New approach for Dutch Ben scores a hat trick of huge commons! Big carp specialist Ben Voltijn has been in touch with news of some stunning big commons from a very tricky water in Holland. Ben only targets challenging venues in his home country and has caught many stunning big fish using a focused, determined approach to his angling.

Kev Hewitt was very close to his first blank trip on the Bluebell complex earlier this week, when an opportunist bit of stalking helped save the day. Here’s Kev’s story: After a successful day at the Linear Fisheries open day I made a two hour drive down to Bluebell lakes near Peterborough. It was very busy and the weather was bang on. The fish were showing like dolphins when I […]

Top German angler Mario Winnikes got off to a great start on a new venue recently, after battling through lots of bream a change of approach paid dividends. Here’s Mario’s story: The first session at my new club water took place the weekend before easter. As it was very hot and sunny for that time of the year, I decided to fish the shallow end of the lake. The lake’s size […]

Andy Flint from Angling Direct in Norwich has just returned to carp fishing after a 15 year break and has recently been using the ESP Salmon Smokies pop ups on a Norfolk syndicate water which he joined this year.   He has caught fish up to 30lb 1oz using chod rigs comprised of ESP components. Good angling Andy, nice to be back!

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James Williams from Specimen Angling in Chelmsford had a cracking trip to Graviers in France recently and sent us this little report “On a recent trip to Graviers I was lucky enough to catch 5 fish consisting of mirrors 18lb, 29lb, 41lb, 46lb 12oz and 48lb 12oz all of which were caught using ESP Syncro XT mainline 18lb which sinks like a brick and the rig was a multi rig […]

Daren ‘Tinpot’ Norman caught the carp of his dreams at the weekend, namely ‘Jamie’s’ from the Roach Pit, a simply stunning old mirror named after Ringwood legend Jamie Walker. It weighed 38lb 8oz and is only its 8th capture ever. Considering the amount of pressure this venue receives that makes it a very rare fish indeed. Tinpot used Sticky Bait’s gear and his tackle comprised ESP Syncro 18lb mainline, ESP […]

Kev Hewitt from Hinders has been getting amongst some nice fish utilising zigs to take advantage of carp feeding in the upper layers on the spring hatch. Kev caught this 33Lb 8oz common within 30 minutes of casting out a 13ft zig on Bluebells Swan lake after turning up on darkness last Saturday night and dropping into one of the last few remaining free swims. “I have been using 12Lb Drennan double […]

Marcus Howarth had an incredible result last week with the capture of the Big Plated from St John’s on the Linear complex. Not bad considering it was caught on his first ever visit to the lake, which was a fairly impromptu one anyway! The Wimborne based hauler had originally traveled north with intentions of fishing Stoneacres on the Linch Hill complex, but with that being fairly unproductive in the lead […]

Terry Hearn is keeping us updated with his exploits at Ashmead and this week it all happened last night after a move of swim. Tel said ‘I managed three after moving for my last night, a lovely 28 common, a Scaley 21.8 mirror, and Moonscale again…’ Terry caught Moonscale, the lakes second largest resident a couple of weeks ago at a weight of 43lb 8oz. The new prototype rods and […]