well done Pete!

57lb8oz

52lb+

51lb+

Phil, new PB, S2 barrel. RDAA Junction 12, 44lb+. Well done Phil.

Dan, GPB1

TCarper

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#8 7 Oct 2024 at 8.20am

Dan, first fish from a new pit, TC1 balanced

Alfie, Essex yesterday. Hutchie S2 balanced

Leon GPB2

David GPB1 & Hutchie S2 over particle

Adrian, Welly, S2 white balanced over NoNuts freezer baits

Stoke Carl, GPB2 over Rollin pellet

TCarper

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#7 6 Oct 2024 at 6.07pm

Roach Pit 2013, �Barbs�. One of the pits most sort after fish. Roach Pit was so great in my opinion, because it had such an incredible array of different types of carp. Long scaly mirrors to die for, but also the most incredible baulky deep set 40�s like Barbs. A real mix of epic strains Their mouths were all absolutely pristine. There are many pits with gorgeous fish in these days. But whose mouths have unfortunately been chopped to bits by low diameter zig hook lengths.

When I was finished on Roach the following year, I had a little go on Spinnaker, the big sailing club pit next door. I lost a very big fish in the margins, after getting it all the way back from the sailing club margins opposite. It looked just like Barbs. Identical, just bigger, and paler in colour. I can still see it lying on the surface beaten now, weeded, just out of the nets reach. It took off after righting itself, charged through the two remaining braided lines that were still fishing at long range. The hook pulled instantly. It would be boring if we landed them all.

Spinnaker

TCarper

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#6 6 Oct 2024 at 11.20am

Walthamstow January 2012. Part of a six fish catch on a day session that contained three different 30lb+. This particular swim is on the centre path between the 2/3 & the number 1 ressies. I often used to get Number 1 anglers walking past me, moaning to me how hard it had become on the 2/3. "Caught anything"? Nah mate, I�ve had sod all. �Ain�t like it used to be, you should have been here a decade ago�. �There's no fish left in the 2/3 now, get on the number 1, spod the island". Thanks mate, I'll try that later. As they trundled off to fish the number 1 for 1000 carp. I'd be dragging the soaking wet sacks and mat out from under the brambles. It was absolutely crazy fishing. I�m not sure how many fish were left in there, but it was far more than I was ever used to fishing for. I often had the entire lake to myself that winter. This session I put out 10kg of pre-soaked TigerNut & Maple freezer baits the night before when I left at the gates closure. All put into a bloodworm bed in the silt that they were harvesting. I returned the following morning at first light, cast out two S2 into the deeply silted area. I had a brace of mid 30�s almost instantly. They had smashed all of the bait. Over the course of that day, I banked another four fish. This was the biggest one. It was a fish not even recognised by the management.

Hand sharpened Atomic Chodda hooks in size 5. The greatest chod/SHR hook for hand sharpening ever produced. Ten foot, long running naked chods on fluoro, casting the lead off the floor.

TCarper

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#5 6 Oct 2024 at 7.26am

Lee with a really special one, GPB2 over Trap Baits DeepFish

Jacko, two lovely ones from work overnighters this week. RedBerry/Vanilla S2 balanced over Nash Scopex Squid.

Forum member Dean, Hutchie S2 Berks syndicate

Wade with three 30+ to 38lb from Riverton, including the original triple row, he was desperate to catch. All pink S2 13mm cc. His mate had a mid 30 on an S2 as well same trip.

Forum member Paul, 12lb+ barbel from the Trent yesterday GPB2 bottom bait barrel

Mark, club lake S2 over Wraysbury MC Nut

TCarper

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#4 3 Oct 2024 at 7.53am

Marlow on Thames 2017. Bad self takes. This scrapper 30lb mirror had not been caught for a long time I was told. Not since she was a low 20. You will have seen the same fish a couple of years after these photos in a Terry Hearn video I'm told. My guess is, I dragged her from a stretch further downstream with the rake and the garlic hemp. Constant raking to disturb the bottom before fishing. Making so much noise and disturbance by throwing in a heavy metal rake, is actually a great thing when you are disturbing the bottom. The complete opposite of keeping quiet and being stealthy. Stealthy starts when you actually start angling and the fish arrive. When you rake, you create a scenario that imitates competitive feeding. Among fish, that is a dinner bell going off. A preprogrammed dinner bell from mother nature that other fish are ripping the bottom to bits. Very quickly you will attract the attention of the biggest fish in any lake by doing this. The dominant ones will come and take over the area/spot very quickly indeed. The dominant ones are always the biggest ones.

The following Spring after I was catching these fish from the Thames, a good friend was fishing a 270 acre pit with hardly any fish in. He was shown what I was doing on the river. He purchased the same rake himself, raked out a spot for the very first time. He instantly banked one of the biggest and most worthy carp in the UK by doing so.

TCarper

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#3 2 Oct 2024 at 7.07am

2017, Burghfield, second day as a member. Part of a brace of 40's. Long running chods out to an area where I had seen the fish showing all spring.

Two months before my ticket started, I walked the lake with my dogs most mornings before work. I was living in Sonning at the time, close enough to be able to do this. I heard the first big carp show in complete darkness. The wind carried the sound over 250 yards across the water in the pitch black. This was in early March, the water was still absolutely freezing cold. But the carps winter quarters had already been found. My ticket would not start for another six weeks yet. I started loading it up out there with tiger slime. The tigers themselves, would get used for baiting the Thames. The slime produced, was used to hold those fish in that area out there. Over the space of that six weeks I saw over two hundred shows in an area no bigger than the size of a tennis court. I likely heard the same amount again in darkness. The area was very smooth silt. Clearly where they had laid for their winter hibernation in January and February. As they woke up, they wanted to show, release some energy and clear off the leaches that always smother them whilst they are laying in their winter blanket of silt. Clearly the otters, that had apparently now taken up residence in the back bays at the other end of the lake had never found them whilst in their hibernating slumber. One day they will, then they will take the lot.

Right up until the day of my ticket starting I was there at dawn. Every morning I would hear them, then see them when it got light. I already knew that this was going to be fairly simple fishing. The problem came when an existing member was already set up in the swim a few days before my ticket started. Luckily from chatting to him, he had seen nothing and was fishing to a completely different area of the pit. I was only waiting for him to leave. I had no interest in going and setting up anywhere else. I knew where they were, I knew I just needed three S2 out there and it was going to be game on.

I crushed up five kilos of Chocolate Orange freezer baits and soaked them in tiger slime the night before I went. A couple of large hand fulls of this would be fished over each hook bait. They were so nailed in on the tiger spunk, I did not want to feed them, I wanted to catch them.

First morning at dawn, I had a brace of mid 40's, I think this was the first one.

TCarper

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#2 2 Oct 2024 at 6.35am

Forum member Sam, three recent big commons from days only Sutton 2. S2 over Poacher T&M freezer baits.

Jez, S2 over NoNuts freezer baits


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