Carp Catchers Blog

Regular customer Martin has had a bit of a lean spell recently, but his persistence paid off and it all came good at the weekend. Fishing Swan lake on the Bluebell complex Martin used inline running rigs and a new bait on test to tempt the nice brace of mirror carp shown below. The brace weighed 31lb 8oz and 18lb respectively. Martins snowman rigs were constructed from the new Korda Hybrid Soft  and size 6 ESP Curve Shanx  hooks.

Well done Martin, lets hope they keep coming.

Best fishes,

John

This blog illustrates another reason we go carp fishing. With a cup of tea in hand this lovely dawn shot shows what is probably most carp anglers favourite time of day.

Photo courtesy of customer Martin.

Best fishes,

John

Regular customer Sean upped his personal best recently with this 24lb 8oz beauty of a common carp. To make his catch even more meritable Seans’ common was caught from a fairly tough water, Pit 6 on the A1 Pits complex. Sean fish was caught on a single Carp Company Pukka Pop Up  Hi Viz Squid flavour fished on its’ own at a 110yrds. The rig used was tied with ESP Striptease   knotless knotted to a size 8 Korda Kurv Shank Hook . A well deserved capture, nice one Sean.

Best fishes,

John

A lot of anglers prefer to use inline leads for most of their fishing but certain fishing situations dictate that it isn’t possible to use them due to excess weed growth which means a setup which releases the lead on the take is needed, well here’s how to set up an inline lead that will drop off on the take. The rig components used in this demonstration were a Korda flat pear inline lead, a  Korda Safe Zone Kamo Leader  and  Korda Safe Zone Tail Rubbers .

Step 1.

Using a good set of pliers remove the eye of the swivel furthest from the leader.

Leaving just the swivel barrel and the eye attached to the Korda Safe Zone leader loop, I know in past demonstrations of this setup by others the whole swivel have been left but Ive found it takes a lot less to discharge the lead this way especially with slower takes.

Step 2.

Now slide a tail rubber up the leader.

Step 3.

Using the pliers again trim a small length of the plastic insert from the inline lead, making it even easier to drop the lead.

Step 3.

Now attach a  Korda Stick Clip  to the eye of the swivel.

Step 4.

Then push the swivel into the bottom of the lead, making sure it goes in barrel first. It will just about sit comfortably in the insert.

Step 5.

Now slide the tail rubber onto the trimmed down plastic insert and pull it tight making sure it holds the swivel in place.

The finished setup should look like this and should discharge the lead on the take making it easier and safer when fishing for big carp in weedy waters.

Tight Lines

Dave