Well it seems we, well most anyway are giving the Barbel a miss for the time being, ...so I got to thinking Carp in the margins, we are not overrun with many Carp fisheries in Tewkesbury area, one in particular is a out and out commercial, more akin to darts than fishing, another is a day ticket venue that I haven't fished for years, but did have a 16lb Common last knockings on the float, lovely scrap
We used to fish a venue called Sword and Sabre near Calne in Wiltshire when we lived that way, I loved fishing off the top for them, and they were very obliging, a bit too much on one occasion when Anthony fishing next peg was getting hooked up every 5 minutes or so and I had the only net, the call 'In Again' was met with a curse from me as I had to stop and land the bleeding thing, (it was MY net and I wasn't sharing), on the umpteenth 'I'm In' I turned and managed to miss the pontoon edge and went right under.. of course Anthony was more concerned with the fish, but it ended well with the only casualty me, and a free soaking.
So anyway... thinking about what Carpy gear I have, well it amounts to zero really, I do have a Drennan Tench rod, a few Avons and of course a shed load of redundant Barbel Rods, do the members think the Drennan Tench would be OK... assuming a average size of 5-16lb might be the norm or should I step it up a bit?
Need to do something, getting a bit twitchy