Catch Reports
Moving on from my last article before Christmas I’d left my trips to Glos and Oxford behind me to settle down on a water I’ve been fishing on and off (mostly off!) for a number of years in pursuit of one or two very large commons. It’s a 7-acre estate lake with a substantial stock [...]
On my birthday I went fishing for a twenty four hour session with some friends to FLE Fisheries Top Lake. Late last year I helped net the lakes and knew they contained a lot of nice double figure fish. On arrival I took a walk around the lake, I headed to the climbing trees that [...]
Esox Lucius have always featured high on my list of favourite fish. Right after Mullet and Barbel. Due partly to their size, even a small fish looks impressive, but more down to the fact that they are just mean looking! All that camo, those evil eyes and a set of teeth any dentist would rightfully [...]
Long time friend of Gardner Tackle, ‘Sir’ Pete Springate, has just achieved a truly remarkable feat of carp angling by catching a carp off the top on the 1st February 2013. It’s a remarkable feat in so much as this capture takes his tally of surface caught fish in consecutive months to 48.... Yes! That’s [...]
I suppose like many others I couldn’t wait for the ice age that came in mid January to end and the longer it went on the more desperate I became to get out fishing! That said I must admit to totally changing my attitude to winter angling over the last few seasons, as during the [...]
After joining my new syndicate around September 2012, I started at a really busy period, regularly just making up the numbers on a Friday. Four nights in and I’d had two bites, one that managed to reach the sanctuary of an island snag and the other I landed which came in the form of an [...]
/]fter the ‘Roast Beefs’ had reigned victorious at our friendly England v France match earlier in the year we had discussed with David Dauchy and Professor Ludo the possibility of travelling over to Francais and having an informal friendly return match. Any excuse to go angling! The guys had told us about a great venue [...]
It was Monday morning and I woke up to go to work and looked out of the misty window to see a carpet of white, the first snow fall of the year had arrived. I got myself ready and set off for work on this very cold January morning. I am currently doing some voluntary [...]
After a hard day’s work, I made my way late as ever to the Water Park. The early finish I had hoped for hadn't come to light and I found myself looking at a very busy lake with almost every swim taken. I settled for a swim on the north bank known as 007, although [...]
As part of my University course, I was recently on a 4 week work placement at CEMEX Angling. The first week I was doing fishery management work around Kingsmead One, which gave me the opportunity to do work nights on the lake! At 1.30am on only the second night, my 14mm Coco Nutty snowman hook [...]
After a fantastic Christmas and New Year spent with my family my thoughts turned once again to carp fishing. I had only managed a short five hour day session in the month of December and that was to take my younger brother James fishing. He did well and managed to bag around a dozen carp [...]
During the festive period I visited a local club water called Lakeside for a forty eight hour session. The first day and night passed quietly without even a line bite! I thought this was strange as the venue is pretty prolific and I expected to catch a few. During the second night I had a [...]
A good friend of mine fancied going carping for a couple of nights and was wondering where to go. There were a few places where we thought we would stand a good chance of catching, such as Farlows, Linear Fisheries or Orchid Lake. In the end we decided to stay local and fish Whitevane in [...]
Gardner Tackle team members Lewis Read, Alan Stagg and Calum Kletta recently took a trip out to the famous Abbey Lakes in France to do some filming for the Gardner Tackle website and YouTube Channel. They arrived to find the lakes had been fishing slowly, with temperatures falling to -11 a few days before, but [...]
If you've ever thought about purchasing some land outside the permitted residential development boundary, submitting plans, spending years fighting the local planning authority, spending copious amounts of money on planning consultants and architects, self project managing the build, moving house and business – don’t bother! At least not if you want to go fishing now [...]
I recently fished a week session with my friends Jan Ramp and David Vimeux. The chosen venue was a large public French lake that is classified as very difficult. Although the challenge was great, there was a good chance of catching one of its treasures. Monday morning was spent in the boat looking for features. [...]
We had kept the swim topped up with bait throughout the week, we waited and waited but our luck had now changed and the fish were in the area. I suppose having confidence in your approach comes with experience, reading the water told me that there weren't any fish in the area. There was no [...]
I was due to have a couple of nights fishing my new water around my birthday and I planned to arrive before daylight to watch the water as the sun rose. I arrived at 3am and walked round to the point swim, which has got the best view of the whole lake to wait to [...]
With the late October days cooling off my trips to Linear’s Manor Farm were going well, and I was getting amongst the fish on most trips. Despite being late in the year other anglers seemed just as keen and the lake was busy most days. It was at this point I met a couple of [...]
Part 1 A week on La Horre by Paul Hatton Etang De La Horre is a two hundred and fifty acre lake in the Champagne region of France close to Lentilles. I'm told that there are two hundred fifty pound plus fish now with the biggest reaching nearly eighty. Dense woodland surrounds most of the [...]
