Fishing with ‘Carpet’ at Hurst pond
I first met ‘Carpet’ fishing Bascombe in 2005. We became good friends and I began to fish regularly with him and a few others on that lake, which led us to fish a few other small lakes in the local area. He liked his meat fishing, choosing to fish big lumps for carp, with great success catching carp to over thirty pounds. I was more interested in the numbers of carp that I could catch in our usual 8- 12-hour day sessions. The lakes we fished were not commercial fisheries, but they were still fairly well-stocked with the chance of a twenty or bigger but you could still blank if you weren’t on the fish. I had some cracking day’s sport over the years with my best catch being 28 carp in a 12-hour stint out with ‘Carpet’ as I recall he only caught 2 that day!
Only a double, but still great fun to catch
2lb+ perch from Hurst
Nice roach from Hurst
Not a monster, but I’m still happy to catch them
16lb carp from a lake in Hampshire out with Ben 2007
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