Articles all about carp fishing written by our dedicated carp angler team. With a wealth of experience and skill, these articles will interest and help all carp anglers at whatever level of ability.

Carp Fishing – Burghfield Forty – By Ian Lewis

I recently enjoyed a great trip to the Blue Pool at Burghfield.  During the session forty eight hour session I managed to land eight fish, including seven twenties.  The jewel in the crown was a lovely mirror which tipped the scales at 40lb 8oz. I was accompanied by young gun and fellow Gardner Tackle [...]

May 15th, 2015|Carp Articles, Carp Catch Reports, Featured Articles, Ian Lewis Articles, Uncategorized|
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Carp Fishing – Putting In The Miles – By Andy Loble

I recently received an invite to fish a prolific tench venue, which although involving a 400 mile round trip, it was certainly worth putting in a few extra miles. On arriving at the lake after dark I knew I wouldn’t be fishing properly until the morning as I needed to re-spool my reels and [...]

May 13th, 2015|Carp Articles, Carp Catch Reports, Catch Reports, Customer Catch Reports|
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Carp Fishing – The Key To New Surroundings – By Scott Kingsley

The day was finally here, the opening day of the new syndicate I have joined this season. I had booked a few days off of work and this allowed me 5 nights and 6 days fishing. Enough time to have a proper look around the complex and to fish a couple of different swims [...]

May 1st, 2015|Carp Articles, Carp Catch Reports, Catch Reports, Gardner Supporters Catch Reports|
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Carp Fishing – 2015 BCAC Qualifier – By Luke Church

It is that time of the year again when all of the carp fishing competitions start and as always, I’d been looking forward to the qualifying round of the BCAC (British Carp Angling Championships). After a disappointing end to our qualifier last year, when we were knocked out of the qualifying positions in the [...]

April 22nd, 2015|Carp Articles, Carp Catch Reports, Luke Church Articles|
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Carp Fishing – Bring Me Sunshine – By Tony Welch

With the daylight hours rapidly increasing combined with the warmth of the sun, fish activity will be increasing on all lakes. Spring can be hit and miss for carp angling due to the weather and the time it takes the sunlight to penetrate and individual lakes to warm up. I've had some brilliant sessions [...]

April 16th, 2015|Articles, Carp Articles, Carp Catch Reports, Carp Hints and Tips, Hints and Tips, Tony Welch Articles|
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Carp Fishing – Syndicate Success  – By Luke Church

I seemed to be very unlucky with my timings throughout the winter just gone. Every time that I decided to go fishing, virtually every night on the bank I endured many frosty minus three or minus four temperature readings on the thermometer, resulting in two different lakes freezing over on me and arriving at [...]

April 15th, 2015|Carp Articles, Carp Catch Reports, Luke Church Articles, Uncategorized|
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Carp Fishing – A Trip To Madagascar – By Nick Burrage

After driving to Norfolk to meet up with my good friend Rob from Carp Fishing Trips, we were soon making the five hour journey through France. We were booked on a 74 acre lake known as Madagascar. It’s a lovely picturesque venue with islands, lily pads and shallow bars – a real carp paradise [...]

April 15th, 2015|Carp Articles, Carp Catch Reports, Catch Reports, Featured Articles, Nick Burrage Articles|
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Carp Fishing – My Start To The Year – By Tom Oliver

It's been a while since I have put pen to paper because I have barely fished for carp since returning from the World Carp Classic in October last year. I decided after the event to take a break from carping, something I hadn't done for a few years as I was starting to burn [...]

April 15th, 2015|Carp Articles, Carp Catch Reports, Catch Reports, Tom Oliver Articles|
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Carp Fishing – Spring Has Finally Sprung – By Rich Adams

This was to be my fourth session of 2015 on my syndicate water. The previous three trips had proven to be fruitless with the weather and fish not playing ball! The combination of cold winds and plummeting night time temperatures, the fishing had been difficult and at time you wouldn’t have thought there was [...]

April 10th, 2015|Carp Articles, Carp Catch Reports, Rich Adams Articles|
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Carp Fishing – The Key To Overnight Sessions – By Craig Mortimer

As some of you might know, I tend to do a lot of quick overnighters each week. My time is very restricted due to working a normal 9am-5pm Monday to Friday job and being restricted to twenty days holiday per year. Leaving little time to do mid-week sessions, which only leaves weekends, which are [...]

April 9th, 2015|Carp Articles, Carp Catch Reports, Carp Hints and Tips, Catch Reports, Featured Articles|
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Carp Fishing – Frimley Gold – By Chewy French

After a miserable winter with very little in the way of fishing, I was eager to get the rods back out again as the first glimpses of spring were on the horizon. After a memorable 2014 spent on the RK Leisure complex, I decided not to renew my ticket this year and instead I [...]

April 1st, 2015|Carp Articles, Carp Catch Reports, Chewy French Articles, Featured Articles|
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Carp Fishing – Spring Is Here – Well Almost! – By Mike Willmott

Now I expect most of you, just like me, are awaiting the arrival of spring with eager anticipation! I must say, I haven’t fished a lot this winter passed, so I’m looking forward to making up for it during the coming months, but with such a hectic lifestyle these days, I’m not counting my [...]

March 27th, 2015|Carp Articles, Carp Catch Reports, Carp Hints and Tips, Featured Articles, Mike Wilmott Articles|
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Carp Fishing – Going Afloat Part 2 – By Sam Meeuwissen

Glass bottomed bucket. An optional extra, but one that used will become your new best friend. Literally, a window into another world which is like watching your own live action underwater TV show. Large areas of the lake bed can be examined for evidence of fish feeding, baited areas can be checked at a [...]

March 26th, 2015|Carp Articles, Featured Articles, Sam Meeuwissen Articles|
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Carp Fishing – Going Afloat Part 1- By Sam Meeuwissen

London to Birmingham is an hour and a half by car, 1 hour by train and 2 weeks by boat. The latter being by far the best way to travel in my opinion, it's more fun and you get to soak in the sights whilst drifting lazily along. Boats have been a part of [...]

March 25th, 2015|Carp Articles, Carp Hints and Tips, Featured Articles, Sam Meeuwissen Articles|
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Carp Fishing – Canal Carping – By Lewis Baldwin

Spring is finally here and for me that generally means one thing, it’s time to start targeting the population of canal carp that inhabit the Midlands canal network. Don’t get me wrong winter is a great time to be canal carping as a good friend of mine has been proving recently, but with pike [...]

March 23rd, 2015|Carp Articles, Carp Catch Reports, Carp Hints and Tips, Featured Articles, Lewis Baldwin Articles, Specimen Articles, Specimen Catch Reports|
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Carp Fishing – Watercraft – By Nick Burrage

Have you ever wondered why carp prefer to sit at a certain depth? Or even why they would be at one end of the lake or the other? Understanding what makes a carp tick takes effort. For instance, I’ve been reading the water temperatures for years now across all the seasons and a picture [...]

March 20th, 2015|Carp Articles, Carp Hints and Tips, Catch Reports, Featured Articles, Nick Burrage Articles|
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Carp Fishing – A Cold Water Campaign – By Scott Kingsley

As winter approached I decided I would fish a reasonably small local lake which held a decent stock of carp; somewhere I could fish short 24hr or 48hr sessions whenever I could fit them in with work. This winter has been exceptionally busy at work in the Angling Direct mail order department, largely due [...]

March 19th, 2015|Carp Articles, Carp Catch Reports, Featured Articles, Gardner Supporters Catch Reports, Gardner's UK Supporters|
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