pleasure anglers on carp stocked waters

I fish a couple of lakes with known 25lbs+ carp in them, these lakes are not carp only lakes, and all sorts of people fish them, which I have no problem with at all, they all pay a membership, so nothing stopping them from fishing, where i have a problem, is in the fact that carp will pick up any bait in the right spot, meaning is it not correct to ask for a min breaking strain line, and a standard size landing net and unhooking mat??? again i stress the fact that large carp are known in these waters.....

what are your feelings towards this issue.

What are the owners thoughts ??? as its his fish that might get damaged, by not being handled correctly

Big Ron wrote:What are the owners thoughts ??? as its his fish that might get damaged, by not being handled correctly

agreed!

I was thinking about this earlier, then i saw an old chap on the pond where i regularly fish, the carp are only up to 15lb, but as he pottered off to his car i saw his gear dissapear into davy jones locker, it floated 1/2 way across the pond and dissapeared.

Potentially one of the best fish in the pond now has a rod and reel attached to it

thats just poor angling... unattended rods, no bait runner etc etc.