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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 – Speed Fishing – By Luke Church
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Carp Fishing – Speed Fishing – By Luke Church

Carp Fishing – Speed Fishing – By Luke Church

As I have progressed through my angling career, I have learnt so much along the way, which has certainly helped me become more of a successful angler. With spring just around the corner the carp starting to wake up after another winter. To try and help you catch more this spring, I thought it [...]

March 19th, 2015|Carp Articles, Carp Catch Reports, Carp Hints and Tips, Featured Articles, Luke Church Articles|

Carp Fishing – Kracking Forty – By Ricky Knight
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Carp Fishing – Kracking Forty – By Ricky Knight

Carp Fishing – Kracking Forty – By Ricky Knight

With the weather warming up, I really fancied a shot at trying to catch the three remaining fish that have eluded me so far from the Kracking carp day ticket lake at Anglers Paradise in Devon. The plan was to target the venues common's using hemp, mixed with corn and crushed/chopped Mainline Cell. Having [...]

March 17th, 2015|Carp Articles, Carp Catch Reports, Featured Articles, Ricky Thomas Articles|

Carp Fishing – Spring Has Definitely Sprung – By Harry Waye-Barker
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Carp Fishing – Spring Has Definitely Sprung – By Harry Waye-Barker

Carp Fishing – Spring Has Definitely Sprung – By Harry Waye-Barker

I managed to get out to a couple of day ticket waters in Norfolk and Kent last week to catch up with some friends. Two 48 hour trips were planned and I had been looking forward to wetting a line for weeks! It is always nice to get out for a bit of a [...]

March 13th, 2015|Carp Articles, Carp Catch Reports, Harry Waye Barker Articles|

Perfect Your Self-takes!
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Perfect Your Self-takes!

Perfect Your Self-takes!

Photography is becoming more and more popular amongst anglers these days. We all want the best possible shots of the fish that we catch and why not?

March 10th, 2015|Articles, Carp Articles, Carp Hints and Tips, Featured Articles, Hints and Tips, Paul Hatton Articles|

Carp Fishing – Cold Water Carping Part 9 – By Nick Burrage
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Carp Fishing – Cold Water Carping Part 9 – By Nick Burrage

Carp Fishing – Cold Water Carping Part 9 – By Nick Burrage

As you can see from my last blog, I’m not one to shy away from spending time on the bank in the cold. Being there and observing the water, all paints a bigger picture for me...

March 9th, 2015|Carp Articles, Carp Catch Reports, Carp Hints and Tips, Nick Burrage Articles|

Carp Fishing – Winter Thoughts – By Tony Welch
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Carp Fishing – Winter Thoughts – By Tony Welch

Carp Fishing – Winter Thoughts – By Tony Welch

With winter here and temperatures dropping rapidly, many anglers will be looking at their tactics and thinking about cold water baits and fining down their rigs ready for those tricky cold water carp. So, with thoughts of a winter jet black mirror in the folds of my landing net I thought I’d write a short [...]

December 23rd, 2014|Articles, Carp Articles, Carp Catch Reports, Carp Hints and Tips, Featured Articles, Hints and Tips, Tony Welch Articles|

Carp Fishing – 2014 Round-Up – By Calum Kletta

Carp Fishing – 2014 Round-Up – By Calum Kletta

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 [...]

December 23rd, 2014|Calum Kletta Articles, Carp Articles, Carp Catch Reports|

Carp Fishing – My Favourite Rig – By Calum Kletta
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Carp Fishing – My Favourite Rig – By Calum Kletta

Carp Fishing – My Favourite Rig – By Calum Kletta

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 [...]

November 13th, 2014|Calum Kletta Articles, Carp Articles, Carp Hints and Tips, Hints and Tips|

Carp Fishing – Up Close and Personal – Calum Kletta

Carp Fishing – Up Close and Personal – Calum Kletta

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 [...]

July 2nd, 2014|Calum Kletta Articles, Carp Articles, Carp Catch Reports|

A Trip to Lac de Laneuville by Calum Kletta

A Trip to Lac de Laneuville by Calum Kletta

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 [...]

