Grumpy:

How did you come up with the name Grumpy ? It just don't seem to fit .
Anyway, I may try to make it to Kerr sometime between Aug 7th & 30th and check out your Carp fishing technique. I don't normally fish for carp eather but I am always willing to learn new techniques for any fish species.
I have 5 grandchildren and love to spend time with them. My 6yr old grandaughter loves to fish and you can bet I take her every chance I get. She has won two tournaments this year already. Parents & grandparents should spend as much time as possible with there children.

Mofish

If more people like you spent time with their grandchildren etc perhaps the world would be a better place...... how on earth do they learn from all the mistakes we have made if we don't teach them ?
As for the name Grumpy I kind of inherited it in the army. Wasted 30 years of my life stupidly believing that it was the right thing to do, was in Nam during and after the collapse of sanity and then spent time on detachment with your own DEA in Columbia etc before going on to alsorts of other conflicts as cannon fodder for whatever politician decided they were right to take lives. Kind of made me have little patience with the world in general .... hence the tag Grumpy. Still, I reckon you and all the others on the forum are only interested in fishing so I'd better shut up before you all start yawning, we all have our stories to tell. Fishing makes sense of it all. Alone at night waiting for the reels to scream is priceless. Add a bottle of something good and some fresh fish .......and lifes not all bad after all.
Be good to see you and any other of you guys that fancy exchanging some knowledge, we all have a lot to learn after all.

Grumpy:

Yep; this is a fishing forum but I enjoyed your post and found it interesting. As long as it is clean and respectful there should not be a problem. I can't speak for the adm but I would think they feel the same.
Take care!
Moe

Mofish

Sleep safe and catch plenty.

I thought I was the only one that enjoyed catching those big monsters @ Buggs, love to get in on this.

Any dates fixed for the Carp tourny ?

Grumpy:

Won't be long now. What is it, 4 more days? Guess you will soon be counting down the hrs.

MOFISH

Yup, less than 48hrs to go. We leave our base at 4am Tuesday, 5hr drive to Gatwick airport,4 hr wait to get checked in, 2 hours queing, 10 hour flight, 2 hours getting out of RDU, another 2hrs drive to the house etc, add another few hours for all the various delays, truck hire etc etc and hey presto ...... back to Kerr at last!
It usually takes somewhere around 25hrs or thereabouts and hell, if I ain't Grumpy when we leave I as sure as hell will be by the time I get there!

Still, that first dawn on the porch will make it all worthwhile, give me the sanity of the open air rather than the city cr*p everytime.
All the best.

Wow! All those travel hrs would be enough to make anyone grumpy!!!!
My prayers are with you for a safe trip.
Moe

Thanks MOFISH.
May your God go with you and I really hope to meet and chew the fat.
I'll post our phone number later today.
All the very best.

Never have been very big on carp, but i have fished with a guy from Russia in the Deleware Water Gap up in NJ.Caught Several nice Carp in the 30-40lb range using Nabisco shredded wheat, corn meal and water, mixing it all together with your hands and turning them into doughballs, later put on a treble hook, this method has worked for me. Hope you guys catch them all!