Jo Green escaped the English weather recently with a carp filled trip to Sierra Brava, Spain with her partner Mike Whitford. The weather wasn’t great there either but despite stormy conditions they caught a few! The weather was spot on for fishing when we arrived, big south westerly winds and slightly overcast. We started marking out the areas to fish to, ranging from 30 yards up to 80 yards and spombed out some […]

World Record common holder Mario Winnikes from Germany has been getting into some early spring action and sent us this report. As Mario proved its always worth checking out snaggy areas at this time of the year as the carp visit them to rub up against the submerged woodwork to clean of leaches that have attached themselves during the inactive winter period. ‘Last weekend I could take a more than […]

Despite the bittery cold weather this week, Kev Hewitt managed to brave the conditions and squeeze a nights angling on Linear fisheries St. Johns lake. Although the lake had only produced three fish in total so far this year, Kev managed to double that tally by taking a three fish catch including mirrors of 18Lb, 21Lb 14oz and this stunning 24Lb 12oz mirror sporting its full winter colours. Kev Caught […]

Rob Shanks has been getting amongst them again, taking advantage of last week’s mild spell he caught a couple of lovely looking mid 20 mirrors: “With some warm weather forecast, I decided to book a bit of time off to get a few nights fishing in. A couple of the target fish I’m chasing this year have a habit of getting caught in early March and it just seemed the […]

Kris Garrett braved the wintry conditions recently and was repaid in fine style with this lovely looking common. Again proving that if you can get a bait in the right place they are very catchable even in terrible conditions. Good angling Kris! Over the last month I have been doing my fair share of fishing squeezing in overnighters where possible when the lakes haven’t been frozen solid, and evening sessions […]

E-S-P has added a couple of new models of head torch to the range for 2013. Both have had the lighting functions configured exactly with the angler in mind and they are the perfect tool for anybody fishing after dark and provide excellent value for money. Bank Lamp Light & comfortable, features include adjustable head band, angle adjustment plus three lighting options. The triple red LEDs offer subtle illumination which […]

Steve Harknett from Cambridge had an excellent early spring result from a tricky local syndicate water on Monday with a three fish catch. All mirrors, the biggest was a stunning looking fish weighing 25lb 6oz backed up with a couple of upper doubles weighing 19lb and 18lb 15oz respectively. Steve, who works in Willow Grange Tackle near Cambridge (www.willowgrange.com) used ESP 9’ Stalker rods, which he explained he uses for all […]

Thanks to Paul Cross for sending in this great photo of a tiny frog sat on his classic ESP Sniper rod. He took this whilst fishing in Les Teliatts, France and landing carp up to a massive 74lb! The ESP Sniper rod, now Mark 2, is a superb bit of kit: Incredibly light, well balanced and responsive, the slim, high modulus blanks feature an attractive diagonal 3K woven graphite finish […]

With Spring slowly but surely on its way we’re doing a competition to win some of our brilliant new Mega Method Feeders. These are an bigger, heavier version of the popular flat method feeders used by match anglers on commercial carp waters. The extra weight allows for improved distance casting and makes them act as a highly effective bolt rig set up. They hold as much bait as a PVA […]

David Meek sent us this excellent night shot of his first carp of 2013 from Somerley in Ringwoodshire. As winter starts to loosen its grip (well sort of) its always good to get that first carp of the year under ones’ belt and snaggy areas are often a magnet for carp at this time of year David found out. I went for a night on Somerley. Saturday, got up at […]