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Articles by Chris Gardner Chris Gardner Chris Gardner is 27, and has been fishing since the age of 9. Growing up and living virtually on the banks of the River Nene introduced Chris to all aspects of coarse fishing. Match fishing for a while, he made the under 19 England international squad three years running,…

There are many types of carp waters available to everyone across the country from easy day ticket waters to hard syndicate waters. For a beginner to carp fishing it is best to start on the easy waters. Having just said that day ticket waters are ‘easy’ – that may not always be the case, as…

I was really looking forward to the first match of the season at Bewdley on Saturday but five hours fishing saw me take just three barbel, two chub and an eel for a thirteen pound total and no prize. I did however lose one good barbel that shed the hook that would have won me…

With the tremendous popularity of carp fishing, and the increasing number of anglers who are regularly using boiled baits, it was only a matter of time before these baits were used on rivers, and for barbel. I first tried them myself in the early 80’s, making them mostly from meat proteins as I thought that…

All these set-ups, by the nature of the beast, mean fishing in the extreme margins or getting within inches of the fish. Centrepin fishing such as I discussed last week is one such way we can keep things so simple that the fish suspect nothing. In all lakes the fish come in extremely close to…

Of all times to get so many bookings one would have imagined that May and early June would have presented me with the cream of top-of-the-water sport, but for a variety of reasons that has just not occurred.April and the first half of May was brilliant! The fishing was as easy as I can ever…