Autumn Nights - Session in France
Saturday, October 11th, 2008Shaun Harrison gets out on the bank for a November session in France. He manages to bank several cracking carp including a 40lb plus mirror and a 29lb’er for the camera.
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Approaching a New Water at Home and Abroad
Thursday, September 25th, 2008Shaun goes through some tips on how you can best plan your trip to a new venue, whether it is in France or the UK. He reveals some of the home work you can do and ways of getting the best from your swim in a short time, how to use tools like Metcheck and Google Earth to find the fish etc.
Combi-Links
Monday, September 22nd, 2008By Jamie Simpson
I decided to 
write this piece about one of the hooklink presentations I have been using to good effect this season. I would recommend the use of this rig on firm bottoms such as sand and gravel, light silt and sparse weed, but not fished in thick weed or heavy silt as I feel the hooklink may sit up off the bottom awkwardly.
Just recently I have started using a lot more combi-link rigs again, and for the life of me I can’t remember why I stopped using them in the first place, perhaps the introduction of the coated braids maybe played a part in this. With a lot of anglers switching to combi-rigs made by simply stripping coating off the braid I think I may have been a little paranoid that the fish would suss it out and my results would suffer.
I used them almost all the time in the late nineties and I guess I must have either moved onto a venue that I found an alternative more productive, or as I said, become paranoid about their effectiveness with so many other anglers now using a similar type of presentation. Anyway I have been using them quite a lot again this year on a couple of venues and have tweaked them to suit my requirements really well. (more…)
Re-hydrating and boiling bait and sacking carp.
Tuesday, September 16th, 2008
Morning Shaun.
Not really sure if I must pose my questions to the emails. But anyway sure you will tell me.
Here is my question:
Went out yesterday to a day ticket water. Baited the spot on Saturday evening with about 4 kilo’s of maize.
Had 11 takes yesterday up to 22 pounds. Not big but great fun. My problem is that I am trying homemade boilies too, basically air dried boilies as per your articles. Soaking them for 12 hours but yesterday when I went out time and time again the rig comes out with the boilie no where to be seen.
I was fishing with some of the first batches that I made and i know in the beginning I was scared to boil them for too long, basically just boiling them for a minute.
The new batches I boil until they start rising 2 - 3 minutes. Could this be the problem
Got hemp in them too, way too much I think as they tend to break up quit badly when I try to put them on the Hair - rig.
Another question I want to buy a carp sack as I get fish early in the morning with no one to take photo’s for me.
How long is safe to sack a carp.
Thanks a lot.
PS. Saw a movie friday of you in France. Excellent.
Greetings Gert Roestoff
South Africa.