i have a friend who take some big cow [video=youtube;EcNrrzQXvzg]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcNrrzQXvzg&feature=c4-overview&list=UU9BGnFGKmMwYYYOYo6I7YwA[/video]
Lol i like that sitting in boat, talking shit and maybe drinking beer or couple in sunshine. That is nice too when you get big fish and fight against it. But when it's in your net bag then "sporty fun part" ends and you have ugly slimy smelling disgusting creature in your hands. That is just gross to me, lol i know im mysophobic sissy. Once when i was highschool aged teen we had to make something fish food at home economics lessons and needed eviscerate some fishes, i did it lol but teacher did not appreciated that i throw up to sink of kitchen lol. That's why i would rather pose with packet of fish sticks.
NOW YOUR TALKING ! I too am a carp angler but dont get that much time to go fishing these days but still manage a trip to France every year around may for a monster or two. 5/6 of us go, we hire the whole lake we get breakfast and evening meal, bivvyd up on the bank, no nagging wife.........LIVING THE DREAM........
I was a bayliff for 28 years for Leisure Sports (part of Redlands, they own Thorpe Park best pike water in this country) and fished mostly a place called Stanstead Abbotts in Hertfordshire. Im getting too old to cart all that fishing gear around car-lake-car with maybe a move or two (you know what Im talking about). This is now my fishing heaven, bang in the middle between Rennes and Le Mans, english owner, english food and the Guiness in France tastes as good as it does here. http://www.hooked-in-france.co.uk/ take a look.