Darryl Dunn managed to sneak out for a quick night just before a planned family holiday and was well rewarded with a brace of 30s. Top angling mate. ‘It was all penciled into the diary. I had a last 48hr session planned before we were off on our annual family holiday. One last important task to perform, and that was to get the car in for a major service before […]

Looking for a new set of rods in the sub-£100 per unit price bracket? Looking for said rods to provide top performance whilst also sporting that ultra cult carpy ‘look’? Then you would do well to check these out, the new ESP Paragon Plus.  This range of 5 rods has excellent multi modulus carbon blanks with an attractive gloss finish. The colour scheme is low key black throughout with a nice […]

Many thanks to Shane Broda for sending us this photo of a nice 20lb 14oz mirror carp he caught in Llyn Y Gors, Anglesey using the ESP Sniper rod. Here Shane takes up the story: “Caught this on a choddy after all else failed, session was a short 48hr and the fish was caught on the second morning of the session, using an ESP Sniper rod and sushi flavour popups […]

Mark McKenna had a productive week on his last Savay rota bagging three of the lakes jewels in sweltering conditions. Here’s Mark with the details: ‘I had been suffering a distinct lake of angling time in recent months through the usual pressures of juggling work, family and other commitments sidelining my fishing for nearly six months so when the glorious 16th rolled around I decided to fish as much of […]

Jo Green’s effort of moving during the night to get on showing fish was well rewarded with this cracking common. Here’s Jo’s account: It was mid afternoon when I arrived at the lake and I decided on the inside gate swim, right in the teeth of a strong wind. It looked spot on for a bite, but alas it wasn’t to be. A few hours later the fish started showing to my right, but […]

Lee Collings can’t stop catching at the moment and a return to the tricky Farm syndicate and some very good angling once again produced the goods. I thought I would send you a catch report regarding a recent capture on a 48hr session to the Fosters of Birmingham Farm syndicate i only dropped back on as a couple of my other lakes had shut for spawning and was stuck for […]

Patrick Billman paid attention to the elements to bag himself this 25lb beauty from an undisclosed Norfolk venue. Nice one! Here’s Patrick’s report in full: “I got to my syndicate lake after work on Friday and after a couple laps of the lake I didn’t really see a lot to go on.  One thing I did notice as I was walking round was that the wind had turned to a […]

Thanks to the Dorset-based Gi Brinkman for this gorgeous picture of a 40lb 12oz beauty from a recent trip to France. Here Gi takes up the story: “I was fishing in France during the heatwave 2 weeks ago with temperatures up to 36 degrees, the fish just shut down completely and stopped feeding. Due to conditions and bites being very few and far between, I decided that I had to be […]

Lee Collings caught this lovely dark 24.10 mirror along with another upper double from Linear St John’s  last week. Lee used a size 10 ESP Big-T tied to and 8lb Drennan Double Strength hook link with a trimmed down pop up as the hook bait. With the weather set to stay hot for a while yet the floater gear is an absolute essential. The perfect rod for the job is […]

It can be very tricky at this time of year but adapting and tweaking his rigs is keeping the bites coming for Rob Shanks, good angling mate! “After a previous session where I spent a large proportion of the time up a tree watching the extremely cagey carp ejecting my rigs in the crystal clear water, I returned for an overnighter armed with a new presentation. After finding a few […]