Cracking The Clear Water Carp Code ~ Lewis Read
Watercraft and rig camouflage are key to catching carp in spring. Lewis Read reveals his early season approach to keeping the bites coming in clear water conditions...
Carp Fishing ~ My Year So Far ~ Tom Oliver
Tom talks about this years carp fishing, a colossal catch of an old friend, with some other lovely looking carp gracing his landing net!
Carp Fishing ~ As one door closes… ~ Jim Chisnall
Living in the carp fishing Mecca of Essex, I am fortunate enough to be slap bang in the middle of some awesome lakes and rivers. In my opinion timing is a key part in my fishing. One evening in late July during the mid-summer heat wave, I was walking my [...]
Carp Fishing ~ A Right Royal Adventure Part 1 ~ Ian Lewis
Earlier this year, around March time, I kindly got an invite from the Crown Estate Fishery Team at Windsor Great Park who run the carp syndicate on the two lakes in the Park. The Lake they wanted me to fish also just so happened to be the same lake I’ve [...]
Carp Fishing ~ Estate Lake Magic ~ Ian Lewis
Carp Fishing Around Christmas time I bumped into an old fishing friend, Lewis at my local gym. We had the usual catch up and eventually got onto the subject of where we’d been angling over the last few years what we’d caught etc. Lewis and his Dad Phil had spent a couple [...]
Carp Fishing ~ Camp Kevin! ~ Lewis Read
Sometimes it’s very easy to get in a flap about nothing! Take last week for instance... The Long Suffering Wife and our (utter hero) daughter went off to sun themselves in Greece leaving me to fend for myself with my big slobbery soft arsed Milk Chocolate Labrador called Kev. So [...]
Carp Fishing ~ School’s Out! ~ Louise Bowes
After weeks and weeks of hot weather and the lake not fishing particularly well, I had a week ahead of me and I wanted to make the most of it. Quite a few fish had been caught during the previous weekend, but fortunately not many of the A team had [...]
Carp Fishing ~ Bobbins Bonanza ~ Carl Udry
The weather this summer has been absolutely incredible for us all! Personally, during the summer season I opted to spend time with the family, in the garden, enjoying summer holidays, eating copious BBQ’s etc. It’s been a wonderful summer. As was the case with many lakes across the country, the [...]
Caring for your Gardner Sleeping Bag
Whether you prefer to leave your sleeping bag on your bedchair the whole time, or pack it away into its carry bag between trips always try to ensure that the sleeping bag is dried/aired. This will ensure that you maintain the product's best condition/performance. Cleaning Your Sleeping Bag There are two choices: 1. Machine Washing [...]
Carp Fishing ~ Carpy Choices ~ Lewis Read
I’ve been playing away lately, taking the first exciting and teetering steps on the amazing (and slightly daunting) Burghfield, fishing for what could arguably be the last of the great historic fish, the Burghfield common. As usual I quickly got quite obsessed and started flitting around the amazing convoluted pit [...]
David Pino
I’m a carp angler in a town called San Adrián (Navarra). Since I was very young, accompanied by my father, I was taught love for nature and respect for all living beings. I started fishing carp at a very early age. Year after year, whilst meeting great people and friends, I have learned a [...]
Carp Fishing ~ Is It or Isn’t It? ~ Lewis Read
Thursday evening heralded the end of ‘time out’ on the 3 day 4 day off rule at Welly and as always (as a habitual carp addict) I was eager to get home and pop to the lake. Too eager it would seem, as I rushed in grabbed the gear and [...]
Als Alles Mee Zit
Vissen is geen exacte wetenschap en gelukkig maar ook anders zou de fun rap uit het spelletje zijn. Vissen is vaak hard werk en veel voorbereiden vooraf en dan hopen dat het gebeurt. We kennen allemaal wel die sessie’s waar het eens op wieletjes loopt maar vooral de sessie’s waar [...]
Carp Fishing ~ Angling Adventures 2018 Part 1 ~ Ian Lewis
After 3 months away from angling from mid-December 2017 due to family health, any future angling laid very much in the balance of my wife and mother-in-law’s road to recovery, which at times was a bit touch and go, and a big worry. I’m glad to say my mother-in-law [...]
Carp Fishing ~ Give ’em a good kicking! ~ Lewis Read
Hooking Arrangements Cyclic fads and the constantly changing fashions in carp rigs sometimes undermine us angler's perception of some amazingly affective ‘tried and tested’ hooking arrangements. I guess that it’s just the way we’re programmed making it absolutely natural for us super keen carpers to assume that new rigs somehow supersede the [...]
Carp Fishing ~ Yateley Pads Lake 2018 ~ Tommy De Cleen
I’m addicted to fishing in the UK and I simply can’t get enough of it. Why? Well simply, I just love the experience. Over the last few years I have visited the UK twice a year and 2018 wasn’t going to be any different. During the later part of [...]
Carp Fishing ~ Three’s A Crowd ~ Lewis Read
I sat there frowning as I pondered my next move and how I could possibly recover from the metaphorical check mate that angling leviathan ‘Dominator’ Dave Finn and Ed ‘the Crow’ Wade had cleverly contrived to wrestle me into. If we were wrestlers in a ring, then it would [...]
Carp Fishing ~ Junior Carp School Heroics ~ Tom Oliver
I’ve been asked to attend the Carp Society's annual Junior Carp Camp for the last five years, however due to working as a full time angling coach until last year it meant I was unable to attend as I always had my own coaching commitments during the busy half [...]
Carp Fishing ~ Like Buses ~ Kai Richards
Last month I arrived at my syndicate lake for a 48 hour session. Luckily I didn’t have college or work on Friday that week, so I managed to get to the syndicate Thursday evening after college. As there were only a couple of people on I managed to get [...]
Carp Fishing ~ A Lucky Bite ~ Lewis Read
Despite having a short week after a thoroughly fantastic trip to the Carp Societies Farriers water, it reached Friday night and all I wanted to do was be down the lake – continuing my personal quest to snag The Chestnut Common or The Big Sutton [dreamy sigh]. What with [...]