First double after two years...

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On Friday I caught my first double figured carp. I know that 16lb 2oz is not enormous but to me it was a milestone.

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The full story and more pictures can be found HERE, but I caught it on a small 9ft picker rod on 6lb line with a 5lb hooklength. I used my own Two Dog groundbait feeder mix on a 30g flat-backed method feeder and punched bacon grill on the hook.

Ralph :)
 
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Exceedingly well done Ralph! Wow an achievement to cherish and one I am keen to emulate; chance would be a fine thing!
 
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Nice one, Ralph: a proper puddin' :)

WRT your spod dilemma. I don't have a dedicated spod rod and use a 2.75 carp rod with the smallest Gardner Pocket Rocket, which is fine up to 50yds or so.

There must be some sort of quick change workaround to enable the use of one rod for both jobs. If you're using the Drennan method feeders, say, it should be possible to remove the hooklink and Q/C bead and slide the feeder off, exposing the mainline loop, clipping on a mini-spod or Spomb pre-fitted with a quick change link and then reattaching the feeder when you're done spodding. Assuming you aren't trying to fill the lake in it only means having one rod out of action for a few minutes at a time.
 
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robtherake said:
Nice one, Ralph: a proper puddin' :)

WRT your spod dilemma. I don't have a dedicated spod rod and use a 2.75 carp rod with the smallest Gardner Pocket Rocket, which is fine up to 50yds or so.

There must be some sort of quick change workaround to enable the use of one rod for both jobs. If you're using the Drennan method feeders, say, it should be possible to remove the hooklink and Q/C bead and slide the feeder off, exposing the mainline loop, clipping on a mini-spod or Spomb pre-fitted with a quick change link and then reattaching the feeder when you're done spodding. Assuming you aren't trying to fill the lake in it only means having one rod out of action for a few minutes at a time.
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I am no expert at this, but as I understand it for spod and marker work should I not be using braid main line.

I was wondering if a couple of those really cheap carp rods and reels, you see advertised, would make good marker and spod rods loaded with braid? Like you I can't see me fishing much further out than 50 yards or so.

Ralph.
 
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Ralph.....Nothing to do with the size of fish caught, but more the maximum size of the fish in the water where you caught it! On some waters I fish the carp only go to 20lbs so a very good fish is 15lbs or so, and they are not caught too often!

Your 16lb fish is very respectable and you are rightly proud of it. Milestones are always nice to achieve...

Well done!!
 
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Well done bud, nice looking lump too.
Im hopeing to get my first double this year on my local, ill be doing my first 36/48 session next week.
 
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fishplate42 said:
On Friday I caught my first double figured carp. I know that 16lb 2oz is not enormous but to me it was a milestone.



Ralph :)
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Well done. 16lb 2 ozs IS enormous. Maybe not by national standards and the pictures that adorn the angling press, but that is still a big fish.

It just goes to show how things have changed. That fish would have made Angling Times within the life times of many of FM users.



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fishplate42 said:
I am no expert at this, but as I understand it for spod and marker work should I not be using braid main line.

I was wondering if a couple of those really cheap carp rods and reels, you see advertised, would make good marker and spod rods loaded with braid? Like you I can't see me fishing much further out than 50 yards or so.

Ralph.
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At the short ranges we're taking about mono's fine - I used 12lb mono for years without a problem. A loaded mini-spod's no heavier than your lead and PVA bag. A standard carp rod can manage this fine, even though it isn't ideal.

As has been pointed out previously, though, a good marker rod's a specialist tool and a cheapo carp rod is unlikely to cut the mustard. Others with more relevant experience will be able to give better advice.
 
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Well done.
I always remember my first double 1970 Shangri la Lake near Clacton, Essex.

Had many more and bigger since but the first ones are what I remember the most, same for my first double figure pike.
 
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What was your rod Ralph?
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Well, there's a tale. Between us we had four rods out. A couple of proper carp rods with proper carp rigs etc., looking for the big fish. We coaxed those two lines all day. All morning we were just chatting a tiddling about close in with a couple of wagglers catching silvers while we were waiting for some action on the carp lines.

Late afternoon with no action on the heavy stuff I got bored with the silvers and laid a small bed of groundbait out using a large 30g method feeder, rigged to a small 9ft picker rod. After a few casts I baited it up with a fresh piece of 12mm punched Bacon Grill and left it there. No more than ten minutes later, and it may have been a lot sooner, the line was screaming from the real and it was fish on. With only 8lb line and 6lb hook link I was not expecting anything this big. I was really after some of the smaller ghosties that hang around the edges.

The rod and line performed well and the No14 hook stayed put.

No one was more surprised than me when it was on the bank!

Just over two years ago I had not even touched a fishing rod, let alone a 16-2 carp. Great felling :thumbs:

Ralph.
 
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Congratulations, a nice looking fish too.

I remember my first double of 12lb 10oz from Petersfinger Lake (the Dead End Swim) on maple peas in 1974 0r 1975.

Great memories.
 
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fishplate42 said:
I was really after some of the smaller ghosties that hang around the edges.


Ralph.
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The big girls trundle round the edges, too, Ralph, as you've found. It's where all my best carp have come from, on simply huge baits which I'm surmising are viewed as anglers' discards.:)
 
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