Tim Childs Articles
With the warm and rather late summer we seem to be having this year, I would imagine a lot of venues have suffered with bad weed problems of one sort or another. Certainly the waters I’ve fished have been particularly weedy and given me a little to think about in terms of both presentation and [...]
At the end of May, myself along with fellow Gardner Tackle consultant Lee Wagner and head honcho Lewis Read had been asked to attend the Carp Society’s Junior Carp Camp at the prestigious Horseshoe Lake in rural Gloucestershire. Personally speaking it had been a while since I’d last helped out on one of the societies [...]
Like most of you out there having endured one of the slowest winters on record it was a great relief when finally by mid April the sun finally decided to make an appearance and spring kicked in at last. Most of the waters throughout the country have been slow to start as water temperatures remained [...]
With the late October days cooling off my trips to Linear’s Manor Farm were going well, and I was getting amongst the fish on most trips. Despite being late in the year other anglers seemed just as keen and the lake was busy most days. It was at this point I met a couple of [...]
The months of September and October are a favourite time for me. The weathers cooling down and all over the country big fish are getting caught as they get their heads down for that yearly autumnal feed up. Now is the time to try and get out on the bank as much as possible and [...]
After a particularly tough spring on my chosen venue, I decided it was time to change venues and get the rods bent once again. Three months of very hard fishing and god knows how many bream, had taken its toll on me and sapped both my enthusiasm and drive. As we were now into June [...]
I left you last time just as we moved into October and with a few fish to almost 30lb under my belt things were looking good for a autumn campaign on my local club water. Suddenly and without warning though I found myself paralysed and carted off to the local Accident and Emergency ward strapped [...]
With the school holidays almost over I could finally return to some kind of normality, my angling over the last few weeks had been mainly kept to a couple of local waters where at least the family could spend time with me and enjoy the sights and sounds of the outside world. To be honest [...]
With the August school holidays now in full flow and the demands of the family to be met, my time was suddenly cut to a bare minimum. Trips to the zoo or cinema where thrust upon me as well as a multitude of chores and responsibilities at home. I needed to make the most of [...]
Once again our man in Staffordshire, Tim Childs, has been out on the bank and continuing his superb run of great results from the tricky Syndicate water he has been concentrating on recently. This time he has successfully snared one of the two remaining target fish he has set his sights on, with this cracking [...]
Some Mondays are great! Especially when we come into the Gardner office and get an excited phone call from one of the team to say they have been successful! This week it was the amiable Tim Child’s turn to give us some more good new, having continued his successful run of the big fish by [...]
Mid June saw myself along with young Richworth consultant Harry Charrington meeting up on the banks of linear fisheries. We were there to do our bit in the upcoming video section on the website and Media manager Pete Wilson was on hand to catch Harry and I in action. I arrived late on the Sunday [...]
Despite its apparent popularity in the angling press these days fishing zigs or zig rigs still seems a pretty underused method on some of the waters I fish. I would hazard a guess that perhaps only 10-20% of anglers give them a serious go and I’m still shocked to speak to people who have never [...]
Bait and the successful application of it can mean different things to different people, and of course this can change dramatically at different times of the year. As anglers we all fish different venues and whilst some may fish busy well stocked day ticket waters, others choose the solitude of big fish low stocked venues. [...]
It was with great relief that the last week or so of January finally saw a number of waters return to liquid as both day and night time temperatures slowly started to rise. I could not believe it had been since way back in mid November of 2010 that I’d last managed to get out [...]
