Rich Adams Articles
After a lengthy time away from fishing due to the passing of my Father in Law and starting a new job the time had finally come to start organising things ready for my first fishing trip in almost five months. This was due to be a memorable trip to the Amazing Carplantis Lake situated [...]
This was to be my fourth session of 2015 on my syndicate water. The previous three trips had proven to be fruitless with the weather and fish not playing ball! The combination of cold winds and plummeting night time temperatures, the fishing had been difficult and at time you wouldn’t have thought there was [...]
I was off shift from work and had decided to do a day session on a small estate lake that I know. The lake it is a small intimate venue of approximately five acres hidden in the beautiful Northants countryside, with a good stocking of fish that range from low doubles to thirties. All in [...]
There’s an old saying ‘You wait ages for a bus and two come along at once’. This age old adage often applies to occurrences in life, but I never thought it would be one that would be relevant to an incident experienced during one of my fishing trips. I’d like to share with you my [...]
It was Wednesday night and I had finished my latest shift at work, so my thoughts turned to my next session on my syndicate water. I had landed a nice 23lb mirror on my last trip which had ended a run of recent blanks. The conditions were still very similar and the lake had done [...]
I had finished my shift at work and was looking forward to having the next seven days off and doing a bit of fishing. Due to the hot weather we are experiencing at the moment my plan was to fish a couple of short overnighters with the hope of bagging one or two fish during [...]
There are often situations that arise whilst carp fishing when we have to decide whether to use a pop up or a bottom bait. As with most methods there are many different theories on both the success and downside to using either or method. I know of carp anglers who use pop ups all of [...]
My second, and totally unexpected trip to France, came about after chatting to a Belgian angler I know called Chris Vandenhaute. He happened to mention that he had been fishing in France on a little known venue and had caught fish to a decent size. After several conversations via emails and Facebook, a date was [...]
My First ever trip to France in search of carp was way back in 1992, when along with some friends I travelled the 619-mile journey to a little known lake in the Limousin region. Between us we caught numerous fish up to a respectful 42lb, which was a very big fish at the time. This [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
With spring approaching more quickly than expected I thought I would share a few things that I feel help me put a few carp on the bank during this period. The first thing on my list is tackle maintenance. Whether you are a seasoned all weather angler who still goes in search of carp during [...]
There are times when we all sit fishing for carp with an element of doubt as to whether we are in the right areas, or the weather conditions are as we would like them, or even as to whether the fish are “on the munch” or not? There are also times for me personally when [...]
With the colder weather soon to be upon us I thought I would write a short piece about a method that can put one or two bonus fish on the bank during the winter months. Back in the 1980’s when my love affair with carp began it was deemed difficult enough to catch carp in [...]
