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    Been busy My first year with rod licences and first 48hr Carp fishing trip.

    My target this year was to catch a better PB that my pevious 15lb mirror and 15lb common lucky me caught a 17lb mirror of surface the other night and landed this beast 8am friday morning

    Big Common 24.5lb 1 of only 9 old warriors around 30 year old, all up to or over 30lb.



    Whats every one else been up to .........................

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    Re: Been busy My first year with rod licences and first 48hr Carp fishing trip.

    I just got my Haynes out,To have a read up on how to change my engine mounts

    Know doubt i'll be postin Topic in 5gtt turbo section for tech help

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    Re: Been busy My first year with rod licences and first 48hr Carp fishing trip.

    WTF!!

    That's a big fella alright!

    Makes me laugh though i've never seen a picture of anyone holding a big fish & actually smiling....??

    Is it the worry of dropping it or the exhaustion of catching it?!

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    Re: Been busy My first year with rod licences and first 48hr Carp fishing trip.

    ^^Think he's just about to pop a hernia actually. That is a big lad.

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    Re: Been busy My first year with rod licences and first 48hr Carp fishing trip.

    I reckon I'd be able to CATCH a big fish...pulling it out of the water would be another matter, however!

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    Re: Been busy My first year with rod licences and first 48hr Carp fishing trip.

    The pictures of the fish so if you look at the fish it dosnt matter what face your pulling ha

    bigcommon as he/shes called sat still for photos done it all before and probs been droped for rattling so just sits there.

    Took about 20mins to reel in and because of my technique holding rod i had dead arm for while but could of done it all again.

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    Re: Been busy My first year with rod licences and first 48hr Carp fishing trip.

    Quote Originally Posted by D4WNO View Post
    I reckon I'd be able to CATCH a big fish...pulling it out of the water would be another matter, however!
    Dawn i reckon if you have my luck and determination any thing would be possiable, but on a serious note they dont get caught very often , there pretty clever fishys, at times no fish will get caught for 6 mths. You go there and expect to sleep and eat and catch nout

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    Re: Been busy My first year with rod licences and first 48hr Carp fishing trip.

    thats a nice catch fella, i fished france couple of years ago and had few like that, along with a 107lb catfish that was longer than me! but thats beats my uk fish pb hands down. much prettier than the french fish too, cant beat old english carp

    well done

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    Re: Been busy My first year with rod licences and first 48hr Carp fishing trip.

    Cheers rob

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    Re: Been busy My first year with rod licences and first 48hr Carp fishing trip.

    Quote Originally Posted by dave j gtt View Post
    Dawn i reckon if you have my luck and determination any thing would be possiable, but on a serious note they dont get caught very often , there pretty clever fishys, at times no fish will get caught for 6 mths. You go there and expect to sleep and eat and catch nout
    Lol, that may be true for the less "vertically-challenged", but I'm 5'2" and weigh less than 8 stone!

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    Re: Been busy My first year with rod licences and first 48hr Carp fishing trip.

    I wouldnt let that hold you back or anything else for that matter ! you could do it
    Last edited by dave j gtt; 13-07-2009 at 17:01.

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    Re: Been busy My first year with rod licences and first 48hr Carp fishing trip.

    One way to catch a fish if its being a cheeky bugger....swimming trunks and snorkel time

    Dude, that is a hell of a catch

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    Re: Been busy My first year with rod licences and first 48hr Carp fishing trip.

    Nice, what pound line did you use to bring that badboy in?
    I love carp fishing, bit of bread on the surface, oh yes......
    Never caught anything like that mind...

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    Re: Been busy My first year with rod licences and first 48hr Carp fishing trip.

    15lb-20lb line for me when bottem fishing, 8lb line when surface fishing

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