Here is a cracking 25Lb mirror caught by Kev Hewitt over the weekend during his UK Carp Cup Semi final on Brasenose 1. Kev went on to win the match with 15 carp for a total winning weight of 231lb 12oz and now will fish the final on Oxlease lake in October. The majority of kevs fish fell to spodding over zigs tactics at 115 yards using the ever reliable 12Lb Drennan […]

Lee Collings fine run of form continued recently when he caught this lovely old common. The fish known as Porky weighed 35lb 4oz and completed a full house for Lee as he has now caught all four of the lakes known 30lb+ fish in just 16 nights fishing. The fish fell to to a Cell pop up fished on a long running chod rig incorporating all the usual ESP components which Lee has […]

Rob Shank’s short over nighters have been producing the bites through June, and a change of presentation has been helped deter the nuisance species. ‘June has been a fairly productive month although it started off slowly. The water I’m fishing is absolutely rammed full of Roach and as the weather has warmed they have caused havoc with presentations. To get around it I wanted to swap over from my usual […]

Darryl Dunn has been enjoying some sport off the top at Bundy’s pit. Yesterday he caught two commons one of 19lb 10oz and this cracker at 32lb 10oz. Both fish fell to mixers presented on size 9 Drennan Super Specialist barbel hooks, 10lb Supplex hook lengths and 20g Drennan Controllers. It looks like it s getting hot over the next few days so don’t forget the floater kit! Lightweight and beautifully balanced, the […]

Tim ‘Panther’ Harris had a right result last week when he caught this stunning mirror known as the Pretty One, one of the most prized residents of the Longfield Road Lake. She weighed 39lb 4oz. After spotting some fish activity in a particular area of the lake Tim carefully pin pointed a smooth silty area which he baited with a spread of chopped boilies and hemp. The rig comprised a […]

Pete Watts sent us this picture of his first 30 caught from Linear Fisheries Oxlease lake recently. Pete’s set up incorporated a pink barrel pop up presented on T-6 Raptor tied to Strip-Teaze over a bed of tiger nut and tangerine boilies. Good angling Pete! For more information on T-6 Raptor hooks, click here.

Ben Tipney has been doing very well on Thorney Weir in preparation for the UK Carp Cup, here’s what he had to say: “I thought it might be worth sending you a few pics of fish I had from Thorney Weir for the site as some of them are stunners. In practice sessions for the UK Carp Cup I had 18 fish and lost 6 over 3 nights and 2 […]

Alex West had a right result from Sutton the other day, read on to see how he tempted Baby Blind Eye from one of the most pressured, tricky waters around. I finally managed to dust off the rods for the first time since last November for a proper little trip. On my second session managed a nice one. Here is a pic of a peach of a carp called Baby […]

Jo Green sent us these cracking shots of Longfield Road lake’s Orange Spot which she caught last week. This fish is one of the few survivors of the devastating fish kill last year and as Jo said is now ‘King of the Pond’. Here’s Jo’s account: I had been looking forward to my third 48hr session all week, friday came and it was time to head for the lake. When I […]

Mark Drake from Bristol sent us this picture of his first fish from the Roach Pit in Ringwood, a great old character to start his campaign! I opted to drop in a swim called the Wind Tunnel after seeing one show and as it covered some various depths of water and also covered off the Island with some nice silty / sandy areas. With the wind forecast to switch South […]