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One of my favourite tactics is to bait an area with literally everything I have left over in the bait cupboard. This is usually a mixture of groundbait, broken boilies and seeds and beans. This is a cracking method to use on lakes which are full of weed. What I try to do is find…

Considering that I had just one day on the Ballynahinch, it was a piece of serious luck that I’d drawn Beat One of the Ballynahinch Castle Hotel water which took in the pool immediately below the lough. (A German guest at the hotel, indeed, sidled up to me and wanted to know how much I’d…

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The vast majority of carp over 2lb are caught on boilies in this country but this is not because carp will only eat boilies, it is because they are convenient to use and easy to obtain. However with a huge amount of boilies being put into waters up and down the country the carp now…

Well that’s the philosophy over with; let me now tell you about yesterday’s angling adventure, first some history though… I learnt to catch carp at a hungry little water called ‘Champs Fishery’ in Canterbury. A days fishing could result in thirty or more fish all between three and six pounds. Four pound mainline, a quarter…