Calum Kletta Articles
Having taken a break from carp fishing for the best part of a year, the first rays of spring sunshine and the close season on the rivers made me think about dusting the rods off. It took a few hours to get all my stuff together, but by that time I was actually looking [...]
As 2014 slowly draws to a close, and the festive period begins it is always a good time to take stock and reflect on how the year has gone. Overall, it has been a very varied year for me, as I have started to try and do a bit more specimen fishing, ending with a [...]
I am not an angler that spends sleepless nights over minute changes that I could make to my rigs, I would much rather they are simple and effective. For this reason, my favourite rig is the snowman rig, with a few little tweaks that separate it from a bog-standard snowman rig, and make it work [...]
There can’t be a much more exciting way of catching a big carp (or any carp for that matter) than watching it feed close into the bank, planning your approach and then watching the moment the fish is hooked! It is an easy and effective way of fishing, but too many anglers get caught up [...]
In the early spring of last year Tom Oliver, Andy Loble and myself had a brilliant long weekend trip to France visiting a lake called Lac de Laneuville. We all managed bites, which given the freezing cold conditions, was a result! I managed 3 30lb’ers tipped by a stunning common of 36lb. At the end [...]
I first started using this rig a couple of months ago on a small pressured syndicate that I had just joined. The lake has quite a large head of carp, with plenty of smaller fish backed up with a good amount of 30lb+ fish were the ones that I wanted to be catching! It seemed [...]
After spending some highly enjoyable fishing throughout September on a relatively small syndicate near my home, it was time to head back to the big pit I have been targeting for the last couple of seasons after the few I still really wanted to catch! I had timed my first trip back to coincide with [...]
Although my favourite kind of fishing is the search for big carp, in big, low stock pits, each year I do enter a few matches such as the BCAC and UK Carp Cup. Although my luck in the BCAC seems to be pretty poor so far, I have done a bit better in the UKCC [...]
Towards the end of 2012 I was doing a lot of fishing, and catching really well. During the start of 2013 I have been a bit “burnt out” and not really had the desire to go fishing, what with the cold weather and the amount of assignments set in college, wetting a line has been [...]
This month started off being on work placement at Gardner Tackle. It seemed I had timed it just right as well as Lewis and Alan were going on a trip to Abbey Lakes in France to do some filming, and I got an invite too! We were leaving at 4:30am on Friday, hopeful of getting [...]
This month has been a very slow one for me as the temperatures drop and it has been a struggle to get bites. I have still been fishing my syndicate after the awesome result I had last month, hopeful of bagging one of the real big ones that were still due. The first session back [...]
This year I have been targeting a large, local syndicate. I fished last year, and had some success, landing four fish up to a new PB of 49lb 8oz. This year I have been catching with a bit more regularity, the highlight so far being a new surface caught PB of 37lb 14oz. However, as [...]
This month has been a seriously busy one on the fishing side. Having started my second year at Sparsholt at the end of the month my fishing time was being reduced (or it should have been!). My first session was a weekend on the syndicate, with Monday off college I was going to be able [...]
The first bit of fishing I did this month was the Thames Valley Carp Masters. This is a pair’s match held on Brasenose 2 on the Linear complex, and with some top names competing, me and my partner for the match Jason would certainly have some good competition. We had aimed to arrive the night [...]
My fishing this month has been mostly quick overnighters due to working at For Life Experiences during the week, and coaching for my local club on Saturdays. I did manage to bag another fish from my syndicate, and a bit of a special one at that! I had done the night at the other end [...]
My first session this month was a four nighter on the syndicate lake. Quite a few fish had been coming out of the big bay, but with a change in the weather and the fact that I don't like fishing the bays that much, I spent a few hours walking around in open water hoping [...]
The start of this month was occupied by exams and revision. This was boring, but needed to be done before I was free from college work for 3 months. The exams went well, and I will get my results back in a few weeks, but it was now fishing time! This year I was going [...]
This month, I was again swamped by college work and exams and only had time for a couple of quick overnighters and my UK Carp Cup Qualifier. I therefore decided to try and make the most of my time and practice for the match. It was being held at Coking Farm fishery, on the heavily [...]
This month I have been swamped by assignments from college, but I put the hard work in, and hopefully should get some good grades! The first bit of fishing related stuff this month was that I managed to pass my level 2 angling coaching qualification! This means that I can help the club that I [...]
My fishing this month started back on the syndicate, hoping for 1 last fish before the close season! I managed to get off uni early on the Monday, meaning I was going to be able to do 2 nights instead of my normal 1. After having a quick wander round, I dropped a bucket in [...]
