Gardner Tackle team members Lewis Read, Alan Stagg and Calum Kletta recently took a trip out to the famous Abbey Lakes in France to do some filming for the Gardner Tackle website and YouTube Channel. They arrived to find the lakes had been fishing slowly, with temperatures falling to -11 a few days before, but [...]
Gardner Tackle’s Media Executive had a productive weekend chasing chub on his favourite southern river. Alan adopted his successful mag-aligner tactics using 10lb light blend Pro Carp main line, a 2oz running lead, 14 inches of 10lb Target Speciskin and a size 12 Mugga hook with an Enterprise mag-aligner grub slid over the shank of [...]
If you've ever thought about purchasing some land outside the permitted residential development boundary, submitting plans, spending years fighting the local planning authority, spending copious amounts of money on planning consultants and architects, self project managing the build, moving house and business – don’t bother! At least not if you want to go fishing now [...]
This month has been a very slow one for me as the temperatures drop and it has been a struggle to get bites. I have still been fishing my syndicate after the awesome result I had last month, hopeful of bagging one of the real big ones that were still due. The first session back [...]
I recently fished a week session with my friends Jan Ramp and David Vimeux. The chosen venue was a large public French lake that is classified as very difficult. Although the challenge was great, there was a good chance of catching one of its treasures. Monday morning was spent in the boat looking for features. [...]
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 [...]
I was due to have a couple of nights fishing my new water around my birthday and I planned to arrive before daylight to watch the water as the sun rose. I arrived at 3am and walked round to the point swim, which has got the best view of the whole lake to wait to [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
This year I have been targeting a large, local syndicate. I fished last year, and had some success, landing four fish up to a new PB of 49lb 8oz. This year I have been catching with a bit more regularity, the highlight so far being a new surface caught PB of 37lb 14oz. However, as [...]
This month has been a seriously busy one on the fishing side. Having started my second year at Sparsholt at the end of the month my fishing time was being reduced (or it should have been!). My first session was a weekend on the syndicate, with Monday off college I was going to be able [...]
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. [...]
Mag-aligner fishing – The modern approach to river fishing Barbel and chub are two of my favourite river species and throughout the summer they can be extremely obliging. However, when conditions change for the worse and the temperatures begin to drop big fish can often be difficult to tempt. This can be a time when [...]
I enjoy reading the monthly articles by my Gardner and Mainline team colleagues but I've decided to do something a bit different. I decided I'm not only going to talk about fishing in my 'updater' series, I'll be talking about other things too. There are so many 'how to' type pieces out there! So, I'm [...]
Many of us have fished on a venue that has been the catalyst for a huge jump in our understanding of how carp behave and feed; and also in our own ability to catch them. For Gardner Tackle sponsored angler Ian Lewis this occurred whilst sat on the banks of a local club lake, and [...]
This blog has plenty of up and downs, which can be said of most anglers out on the bank. So, hold on here’s my helter-skelter of a ride which is my carp angling experience this month. It all started off on a good note with fishing a charity event on my local water, a few [...]
Sam is a versatile all round angler and is at home trotting maggots on his local intimate streams as he is boating baits out for carp on some of the UK’s toughest inland seas. Having written monthly columns for the now defunct Carp and Coarse Angler as well as current publications such as TCF [...]
