Carp Catchers Blog

Customer Michael Madeley had a weeks session at Lake Molyneux in France recently and caught the 28lb 12oz mirror carp shown below. Mike was having a lot of trouble with aborted takes and tried lots of different tricks to cure the problem. Eventually he lengthend the hair and had the mirror almost immediately. He was fishing Korda Subline to a gravel spot at 80yrds. Mikes’ rig was tied with Kryston Super Mantis to a size 6 Korda Kaptor Hook. Well done Mike.

Best Fishes,

John

The autumn period has to be one of my favourite times of year for fishing. The leaves are falling off the trees, a lot of anglers start to stay at home due to colder conditions and the fish get on the munch before the impending winter, as this recent capture of mine proves during a session on one of my syndicates. Its a fish known as the “Dumpy Mirror” and weighed in at 34lb exactly. The fish fell to a corkball pop up fished on a Chod Rig consisting of an ESP Stiff Rigger Hook, Gardner Tripwire and 9 ft of ESP Original Camo Leadcore. 

Get out there and bag an autumn whacker!

Tight lines

Dave

Customer Ashley went to France recently and had the fish of a lifetime. Below is a photo of a stonking great mirror carp that weighed 56lb 2oz. The huge mirror was caught on a 20mm boilie topped of with a piece of Enterprise Pop Up Sweet Corn. This was fished over a handfull of crushed boilies, pellets and sweecorn soaked in CSL liquid. Ashleys’ successfull rig was variation of a rig I showed him tied with 30lb GLT No Can See to a size 6 Gardner Longshank Incizor Hook tied blowback style with Solar Blowback Beads and Blowback Rings. Well done Ashley a brilliant result.

Best Fishes,

John

A recent trip to one of my syndicates saw me bank another 30lb common known as the ‘Elusive Common’ at 33lb 2oz. The fish fell to a corkball pop up fished on a Chod Rig consisting of an ESP Stiff Rigger Hook, Gardner Tripwire and 9 ft of ESP Original Camo Leadcore.

The fish was backed up with a small stocky and a lovely dark 25lb mirror.

Tight Lines

Dave

Regular Carp Catchers Blog contributer Sean has had a new PB here’s his report. Hi John, just got back from a 24hr session on pit 6 and had my first mirror from there, and new U.K. PB to boot. Fish was 25lbs on the nose and fell to 2 pieces of Enterprise Pop-Up Sweetcorn tied Blow Back style to a size 10 Gardner Longshank Incizor  and 15lb jelly wire. Well done Sean, keep them coming.

Best Fishes,

John

Heres a nice common carp weighing in at 26lb 8oz. The fish fell to a snowman hookbait with a Solar Juicy Pineapple Fluoro pop-up topping the combination. I have had a lot of success this year using snowmans with bright fluoro pop-ups.  The rig was my usual Blowback Rig consisting of  Atomic Jel-E-Wyre  hooklink material and a Korda Wide Gape Hook in conjunction with a 3oz pear lead, ESP Bulk Spool Leadcore  in Original Camo and an Armaled Lead Clip.

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Dave

Here’s a nice common carp that customer Sean had recently. It weighed 22lb 6oz and succombed to  Baitcraft T1 boilies. Seans rig was tied with 15lb Atomic Jel-E-Wyre  to a size 8 Korda Wide Gape Hook.

Best Fishes,

John

Michael Siweki had a fantastic result at Dream Lakes recently. He had 40 carp including the massive 53lb 2oz common carp shown. Michaels rig was tied with Korda Supernatural  in weed green to a size 8 Nash Fang Twister  Hook with three 18mm Mainline Cell  boiles as a hookbait. In his report Michael said ” It was b####y heavy”. Well done fella.

Best Fishes,

John

Here’s a dumpy carp that I caught recently. It weighed 30lb 8oz and fell to my usual old skool D Rig tied with GLT No Can See Fluorocarbon  to a size 6 Gardner Longshank Incizor . I fished a clear spot in weed at about 60yrds and scattered a kilo of Mainline Activ-8 boilies over the spot.

Best Fishes,

John

A recent quick overnighter saw me bank a new PB in the shape of a fish known as the ‘Long Common’ at 34lb 2oz. The fish fell to a corkball pop up fished on a chod rig consisting of an ESP Stiff Rigger Hook, Gardner Tripwire and 6 ft of ESP Original Camo Leadcore.

Tight Lines

Dave