I have to admit to being a bit of a carp fishing nomad so far this season, finding it hard to settle on one lake for one reason or another and a lot of unexpected extra work has taken up a fair bit of my valued angling time too. I spent the early spring on Cleverley Top Lake, carrying on where I had left off the previous autumn and with […]

Neil Jones looks well chuffed in his pictures and rightly so after catching Clover at 41lb from Great Linford Lakes Linford No. 1 lake. One of the lakes largest residents, it came during a 36 hour session and was caught from a gravel bar 50 yards out, after Neil had seen fish showing in this area when he arrived at the lake. Tackle used included ESP Syncro XT 15lb mono, […]

Sean Leverett got off to a nice start to the season on his first trip to the Roach Pit at Ringwood. Working his way through the tench resulted in Sean eventually getting amongst carp and a couple of crackers too!   This season I decided to head down to the Ringwood area and do the bulk of my fishing on Cemex ‘s Roach Pit and so on the 25th June […]

Kris Garrett took advantage of the recent muggy condtions to do a bit of floater fishing and was well rewarded with a thirty pounder. It pays to make sure you have the floater gear at the ready for any warmer periods of weather, especially if the carp in your lake haven’t been hammered on floaters.  On a recent evening I had the opportunity to go down to my syndicate and […]

Check out this month’s Total Carp magazine for an in depth 5 page article (the first of a series) featuring cover star Kev Hewitt on his devastatingly effective PVA bag approach. Kev is one of the finest exponents of solid PVA bag fishing, having mastered this tactic to clinical levels over the last 10 years or so, the result being a phenomenal catch record from a variety of pressured waters. […]

All round specialist angler Stuart Court has been turning his attentions to carp since the start of the season on the legendary Savay Lake in the heart of the Colne Valley . This is Stuart’s first season as a member of the night syndicate and on his first rota he had a rather special result, Stuart takes up the story: My first session of the season was fast approaching and […]

Essex angler Kris Garrett has been in touch with news of his capture of a stunning old mirror from an undisclosed still water. Kris is becoming known as a highly proficient angler on the Essex big carp scene and we expect more news over the coming months. Well done Kris! When arriving at the lake the heavens opened. The wet gear was put on and I spent the next few […]

Most of my fishing revolves around short mid-week overnight sessions between work so I prefer to use rigs which are quick and easy to tie. I don’t like carrying around loads of ready tied rigs, preferring to tie them up on the bank, depending on what I need for the situation I am fishing in. A few years ago I started using a bottom bait presentation which got christened the […]

Kev Hewitt has been amongst them again bagging this stunning Manor Farm original known as “The Dumpy Linear”. She pulled the scales round to 32Lb 12oz which is a top weight for that particular fish. Kev fished over 5kg of CCMoore intense Hemp mixed with a few handfuls of tiger nuts and offered a single grain of ESP artificial buoyant sweetcorn soaked in Silent Assassin flavouring. This was fished inside […]

Dutch carp angler Ben Voltijn has been in touch to tell us he had settled an old score in the shape of another absolutely stunning old mirror from his home country. Superb angling Ben! On a big pit, in the south part of the Netherlands swims a stunning looking, old, very rare pattern scaled mirror, called Bella Betsy. My first attempt at catching her was in 2004. That year I really had a […]