Bluemoon Angling Thread

Blue_eyes said:
Nice one, common carp are easily the best to look at imo, fully scaled, and that one doesnt look like its had a hard life...... unlike its captor, only joking mate. My pb common was just under 13lb from the old lake at border fisheries, on floating crust while my mates were lying in thier bivvies,a long time ago now, although I still have the same gear lol.
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I agree pal, lovely to look at but my favourite UK species are Barbel and Tench. Carp would be up there but I think big carp in England often look almost grotesque with a big boile belly, unlike river fish that are solid muscle. Also I don't want to pursue known fish that carp noddy brigade have given silly names to! : /

Notice how powerful it's tail fin is also. It's blotchy red belly is caused by a couple of reasons I think. One is a carp mating with another in a kind of frenzy swimming through snags such as rocks and sunken branches. If you look at pic carefully you can see dead tree sticking up. due to the river being dammed, and much bigger than its original river course. (width)
The other reason is it's stuffed with signal crayfish size of small lobsters, and I imagine that they will be nipping at fish that try to home in on the free bait on the bottom.

I like carp but hate the English commercial and syndicate type carp scene and I shy away from it as prefer harder natural waters. The Ebro is a big powerful river and it's the catfish (see page 29) that I'm after.

I take no offence at your gentle digging pal. I think I have more laughter lines than etched in worried frowns: )
 
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Mazzarelli's Swiss Cheese said:
Bivvy wanker ;-) That is bloody huge and I bet it took a bit of catching.
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Two (separate) whole weeks on a gravel pit. First week resulted in one 19lber. Then the second week everything came together and I had that one and about half a dozen 20s and 30s over a few days. I’d just heard about that Manchester bombing minutes before catching that one actually.

I spent years, decades even, working up to catching it to be honest. Many blanks, sometimes for a week at a time. I did 14 nights on a Cheshire Mere without a single run. And you know the funny thing? I’ve never fished for carp since. I think deep down I know I’ll never better this fish, or the circumstances around it, on a beautiful soft summer’s dawn with my best mate in the next peg.
 
peace frog said:
what a magnificent creature , the carp isn't bad either :)
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It is an incredible fish and you can see how chuffed bmr is - I bet it was hard work pulling it against the flow of that river. The serious question we have to consider is after a few pints which one of them would you rather kiss?
 
Didsbury Dave said:
Two (separate) whole weeks on a gravel pit. First week resulted in one 19lber. Then the second week everything came together and I had that one and about half a dozen 20s and 30s over a few days. I’d just heard about that Manchester bombing minutes before catching that one actually.

I spent years, decades even, working up to catching it to be honest. Many blanks, sometimes for a week at a time. I did 14 nights on a Cheshire Mere without a single run. And you know the funny thing? I’ve never fished for carp since. I think deep down I know I’ll never better this fish, or the circumstances around it, on a beautiful soft summer’s dawn with my best mate in the next peg.
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Almost 3lb heavier than Richard Walker managed from Redmire.
 
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