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Exactly, which is why the committee has decided that fishing will be banned from anywhere other than the designated pegs.

St.John wrote:Exactly, which is why the committee has decided that fishing will be banned from anywhere other than the designated pegs.

Just kidding!! But to all anglers, heed sweetcorns experience. Getting stuck in the silt is very dangerous and you also look like a right pillock getting pulled out!

I reckon the carp must bury themselves at times in that silt. Otto Overbeck, about 100 years ago, recalled wading out at Croxby and feeling a wiggle in the mud beneath his feet - it was a decent carp, deep under the silt...
Perhaps this is how the big ones evade the net...?

FarliesBirthday wrote:I reckon the carp must bury themselves at times in that silt. Otto Overbeck, about 100 years ago, recalled wading out at Croxby and feeling a wiggle in the mud beneath his feet - it was a decent carp, deep under the silt...
Perhaps this is how the big ones evade the net...?

that is something that i have heard speculated upon. i recon so-also larger fish can and will push smaller fish out of 'safe zones'. however they do it, there are fish that avoid nettings.

St.John wrote:

FarliesBirthday wrote:I reckon the carp must bury themselves at times in that silt. Otto Overbeck, about 100 years ago, recalled wading out at Croxby and feeling a wiggle in the mud beneath his feet - it was a decent carp, deep under the silt...
Perhaps this is how the big ones evade the net...?

that is something that i have heard speculated upon. i recon so-also larger fish can and will push smaller fish out of 'safe zones'. however they do it, there are fish that avoid nettings.

Indeed, St John, even the ancients marvelled at the carp's ability to evade the net.

Andrew Field, having recieved these wonderful floats from May, has created ten replicas of the Carp Catchers Slider Carp Quill....Here are a few pics.....










I think they're wonderful, so I ordered one!!!

They do look nice.

Where did he get 10 Vulture quills ?

He actually used large swan quills, vultures are a bit thin on the ground over here....