David and James Kirk are off to the British Carp Angling Championsip Qualifier at Kingsbury Swan Pool this weekend. They are representing themselves as well as Team Carp Catchers. I’m sure we all wish them the best of luck on what looks to be a tough venue. Good luck guys.
John
Carp Catchers Ltd
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Gary Westcott and myself fished in the British Carp Angling Championship qualifier at Farlows Lake recently. Unfortunately we didn’t qualify but we did score five points for the Carp Catchers Team. Gary and I had two carp for 45lb 2oz and also lost one. Garys fish came on his own Innovate Baits boilies, mine came on Mainline Baits Activ-8. We had a great weekend and really enjoyed the experience.
20lb 4oz
24lb 14oz
Best Fishes,
John
The show is repeated on Tuesday 26th at 12am on Sky Sports 2 and HD2.
The final of the British Carp Angling Championships is being held at Broadlands Lake this weekend. You can keep up with what’s happening by visiting the BCAC website. Good luck to all those taking part.
Best Fishes,
John
Here’s a pretty linear mirror that my mate Gary and I had at the BCAC qualifier at Farlows Lake. The pretty one weighed 18lb and ounces.
Best Fishes,
John
This is the beautiful dawn that greeted us on the final morning. We were however still fishless but we rebaited all the rods and banged them out to the horizon. Just after 9.00 we had a take but unfortunately the hook pulled, we also had an aborted pickup at about 9.30. When the hooter sounded to end the match Gary and I were still fishless, we had learned a lot though and hopefully next year I will not hesitate too long before I put our hard gained knowledge into practice.
Best fishes,
John
Friday night was extremely cold with temperatures below freezing and saturday morning dawned with a widespread frost. Gary and I were fishless, on reflection I had made some poor descisions on the friday not being willing to change tactics quickly enough. Match Carp Fishing is far removed from my normal Carp Fishing, I normally locate the Carp and their feeding spots and am prepared to wait it out to a certain extent till they make a mistake. In a match you have to make it happen and be prepared to change tactics frequently. We now decided to change tactics, however the fish had moved out of open water into the bays, so our change of tack may have been a bit late. Time would tell
Best fishes,
John
As evening drew near on the saturday my team mate Gary and I hatched a fiendish plan. We found a gravel bar close in and figured that most day ticket anglers would have also found it and would probably spod particles and pellets etc. on it. Gary and I’s cunning plan was to put 5 Kilos of big boilies on top of the bar in an attempt to tempt some of the bigger Carp. We reasoned that the average day ticket angler as I said earlier would be unlikely to do this. I am afraid our plan, though fiendish in the extreme, did not work!! Had we put it in to operation on the friday things may have been different, but that’s Carp Fishing for you.
Best fishes,
John
Even though the Carp Catchers team didn’t qualify I thought I’d share some of the photo’s we took. This first one shows the conditions just after the hooter went for the start of the match. As you can see it absolutely chucked it down (hailstones) there was thunder and lightning directly overhead so the rods were put down sharpish I can tell you, as waving 13ft carp rods around in a thunder storm is a definite no no. The storm lasted about 45 mins which I suppose was not too bad as the conditions were the same for everyone.
Best fishes,
John