Kev Hewitt has been amongst them again bagging this stunning Manor Farm original known as “The Dumpy Linear”. She pulled the scales round to 32Lb 12oz which is a top weight for that particular fish. Kev fished over 5kg of CCMoore intense Hemp mixed with a few handfuls of tiger nuts and offered a single grain of ESP artificial buoyant sweetcorn soaked in Silent Assassin flavouring. This was fished inside […]

Dutch carp angler Ben Voltijn has been in touch to tell us he had settled an old score in the shape of another absolutely stunning old mirror from his home country. Superb angling Ben! On a big pit, in the south part of the Netherlands swims a stunning looking, old, very rare pattern scaled mirror, called Bella Betsy. My first attempt at catching her was in 2004. That year I really had a […]

Kev Hewitt’s excellent run of form in 2012 continued last week with the capture of the elusive Birthmark Linear from Linear fisheries Manor Farm. This is the first time it has been put on the bank in over a year and looked in top condition. Kev fooled the birthmark by fishing a single grain of ESP plastic sweetcorn fished inside a mini ESP pva bag of pellets- a new ‘PVA […]

A new video has been uploaded to the website! ESP’s Joe Forrester gives us his 3 top tips for successful carp fishing in this exclusive video for esp-carpgear.com

Des Taylor recently had a productive trip to Rainbow Lake in France: ‘I fished the venue for one week. In that time we had heavy rain for 16 hours at a time! I only had five fish all week but they were 25.00, 48.08, 62.02 and 75.14.The 62.02 is a personal best common and the monster Mirror is my personal best carp. All the fish were taken on ESP Tectrix […]

Incredibly light, well balanced and responsive, the slim, high modulus blanks feature an attractive diagonal 3K woven graphite finish on the butt section and lighter, diagonal 1K woven graphite on the tip. Featuring top quality SiC guides with a long range ringing pattern comprising a 40mm butt guide and single leg intermediates funnelling down to a 12mm tip guides on the 12’ 2¾lb and 12’ 3lb and a 50mm butt […]

After a successful winter campaign on a local water where he caught the venue’s two biggest residents (as reported on the ESP news page) Bristol angler Mark Drake has turned his attentions to another tricky low stock southern pit. After a good start earlier in the year when he accounted for a couple of 20s, the cold April weather lead to the lake ‘shutting up shop’ again. So it wasn’t […]

A new video has been uploaded to the website! ESP Consultant John Claridge joins Dave Ellyatt to explain to us his take on the Withy Pool rig.  

During the previous few years it seemed that spring took forever to arrive but this year got up and running a lot earlier than expected. I started my spring campaign on St. Johns on the linear complex in the last week of Feb and managed ten fish during my first weekend. This took me a little by surprise as I felt it was still too early, going on previous years. […]

A new video has been uploaded to the website! ESP Consultant John Claridge shares with us some great top tips for getting the most out of your Spring-time fishing.