In a fascinating insight into the evolution of rigs, Phil Buckley talks to Jack Reid about how the release of ESP’s new Trig-Hammer hooks have solved a puzzle he has been working on for 15 years! We’re going to talk in depth about a rig that you’re using for nearly all your angling these days Phil, but the back story to arriving at this point has taken place over a […]
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Dave Robinson – It’s not what you know…
During the early part of the year, I’ve always found myself starting on small intimate waters rather than big pits. I’ve made the mistake before, whist friends of mine have caught their target in March and moved on before I’ve even seen my first show of the year. Those bigger venues seem to take longer to wake up, but autumn last until almost Christmas. I learnt the hard way! A […]
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Jack Reid – My own little slice of history
Back in April I found myself navigating the barrow through fallen deadwood and brambles in the inky twilight of THAT old estate lake. I had been given the green light for a spring session on this iconic slice of the English countryside and to put the cherry on the cake, I was sat on nearly a month of baiting. A barrow loaded with marker rod, boat and a lot of […]
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‘Two nights with my boys!’ – Lee Howard
Lee Howard has been really making an effort taking his young lads fishing this year. Judging by the photographs building in our inbox the lads have been having a blast, catching serious fish for their age. Over to Lee… I took the boy’s again this weekend for two nights this time instead of one. It was supposed to be one night but after the first they was still several fish in […]
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‘An angry devil looking male linear!’ – Alfie Russell
I’m pretty sure most of you guys will now know that I’ve been privileged enough to join E.S.P and Drennan. I’ve found myself in the most comfortable and welcoming position I’ve ever found to be in whilst being involved and working in the carp fishing industry, I’m mega grateful. Now onto the fishing! This year started off pretty excitingly I had some great plans ahead. A astronomically warm spell in […]
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‘A Pads Lake group booking’ – Darren Blunt
‘The pads lake is a mature gravel pit with extensive gravel bars, weeds and an average depth of five feet historic carp fishing on the west side of the Yateley complex’ It’s my second time to fishing the venue last year. It was in April and was was awful weather conditions, very cold and temperature had dropped big time but I had two double figure carp in the ‘Points’ swim. […]
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‘It always comes good in the end!’ – Daren ‘Tinpot’ Norman
‘Last July I decided it was time to have another crack at very special 40 acre pit I’d unsuccessfully dabbled on in the past. The pit still has a bit of mystery to it but is thought to hold around 40 fish including one very large mirror.’ I got off to a great start and managed to catch the Adidas fish at 42lb 10oz backed up by couple of nice […]
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On borrowed time – Terry Bell
‘This winter has been a long hard slog for me like many others…’ Off the mark! After the birth of our little boy in March I wasn’t really expecting to get much fishing time in at all but my wife agreed that I could drop my daughter off at the childminder at 8am on a Friday and fish before picking her up at 5.30pm. With such tight time restrictions on […]
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A cold north-easterly haul – Kev Hewitt
‘When you think of cold north easterly winds you hardy envisage rods ripping off left right and center, especially when fishing a tricky venue where a fish a session would be classed as a result for anyone’ I shall not be so pessimistic in future when I see a cold north easterly forecast. So I arrived at the lake after work on Saturday evening and in all honesty I didn’t […]
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For the buzz – Terry Bell
‘This winter has been a long hard slog for me like many others…’ An idyllic club lake setting Back in 2010/11 while fishing a locaI club water I met someone who would become a friend as he walked around the lake I was fishing. We got chatting about the lake and the club and the waters he had been fishing. On both that occasion and several times after, he would […]
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