 The View From Your Swim
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In reply to Post #68
Is the top one 'Regans' in the North Bay?
Don't know the lower one. Don't think it's Savs.
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In reply to Post #68
Both pics look familiar, especially the bottom one 
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In reply to Post #66
Brilliant
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In reply to Post #65
Haha! Yeah i had my first proper carp landing net made, one of the blokes i worked with, who themselves were very hardcore. I could definitely write a book about my time with those two, anyway, one of them got my net made. He brought it into work, and i started laughing when i saw it. I wasn't laughing when he told me how much i owed the bloke though! 
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Hardcore, you know the score 
First ever carp angler I came across was fishing a very large expanse of water at the time. Thought he was a tramp at first, his bivvy was a sheet of tarpaulin tied to a fence, we **** ourselves when he crawled out 
Nothing but respect from a fishing perspective for those who were in at the start, pioneers of this fantastic pastime 
Remember seeing my first large landing net WTF - shark
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In reply to Post #63
Crazy eh?
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In reply to Post #62
When my mate was a kid he used to get paid to swim out and drop rigs by hand on peoples spots. He only did it in the summer though.
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In the 80's i was doing a bit on a 50 acre pit, and there was a guy on there that was very hardcore, without even realising it.
He was very unorthodox to say the least, a real fascinating bloke, very secretive but, never interfered in anybody's fishing. One October afternoon i was having a look round, and saw something in almost the middle of the lake? I eventually got the bins out, and saw it was somebody swimming? As i walked along the bank, this bloke was swimming back towards the bank. As he got closer, i could see he had water wings on!
I walked a bit further, and got to a swim, and nobody around but a couple of rods in the reeds, and bit of kit.
Next thing this guy appears on the bank, with trunks and water wings, a catapult and a net. It was the hardcore bloke, i won't say his name, as he won't thank me for it, if he's reading this. Anyway, he wasn't by admission much of a caster.
So, he used to swim out with his rigs, drop them, then get the net bag which held his bait, and with the help of the wings to keep bouyant, would bait up. If he was near weed, he would get clear, and use the catapult.
So really, he was acting like a human bait boat, or it was the poor mans equivelant, or rowing out your baits
Braver man than me, swimming into the middle of a big pit, just before dark, in October!
I got to know him well, he did some crazy things, he had a few out of that water though. Not many did
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In reply to Post #59
Exacltey, that's when carp fishing was purely carpfishing not the overhyped commercial bollox that it is today
Brilliant pics by the way
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In reply to Post #59
Very true .. I disticly remember him diving down and coming up with a big pebble in his hand saying he found the spot and shouting something about John Holt who found the spot and caught from it. .. fantastic times .
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In reply to Post #54
No fish finders or gadgets in those days!
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In reply to Post #54
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In reply to Post #55
That's the one
![The-Carp-Strikes-Back-[1]-8931-p](https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4378/36581594431_a21cbbc068.jpg)
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In reply to Post #47
Hutchy's swim on the road bank (photo on the back of the Carp Strikes Back).
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