Gary Knott sent us this lovely picture of the biggest common in an Essex club lake weighing 37lb 9oz. Gary tempted the fish from a spot near a big weed bed at 60 yards range on a rig incorporating a size 8 Big-T and 15lb Strip-Teaze hook link with a snow man hook bait. The fight lasted 30 minutes after the fish kept getting weeded up but a decent hook […]

Ash Hall sent us a great photo of this beauty he caught recently. “Hi guys, here’s a pic of a 32lb 8oz common caught using size 6 Raptor G-4’s. Just 1 of 59 fish I caught from a local club water this season – all on the faithful raptors.” Good angling, Ash!   Got something you want to share with us? Send us your catch report! This year we would […]

Bristol angler Lee Barter took full advantage of the unseasonably mild weather over the Christmas period to bag three 30’s from two different waters in the space of a week. After a cracking session on Orchid, a change of approach paid dividends on a tricky day’s only lake. Here Lee takes up the story: I have had a recent run of success starting with the day after boxing day at […]

Merry Christmas everyone from all at ESP and best wishes for a happy, healthy, and of course carpy 2013!

There hasn’t been much caught recently with the chilly weather making things very difficult but Sean Leverett has had an excellent result from a southern venue with this stunning common. Just reward for plugging away, top angling Sean! ‘I did a couple of nights on a southern pit and had this 31lb 12oz common along with another of 16lb 10oz. Both fish were caught using snowman rigs constructed with Two-Tone […]

John Claridge has sent us some cracking pictures of the mighty Big Linear he caught from the Roach Pit, Ringwood back in October. Careful observation and bait placement lead to the downfall of undoubtedly one of the best looking big carp in the country.   With my book, Beauties and the Beasts, signed off at the end of September I finally had a rare trip to my syndicate water planned […]

Here is Kev Hewitt with a stunning early winter mirror from St. Johns lake on the Linear fisheries complex. Kev caught this 29Lber along with mirrors of 23Lb and 18Lb during his recent trip to the venue on a single grain of ESP big buoyant sweetcorn dipped in CCMoore Silent assasin bait dip. Kev Fished his hookbait inside a Mini ESP solid bag of mini pellets on the new Mini […]

Darryl Dunn has been in touch with a brief resume on his year so far on Bundys Pit where he has caught some cracking fish off the top and bottom using ESP gear. Top angling mate! It’s been a good season for me so far this year fishing the deep waters of Bundy’s pit in Cambridgeshire. The season started unexpectedly early due to otter sightings in the local area and […]

Well respected carp angler Jerry Hammond has recently linked up with ESP tackle and taken no time at all in putting the gear to good use! Here Jerry takes up the story that lead to the capture of a cracking winter common… I had not fished for around six weeks in the UK and I was only just back from a fishing trip to Thailand, I really wanted to be […]

After a hard five year campaign in which he has caught virtually all the other big fish in the lake, German angler Mario Winnikes has finally bagged his dream in the shape of Mary, weighing in at 91lb 4oz a new world record weight for a common carp from a highly pressured lake in his home country. An absolutely stunning fish worth every minute of blood, sweat and tears! Huge […]