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Old Schoo l Early Seventies Carping
a lightbulb moment!
IF? I was under the water looking
up to a very bright blue sky and
something was floating on the surface SURELY? it would look black ??
so I said Brian we need an edible
human grade BLACK food dye; well,
we got some and I made 2 large
floater cakes that came out jet black
So over to Cut Mill, did the night,
next day around mid-day the fish
were all in the centre on top and I had
cut up a bag of large cubes that were
heavy enough to pult to the centre I
fired out half a dozen cubes and the
ducks and Seagulls just totally
ignored them as they did not recognize it as a food source.
A few mins late the carp eat the lot
without any messing , the only way I
could cast that far was with an
Arlesey Bomb 8, inches of line, ana
48 Big Carp
swivel stopped with a ledger stop and
wacked it in to the centre, then fed
the line out till it popped up well to
say it worked was an understatement
could only use one rod as it was five
casts ,five fish after putting these 5
back I had used all my film and
caught quite a few more as you can
see from the picture ,in those days we
used to use a GPO large weave hessian sack later Brian and I made the
first industrial nylon carp sacks with
punched holes but that’s another
story lol
Fishing Cut Mill Pond Farnham
with my old 70’s AJ BULL of Guilford
canvas bivvy well proofed with
Mesowax never ever leaked think this
was 1974/5 had it till 1989 then gave
it away I had added another door
opposite the one I had as the other
big lake I was fishing had a habit of
the wind changing direction in the
week stays so just shut one and
zipped opened the other one easy
Or if it was boiling hot opened
them both made the nu brolly pole
less by sawing a bit off the stub and
moving the brass screw bit up once it
was opened and the cross canes on
all the brolly ribs, I could unscrew the
centre pole with not much to bang
your bonce on. I remember my mate
took this picture with my old Zenit E
camera RIP Vic Gillings such a lovely
bloke we used to spend hours at night
drinking hot tea or coffee just chatting and laughing
A great memory back in the day all
on my GPO Hessian sacks lol part of a
day’s fishing, all off the top with the
hordes of ducks and Seagulls ignoring
my anchored floater I experimented
with 5 casts five fish it was insane. n
