Not big in the grand scheme of things but I've upped me PB to an 8lb 10oz mirror on float fished prawn! Only had a 2lb 12oz hooklink so I had a bit of a tussle on my hands.
Well done Colin, any P.B. is worth mentioning, you'll soon be into double figures. An 8lb fish can scare the .....well you know out of you especially on light gear, keep at it.
Well today I did it again. I caught a 10+ Mirror on 4 pieces of hair rigged sweetcorn!
Myself and my mate sgreed it was much bigger than the 8.10 from the other day so we settled on a double+. The only sad tinge to it was that when the carp took, myself, my mate and the fishery manager were trying rescue a very young Canada goose from a hook and several feet of line. We had to shoo the parents off while the manager grabbed the bird and took it to her office to retrieve the hook from the poor buggers mouth with some forceps. It really f***s me off some of the rubbish people leave and if we hadn't of seen it happen that little bird might not be with us now! Anyway as I returned to my rods one of them was screaming off(alarm too quiet...DOH!) and had gone about 50 yards across the lake. Thank heaven for baitrunners.
Well done again ba, so next weekend it's bag a 15+. Have you got a set of scales, because I've had "10lb+ carp" that have only gone 8 on the scales. Definitly worth weighing them 'cos next weekend.......
.....20? You don't quite know, 'less it's pulled that needle round!
To be honest we both thought it could be more. My mate has had a ten weighed before and he was convinced it was at least 11-12! But yes decent scales are needed. I bought a cheap set from a fishing show and they showed a nice tench a while ago to be 1 1/2lb. When I borrowed some from a guy in the next swim it was 3lbs so I wouldn't trust what they say.