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Happy you let them go, magnificent predators

Do people in UK eat carp fish?

well this work if all fish type

Yay! Thanks!

We're currently experiencing a massive filamentous algae bloom. Nitrite is around 0.5ppm and nitrate is around 10mg/l, trace of phospate, it's an old estate pond but it's gone from clear and weedy to weedy, a bit murky and suffering with masses of filamentous algae/blanket weed over the last 4 years. I have a feeling we're getting runoff from the fields but I need some heavy rain to analyse the inflow, scary times, not really sure what to do except keep trying to skim the crust off (we're creating plant filter beds on the inflows, trying to divert the suspected runoff, clearing lilies and surrounding trees where possible)

I fully agree with what you are saying, which is totally applicable to KOI keeping. But nobody in the KOI community over there mentions it. What can be done about this gap?

Carp are the problem. They are bot ment to be here and their greed and the fisheries single minded approach drives native species out. Its no longer a ecosystem and offers nothing to the natural world

Fisheries have a lot to answer for. Both match and specimen. The latter eridicates all other species and ecosystems for the benefit of what is essentially a invasive species. I look at you average carp fishery and just see a once healthy ecosystem that has been systematically turned into a mono culture. Even the water is blue, might as well be sitting by your bath.

As the fisheries officer for a small club im often hassled about installing dips and ive always refused! Just encourage a false sense of security with members, not just keeping the chemicals good but ensuring members use them properly! Dip is such an incorrect name.. should be called 'soaks'

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Well made video explaining everything in easy to follow detail

Very interesting

Great stuff Ben!

Looks decent ❤

We have been using this product with the standard pellet on our mixed fishery for 3 years now.our argulus and lice numbers are now minimal.our fish are in tip top condition and absolutly full of beans.so glad we found out about this.if it aint broke!

Have you noticed reduced fluke when using this ?

Beauties

Hi Ben, do you mind if we link to your video now that we're set up on here?

About time one of you boys came out and said it out loud I fished a lake down here in Norfolk had over 70 carp in a day up to ten pounds and every one of them looked like skeletons it was distressing to see they were so hungry and Ill looking. I won’t be going back there

Wich carp book you recomend for learning about carp feeding and nutrients?tnx🎉

Well said. Stop stocking carp. Stick with silvers. A match winning weight of 20lbs should be the aim. 100lbs and 200 lbs of tame carp that are caught three times a week is, quite simply, obscene.

What a fantastic strain of carp, did you get any history from the zoo?, they are very special. Subscribed

Big Brand ‘fishmeals’ don’t contain a lot of fishmeal!😳

I gave up match fishing when it all went over to these holes in the late 90s. They’re horrible .

What an experience.

Have not even finished watching. Spot on. Keep plugging this message.

Great to see the otters and great to see yourself taking exta protection for your fish hopefully no harm comes to the otters

Mega this lads

Would be interesting to see how colour influences feeding. Yellow has always been a firm favourite for me. Maybe a handful of corn or a handful of yellow baits next to neutral coloured baits would be interesting to see which gets scooped up first. Great info & great vids, thanks!

Having worked in the bait industry I'm looking forward to the comments from instant bait experts 🤌😂😂😂

The amount of bait carp are eating varies constantly so this test doesn’t say much. The only way to get relevant results is by feeding more than one type of boilie and than count the leftovers after a certain amount of time. Also you have to do this on various waters.

How many fish are stocked in the lake out of interest and what size lake? I know the purpose of the tests are head to head bait comparisons so the stock / lake size aren't that important in that, would just be interesting to know Will each test be with 1kg of bait?

Very interesting video. Have the fish seen boilies before? I would like to see how tigers and tiger nut slush get on.

Fishing is a lifestyle! 🎣

Sweetcorn and chickpeas

great idea but please dont fast forward it let the viewer decide that as you cannot study properly how the fish are approaching the bait thanks

I think if you were that curious, you also would have measures to make them bigger and bulkier body shape if you wanted to.

Great idea in principle, but to be trully scientific and take envirnmental factors out of the equation you should feed them different types of boilies at the same time. Otherwies water temp, carp "mood", air pressure, moon phase, wind direction, etc may and most likely will affect your results. I also do not understand why you are not willing to share the name and brand of boilies you are using?

I love the idea of this. As anglers we cant help but be curious as to which baits have the most pulling power. Now we get to find out. 👍

Very interesting, will follow to see results of other baits. One thing to test also perhaps: would it make a difference if you add bait (for example every hour) towards both sightings and feeding?

Great idea! Already interesting to see how low the percentage is for actually feeding. I reckon trout pellets or sweet corn for the win

Brill mate well done

Cheers mate brill video learnered a lot from this

Would like to see an underwater large boilie approach without anything else, to see how they feed on them

As an angler who believes in creation of our very complex world I have to just say that "evolution" has nothing to do with the complexity of our CREATED world.

Great video 👍 Would be interesting to see how they respond to a scattering of quality boilies over a good bed of pellets as you have. Continue border feeding or hone in on the boilies?

Swings and roundabouts I think, it’s all about the starting product, like above if you have a lake so hemmed in with trees and years of silt build up it takes constant management, as for many natural lakes, I’ve seen many that have almost dissapeared due to overcrowding of trees and leaf fall creating a shallow puddle, The lake I run has taken a lot of work and still going but we’ve seen improvements in silt build up with removal of trees, currently using barley extract to combat algae as it normaly goes pea green In the summer and that comes with its own risks, I think no fishery with a ‘good’ head of fish can require no work, although they are agitating the silt etc they are also contributing to the organic load and draw on oxygen, not to mention the whole concept of this video, feeding!

The fact it was speeded up with pointless rowdy music left me thinking how does this bloke expect you to make an observation in 8 minutes of chaos?

Appreciate all of your videos. Isn't there an enormous amount of food or are the carp just small?

I’m with you. I think a natural habitat approach is the best system for lakes, or any ecosystem. Balance the inputs and outputs as much as possible.