May 28th, 2014|Calum Kletta Articles, Carp Articles, Carp Catch Reports|

Guide To Hooks – Part 2

Guide To Hooks – Part 2

Right, in Part One I tried to set out a really solid basis for you, the consumer, to understand the really critical information related to the key specifications that generally govern hook design, strength and function. In this second part I’m going to try and offer some more general guidance on what patterns to use [...]

March 21st, 2014|Articles, Carp Articles, Carp Hints and Tips, Hints and Tips, Lewis Read Articles|

Guide to Hooks – Part 1

Guide to Hooks – Part 1

Just look through any magazine or catalogue and you’ll find a dizzying array of hook patterns available – some of which are designed for specific purposes and some that are based on general fundamental principles that offer good mechanics with a wider range of rig applications. The hook that you choose for a certain application [...]

March 14th, 2014|Articles, Carp Articles, Carp Hints and Tips, Hints and Tips, Lewis Read Articles|

A Guide to Gardner Tackle Copolymer Main lines by Lewis Read

A Guide to Gardner Tackle Copolymer Main lines by Lewis Read

We often get asked what the differences between the different copolymer mainlines that we sell, so we thought it was high time that we offered you a little guidance on the key differences between our three carp focused mainlines; Pro, Hydro Tuff and GT80+ mainlines. I think it’s fair to say that Gardner has always [...]

February 14th, 2014|Articles, Carp Articles, Carp Hints and Tips, Featured Articles, Hints and Tips, Lewis Read Articles, Rig Knowledge|

Paranoiac presentation by Lewis Read

Paranoiac presentation by Lewis Read

Despite a lot of rhetoric, it sometimes seems blatantly apparent that a lot of anglers and writers out there don’t realise the importance of the reaction speed of their rig and what is going on inside the fish’s mouth in the moment of the hook point taking its initial tentative purchase. Watch the fish’s split [...]

February 5th, 2014|Articles, Carp Articles, Carp Hints and Tips, Featured Articles, Hints and Tips, Lewis Read Articles|

End Tackle According To…Paul Hatton

End Tackle According To…Paul Hatton

NAME: Paul Hatton. EXPERIENCE: I cut my teeth on hard waters such as Redesmere in Cheshire but I simply enjoy catching good looking carp, they don’t have to be huge. I have fished lots of different waters in the twenty years I’ve been carping, I am now confident in my approach and I can adapt [...]

January 31st, 2014|Articles, Carp Articles, Carp Hints and Tips, Featured Articles, Hints and Tips, Paul Hatton Articles|

The Springy Rig by Leon Bartropp

The Springy Rig by Leon Bartropp

In my fishing and particularly with the rigs I use, it’s about creating a situation that has to tick certain boxes for me to be 100% confident in what I am doing and how I am fishing. The rig mechanics have to be spot on and work as they were intended to originally. I have [...]

January 24th, 2014|Articles, Carp Articles, Carp Hints and Tips, Featured Articles, Hints and Tips|

The Double Bottom Bait Rig by Calum Kletta

The Double Bottom Bait Rig by Calum Kletta

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 [...]

January 10th, 2014|Calum Kletta Articles, Carp Articles, Carp Catch Reports, Carp Hints and Tips, Hints and Tips|

Back To The Big Pit by Calum Kletta

Back To The Big Pit by Calum Kletta

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 [...]

November 29th, 2013|Calum Kletta Articles, Carp Articles, Carp Catch Reports|

Micro V’s Massive by Lewis Read

Micro V’s Massive by Lewis Read

Rig mechanics is a simple subject really! You don’t have to be an astrophysicist or brain surgeon to tie a rig that will catch a carp! After all, through a simple process of experimentation and tinkering it’s easily possible to create rigs that will adequately perform specific tasks in relation to how they sit on [...]

November 15th, 2013|Articles, Carp Articles, Carp Hints and Tips, Featured Articles, Hints and Tips, Lewis Read Articles|

Drop The Bomb By Tim Childs

Drop The Bomb By Tim Childs

With the warm and rather late summer we seem to be having this year, I would imagine a lot of venues have suffered with bad weed problems of one sort or another. Certainly the waters I’ve fished have been particularly weedy and given me a little to think about in terms of both presentation and [...]

October 18th, 2013|Articles, Carp Articles, Carp Hints and Tips, Featured Articles, Hints and Tips, Tim Childs Articles|

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