Gardner Tackle’s articles. Written by our team of highly experienced carp and specialist anglers.
Over the years I have witnessed and to a degree experienced an element of jealousy amongst anglers when somebody has caught a fish. This is something that I personally have never really understood and in my opinion if somebody has had a “result” through quality angling then fair play to them, especially if it is [...]
Everyone melted away and I was left on my own to think about what had just happened. A few weeks earlier I had been in the same swim and caught the Chinese common. I never thought that I would surpass that in my lifetime, but I had and I was in bits. The rest of [...]
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 [...]
After a busy day coaching the van was loaded and we were heading to Warwickshire in aid of the 2012 Carp-in-4-Cancer event. We fished in the event last year and actually managed to win with the added bonus of also taking away the biggest fish trophy. This year we would be defending our title on [...]
I planned a two night trip to my new water, which had been a tricky of late. I decided to ditch the particle approach as I had blanked for six nights and try a boilie approach. I put my faith back in the hand of my favourite Dynamite Monster Tiger Nut boilies. I found a [...]
The start of this month was occupied by exams and revision. This was boring, but needed to be done before I was free from college work for 3 months. The exams went well, and I will get my results back in a few weeks, but it was now fishing time! This year I was going [...]
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 [...]
The plan was to get home, have a quick shower and pick up some boilies before making the hundred mile journey down to Wellington Country Park in Berkshire. It was whilst driving on the M4 that I got a text from a friend telling me he had a 44lb mirror in the sack and that [...]
May has been a mixed month as far as my fishing has been concerned. I have changed job roles at Gardner Tackle moving from UK Sales to a media role. Time spent writing articles, liaising with sponsored anglers and promoting the new Target Specimen range from Gardner has left me with a limited time to [...]
In the past when fishing this lake, I have usually wound the rods in and given the swim a rest for a few hours with no lines in the water. The conditions looked so good that I made the decision to leave the rods out and put another fifteen spods of my mix out to [...]
Serious fishing was a little delayed this year because I was travelling back and forward to Nottingham to complete an angling coaching qualification. There was lots of written work involved in between the days that I had to be there, but I eventually came through it even though my hand did feel like it was [...]
Specimen maestro Tony King and new recruit to Gardner Tackle, has just sent through some details of an awesome tench haul he made over the weekend. During his first tench session of the year, Tony had a mega hit of 31 fish, consisting of 9 fish weighing over 7lbs and two eights at 8lb [...]
This month, I was again swamped by college work and exams and only had time for a couple of quick overnighters and my UK Carp Cup Qualifier. I therefore decided to try and make the most of my time and practice for the match. It was being held at Coking Farm fishery, on the heavily [...]
I was drenched and made my way to the van to get a change of clothes, leaving the wet ones draped over the inside of the van with the engine running and the heater on full blast in an effort to dry them. Less than an hour later and the left hand rod busted off [...]
As a Ground worker/ Landscaper all my work is outside. I have been lucky over the past few weeks with the jobs I have been doing and I have managed to keep working and earn a wage, even with the inclement weather. Last week though I had to admit defeat and call it a day, [...]
After around 2 weeks of blanking on my syndicate water I have finally managed to get amongst some fish. My first productive session produced a lovely little mirror of 16lb, unfortunately this was to be the only fish of a short 24hr session. A week later I decided to return to the water, feeling sure [...]
To read part 1 click here: Part one With the spots now properly ‘rocking’ as the carp boys say, it was fill your boots time. My total so far has included 8 double figure bream to 13lb 8oz with a few backup 12’s and 11’s to boot. The rest of the fish were made up [...]
Fishing for carp isn’t just about and having barrow loads of kit, the latest high tech equipment and camping out day after day in pursuit of your quarry. In fact two anglers, Richard Gardner and Chris Maltby, have been doing exactly the opposite, fishing short sessions and using a very different, yet a very successful [...]
“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 [...]
Well, where should I start? What a month April has been weather wise. It seems that since the announcement of a hosepipe ban across many parts of the country the weather has lived up to it’s April showers reputation and a whole lot more! According to the news last night there has only been one [...]