in my humble opinion putting an island in is a huge mistake made by many some years ago, the obvious problem is in a match as soon as someone hooks a decent fish close to the island, within seconds ten bombs have hit the same spot! i'd much rather see underwater features like a wide channel the you could fish the nearside and farside ledges or at least a diffinate near side ledge, as for stocking? i'd go skimmers and f1's but i guess it's all about buget and quantities, the problem is big weights attract anglers so can you afford not to put carp in?
i've seen one local fishery experiment with ide this winter and it's not really paid off, initially there was some decent weights for those that were sat on em but now they've vanished.
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