Back behind the rods at last!
Finally after a break of nearly three months, Ive managed to get back out angling, my first chance since becoming a Quest baits consultant. Only a day session, but a session nonetheless! continue reading…
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Finally managed to get out for a few hours this afternoon. I’ve been getting a little stir crazy not being able to wet a line but with the week-end totally put aside for the Brentwood Carp Show which was cancelled I found myself with some spare time to get out.
With snow falling from the sky my neighbours must have thought I was a little silly loading my gear up in the Land Rover but you know what it’s like a man has to do what a man has to do….
I’m not a great fan of snag fishing and certainly would not consider sleeping while the rods are close to them. You can imagine how I felt, when on a recent trip to Alder Lake in France I located most of the lakes population in the heavy snags alongside the point forming a large shallow bay in the lake.
I had to get them out!
I loose fed a line of Surf n Turf boilies into the snags running towards the end of the point, and then laid a line of boilies into the centre of the bay. The plan was to lure the carp into an area where I was happy to hook them.
One rod went onto the end of the point then the other into the open water in the centre of the bay.
I had a few liners in the night and then early next morning the point rod flew off quickly followed by the bay rod. This pattern was repeated for the next three mornings.
All the fish hooked were landed and any damage that the snags could have caused avoided.
Surf n Turf certainly has some pulling power!
Cheers Ron
By Samantha Collins-Ratcliffe;
Started off from sunny Cornwall the A30 was clear, foot to the floor as I hit Bristol the heaven’s opened and down came the rain. As the traffic slowed down to 40 miles an hour a there was a slow drive ahead of me towards the M4. The pace picked up, I turned off juntion15 edging towards Lansdale and after a while I turned up at the Carp Society’s Horse Shoe Lake.
I was greeted by David one of the Managers at the lake, we started to chat about what had been coming out that week and he advised me to look at winters bay as some fish were holding up in there. As I slowly drove around the lake winter bay was looking the best option for me as there was nobody in there, I finally opted for peg 20 this was a double swim with a fair amount of water to go at. I started to set up and once again down came the rain, it must have followed me from the M5? Up went the bivvy and out went two kilo of Smokey fish Boilies all over my swim with the throwing sick. Closely followed by two rods loaded up with PVA bags into the edge of the weeds. Within two hours of waiting off went my first rod, a good 10 minute fight and my first Horse Shoe carp on the bank. continue reading…
Hi all – I’m delighted to report my PB UK common at 37-8. I’ve been after this fish for a couple of years and as you can see from the photos it’s a truly stunning fish.
The estate lake I’m fishing is very weedy and it can be difficult to find areas to put a bait on. I’m always looking out for areas in the weed that are clearer than others, but with the weed already thick in front of me finding what I was looking for took some time. I found a couple of areas I was reaonably happy with but after 24 hours I’d not had a bite and not seen any signs of fish showing anywhere. continue reading…
I relearned and old lesson last weekend, you may think you have the lake sorted out but no one tells the carp the rules.
When I joined Shaun on our syndicate water Grenville Lake he had already fished for 24 hours. He was fishing a swim in a bay that he knows well and has fished successfully over the last year.
I chose a swim at the other side of the point on his right.
Conditions for us both looked good. Within an hour I was getting liners over the Surf n’Turf and after three hours I had a run that I did not connect with.
I sat confidently for another 24 hours; while the new wind that should have pushed the fish towards swung slowly around 360 degrees and the temperature cooled considerably.
Was I worried… was I hell?
The fish in this lake always fish off the back of a cold wind. Don’t they? The wind picked up and I sat it out. continue reading…
