The water was very cold and clear, so much more like winter, with the end of the season now visible on the horizon now was the time to put some concentrated effort in, as I knew the carp would soon start moving and would be hungry. The winter on this lake had been a poor…

I have talked before about what I use and how much of it, but at the moment the topic I have fresh in my mind is, when to introduce it. This is certainly nothing new, think of the match angler for example. Trotting a nice glide. Only can they reap the most from the swim…

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…

When I arrived there was just one swim available to fish, and that was really only half a swim, the rest was under water. The whole lake now was so flooded that another foot would have put the water over the track and flowing out of the gate onto the road. Record levels indeed. The…

My fishing tends to be in blocks of six to twelve weeks. Any longer than this and I begin to get a little bored, particularly if I have been catching well. I now try to break up the year into these blocks with a couple of week rest periods in-between. Christmas is a good example,…

Carp are a very visible species, by this I mean they can be located in the water we plan to fish fairly easily but we must be quiet and stealthy. The carpís visible nature can be manipulated by us to put some fish on the bank. Broadly speaking, carp fishing methods can be put into…

To be fair, the weatherman had forecast very bad weather but I was determined to go as it had been almost a week since my last visit. All day I was looking at the sky as grey clouds scuttled past. I prayed it would stay dry long enough for me to get down there and…

I have just finished dinner and sit at my desk with a glass of red wine. I have spent the morning chub fishing on the river Wye. It was real winters day with a leadened grey sky, falling rain mixed with sleet and hail was punched into my face by the strong upstream wind, which…

Wreck fishing is always associated with the English Channel for pollack, cod, ling and coalfish, or maybe the Northeast off Whitby for big cod and ling. Welsh wrecking has always been the bridesmaid in the wrecking scene. Maybe its because the inshore fishing in Wales is so good that the wrecking takes a back seat,…

I will start by looking at canned meat balls before moving onto special home made flavoured meat balls. The later are an advanced bait that under the right circumstances can produce good results when other baits fail.Possibly the most commonly used meat ball is the canned “Campbell’s meat ball”. They are convenient to use as…