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Specie: carp Weight: 48lb Location: Lac Du Der, This is my personal best Leather carp and weighed in at 48.00 lb, it was one of several large carp caught on a trip to the largest man made reservoir in Europe, Lac Du Der, it was caught in September when the fishing conditions are hard, because…

Now, for most of us, this is only a couple of hours before work, but often this can be the best time of the day for piking on many waters. So, with a little bit of effort, short morning sessions of little more than a couple of hours, can be well worth all the effort….

It could be said that these wonderful little fish migrate north from the Bay of Biscay and the temperate coastal waters of Spain and Portugal for something of a summer holiday – lasting from April through to the back end of October, sometimes even later if the Autumn weather remains warm.First indications that the bream…

Nothing beatsseeing a fish chase a muddler as you strip it across the surface. Oftenthe fish will be half out the water and it will still want to eat your muddler. I anchored the boat some twenty five to thirty yards from the foamswept shore line. Having cast the muddler some seventy feet I started…

I had decided before I went to have an all out assault with chopped worm and caster. At the start of the session I fed around a pint of chopped worm and caster into the swim (which was about nine feet deep) thirteen metres out. I then loosefed casters with a catapult to the same…

POINTED HEADS These lures come in a variety of shapes ranging from the original Green Machine to some of the more modern jet-heads from Melton. As a rule of thumb, for blue marlin there are very few lures in this category which are part of a traditional lure-fishermanís arsenal. Exceptions to this rule include some…