Mark Wosencroft Articles
After a few phone calls to check on current water conditions after the recent cold spell, and finding out that the lakes I wanted to fish were frozen, I decided that a bit of angling on a local water was in order. Luckily, my part of the country had remained [...]
With a few days off work, I made my way to the lake as the weather was looking bang on for a bite. It was still hot when I arrived, but the weather forecast was predicting a big weather front was due to arrive the following day. After a few laps, I decided on a [...]
I decided to fish a local water as I had only twenty four hours available and after the torment of fishing the big fish waters up until now, I fancied getting the confidence boost I needed. I pulled into the car park of the Cefyn Mably complex and was greeted by the owner who was [...]
This blog has plenty of up and downs, which can be said of most anglers out on the bank. So, hold on here’s my helter-skelter of a ride which is my carp angling experience this month. It all started off on a good note with fishing a charity event on my local water, a few [...]
My latest trip to the ‘Little Carp Park’ coincided with the lake having quite a high level of algae which made it almost impossible to see anything even in the margins. did spy a large common in the margins and set up as close to it as I dared and after putting a bit of [...]
I have started fishing a new water but at the moment I don’t want to name it so I will call it ‘little car park’ as this is exactly what it reminds me of. The carp swimming in its water are of the same quality, really nice looking fish. In my new monthly blog I [...]
“Please be gentle with me – this is my first time....” On my first tutorial session I took out a young angler by the name of Thomas, he was eager to get out on the bank and catch what he thought was the hard to tempt ‘elusive carp’. As I was supplying the tackle for [...]
My ticket was just about to come to an end and I was keen to get to the lake for my last session for a while on there, so as you can imagine I was quite excited about getting the rods out and hopefully bagging myself a lump or two. I rolled into the carp [...]
I pulled up in the carp park and the excitement of fishing a brand new water was almost too much to bear! The owner was not around yet to collect my ticket, but as it was only 7am they were probably still tucked in bed. That’s what you get for being keen I suppose! Oh [...]
