Catch Reports
The year started with a few sessions on the AK (The Albert canal) but blanking was the norm, so after a few trips I gave up and purchased a few tickets for some other waters. One was a small club/park lake and the other was a 74 acre deep sand pit, which I planned to [...]
Well, the brief from the Gardner office asked for a quick round up of how my angling went in 2018 so here goes. Somehow, I don't think a sentence saying "I caught loads of carp and 4 of them were over 45lbs the end" will be enough, so I best expand on this and [...]
Time for a change and a few new experiences were my goals for 2018, so I had a new water that was sure to set me a few challenges, a couple of trips over to France and a pledge to try a few different day tickets and guest sessions along the way. I [...]
Sometimes you fall in a bucket of s##t and come out smelling of roses, other times you fall in a bucket of tits and come out sucking your thumb. Certain things become out of our control and sometimes doors open which is exactly what 2018 showed me. For me, March started with the return to [...]
After 12 weeks or so of no angling due to family illness, both my wife and mother in law were finally on the mend. Both medical procedures went ahead and both went as planned thankfully, and around mid-March I finally got the rods out. My first trip of the year was a 48 hour [...]
It been a tough one for me this year, with very limited time on the bank due to work and family commitments but I have managed to catch a few with what time I’ve had. One week in particular was very productive for me where I found myself chasing a fish [...]
2018 has been a really memorable year, both on and away from the lake. My girlfriend ran her first marathon, running London in the spring and raising a superb £6000 for the charity Children with Cancer. I changed jobs, joining Dyson in the Autumn. Also with two young boys, Ellis (7) and Zach (3), juggling [...]
Nigel Sharp recounts his time on Gold Lake fishing a social with the Gardner Team at the end of the summer. With some good and some not-so-good looking carp ending up on the bank.
The TT German Rig looks like a Ronnie, but by using a Covert C-Lok swivel (without the flexi ring as used with the Ronnie) it gives the rig less movement, so it acts differently to a Ronnie.
Carp Fishing About two decades ago I came to realise that I'd probably never fish for a record carp so I decided to set my own targets. Over the years I've achieved such targets as the hat trick (common, mirror and leather over 40lbs). Since achieving that I've set myself targets of catching [...]
Tom talks about this years carp fishing, a colossal catch of an old friend, with some other lovely looking carp gracing his landing net!
Living in the carp fishing Mecca of Essex, I am fortunate enough to be slap bang in the middle of some awesome lakes and rivers. In my opinion timing is a key part in my fishing. One evening in late July during the mid-summer heat wave, I was walking my [...]
Earlier this year, around March time, I kindly got an invite from the Crown Estate Fishery Team at Windsor Great Park who run the carp syndicate on the two lakes in the Park. The Lake they wanted me to fish also just so happened to be the same lake I’ve [...]
Carp Fishing Around Christmas time I bumped into an old fishing friend, Lewis at my local gym. We had the usual catch up and eventually got onto the subject of where we’d been angling over the last few years what we’d caught etc. Lewis and his Dad Phil had spent a couple [...]
Sometimes it’s very easy to get in a flap about nothing! Take last week for instance... The Long Suffering Wife and our (utter hero) daughter went off to sun themselves in Greece leaving me to fend for myself with my big slobbery soft arsed Milk Chocolate Labrador called Kev. So [...]
After weeks and weeks of hot weather and the lake not fishing particularly well, I had a week ahead of me and I wanted to make the most of it. Quite a few fish had been caught during the previous weekend, but fortunately not many of the A team had [...]
The weather this summer has been absolutely incredible for us all! Personally, during the summer season I opted to spend time with the family, in the garden, enjoying summer holidays, eating copious BBQ’s etc. It’s been a wonderful summer. As was the case with many lakes across the country, the [...]
I’ve been playing away lately, taking the first exciting and teetering steps on the amazing (and slightly daunting) Burghfield, fishing for what could arguably be the last of the great historic fish, the Burghfield common. As usual I quickly got quite obsessed and started flitting around the amazing convoluted pit [...]
Thursday evening heralded the end of ‘time out’ on the 3 day 4 day off rule at Welly and as always (as a habitual carp addict) I was eager to get home and pop to the lake. Too eager it would seem, as I rushed in grabbed the gear and [...]
After 3 months away from angling from mid-December 2017 due to family health, any future angling laid very much in the balance of my wife and mother-in-law’s road to recovery, which at times was a bit touch and go, and a big worry. I’m glad to say my mother-in-law [...]
