lo chaps there is a new fourm on the island its worth a look
http://iowcarpcatchers.forumup.co.uk/index.ph ... chers
im crafty carper on there

lo chaps there is a new fourm on the island its worth a look
http://iowcarpcatchers.forumup.co.uk/index.ph ... chers
im crafty carper on there

we are trying to set up a friendly match between the carpers aND MATCH MEN ANY ONE INTREASTED leave a mes on here

Tim it is then men

go see tim im all out lol

or go see tim.

speak to our local del boy - IOWANGLER

Hello lads anyone no anyone with a good rod pod for sale mine is falling to bits now

sorry astra your wrong on that 1 any 1 fishing on heron must hav a mat and 42inch net if any 1 dosent have them then you can ask them to leave the lake and they must be set up ready to use not in abag

Seems slightly un fair ! They would moan like hell if i was fishing size 18 hook and no tiny disgourger to remove the hook.
Surely they should'nt be able to fish on the lake if they are not proplery set up with what the lake can produce. I would like to see what dave has to say about this surely he must allready no. I no about the mats and nets, ive seen a couple of match anglers net a 15lb carp in a small round net and then rest the fish on the floor ! I did have some small words to say to them as i was just looking arond the lake, some people have no respect for the fish they catch surely they should be treated well for the future.

8382 clark the match men dont have to carry big nets of unhooking mats either!!!!!

they dont have to because the rule saz you only need 1 if your fishing for carp its the same with line you should hae min 10lb linet if your fishing for carp but not if your match fishing bit of a pointless rule if 1 person has to and another 1 dosent but thats the iow fishing club for ya

Merstone has started to fish well again, but i found out the other day that the match fishermen don't have to carry a carp care kit on heron, surely it is an esentail bit of kit to carry these days. I will allways put the fish first and protect them at all costs so why dont they have to ???

Hello all fishing rookley sometime soon, have fished there b4 and had a couple out on ice red and nutty spuid, has any one got any tips and advice how to up my catch rate ?

done this weekend with a few mates, had bunker to big steps and all we saw was one come out the woods sat afternoon. i heard two thirties came out the box last nite tho.. twin and peach!

did you get any last time you fished rookley dean???
i managed a 24lb 12oz common on my last trip

shut til august isn't it so i hear?

comley mate should be open hopfully after spawning then al my time will be spent up thier

il hopefully be on rookley mate. which syndicate is that?

iam doing fri ngt if you fancy it iam just waiting for my syndicate to open and try and catch abigey

well, its all quiet round here.. so who's been out wetting lines recently? i done fri nite at gunville for 5 stockies. and sun nite at heron for a mint 17lb common.

very interesting to hear! i dont get up there much so wudn't have noticed, in general carp dont spawn until may through to july depending on when we get a few days of 15+ degrees. im intrigued as to why, especially so soon after the coldest winter we've had for a long time!

send your pics over to thecarphunter, he'l put them on the site. dont think there's many in the 20+ category so far..

Point taken catcher ! i must admit its nice to have an option to fish different methods but sadely we don't. The reason i no they have spawed is that three weeks ago i pulled a couple of carp and they both were full of spawn, and a couple of the other angles that week had said the same. Also there was spawn along some of the tree lines if you looked close close in with the weed

i should have also mentioned before, the boilie ban is nothing to do with us carpers not catching, its more the point that the fish in all lakes dont put on any size year in and out. infact a fair few have lost weight!

welcome dan, nice to see another carper posting!

the reason i prefer fishing over beds of boilies is generally because if you hook a fish over a bed, the other fish spook for a short period, then return as there is still food in that area, so i find you get mutiple catches off of one spot. somtimes even double runs! if i fish stringers alone i very rarely get more than one take per spot!

how do you know the fish have spawned out? IMO its still to early in the season, and we've had nowhere near the right temperature to get them going!?!? interesting opinion mate..