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Elena aged 3, picked out the first winner from a screenshot of the who's online page last night. If you PM me a delivery address this morning, your prize will go with todays delivery. Please add in the PM if you have a preference for balanced or pop ups, 16 or 13mm. Any preferences what you would like from our range too.
Well done Nate, happy Christmas.

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In reply to Post #93 "if you’re not a camper"
Well last night def felt like proper winter fishing on the end of that N wind across 70acres. Mad as hatter but I enjoyed it!!!!
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In reply to Post #93 That larkfield mirror 👌👍
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Scans of prints. Mick's fish and the patch common from Farlows. Very early 2000's. Two Jan/Feb captures of back then what were the biggest fish in that venue. Mick's fish was one of the fish relocated by John Stent after Rodney Meadow was drained down. Most of them went into Harefield, but Mick's fish ended up in Farlows. It grew much bigger and went on to be the biggest fish in there. Farlows was somewhere I fished going right back as a child in the early 80's. When the Pet was the biggest carp. Before it was the very first lake opened up for any method trout fishing in the close season. All of the famous carp anglers of the time fishing in the Colne Valley would fish it then. Maylin, Zen, Bob Baker of Richworth and so many others. I used to get a train/tube all the way across London with my kit when I was twelve/thirteen. I had fished Little Britain lakes next door even before that with my Dad. Joan Jacobi, wife of Steve Briggs who worked in the cafe there for many years, always looked right after me back then. They remain friends to this day. A much younger Gary Bayes worked in Rod's Catchum 88 shop there. I went back there fishing various times over the years before they filled it right in with stockies. Only ever for a few day sessions in the middle of Jan/Feb. Things had never changed fishing wise. Bottom of the smelly bank, or centre of the factory bank. Bashing singles out long range into the middle in the silt. While every silly sausage was spodding loads of particles/freezer bait on top of any bit of gravel in January, after watching free Korda DVD's all over Christmas. Always with a bright cardboard pop up fished over the top of their spod mix. I would smash out bundles of fish on a day session, whilst they all blanked. Single hook baits, brown S2 food baits (no name then) blasted to the horizon. As the M25 became worse and worse traffic wise, those day sessions to Farlows were never possible anymore driving all the way from South East London to West London. That’s the reason why I first went up the Stow with Dempsey in the first place, M25 traffic. Winter days sessions, I have always absolutely loved them going right back to my childhood. 99% of carp anglers always used to hang their rods up for the winter. Best time of the year if you’re not a camper.



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Scan of print, RMC Larkfield 2.
As it's Christmas and you will all be buying Xmas presents for everyone else. Over the next couple of weeks, my youngest step daughter will pick three winners at random on here. You do not need to do anything at all. Just be active online. I'll screen shot the who's online screen when it's busy, get her to pick a name out. That will happen three separate times. We'll send the winners a nice Christmas present of their choice.
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Plenty of you on this forum seem to live up north. You have seen Carl and his son Jude from Stoke plenty this year. Last week Carl smashed his personal best on a short session. His best trip of an entire lifetimes carp fishing. Banked four before everything turned to ice at 6pm.
Banoffee S2 balanced over Rollinbaits Inception. Well done again Carl if you are reading. I think you are.




Scopex/Pineapple S2

Scopex/Pineapple S2

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In reply to Post #87 I keep being asked this same particular question. What information do you need? They are absolutely mustard, that's according to all of our customers who are buying them. Now our best selling hook bait.
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In reply to Post #88 Listening to me droning on, spamming the bait section
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In reply to Post #86 When Mark talks we listen 👍😊
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In reply to Post #86 Thanks Mark. Any more info on the Hutchy special editions?
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In reply to Post #85 I have very rarely ever used our 13mm crushed cork pop ups. Always a 16mm for me on a chod or SHR.
Common thinking in carp fishing with normal pop ups/hook baits would dictate that you go as small as is possible. I will only use smaller hook baits when fishing over seeds in the summer, on the deck. For everything else regarding our stuff fishing wise, it is always the 16mm. That's often a hard one for carp anglers to get their head around. As like so many things in carp fishing, we are all preprogrammed a certain way by carp fishing media. Our hook baits work in a completely different way to everyone else's because of the process which they go through. So the complete opposite is true. The bigger the bait, the more of the goodness is contained within the centre of the bait itself.
Real food, completely untouched by any preservation, slowly fermenting inside a protected atmosphere inside the very centre of the bait itself. That's why they get better with age.
Common practice among bait makers is to lead you down a path of much bigger baits. As there is far less work involved in producing 25kg of 20mm, than there is making 25kg of 12mm.
Again, the complete opposite is true with us, as rolling is only the very beginning of the work with our hook baits. If we could make a 20mm hook bait in the same time scale as a 16mm bait, we 100% would. Put simply, there is far to much work involved for us drying that size of hook bait over and over again. It trebles the production times going from a 16mm to a 20mm for us. Trebles the energy costs. We would need to charge a fortune for them.
Bigger is ALWAYS better with our stuff.
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Hi Mark. Do you use the 12s or the 16s for your chod fishing? Not a question about the buoyancy, more do you prefer a smaller or larger bait on a chod?
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In reply to Post #74 That's sad news. I remeber Tim from the old Cemex forum days.
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Walthamstow, February 2012. One of the coldest days I’ve ever fished. It was so stupidly bitter that I could barely hold this fish up for the pics. This was the biggest one of a large multiple catch on a half day session. All of the fish were taken from an area no more than one foot deep. One foot of water, above six or seven foot of thick silt. The carp were moving through the silt itself. This particular fish was presumed long dead by the management. It had not been caught for many years. It was also far bigger than it had previously ever been. It was the most stupid days fishing ever. I literally could not keep the rods in the water that afternoon, I also could not feel my hands for hours it was that bitterly cold. The carp absolutely loved it though. Two over 35, another over 30 among plenty of others. I only arrived at 1pm and left at 7pm. I could never beat that day in terms of winter carping. Long running naked chod rigs with S2 corks, fished over loads of pre soaked T&M freezer baits. I ran out of bait that evening. Two days previously I had seen what looked like tiny roach dimpling on the surface under a strong torch beam in darkness. It was big carp feeding in the thickest silt, the silt which the anglers all steered well clear of. Living their best lives feeding on bloodworm. That’s clearly why this fish had gone missing for so long.

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Scan of print. Around 1997/98. River Thames, Hampton sailing club, Hurst park. My personal favourite ever carp, a common too. My first Thames 30lb+. One of a number of carp I caught around the same time, which I never saw photos of anyone else holding. It had the membranes still intact inside its mouth, they were thicker and more rubbery than its outer lips. The house behind my shoulder is on an island. That's the ferry/boat yard owners house who i mentioned previously.

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