Kev Hewitt’s excellent spring continued, this time he’s back on the match circuit with first place in a UK Carp Cup qualifier at Acorn Fishery in North Somerset. Here’s Kev’s match report: It is that time of year again when competitions start coming thick and fast for me and there is none that I look forward to more than the UK Carp Cup qualifier on Acorn fishery in North Somerset. […]

Rob Shanks is having an excellent week, following up from the two twenties he stalked the other day a quick overnighter and pinpointing some fish produced another lovely mirror. A quick overnighter proved productive in the shape of this 28.14 mirror. With the days work done I decided to pop over to my local syndicate. With only 3 cars in the car park on a Wednesday night it was a […]

David Meek got his Roach Pit campaign off to a very nice start last week with the capture of this fine looking common carp. Here the Ringwoodshire specialist recounts the tale: “It’s always nice to have that first bite of the year. They feel like they are just carp again. This is the first year that the pit has been open in the close season. You would have thought that […]

With the sun finally putting in an appearance and the water temperatures starting the climb the carp have inevitably been spending their time basking on the surface over the last few days. Rob Shanks took full advantage and reverted to stalking tactics to bag a couple of lovely looking 20s from a local syndicate water. At this time of year when things are warming up it really does pay to […]

Hinders boss Bryan Jarrett phoned us last week to tell us how impressed he was with the ESP ready tied Short Chod Rigs and how he’d been putting them to good use at Churn Pool in the Cotswold Water Park. Well this week Bryan returned to his main target water, Bellwood near Newbury and using a rig incorporating a faithful size 5 Stiff Rigger he quickly nailed this cracking mirror. […]

Dave Springall caught this cracker at the weekend. After weeks (months?) of horrible easterly winds some proper strong south westerly’s were always going to get them feeding and Dave got on the end of it and snared this beauty, good work Dave! ‘Finally the weather started to look up a little this past weekend and after a long week at work it was finally time to get the rods out for a couple […]

With spring finally arriving in earnest at the weekend it was no surprise that the carp started to feed. Waters that hadn’t produced a bite for what seemed like ages sprung into life and Isle of Wight based Spencer Wright took advantage of the favorable conditions in fine style. Fishing Friday night, Spencer caught three mirrors weighing 19.02, 34.08 and 38.08. These three and the fish Spence caught back in […]

Jerry Hammond had a productive trip to Kingsmead at Horton last week. Putting his faith in the good old zig rigs and size 10 Raptor Big-T’s Jerry caught three carp, a mirror of 25lb and two commons of 28lb and 32lb 4oz respectively. All three fell to rigs fished two feet below the surface in 12 feet of water. Jerry commented: “A major factor for me when Zig fishing is a good hook, […]

Successful German angler Mario Winnikes has had a couple of eventful sessions over the last week despite the terrible weather. The forecast for the UK is looking a lot better from next weekend so hopefully things will kick off here too! Against the Wind The weatherman says: ‘strong, cold winds and frosty nights’ for the beginning of spring weekend. “No problem”, I think. I baited a sheltered, cosy swim with the […]

Kev Hewitt was closely involved in the development of the ESP Mega Method Feeders and Mega Method ready tied rigs which are already taking waters apart this spring. In this article Kev explains why they are so affective. The winter seemed to last forever as always is the case. I was fortunate to get out for a few sessions and as much as I enjoyed every minute, I was fully […]