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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.

Welcome To The Jungle by Tony Welch

Welcome To The Jungle by Tony Welch

I love all types of carp angling, the sport is so diverse, but I especially like the lakes that are generally over-looked because they are low stocked, with an unknown quantity of carp and difficult to fish due to topography and lake bed make up; for example weed and deep silt! Also getting to swims [...]

October 10th, 2013|Articles, Carp Articles, Carp Hints and Tips, Featured Articles, Hints and Tips, Tony Welch Articles|

Off The Top with Tony Welch

Off The Top with Tony Welch

I can count on one hand the amount of times I go fishing for carp off the top in a season. Here in the south west opportunities are limited for larger fish due to the size of most of the reservoirs where they live. Trying to surface fish for a handful of carp that live [...]

August 5th, 2013|Articles, Carp Articles, Carp Hints and Tips, Featured Articles, Hints and Tips, Tony Welch Articles|

To fish on the deck or off? by Rich Adam’s

To fish on the deck or off? by Rich Adam’s

There are often situations that arise whilst carp fishing when we have to decide whether to use a pop up or a bottom bait. As with most methods there are many different theories on both the success and downside to using either or method. I know of carp anglers who use pop ups all of [...]

July 22nd, 2013|Articles, Carp Articles, Carp Hints and Tips, Featured Articles, Hints and Tips, Rich Adams Articles|

Lewis Read Q&A

Lewis Read Q&A

Gardner’s marketing guru on stars of the future, time bandits, not being able to see and his fear of cows. Yes, cows… In your youthful days were you rubbing shoulders with any of the big names of the future? Doing my apprenticeship in Bushy Park there were a lot of up and coming super keen [...]

June 20th, 2013|Articles, Carp Articles, Carp Hints and Tips, Featured Articles, Hints and Tips, Lewis Read Articles|

UK Carp Cup at Coking Farm by Calum Kletta

UK Carp Cup at Coking Farm by Calum Kletta

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 [...]

June 11th, 2013|Calum Kletta Articles, Carp Articles, Carp Catch Reports|

Let the Fun Begin by Tim Childs

Let the Fun Begin by Tim Childs

Like most of you out there having endured one of the slowest winters on record it was a great relief when finally by mid April the sun finally decided to make an appearance and spring kicked in at last. Most of the waters throughout the country have been slow to start as water temperatures remained [...]

May 7th, 2013|Articles, Carp Articles, Carp Catch Reports, Featured Articles, Tim Childs Articles|

Lewis Read Talks D-Rigs

Lewis Read Talks D-Rigs

The simple approach will nearly always catch you fish, but now and again we may come up against particularly tricky fish. In reality they aren’t hard to hook because they are super intelligent - far from it in fact! Normally it’s just because of the way the fish are feeding on the bait. Quite often [...]

April 26th, 2013|Articles, Carp Articles, Carp Hints and Tips, Carp Rig Tying, Featured Articles, Hints and Tips, Lewis Read Articles, Rig Tying|

Hinged Stiff Links and the Chod Rig by Lewis Read

Hinged Stiff Links and the Chod Rig by Lewis Read

The development of specialist high memory hooklink materials like ‘Trip Wire’ revolutionised the use of early stiff rigs, and enabled the Hinged Stiff Rig to evolve from being a good rig into an AWESOME one! Using Trip Wire enables a curve to be set into the hook section - meaning it will always aggressively twist [...]

April 24th, 2013|Articles, Carp Articles, Carp Hints and Tips, Featured Articles, Hints and Tips, Lewis Read Articles|

On the Level by Lewis Read

On the Level by Lewis Read

Carp are a bit like people in a great many senses. You get all types of shapes and sizes, with different characters, appetites and feeding habits. What this means is there isn’t a single magical rig that will trip up every carp, in the same way as there isn’t single wonder bait that every carp [...]

