Kev Hewitt’s excellent run of form in 2012 continued last week with the capture of the elusive Birthmark Linear from Linear fisheries Manor Farm. This is the first time it has been put on the bank in over a year and looked in top condition. Kev fooled the birthmark by fishing a single grain of ESP plastic sweetcorn fished inside a mini ESP pva bag of pellets- a new ‘PVA […]

A new video has been uploaded to the website! ESP’s Joe Forrester gives us his 3 top tips for successful carp fishing in this exclusive video for esp-carpgear.com

Des Taylor recently had a productive trip to Rainbow Lake in France: ‘I fished the venue for one week. In that time we had heavy rain for 16 hours at a time! I only had five fish all week but they were 25.00, 48.08, 62.02 and 75.14.The 62.02 is a personal best common and the monster Mirror is my personal best carp. All the fish were taken on ESP Tectrix […]

Incredibly light, well balanced and responsive, the slim, high modulus blanks feature an attractive diagonal 3K woven graphite finish on the butt section and lighter, diagonal 1K woven graphite on the tip. Featuring top quality SiC guides with a long range ringing pattern comprising a 40mm butt guide and single leg intermediates funnelling down to a 12mm tip guides on the 12’ 2¾lb and 12’ 3lb and a 50mm butt […]

After a successful winter campaign on a local water where he caught the venue’s two biggest residents (as reported on the ESP news page) Bristol angler Mark Drake has turned his attentions to another tricky low stock southern pit. After a good start earlier in the year when he accounted for a couple of 20s, the cold April weather lead to the lake ‘shutting up shop’ again. So it wasn’t […]

A new video has been uploaded to the website! ESP Consultant John Claridge joins Dave Ellyatt to explain to us his take on the Withy Pool rig.  

During the previous few years it seemed that spring took forever to arrive but this year got up and running a lot earlier than expected. I started my spring campaign on St. Johns on the linear complex in the last week of Feb and managed ten fish during my first weekend. This took me a little by surprise as I felt it was still too early, going on previous years. […]

A new video has been uploaded to the website! ESP Consultant John Claridge shares with us some great top tips for getting the most out of your Spring-time fishing.  

ESP Camo Sink Link is a super strong, soft un-coated braided hook link material which takes camouflage to the next level. Tightly woven with a silky smooth feel and featuring alternating tones of colour which act to break up the outline of the hook link making it really inconspicuous, this provides a definite edge when fishing for pressured, rig shy carp in clear water. Although dyneema based for maximum strength, […]

ESP Consultant Kev Hewitt had an incredible 48 hours fishing at Drayton Reservoir last weekend where him and fishing partner Mark Bartlett had been invited to attend the Korda Carp Team England trials. Read on for Kev’s account of the record breaking weekend, this is endurance carp match fishing at its very best… To me there would be no greater achievement in angling than to represent my country on the […]