As the temperatures start to drop maggots come into their own as one of the main winter edges. Sean Leverett employed the ‘germs’ approach last week and was rewarded with a lovely common, well done Sean! ‘With work starting to slow up a little now I managed to get in a few days fishing over on the Bayeswater Syndicate. I opted to go on the back of the wind as […]

ESP Zig Bugs The most realistic zig bugs on the market? Almost certainly! Ready tied zig bugs have been around a few years but ESP’s association with the method goes back over 10 years to 2004, when Bristol angler Mark Drake (the brother of ESP sales rep and expert fly tyer Dave Drake) first used them on Pingewood Lagoon. He gave some to Terry Hearn who was also fishing the […]

Introducing new designs using the same super tough, yet comfortably soft material that has put ESP Super Grade clothing at the top of the league. These garments not only outperform other fishing clothing, they really look the part too. With a waterproof rating (hydrostatic head) of 25,000 and a breathable rating of 10,000 the fabric is on a par with that used by some of the most expensive brands of […]

Kev Hewitt with a stunning 37lb 6oz mirror from Bluebell Swan lake last week. The lake hadn’t produced a fish for three weeks and Kev targetted a usually unfancied area to produce the goods. The fish fell to a Mini ESP pva bag of pellets with a single grain of ESP plastic corn balanced on a size 6 hook cast to showing fish. Kev also went on to catch the […]

A better butt grip! We went through a number of samples before the overmoulded polymer had just the right level of hardness and ‘spring’ to provide the optimum grip and release. Other butt grips on the market are too soft to grip the rod properly – the ESP Mini butt grips have been designed to overcome that problem. The stainless steel threads are made on our own CNC machines in […]

Terry Hearn wrote the article below last year. It covers his initial testing period of what became the Tungsten Loaded coated hooklink and we held it back until the launch of the product. Terry is an ESP consultant so you might think he would be very biased, but he has a free hand to use whatever products he prefers, whether they be ESP or not. So whenever he is given […]

When Terry Hearn says it is the ‘best coated braid I have ever used’ its worth sitting up and taking notice… Tungsten Loaded has been over a year in development and all the dozen or so anglers who used it throughout the testing period have commented on just how good it is compared with anything else they had used previously. It has helped catch a vast amount of carp already […]

Our Belgian correspondent Wesley Mast had been getting back amongst them, this time on a syndicate venue with unknown potential, well done Wes! ‘As I’m fishing busy public lakes most of the time I occasionally love to spend time on the bank away from these places, so I purchased a ticket for a tricky syndicate lake to escape the mad crowds that visit the public domaines these days. This venue […]

Daren ‘Tinpot’ Norman has had mixed fortunes over the last couple of months, but you can’t keep a good man down and he quickly returned to form, well done Tinny! ‘I really struggled through August but kept baiting a couple of spots and at the start of September it finally paid off when I caught a lovely 28lb 12oz common and followed it up with a cracking mirror of 40lb […]

Terry Hearn started a new campaign on a southern syndicate a few weeks ago and has been catching consistently from the off. Last week’s trip was topped by this cracking 36lb 8oz mirror, his biggest from the venue so far. Tel has been catching all his fish on the new ESP Tungsten Loaded coated braid (out next month – more info to follow soon) combined with a new Beaked Point […]