Rick Golder Articles
Continuing on from my last blog, I’d had a single night session on the new water, a venue which only contains a handful of carp. My target was a historic old mirror, which was a daunting prospect in a 16 acre snag ridden and feature filled pit. The positives were that the lake was [...]
During early August I began thinking about my autumn fishing, and where I wanted to fish more precisely. During the summer school holiday months I tend to only do single nights, fishing close to home and taking the kids for a few sessions. I’d taken my older boy to a club lake a couple [...]
I really don’t know where this year has gone, but as I write this it seems the summer is nearly over and we are into autumn. As far as my fishing has gone, I haven’t done that much and until recently it’s all been a bit of a struggle. I started off in March [...]
2014 was a fantastic fishing year for me, and I hope the luck that I had during the past 12 months continues into 2015! The floods in the early part of the year greatly affected all the lakes in my local area, in fact I can remember going to have a look round one of [...]
With the school holidays upon us, my fishing time became more restricted, and my mid-week time would now need to be spent splitting days off with my wife to look after the children and work. That said, I knew I’d still be able to do one overnight session per week and on these overnight sessions [...]
My last trip to the Kent lake coincided with the fish being totally preoccupied with natural food, and it was incredibly frustrating, as time after time they would jump and roll, but it was impossible to get a bite. I moved twice that trip, and even after these moves and getting my baits out perfectly [...]
After catching one of my all time target fish on a one off trip, I really felt confident that my methods and tactics were spot on, as well as my confidence being sky high! I was delighted to finally catch the fish known as the Little Grey at 45lbs and in essence lucky too, as [...]
After getting off the mark at the Kent Lake the previous week I was obviously keen for a swift return, however with half term coming up I had promised my 2 boys a night out fishing each. There was no way I could handle taking them both to the lake at once, so I planned [...]
After the loss of a decent fish during mid summer, I was keen to continue on the lake as much as my time would allow. The big one in the lake had come out in early June, and by now we were into August, and I felt that it could well be out again at [...]
Experience: 28 years as a carp angler fishing a number of difficult venues Favourite lake: Longfield Road Lake All-time best bait…Essential B5 My number one rig is…Hinged stiff rig with 16mm pop up Weirdest thing you’ve seen a carp do? Play head tennis with free baits before deciding they were safe. Is there such a [...]
I suppose like many others I couldn’t wait for the ice age that came in mid January to end and the longer it went on the more desperate I became to get out fishing! That said I must admit to totally changing my attitude to winter angling over the last few seasons, as during the [...]
As I drove along the track to the lake it was clear that autumn was upon us, and there was a distinctive chill in the air coupled with the leaves on the trees turning golden coloured, but it was also my favourite time of year for fishing, and certainly a big carp time of year. [...]
After having some success fishing in one of the snaggy corners of the lake, I felt as the days warmed up that there may be a chance to be had from the middle of lake which still held a significant amount of weed. In parts it was new fresh growth, which I knew was really [...]
It is an exciting time to me, when the days begin to lengthen and the promise of spring is on it’s way. I’ve always found March to be a good month for captures, even the last couple of years, after the savage winters that we had. However this year was different, as this winter hadn’t [...]
It seems as though all our prayers had been answered as by the start of December there had hardly been a frost, and the weather had remained unseasonably mild. Due to work and family commitments it was hard to get the rods out for a couple of weeks, but with the conditions remaining so good [...]
Summer had really flown by for me, and before I knew it the days were becoming much shorter and the leaves were steadily falling from the trees. However the feeling of doom towards the imminent arrival of winter was offset by the promise of some autumn big carp action beforehand. I had just completed 3 [...]
