Catch Reports
On my second session I continued to get amongst the fish. I’d popped down for a quick overnighter and using the same tactics managed four mid-doubles and two tench. This time Meteor cork dust ‘wafters’ did the business on a rig incorporating 15lb brown Sink Skin and a size 8 Covert Mugga hook. The fish [...]
On Sunday the 27th of October l made a last minute decision to head to my local water for a quick overnight session. I had a good feeling that the biggest fish in the lake, known as Seven Scales was going to come out. She normally makes an appearance at this time of year and [...]
After a gruelling three months of concentrating most of my efforts on a river campaign, I have managed to fit in three short overnighters on my syndicate water. These have been short twelve hour sessions, which have led to some good results using a range of Gardner terminal tackle, CC Moore baits, good old trusty [...]
Last week I had a call from my mate Chris ‘Tinca’ Taylor, asking if I fancied a couple of days piking on Chew Valley Reservoir. Chris has offered me a place several times over the last few years and I have had to turn him down due to work pressure. This time was going to [...]
I have been having some very good success during the last month whilst predator fishing on the River Thames in my boat. I love the autumn on the Thames for perch fishing and my favoured style to target the species is to trot with sliding float tackle and a small live bait on the hook. [...]
I’ve just come back from a 48 hour session on Linear Fisheries Hardwick and Smiths. I started the session by having a good look around and with there only being one angler on the whole lake, I was spoilt for choice. I had a good look around Smiths Pool and saw very little activity in [...]
I started a 72 hour session on the Small Lake, which I hadn't fished it in a while. I set-up in a swim called gravelly, an area I have great confidence as I have yet to blank in it. I had feel around with a bare 3oz distance lead on my spod rod to find [...]
Small Changes That Make A BIG Difference by Tom Oliver I recently had a week booked off work and had planned a trip to my southern syndicate lake with the hope of getting amongst some of the larger residents as well as filming a few pieces for Gardner Tackle. I arrived at the lake on [...]
Hi, I’m John Holloway. I work as an agent for Gardner Tackle, Richworth Baits and a small wholesaler. I’m your average weekend angler (trying to be a good one) and have my highs and lows for success. Most of my customers have become pals over the years. Last April I was on a call to [...]
I turned up to my second home Hardwick and Smiths at linear fisheries to find a fair few anglers on Hardwick side of the lake. With only one angler on the Smiths side of the lake, it soon became apparent why so many anglers were favouring Hardwick end. After standing in one of the middle [...]
Recently I booked sometime off work, in belief my new syndicate was to open, but this was not to be due to on-going legal reasons with the lease. With this throwing a spanner in the works, I decided to re-join the water I concentrated most of my winter carping last year, where I managed seven [...]
The day passed with no more action as the temperatures got to 33.C, we caught up on some much needed sleep. I planned to have a shower around 6pm, so before this I was going to repeat the baiting program that had worked so well the previous night. I mixed the bait together leaving out [...]
I was due to make my fourth visit to Sky Lake’s in France and I knew what I needed to achieve this year, I had to catch myself a fifty. The lake is around 14 acres in size and has got a little weed present, this however is not much of an issue. As I [...]
This summer I have been fishing my syndicate water quite hard whilst I have had the time, fishing 4-5 nights per week while on my school holidays. I kicked off my summer in style by catching one of my most wanted target fish, Fingers, at a spawned out weight of 29lb 6oz. I continued my [...]
It seems that a lot of the waters that I have been concentrating on lately just seem to be getting busier and busier, with more and more anglers turning up by the week. As I’m not one for simply settling into a swim that's left after the weekend rush, without any decent angling options, I [...]
I headed back to my local syndicate lake and quickly set up in a swim I had fished before and done well in. I found a gravel spot about 45-50 yards out and got my spod rod and two rods clipped up to the spot. My third rod was going to be used with a [...]
I started a four night session on my local syndicate and as there were not many good swims left I set up next door to a mate. I hoped I could tempt the fish over to my swim with some bait but after two nights I moved swims first thing that morning. There were a [...]
I’ve just come back from a 24 hour session on Hardwick and Smiths Lake at Oxford’s Linear Fisheries. I arrived to find very few anglers fishing, so I had a good choice of swims. The first thing I always do on Hardwick and Smiths is to look at what direction the wind is blowing as [...]
Starting back on the Roach Pit after the spawning break I decided to fish in a swim known as the steps, as there had been a lot of fish holding up in the main set of snags to the right of the swim. I settled on a solid bag with some CSL pellets & boilie [...]
After my recent success with catfish, it was time to get back to Kracking Carp Lake at Anglers Paradise and try and keep to my word and catch all thirteen residents that inhabit this weedy two acre lake. The venue has been kind to me, producing five of its thirteen residents in just eight nights [...]
