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Kiwi Matt
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 Posted Monday, December 16, 2002 @ 05:58 PM
Hi all, just wondered if there were any Carp anglers on this forum. I am based in Auckland and always keen to hear from Anglers that target Carp as a specimen fish. I fish several waters in and around Auckland and while I ocassionaly target Tench and Perch, large Carp(20lb plus)are my main quarry. Look forward to any relies and corespondence.
Regards
Kiwi Matt
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Buster
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Posted Wednesday, December 18, 2002 @ 06:20 PM
Do you sit by the canal on your fold out chair with a couple of cans of bitter, flicking maggots out with a shang eye. Then back to the local for a few more pints and then home via the chipper.Attempted piss take, spent a couple of years in London and witnessed a few poms fishing Buster 
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alan
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Posted Monday, December 23, 2002 @ 01:37 AM
Wouldyou like me to set up a new subject of Carp fishing???
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hawkin
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Posted Sunday, May 30, 2004 @ 12:45 PM
Oh dear, I might be one of those poms into carp fishing but I can tell you its a multi million pound industry back in the UK. Its probably one of the most high tec forms of fishing you would come across. I could mention the fast taper or through action rods, the slick multi ball bearing baitrunner reels, the electronic alarms with variable tone volume and sensitivity and the ability to show speed of 'take' whether 'a run' or 'a drop back' latching lights and illuminated bobbins. Hooks paterns developed over years of trial and error. The rigs (terminal tackle) with 'hairs' and 'stops', hook length materials, bolt rigs and helicopters and ive not got to the boilees yet. Add to that feeding times and trends, seasonal changes,fish movements. Now throw in the fact that british anglers treat carp with respect and very careful handling so they can be returned to the water to fight another day. Those carp soon wise up and catching them consistantly needs a level of skill far above any other form of angling, it truely does become a science when all the elements are considered.
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Buster
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Posted Saturday, June 5, 2004 @ 02:25 PM
They eveloped all that flash gear so you poms would spend money. All that gear you mentioned sitting next to some drain to catch a gold fish.....no thanks. Give me a crystal clear river in the native bush and mountains, rod, reel and spinner and the hard fighting rainbows any day mate.
Chuck a rifle over your shoulder and paradise aint far away.
Brownies get pretty cunning too.  Buster
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scottishkiwi
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Posted Thursday, June 10, 2004 @ 10:13 PM
I am a kiwi returning home in Sept who has been converted to coarse fishing - its great as is fly and sea angling. I'll be doing the lot. Interested to know any waters holding coarse fish and any details relating to these.
On a related topic, on a UK bulletin board, Tony Stevens in Christchurch has just said that the DOC has started poisoning all exotic species in NZ - is this true?
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Buster
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Posted Friday, June 11, 2004 @ 08:53 AM
You werent in Edinburugh were you? The gay capital of the U.K while you were being converted.
DOC are trying to combat Koy carp who destroy habitat of other more important species which is fair enough I reckon, and they're only a big gold fish who needs them!
Get back to NZ and do some real fishing Bro.Buster
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hawkin
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Posted Saturday, June 12, 2004 @ 03:01 AM
buster,its quite apparent you have never tried to outwit and reel in a 40lb carp or felt the take of a 30lb plus pike, spent time tempting the elusive zander or done battle with a 150lb catfish.Had you of sampled at least one of these I would bow to your experience and except you know what youre talking about...however....all forms of fishing are fun,none above the other. I suppose ive been fortunate in that ive travelled to quite a few countries and fished for course,game and sea fish including big game fishing and have acheived excellent results in all disciplines. Whether its a brown trout sucking down a mayfly immitation on some scottish river or a roach taken trotting style, a catfish from spains mighty ebro river system or a sturgeon from canada's frazier river,a striped marlin out of the bay of islands or a crafty mirror carp that has been caught dozens of timess and has learned just about all you can throw at him...Its all fishing, it all gets the pulse racing and the adrenaline pumping..It all takes skill, patients and watercraft...spend time fishing the gravel pits,the chalk streams.the fenland drains,the resoviours, the estuaries, the beaches and the open sea. Fish for other species with a variety of methods and baits and then you can truly judge which takes the most skill, which is the most sporting and which puts up the best fight. Even then there will be devotees with little knowledge that would question your opinion...Good fishing my friend
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Buster
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Posted Saturday, June 12, 2004 @ 02:11 PM
Jolly good show ol chap. toshay!Yea, Edinburugh for sure! Buster 
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Bifta_Bear
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Posted Saturday, July 10, 2004 @ 08:06 PM
Hi
i've recently arrived in auckland from the uk and has been looking for a (BIG GOLDFISH)sorry carp water myself...
apparently there are some lake's at the old chelsea sugar works one of which holds some lumps also the Waikato river holds a lot of carp, cats, tench, grass carp.Will be a bit strange banging a twenty on the head but if thats what y'gotta do then so be it. Cheers
Bifta_Bear
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