These days fishing can be frustrating! Sometimes you see the fish jumping and crashing on the baitedspots, but the expected bites don't occur . This can be hard to accept, but it can also be a chance to adapt your “end tackle” and amend the way you are baiting up your swim or hot spots. [...]
This month I started my mini winter campaign on the Top Lake at Longleat. The lake is a 6 or 7 acre estate lake set in the grounds of the Longleat estate holding a good head of decent size fish, with the biggest being “Shadow”, a 30lb common I’d dearly love to catch! My first [...]
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 [...]
This year I have been concentrating on a low stock, 55 acre gravel pit near where I live. I had some success during the summer and early autumn culminating in 3 fish, including a new PB leather of 45lb, and 3 fish lost as well. All year it was the autumn I was really looking [...]
This month I have been swamped with college work so time on the bank has been a bit limited. However, taking the time to do the assignments at home with proper research meant I got good grades, so I should have more time on the bank next month! My first trip this month was a [...]
The Horse is a fish I had been after for a few seasons now and it was really starting to get to me so I decided to fish November just for that one fish! After a bit of information digging from mates that had caught it before, it became clear that there was one area [...]
After a successful end to the last river season, that culminated in the capture of my personal best Barbel of 16.12lb, I have once again been out and about having a go for the larger fish that live in the river - sadly to no avail yet, but all in good time. As I had [...]
After catching a big perch last month I was a little lost on what to target next. I had planned to visit the venue most of the winter and with the long drive back and forth I was expecting a long haul. It was great to get this fish off the ‘hit list’ and there [...]
Hi to you all I’ve just come back from fishing in France! Someone had to drop out the last minute and I was asked if I would like to take his place. Happy days! There were nine of us on the lake, which was 19 acres in size and ‘L’ shaped which gave us plenty [...]
After a week of unseasonal warm weather throughout France I attended a friendly 48 hour fishing competition. The rules for the event were simple: 1 angler in each swim, 3 rods each and a draw to select your swim. Interesting... Before proceedings kicked off I spent some time walking around the venue, looking and locating [...]
Since starting at Sparsholt College at the end of September, where I am studying Fishery Management and Aquaculture, my fishing time has been more limited - but as I’m studying at Sparsholt it’s not so bad! My first trip out this month was a weekend session back on the syndicate, just as the heat wave [...]
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 [...]
At the beginning of October I spent the first three nights I had available back on the big Bream lake hoping that a monster might put in an appearance. Waking on the third morning of the session without so much of a bleep I knew it was time for a change. I was still enjoying [...]
Phil Kingsbury – Big Carp Blog (September 2011) I’ve had a really good season so far catching carp from a few different lakes, and now that September is here, hopefully, I can carry on catching through the colder months to come. Last winter I joined a lake not too far from my house. It’s about [...]
I had been planning a trip to Horton Church Lake for a few days, and had booked off the Friday so I could get there after work on the Thursday giving me two nights fishing, as I had to be home early Saturday. Arriving at the lake at 7pm on the Thursday it was quite [...]
I pulled up in the carp park and the excitement of fishing a brand new water was almost too much to bear! The owner was not around yet to collect my ticket, but as it was only 7am they were probably still tucked in bed. That’s what you get for being keen I suppose! Oh [...]
As we’re now firmly headed into autumn, and the winter is fast approaching I’ve once again started using my old faithful balanced pop up rig that has served me so well in previous years. This rig is a real gem from this time of year onwards, as the water temperatures drop off and I have [...]
I really enjoy fishing venues for the ‘unknown’, so when a ticket came available at the end of July to do just this I couldn’t resist. I just couldn’t wait to get going, and the thought of 96 acres of untapped potential on a complex that has produced monster fish of various species sounded too [...]
The third week of September was written in red in my dairy, because that was a week of fishing booked at the holy grail of carp fishing - RAINBOW LAKE. We left on Friday morning, and after a drive of 930 km I parked my car in front of the clubhouse at Rainbow. As it [...]