Specie: Ghost Carp
Weight: 9lb.8oz
Location: Wolverton Mill, Milton Keynes
It was a shock when I caught This 9lb.8oz Ghost. I was floating crust by some flotsome, then just about to reel in when a mouth came out of the water and took the crust.
Primarily, as already stated, they have terrific fighting qualities that in my opinion are not equalled by any coarse fish and secondly, they can be caught on conventional coarse tactics avoiding the cost of spending out on sea tackle.Mullet often come close inshore, particularly in Summer when they often can be seen around piers and…
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,…
In late December 1999, armed with a couple of telescopic rods and various lures, I travelled with a friend from Goa through to Kathmandu then back to Delhi overland for 7 weeks. It was only while I was sitting on the bank of the Babai river in western Nepal, surrounded by rhino dung and young…
First off – wreckfishing. How about loading a big fixed-spool reel (say an Emblem 6000 or similar) with 20lb braid, matching it to a heavy-duty 7 spinning rod (say an UglyStick) and banging your pirks and hopper-rigs far beyond the wreck as you drift down on it, similar to what many Europeans and Yanks do,…
The weather was much milder for my first session of the week. The skies were leaden with no wind and the air felt mild. With the light not going until nearly 5pm I had plenty of time to stroll around the lake, unfortunately with milder weather came rain and the water level had once more…
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