Lewis Read Articles
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
/]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 is always a great pleasure to fish with our sponsored anglers, especially when they are from one of the foreign teams. Recently we were fortunate to spend a couple of very enjoyable days on the banks of the picturesque Old Lake at Old Bury Hill Fishery in Surrey, in the excellent company of French [...]
It’s a funny thing working in this trade – you would have thought we would all be out there fishing the whole time. If only! The reality is that the days are spent primarily in an office dealing with a varied and often high volume of work, and when I do get out on the [...]
