Terry Hearn has been continuing his pursuit of the biggun in the Berkshire syndicate and has been catching some really pretty fish along the way, including these two stunning upper twenty Linears from last week. Same rigs and tactics as before, Tungsten Loaded hooklinks, size 5 Cryogen Grippers and Leadcore to Syncro XT 18lb. Tel might well have his eye on that 60 pounder but when there are fish like […]

David Meek enjoyed another red letter session last weekend. In the process of testing some new ESP Cryogen hooks, Meeky notched up another eight carp including three 30’s. Over to the maestro: ‘I arrived at the ‘Fun Park’ early in the morning and sat in the car watching a portion of the lake in the dry. After seeing a couple of shows, I grabbed my jacket and coffee (it’s the […]

Terry Hearn returned to his syndicate water when it re-opened at the start of August after its annual July shut down. Between November last year when he started on the venue and the end of June Tel had accounted for something like 130 carp with not many repeats – more fish than he thought the lake held! But the biggun has so far eluded him. However, he’s got back in […]

Darryl Dunn returned to a very special Cambridgeshire syndicate recently and got off to a great start, good angling Darryl! ‘Having finished on my spring ticket on the Kent syndicate it was time to return to the special place in Cambridge. I was like a kid on Christmas Eve and set the alarm for a 4am start. But I was already awake at 3:15 and raring to go. I pulled […]

With the warm weather of late its been prime for floater fishing and West Midlands based Tom Fellows has had a run of fish off the top. Tom said: Over a 7 day period I fished 3 evening sessions after work and 4 nights. I took 15 carp and lost 3 mainly double figure commons, all little characters. One evening I had watched a crusty old linear suss out my […]

Daren ‘Tinpot’ Norman continued his fine run of recent form with one of his target fish, the one eyed carp aptly known as Nelson! ‘I got down for my first two nighter of my summer ticket after a few weeks away to find the lake looking lovely and fair bit weedier than it had been. A lot of fish were evident in one of the corners so I fished nearby […]

David Meek has enjoyed a couple of red letter sessions over the last couple of weekends, at the same time putting some new ESP Cryogen hook prototypes through their paces, which have performed very well indeed. ‘It’s been a manic couple of trips. Resulting in much slime and much aching of the arms. Everything seems to be sitting quite well at the moment. I do really enjoy summer fishing, sure […]

James Small enjoyed a memorable session recently on a local day ticket lake – accounting for two of his targets! Good angling James! ‘I arranged to do a 48 hour session on my local day ticket water called West Lake which I set as my target water this year with quite few decent fish to go for. When I arrived the fish were in a swim I had enjoyed some success including landing […]

Alex West tempted one of the home counties most prized and pressured big carp recently, with the monster falling for a delicately presented zig rig. After arriving at the lake Alex spotted six fish from a tree and then noticed one take something off the surface. He chose the swim opposite due to less weed leading up to the area and  while thinking where to put his first rod he […]

West Midlands carper Tom Stokes has had a great year so far, targetting a huge, intricate southern pit in his continued pursuit for ‘that’ common… ‘It’s been a good start to my third season on the Big pit. Towards the end of April I managed my first bite after baiting a likely looking swim for a week or so. That resulted in a lovely mid 30 common. I continued to […]