It may be hard to believe due to the weather we have been receiving lately, but spring is definitely on its way. Already the daylight hours are increasing in length, I’ve recently witnessed a number of various flying insects creeping there way into the kitchen and just the other week I saw flowers starting to bud in the mother-in-laws garden.
And all this to me indicates that it is time for preparation, time for stocking up on bait, time for new lines and just generally time to get a good spring clean on the go. I usually fish right through the winter, but due to work and various courses I have not been able to get out much at all. It goes without saying though that the spring time, whether you are taking the rods out of hibernation or not brings an element of excitement and even more fishing. So here are a few things I do in preparation for those hungry carp waking up.
I just got home from a session abroad with some friends
When the trip was getting towards the end something happened too one of the other anglers that shocked me.
On his final morning a rat got in to his bivvy and was sitting on his face. When he woke up, and tried to scar the rat away it bit him in his ear leaving him devastated.
It was the first time I ever heard about something like this happening to an angler. But I am sure there are plenty more stories that are similar to this one.
I never encountered a thing as horrible as that, but do had some occurrences with wildlife in my fishingcareer birds cleaning my tackle cows watching me playing a fish. (more…)
Since James Harrison’s first piece in this magazine about carp captures being a result of many things coming together at the same time and most captures basically being ‘meant to be’, I have got to thinking an awful lot. Obviously, the more experienced angler will always catch a few more because he/she makes sure to be there when the right factors are coming together and the rig is in place ready for where the fish will undoubtedly turn up.
I have looked long and hard at my own fishing and, these past couple of weeks apart, I have never particularly struggled to catch carp and for many years I have used exactly the same rig for all of my bottom fishing on everything except soft silkweed. (more…)
by Shaun Harrison
Whoops, I was a little too late last month in getting my work in on time – not like me at all. So, with possible relief for some, you were spared my often inordinate ramblings. I had half written my piece then found myself desperately running out of hours of the day. I had a French trip looming and with just one evening left before my ferry was due to leave I still hadn’t sorted out any tackle. Talk about not being prepared!
The tackle was thrown in the motor, a bit of bait over the top, then a last minute thought about cold weather clothing and I was away. Article unfinished, tackle unsorted, brain all over the place and a tidal wave forecast to come down the east coast to coincide with my ferry crossing – and I am not joking!
My first holiday in two years without having a cameraman in tow and I was as ill-prepared as I could have been had I planned for weeks not to prepare – if you know what I mean! (more…)
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