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 [...]
I started the year off baiting a particular area of the lake, historically a part of the lake that fishes well in the spring. This plan worked pretty well, producing 6 fish on the bank and dropping just one. Pretty soon I got into a routine of baiting up on a Wednesday and Friday with [...]
Dan Chart cons himself into catching a 40! This time last year I couldn't put a foot wrong; turning up at my syndicate lake, always expecting a bite and generally getting one! How much can change in a year. The weed had never really died from last year, which was amazing when you consider how [...]
I always look forward to the month of September; the banks start to get quieter, but the fish bigger and hopefully on the feed! My fishing this month started off with a 48 hour session on the prolific Brasenose-2 on the Linear complex with my sister. The session started very badly, losing the first 6 [...]
I have not managed to get out fishing as much as I would have liked this year but when I have I have been very lucky. Some may say jammy! I was having a discussion with work colleagues about possible areas of river to go and have a bit of a trot for some roach. [...]
There are times when we all sit fishing for carp with an element of doubt as to whether we are in the right areas, or the weather conditions are as we would like them, or even as to whether the fish are “on the munch” or not? There are also times for me personally when [...]
This season I’ve been putting all my time and effort in to a syndicate lake in the Avon valley near Ringwood, a lake known as the Roach Pit and run by CEMEX Angling. This lake is a 20 acre gravel pit with an amazing stock of big stunning carp, containing between 60 and 70 fish [...]
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 colder weather soon to be upon us I thought I would write a short piece about a method that can put one or two bonus fish on the bank during the winter months. Back in the 1980’s when my love affair with carp began it was deemed difficult enough to catch carp in [...]
It had been 9 months since Wayne Rees and I had won the 2010 British Carp Angling Championships, and the time had come round for us to compete in Semi Final 1 of the 2011 event at Barston Lakes near Solihull. All of the BCAC qualifying rounds were complete and the semi final line ups [...]
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I am always one to act on tip offs and this was no different to usual. A good friend of mine who I studied with at Sparsholt informed me of some rather large Rudd he had been catching a short drive from home. This information alone was enough for me to hang up the crude [...]
Its been an extremely busy year with my angling since I decided to take up competition carp fishing at a serious level. As any of you that compete in these competitions will understand it takes up a lot of your angling time and often means you miss out on the best times of the year [...]
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 [...]
We would like to congratulate all of the competitors that took part in the “IV National Carp Fishing Final for Spain” that took place in Caspe, Zaragoza between 29th June to 3rd July. This year the event was hosted by the Aragón section of the Spanish Angling Federation, and was sponsored by Gardner Tackle together [...]
Going long.... It was probably around fifteen years ago when I first got the feeling that my catch rates would dramatically increase if I could only cast into an area of my local lake where fish would never usually see bait. I would sit and watch the fish cruising up and down along the far [...]
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 [...]
For Life Experiences is all about getting people into Angling and Outdoor Pursuit and working with organisations doing good work in the community. When we heard about a charity carp fishing match being held at Watermarks massive Bradley’s Fishery in the Cotswold Waterpark which helps raise funds and awareness for Cancer research we just had [...]
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 [...]
After my successful start at Horton I was dead keen to get back as soon as possible, so booked a Friday off work. After arriving late on the Thursday evening after work I found the place rammed with 17 anglers on in total! After a walk round I found out that the swim that I [...]