David Meek got his Roach Pit campaign off to a very nice start last week with the capture of this fine looking common carp. Here the Ringwoodshire specialist recounts the tale: “It’s always nice to have that first bite of the year. They feel like they are just carp again. This is the first year that the pit has been open in the close season. You would have thought that […]

With the sun finally putting in an appearance and the water temperatures starting the climb the carp have inevitably been spending their time basking on the surface over the last few days. Rob Shanks took full advantage and reverted to stalking tactics to bag a couple of lovely looking 20s from a local syndicate water. At this time of year when things are warming up it really does pay to […]

Hinders boss Bryan Jarrett phoned us last week to tell us how impressed he was with the ESP ready tied Short Chod Rigs and how he’d been putting them to good use at Churn Pool in the Cotswold Water Park. Well this week Bryan returned to his main target water, Bellwood near Newbury and using a rig incorporating a faithful size 5 Stiff Rigger he quickly nailed this cracking mirror. […]

Dave Springall caught this cracker at the weekend. After weeks (months?) of horrible easterly winds some proper strong south westerly’s were always going to get them feeding and Dave got on the end of it and snared this beauty, good work Dave! ‘Finally the weather started to look up a little this past weekend and after a long week at work it was finally time to get the rods out for a couple […]

With spring finally arriving in earnest at the weekend it was no surprise that the carp started to feed. Waters that hadn’t produced a bite for what seemed like ages sprung into life and Isle of Wight based Spencer Wright took advantage of the favorable conditions in fine style. Fishing Friday night, Spencer caught three mirrors weighing 19.02, 34.08 and 38.08. These three and the fish Spence caught back in […]

Jerry Hammond had a productive trip to Kingsmead at Horton last week. Putting his faith in the good old zig rigs and size 10 Raptor Big-T’s Jerry caught three carp, a mirror of 25lb and two commons of 28lb and 32lb 4oz respectively. All three fell to rigs fished two feet below the surface in 12 feet of water. Jerry commented: “A major factor for me when Zig fishing is a good hook, […]

Successful German angler Mario Winnikes has had a couple of eventful sessions over the last week despite the terrible weather. The forecast for the UK is looking a lot better from next weekend so hopefully things will kick off here too! Against the Wind The weatherman says: ‘strong, cold winds and frosty nights’ for the beginning of spring weekend. “No problem”, I think. I baited a sheltered, cosy swim with the […]

Kev Hewitt was closely involved in the development of the ESP Mega Method Feeders and Mega Method ready tied rigs which are already taking waters apart this spring. In this article Kev explains why they are so affective. The winter seemed to last forever as always is the case. I was fortunate to get out for a few sessions and as much as I enjoyed every minute, I was fully […]

Martin Bowler has been in touch with news of an eventful twenty-four hours on Milton Abbas. Braving the wintry conditions, Martin placed his faith in the ever reliable naked chod set up using the ready tied ESP Short Chod rigs and Richworth S-Core hook baits and this approach accounted for five carp up to 26lb. They’re waking up and bright hook baits either on the bottom on chod rigs, or […]

Kev Hewitt can barely put a foot wrong so far this year and his impressive run of form continued this week on his first ever visit to Sandhurst Lake on the Yateley complex. Despite the wintry weather Kev had an incredible hit of fish during his 48 hours stay where he slipped the net under a total of 14 carp including 2 doubles, 11 twenties to 28Lb 12oz and a […]