Carp Catchers Blog

Customer Merv Pennel fished a weeks session on a lake in Northern France and had a fantastic 23 fish catch. Included in Mervs haul was the gorgeus brace of 50lb mirrors shown below. Merv tempted his haul over a big bed of particles, Mainline Baits Response Pellets  and boilies from the Essential Baits stable. Strangely Merv had no commons until the final 12 hours when he had 6 on the trot. The rigs Merv used consisted of Korda square inline leads, a Kryston Super Mantis Dark   hooklink tied to either a size 8 Korda Wide Gape or a size 6 Korda Longshank X Hook. Well done Merv good angling.

51lb Mirror Carp

52lb 2oz Mirror Carp

Best fishes,

John

That carp catcher Ian has had hinself another 20 from Bluebell lakes. The 24lb 12oz mirror carp was caught over Ian’s usual bed of Mainline Activ-8  Response Pellets and  Nash Scopex Squid Liver Plus Robin Red  boilies. Ian’s rig included a 3oz Atomic lead and a size 8 Nash Fang Twister  hook. Nice fish, keep catching ‘em fella .

Best fishes,

John

Our customers have been catching so regularly, that I haven’t had time to do any blogs on my own fishing. I’ve still got plenty of customer catches to post, but I’ll do a quick blog about a recent session or I’ll fall too far behind. I fished hard right through the winter on my syndicate water with no success, but in fairness everybody struggled. I just had to be there to keep in touch with the water and in mid March persistence paid off. I had two mirror carp from a silty patch at 70yrds which weighed 26lb 8oz(photo-1) and 20lb 4oz (photo-2). They were both absolutely nailed(photo 3) on a new, really simple maggot rig I’ve developed. The hookholds were so good that I had to use long nosed pliers right up to the hilt to unhook the fish.  The mechanics of the rig I used over the winter were good, but it just looked too clumsy, so I rejigged it and at the first time of asking two fish, magic!! The components used to tie the rig are Rig Marole Hydro-Link Silt and size 10 Solar Stronghold Longshank Hooks . I’ll show you how to tie it soonish. Photo 3 shows that the fish were hooked with the bait going in, not on the way out, so I’ll probably do a blog about my thoughts on rig mechanics in the near future.

Photo 1

Photo 2

Photo 3

 Notice no mouth damage.

Best fishes,

John

Ian Smith has been amongst them again with this nice mirror carp of 27lb 8oz. Fishing on the Bluebell Lakes complex Ian used a nice bed of  Mainline Baits Response Pellets in the Activ-8 flavour and  Nash Scopex Squid Liver Plus Robin Red  boilies to catch his broken linear mirror. Ian’s rig consisted of a 4oz Korda lead fished drop off style and a Korda Hybrid Stiff hooklink  tied to a Atomic Longshank Haula hook. Nice fish Ian well done.

Best fishes,

John

This Blog shows that the girls can catch them too. Customer Chris’s better half Laura got in on the act at Linear Fisheries, Manor Farm Lake recently. Fishing to a gravel patch just off the no fishing bank Laura tempted the monster 32lb 4oz mirror shown using Mainline Fusion boilies. Laura was using a 2.5 oz lead tied shocka rig style using a gravel Korda Safe Zone Kamo Leader . The rig Laura used was tied with Korda Supernatural Sinking Braid  to a size Kurv Shank hook. Well done Laura there’s plenty of guy’s out there who would love to catch a fish like that.

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John

After Korda released their new DVD I was innundated with requests for the Korda Krusha Boilie Chopper  . Well guys’ we now have them in stock and they look pretty impressive. The Korda Krusha is designed to crush boilies, nuts and particles into either coarse chops or fine crumb, so they are ideal for making stick mixes, boilie chops and spod mixes. For coarse chops you just give the Krusha a couple of turns, for a finer crumb you just keep turning till the crumb is the required consistency. The Korda Krusha comes in two sizes, large and small. The small Krusha is suited to smaller particles such as hemp. For more details or to purchase visit the main site via the above link.

Best fishes,

John

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

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

Little David equaled his personal best recently with this nice 15lb common carp. David used a Korda Longshank X Hook  and Nash Amber Attract Strawberry  Boilies to catch his fish. Well done David keep them coming !

Best fishes,

John

Customer Eamonn caught this nice scaly 25lb 9oz  mirror carp recently still in it’s winter colours. Eamonn used his favourite Mainline Cell Freezer Boilies  to tempt his lovely mirror. His rig was tied with 24lb Drennan Carp Silk to a size 4 Korda Wide Gape Hook  and cast to a silty area.

Best fishes,

John