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In reply to Post #76
Thanks mark I never win an argument 🤣
Look out Merrington here come s2 fizz
Congrats to all others who have won this great prize
True gentleman no need for the competition these would have sold out anyway
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Mentioned these two were off to Orellana last week. Copy and paste from Faceache.
Parky & Tony holding two very impressive lake Orellana big carp. They had to move numerous times to find the fish on the 20,000 acre Spanish public venue, but it all came good in the end.
Andy's common weighed 54lb+, caught on one of our GPB2 cc pop ups fished as a snowman with NBD Nutrition bottom baits. Tony's stunning mirror weighed 52lb+, caught on one of our Hutchie S2 cc pop ups fished over two large tigers, snowman style. Fished over loads of Dynamite Pepper Squid freezer baits and corn/tigers. What incredible photos, well done both of you. Superb angling.
That top photo is one to treasure!
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In reply to Post #73
You can find out Woody and tell everyone else what you think.
I said when I was back I would pick some winners to try them. I've been so stupidly busy. Made up on the spot now. Last five posters on this thread and last three posters on whole site from the latest posts button. Please all PM your full name and delivery address. We will send you a couple of tubs of the soon to be released S2 Fizz.
Please do not all PM or message asking for them. We have loads done, they will be available as special orders end of next week. We cleared all orders completely up to date yesterday. FishOn have bundles of yellow Banoffee S2 on the way to the shop today. TackleBox will have bundles of pink Hutchie S2 this weekend too. This allows the Fizz to come end of next week.
Forum names below.
D J Strauss
RKB
DaleG 2008
Greekski
Woody71
Whitey79
Andy C
Karmh
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In reply to Post #52
Fair play! Only just came in second. Good use of a free bet e/w for me. It’s only little wins my end but £54 up from free bets today isn’t half bad. Think it’ll be well spent with you Mark!
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Hi Mark what are the s2 fizz?
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Any news mark on the fizz release date can’t wait to get my hands on them and some garlics looking for the fizz for a trip at the beginning of April thanks
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In reply to Post #67
Thats a proper early spring carp pic ain't it?
A good read those long posts too - just had a slow read over a coffee, thanks for sharing. Always like reading about the adventures and tricks you guys who are really really into it and have a propper eye and drive for going after it.
Braving carrying hooks/rigs on a lilo... hope it was one of those pink ones with the glitter inside it 
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Richie, 38 & 32 this morning. First trip with 13mm balanced S2 Fizz.
The 38 is another one of the special ones from his lake. Good angling Richie.
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Well done that man belter fish and ever better to the fella who gave him the bait to try
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In reply to Post #62
Incredible Mark. Got the juices flowing. There's a private estate lake 2 miles from my house which there's no fishing on and that hasn't been fished for ten years or more. which I know used to hold some high 30s...this has got me going ten fold to have a cheeky fling. Good writing too.
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In reply to Post #66
Dave Little was in the pub with the Woolpack bailiff yesterday night. The bailiffs friend has been really struggling the past winter. The bailiff asked Dave for some advice. Dave gave him three S2 and told him to try them.
The bailiff's mate caught his first fish in a long time from Woolpack this morning, after casting out one of those S2 for the first time.
Well done the bailiff's mate, that is a beautiful carp.
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In reply to Post #65
Thank you Dave & Chris. That first photo of the fully is the best photo I have of any carp. The way the natural sunlight is coming through the trees and pinging up the blue hue on its back makes that a personal favourite. I only showed that particular photo anywhere for the first time when Paul F died. That was five years after I caught it.
There’s plenty more to come yet.
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In reply to Post #63
Thanks Mark love these stories and great pictures 
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Love these stories Mark , please keep them coming , i'm not a carp angler as Barbel is my passion but i love reading about the lenghts you went to and the results you had , incredible stuff mate 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
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Milton Pan, Swirly the common, around 1993-1995 I think.
At this time I was working in a Mayfair casino in London. I have a Ted Baker flannel shirt on purchased from some expensive designer shop. Burt Bruin Nike, ltd editions. Those trainers would be worth an absolute crazy fortune now second hand. How mad Ted Baker help produce OMC fishing kit these days. This was my second session on Milton Pan. A Mid Kent fisheries venue. At the time Conningbrook and Two-Tone were their flagship, but rammed with full timers. Milton was such a gorgeous lake back then. Barely fished, it had an incredibly tough reputation among the locals. The lake itself is full up with gravel bars. On my first trip I saw a few fish out in the middle. I never used to use a bed chair back then, but always a lilo whenever the banks allowed it. It was a big edge. I had gained the unfortunate nickname of Lilo-Lil at Littlebrook. A character from the TV show Bread. I was mustard on an inflatable lilo. I used to carry a long wooden seven foot handle in my holdall. This would be laid across the front of the inflatable, while a rig was hooked into the wooden stick at either side, hanging a few foot clear of the inflatable. The stupid things we do when we are young. A bucket of bait on the front and off I would go 3.30am just on first light. Two rigs placed on a dinner plate with a bucket of corn over the top. I had gone out to the middle on a lilo and placed a couple of bags of frozen corn behind a bar. I had two bites, but lost a really big fish which ragged me down the bars and cut me off. They loved the sweetcorn, but I was going to have to fish a lot closer in if I wanted to land them. The next trip was fishing next to the little wooden gate in the corner by the entrance bay. On this day the bay was full up with most of the lakes fish. There was a tiny little bar that ran out from the margins, on that sunny day the bigger fish loved that spot so much. It was instantly recognised as the ‘spot’. That very first day that I fished it, I got two 30lb+ mirrors feeding right in the edge. They were absolutely mowing down the 1.5kg bags of frozen value corn. I would add brown sugar and allow them to sweat in the sun. Before I could even think about placing a rig, the queen of the pond came in and started bullying the two mirrors off of the spot. Although I had no clue what fish it was at the time, it was the best common swimming around in Kent that I was looking at. She was demolishing the corn at a rate that I could barely keep up with. All day I fed her, little and often. She would pick up the rig once, blow it out, and would not feed again until that rig was removed. We played this game of cat and mouse for many hours before I eventually got the bite. I fed her, alone, 17.5kg of sweet corn. Watched her trough every single grain up close and personal. You could never imagine that one fish could eat this much food, this quickly. But if the food is the right stuff, they can literally eat it as fast as they are crapping it out. They cannot do this with boiled baits. Imagine that spot being out in the lake. I would have never known I was getting done over and over again. I would have never banked her. I had to move the rig likely twenty times that day. Once she knew it was there, she simply would not go near it again. She was without question the most intelligent carp that I have ever watched. It was actually quite scary how simply she could deal with the rig. In the end it took a single grain of corn, on a 2” rig to get the bite. I never went back stupidly. I met the dearly departed Brett White that day. He wanted to catch Swirly, he did so a few years later.
Swirly was still swimming up until just a few years ago, she got huge at one point. The 30+ mirrors that she was bullying…. One of them was the Milton Mirror which went on to become another famous in Kent carp.
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