Just thought i'd start a thread on fishing, to see if anyone out there shares my favorite hobby. I go mainly freshwater float fishing, for lots of different species.
I fish mainly in Kent and Essex at different lakes. Do's anyone know any decent lakes in the greater London area ?

Whats the point of it, if you dont catch to eat ?????

Is it cruel to keep hooking fish and throwing them back just for your enjoyment??????????

me a left winger, i would be the first that would believe that 50% of the population should be put to death as scrounging malingering parasites who wont get up off their arse and want to scrounge off the rest of us-----------all i did was put the 2 main things in and you reacted to the letter

Sorry, looks like I really took the bait then

And the saying is----HOOK LINE AND SINKER--------------



Ken Boothe would spin in his grave, actually the song i think was written by a man called David Gates of a group called Bread around 1971, and Ken Boothe turned it in to a reggae hit in 1974--------bloody hell i am old!!!!!!!!

So many bad jokes, were are you fishing them out from?

Have you been fishing lately fatboygreen ?

Yes m8y thats me.

Are you mosty into carping ?

I admit i know nothing about fishing, i have been a couple of times and caught a barbel on the severn at Bridgenorth and a few Roach and stuff. I went sea fishing once off Wales and found it fasinating and exhausting, and bloody sunburning.

But i once had a job delivering fresh fish to Hotels in and around Birmingham, and i delivered Carp quite often, they were covered in snot and kept sliding all around the back of the van, absolutley disgusting, who eats the bloody things????

In eastern europe Carp are a delicacy, there was a eastern european bloke that was nicked for trying to keep his catch to take it home to eat.
Not as slimy as Bream though

where's your shop and whats it called

My shops called Charnwood Tackle and is in Loughborough.

I will fish for most things as long as there big but i am mostly a carper you no one of then sad lot that sit out on the bank for a week at a time and get sweet F,A

Your like me then m8y i don't mind sitting out all week and not having a fish to show for it just nice to be out

now thats a proper carp, how much she weigh.
One day, when I win the lottery, and buy me house with the lake at the bottom of the garden, I will spend all me waking hours with a rod or two out
Where are you fishing in pic ?

The lake is called Toms lake it's a syndicate lake just out side of Loughborugh.

And the fish is 22lb 2oz which is small for the lake we have carp up to 55lb and there growing fast

When you win the lottery let me on so i can come and fish your lake too

we only get carp up to 20lb were I fish, We have the big commercial lakes near us, But we love where we fish, they got a good selection of species and 5 small lakes to choose from, and a decent cafe, and everyone knows everyone, very friendly, lot of old boys use the lakes and its good listening to thier storys.
I will post you when I win lottery

Sounds nice were is it you come from ?

I'm very lucky there is only 10 of us that fish the lake and it only has carp in oh and 1 tench

Its amazing what you can lern off the old boy's and thats what it's all about being some where nice and with nice ppl doing the thing you love.

Im off fishing in France latter this year so hope to get some big kippers there.

I'm from Eltham in south London, we fish at shorne and cobham in kent.
Your very lucky, only ten of ya on one lake !
how often is the tench pulled out, they are buggers them tench, watched a leeda vid the other month, where they were carping and they were filming under water how the fish take the bait, the carp were just having it and taking it, the tench were having it then spitting it out !
You should have a good time in France, i've heard theres some good waters out there

The tench has never been hooked as of yet but we have seen him and hes about 8-9 lb now i'll have him 1 day

Do you mean the korda under water vid which thay did at horseshoe lakes with Danny farbass ?

Hope i have a good time in france last year we fished in spain on the ebro great place to fish but when we were there the river was 45 feet up in flood we were useing 8 oz bombs in the slack and still cud not hold bottom i had 9 carp to 15lb but what realy pissed us off was you cud sit there and whach 300-400 carp in a shole up to about 65lb just swim past you with no way to get to them but thats fishing

This is were im off off this year at lest it can't flood he says

http://www.wintonsfrance.com/bailiff/bailiff.htm

3-400lb, omg, how the f*** do you land one of them
Had a look at site, looks magic, have you done much fishing in Ireland ?
Yes I did mean that Korda vid with Danny Farbuss.
Me and me brother done some fishing in Ireland a few years back. most years now, we go to cornwall near st.Ives, we no a farmer down there with his own lake, spend two weeks on his lake

Where did yougo in Ireland ??????

somewhere nr Dublin, cant think of the name off the top of my head.

could'nt resist posting this pic of my mate, and the whopper fish he caught

I go fishing ,sometimes freshwater

but i prefer sea fishing, where i usually go your not crammed in with another 4 people within 10 meters

here's me with 1 of several dogfish i caught in november last year (dodgey camera hair )



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nice little dogfish, I prefer freshwater to sea myself but all fishing is good

I like fishing. Its easiest to catch dim women. I see there are a few around this site.

OK apology accepted

I have seen some of you're posts. I like you. You are honest, open and yet never try to force an argument like some people do on here. Why do they do that? Why is it that some people will not bother to read what you say and just keep on repeating their own argument? How silly is that?

How off topic is this as well

True.........


So what sort of fishing are you into? which is your preferred bait?

I dont know what bait he is using but your hooked and he is playing with you now

my daughter bags her first carp

never saw the fascination in fishing untill just now

Nice rod

thats my mum fishing in spain last year, and yes she has a nice rod

looks like FBG has a nice rod too

id like to see the one that got away

pmsl..................that was the maggot that got away

how true

glad you like em

Didnt realise fishermen licked there balls, is that to get rid of the taste of the fish?