Paul Hatton Articles
Perfect Your Self-takes!
Photography is becoming more and more popular amongst anglers these days. We all want the best possible shots of the fish that we catch and why not?
End Tackle According To…Paul Hatton
NAME: Paul Hatton. EXPERIENCE: I cut my teeth on hard waters such as Redesmere in Cheshire but I simply enjoy catching good looking carp, they don’t have to be huge. I have fished lots of different waters in the twenty years I’ve been carping, I am now confident in my approach and I can adapt [...]
The search for a Manton thirty continues by Paul
You may remember the first Manton article that I wrote after just two sessions, I was off to a flyer and managed six fish, four of which were on zigs. This tactic is definitely lethal on this water in the early spring just like it is on many waters, it’s extremely underused and a definite [...]
Two Sessions, Six Fish by Paul Hatton
It was a bit of a surprise when my new syndicate ticket came through the door a few weeks ago. A quick look at Google maps revealed that my journey would be a hundred and ten miles which is nothing compared to what many angler’s do week in, week out in search of some good [...]
A week on La Horre by Paul Hatton Part 2
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 [...]
A week on La Horre by Paul Hatton Part 1
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 [...]
Chester’s Big Common
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 [...]
Where’s The Point? – by Paul Hatton
To me, productive fishing trips are all about making the right decisions when you arrive at your chosen venue. You maybe lucky enough to find some fish in an area that is uninhabited by other anglers, you may have a bait that those carp will find irresistible but how much thought has gone into your [...]
Going long…. by Paul Hatton
Going long.... It was probably around fifteen years ago when I first got the feeling that my catch rates would dramatically increase if I could only cast into an area of my local lake where fish would never usually see bait. I would sit and watch the fish cruising up and down along the far [...]