In article , Alex
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"Richard" wrote in message
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Hi Derek ...... it isn't an objection it is just a fact. One of our club
waters is a 25acre pit. In about 45 swims you can't walk round to the far
bank. If you are going to analyse just the 'hotter' carp swims for
specimens
of that species than the ratio is high ..... you can't walk round to the
far
bank of about 75% of the swims.


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Is this through natural location or choice.
If the latter, have a word with the committee, or owners and get the
"problem" solved.
I suspect that deep down the average carp fisherman likes to long cast. It
is all part of the image.

A long time ago now (When the proper colour for carp gear was still black)
we had a real problem on a smallish local water with a few selfish anglers
who took to occupying the three or four swims where you could get a car
really close and casting several lines each into every other swim on the
pond. They water was the only one close enough to town that the younger
members could get to it by bike but these selfish zombies simply refused to
let them fish - the old 'I'm fishing that swim' shout as mentioned before.

In the end we cured it by arranging a rota whereby the youngsters would
notify us each time the problem occurred and two or three of us, at least
one a committee member, would go 'pike spinning' with 25lb bs lines. When
the leads had been reeled in we let the youngsters set up. Once the lads
were fishing the carpers, those that stayed, didn't bother them.

A couple of times I simply crept up to the bank instead, poked a rod through
a bush and hooked a carp under the overhanging foliage with the same line.
It was astonishing how easy it was to do so so that the first the carpers
knew about it was the splashing of the fish and the alarms going off where
it had been allowed to run over their lines.

Those particular fish were suckers for a lively lobworm btw.

Cheerio,

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