Our Belgian correspondent Wesley Mast had a lovely brace recently from a local venue- and they epitomise gnarly old Belgian carp. Well done Wes! As the lakes i’m fishing are getting busier by the day and more anglers find their way to the pits I was in need of some stealth so I prebaited some spots for several weeks during the dark hours. Keeping a low profile would be key […]

Stu Lennox made the long trip to the Quarry fishery in Essex recently and his efforts were well rewarded with a brilliant session – well done Stu! ‘Arriving at my swim I found a spot at about 60yds which felt like a hard sandy bottom covered in stringy onion weed surrounded by heavy Canadian pondweed. The weather was due to change the following day and I felt I would have […]

Hot on the heels of his capture of Murray last weekend, published on the ESP news page, Tony Burnham returned to Yateley North Lake on Friday and didn’t take long to complete his hatrick of 40lb+ commons from the venue! ‘I had the third 40lb+ common from Yateley North Lake last night (friday night)! The Black Common weighing 43lb 1oz. I moved to a different nice quiet area this week […]

Nathan Highley had a red letter session on his Norfolk syndicate recently, culminating in three cracking thirties. Good angling Nathan! ‘I decided to book a week off work and some of it was going to be spent on my Norfolk syndicate. Just only the week prior I was fortunate enough to catch my target fish from the water, so this was going to be spent as a social with friends […]

High Wycombe based carper Tony Burnham has been in touch with news of his second 40lb+ common this year from Yateley North Lake. This time Tony caught a fish known as Murray weighing 45lb 4oz. The bite came just three feet from the bank on a spot baited with hemp, chopped tigers and pellet soaked in CC Moore tuna extract. Tony tamed the massive common with the help of a […]

The longer nights of Autumn One for the more pressured waters. Now that the nights are longer it’s around this time that I’ve often found carp feeding away from the pressure, sneaking into the more unusual, obscure areas after dark. You know the places I mean, the little bays within bays, the corners within corners, all the places that you wouldn’t really expect them to go, and because of this […]

Sean Leverett has been hard at it this year setting up his bait company ‘Proper Carp Baits’, so time on the bank has been at a premium. Thsi weekend though he managed to sneak out and had a ‘proper’ result. Here’s Sean’s account: ‘With work at the bait factory being so busy, my time on the bank this year has been somewhat limited and i think i’ve done just 15 […]

Kev Hewitt made a successful return to Swan lake on the Bluebell complex earlier this week, here’s what happened: ‘Last year I spent the majority of my time on the bank targeting Swan lake on the Bluebell complex. It was a very successful and fruitful campaign resulting in the big mirror known as Dave slipping into my net at a whopping 53Lb 4oz. A whole year had passed since that […]

David Meek has been at it again! The Southampton based trawlerman has been in touch with news of another bounty of special old carp. Go on, feast you eyes!: ‘Consistency has never been a word that I have associated with myself. Sure my approach has always been, but since my last year on Roach my head space has been right. Turning up to a busy pit on a Friday morning […]

Belgian angler Wesley Mast enjoyed a brilliant result last week when he targetted a neglected corner of a highly pressured pit, resulting in a hectic night of action, good angling Wes! ‘For the last two months the lakes near my home are fishing very slow because of the amount of pressure, bait and a very hot summer (several heatwaves). As you can imagine only a few fish have been caught. […]