I did one session at the lake early in the week on another sunny day, those lucky enough to get down during the day, i.e. unemployed or on swervy long term sick, had found the secret I found last season, get the place to yourself and the carp will respond. It was not worth me…

August sunshine still shone down on the lake with not a breath of wind. The majority of the lakes population of carp hung about sunbathing, their backs glistening in the sunlight, teasing me as they pushed their shoulders out now and again. The obvious thing to do was try to get them to take off…

Articles by John Young John Young John Young has been fishing since 1972. He started by drowning maggots for anything that came along but soon donned a floppy green hat and joined the specimen hunting scene. In the late 1970s he started pursuing carp and soon caught his first 20lber on diced potato. Years later,…

As soon as a bite is felt, because if you wait longer there is often no bait left on your hook. Fish such as plaice, whiting and bream will strip a hook in a remarkably short space of time, miraculously it often seems, without hooking themselves.When using larger baits for bottom fishing, such as a…

September-October the first wave of winter fish appear, as if making a recce before the hordes of smaller fish sweep inshore to delight the small boat and beach anglers. Usually, at least in Westcountry waters, these early invaders are often quite good fish, from fifteen pounds and upward.In recent years these early fish have been…

Following a recommendation from a work colleague, Chris Smith and John Dennis, from Chelmsford Essex, took a weekend break from a business trip to Canada to join Joe Babbitt of the St Lawrence Experience Carp Fishing Company and experienced a fishing trip of a lifetime. Fishing from the riverside base of the company in Waddington,…

This is my main float for trotting medium to fast paced rivers. I use them in sizes ranging from 5BB to 1 OBB which in some parts of the country would be classed as very heavy but I am fishing flowing rivers like the Tidal Thames, Kennet, Test, Itchen, Dorset Stour and the Hampshire Avon….

Roddy Hays is currently skippering a big-game boat in the Azores, something he’s been doing all over the globe for the past ten years or so. By the miracle of modern technology (i.e. hand written, faxed to wife, typed then emailed!!) Roddy has sent in this, the first of a series, of big-game articles for…

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