Speaking of big hauls, James Becker, fishing swim 22 on the 1st week, landed a total of 43 fish from DL2 including 9 x 30's and 3 x 40's up to 46lb, a mirror for a change. James tells me, he fished near the middle in a deep silty area.

He found he noticed bloodworm on his leads, marked out his lines on the bank to be fairly consistent with his range, fishing "Cell" and "A-8" boilies scattered with a stick some 20-30 every 30mins or so; what we call on the lakes "blasting & bagging" using chopped Cell and A-8 boilies in a bag, dipping his bags in HydroStim & Mainlines neutral

enhancer, fished on size 9 hooks and 12lb Supa Nova hooklengths. James top tip is "the harder you work at it, the better it gets."

Olly Holcombe, on the other hand, also on DL2, caught 29 carp up to the magical 56lb 10ozs. Olly's method was to fish A-8 boilies & stringers and just generally cast them here and there midway out and just loosely scattered A-8 boilies in the general area, fishing a size 4 Korda hook and the Rig Marole Hydralink hooklengths 12" long.