Hoot!!! wrote:
: Most people will fish for carp, lots of puddles with pastie carp
: and the pools with the big fish in are all sindicate (sorry cant
: spell) I like to catch barbel and catfish (more fun)

The bigger carp arent always in syndicate waters, there's many day ticket
fisheries with carp over 40lbs....that said i dont think it's that
important, sure I'd like to catch a big fish, but it's not imperative to my
days enjoyment, on the contrary, some of the best fishing I've ever
experienced has involved fish no bigger than 7 -8lbs, mostly carp but plenty
of hard fighting barbel too.
A grand day in the height of summer with rod, reel and hook, no other
tackle, just a landing net and a pocketful of Hovis and floating fishmeal
pellets...Ah!!..bliss!

( I could have gone to a fishery holding much bigger fish, but that had the
risk of blanking - I just wanted to catch fish.)