April 16th, 2013|Articles, Carp Articles, Carp Catch Reports, Carp Hints and Tips, Featured Articles, Hints and Tips, Lewis Read Articles|

Zig Rigs with Lewis Read

Zig Rigs with Lewis Read

Throughout the year carp spend a lot of time away from the lake bed, either swimming around sunbathing, or searching out mid water sources of natural food. They will happily feast on emerging insects like Caddis and May Fly or filter feed in clouds of daphnia. These invertebrates make up a large proportion of the [...]

April 11th, 2013|Articles, Carp Articles, Carp Hints and Tips, Featured Articles, Hints and Tips, Lewis Read Articles|

MY TOP FIVE SPRING TIPS – by Rich “Fatbloke” Adams

MY TOP FIVE SPRING TIPS – by Rich “Fatbloke” Adams

With spring approaching more quickly than expected I thought I would share a few things that I feel help me put a few carp on the bank during this period. The first thing on my list is tackle maintenance. Whether you are a seasoned all weather angler who still goes in search of carp during [...]

April 5th, 2012|Articles, Carp Articles, Carp Hints and Tips, Hints and Tips, Rich Adams Articles|

Blackcurrant Specials – by Tony Welch

Blackcurrant Specials – by Tony Welch

Several years ago I was sat up a tree watching carp feeding on the Cell boilies that I was flicking into the lake one at a time. It was very relaxing just sat there swaying backwards and forwards in the branches in the light breeze on a warm sunny spring day. I watched as these [...]

February 7th, 2012|Articles, Carp Articles, Carp Hints and Tips, Hints and Tips, Tony Welch Articles|

Where’s The Point? – by Paul Hatton

Where’s The Point? – by Paul Hatton

To me, productive fishing trips are all about making the right decisions when you arrive at your chosen venue. You maybe lucky enough to find some fish in an area that is uninhabited by other anglers, you may have a bait that those carp will find irresistible but how much thought has gone into your [...]

January 13th, 2012|Articles, Carp Articles, Carp Hints and Tips, Hints and Tips, Paul Hatton Articles|

Winter Roving – by Rich “Fat Bloke” Adams

Winter Roving – by Rich “Fat Bloke” Adams

With the colder weather soon to be upon us I thought I would write a short piece about a method that can put one or two bonus fish on the bank during the winter months. Back in the 1980’s when my love affair with carp began it was deemed difficult enough to catch carp in [...]

September 22nd, 2011|Articles, Carp Articles, Carp Hints and Tips, Hints and Tips, Rich Adams Articles|

Going long…. by Paul Hatton

Going long.... It was probably around fifteen years ago when I first got the feeling that my catch rates would dramatically increase if I could only cast into an area of my local lake where fish would never usually see bait. I would sit and watch the fish cruising up and down along the far [...]

July 29th, 2011|Articles, Carp Articles, Carp Hints and Tips, Hints and Tips, News, Paul Hatton Articles|

Early Summer Zigs – by Tim Childs

Despite its apparent popularity in the angling press these days fishing zigs or zig rigs still seems a pretty underused method on some of the waters I fish. I would hazard a guess that perhaps only 10-20% of anglers give them a serious go and I’m still shocked to speak to people who have never [...]

May 4th, 2011|Articles, Carp Articles, Carp Hints and Tips, Hints and Tips, Tim Childs Articles|

Spring That Trap – by Tim Childs

Bait and the successful application of it can mean different things to different people, and of course this can change dramatically at different times of the year. As anglers we all fish different venues and whilst some may fish busy well stocked day ticket waters, others choose the solitude of big fish low stocked venues. [...]

April 6th, 2011|Articles, Carp Articles, Carp Hints and Tips, Hints and Tips, Tim Childs Articles|

Carping on Ice – by Tim Childs

It was with great relief that the last week or so of January finally saw a number of waters return to liquid as both day and night time temperatures slowly started to rise. I could not believe it had been since way back in mid November of 2010 that I’d last managed to get out [...]

April 6th, 2011|Articles, Carp Articles, Carp Hints and Tips, Hints and Tips, Tim Childs Articles|