a water with only a few carp in it is statistically a hard water in which to catch fish from, of course if you are in the right place at the right time with the right bait, then its easy of course. I can remeber my firsy visit to yateley, I was in pole position fishing the pads, at the time it held three carp, the largest being Jumbo at 44lb, I considered this to be a hard water, I did however catch two fish over the weekend, a small bream and a pike both on boilies, wrong place, wrong time, wrong bait/forum/smilies/smile_smiley.gif, I`ve also fished a water which had hard banks and was a struggle to get a rod rest in!!!