Carp Catchers Blog

I had another good session recently banking 4 fish, 3 of which were 20lb+ including this immaculate 28lb Common. The fish fell to my standard Blowback Rig set up consisting of a Korda Wide Gape Hook, Korda Weed Green Shrink Tube and Atomic Jel-E-Wyre hooklink with an Armaled Locjaw Safety Leadclip, 3oz Korda Pear Swivel Lead and 3 ft of ESP Leadcore. The hookbait was a 20mm snowman presentation topped with a 14mm Solar Fluoro Pineapple pop-up. The fish were all landed with the aid of the new Korda Subline.

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

Customer Dodge Green had a nice result from Gigantica recently. As most of you know Gigantica is quite a hard water and the week that Dodge was there only 4 carp were landed with 5 lost. The nice 39lb 8oz mirror below fell to Dodges rods after only 6 hours fishing, with another lost on the last night. The winning tackle included 12lb Pro Clear  tied to a 4ft 24lb Grand Max leader and a 3oz Atomic Inline Lead. The rig was tied blowback style with Korda Supernatural  in gravel brown tied to size 6 Nash Fang Twister  hook with two Korda Sinkers  on the hooklink. Bait was from Deception Baits. Well done Dodge!!

Best Fishes,

John

Customer Martin Deathridge scored on his first night at his new syndicate. Martins mirror weighed 24lb 4oz and the successfull bait was Sticky Baits Bloodworm Boilies with the same company’s Bloodworm Dumbells as a hookbait. A Combi-Rig tied blowback style with Korda IQ and Korda Supernatural  to a size 8 ESP Curve Shanx Hook helped to trip up the wary mirror.

Best Fishes,

John

Customer David Cunnington has reported a new personal best weighing 15lb 14oz. Davids lovely common carp was caught at Mill Farm on a Nash Scopex Squid Liver  boilie topped with rubber sweetcorn. The rig David used was a blowback rig tied using a Korda Longshank X Hook . David also used a PVA bag filled with chopped boilies to tempt his new PB. Well done!

Best fishes

John

Customer Rob O’Brien used Korda Hybrid Stiff to hoodwink these French beauty’s weighing 32lb and 36lb respectively. Rob was fishing Etang Rendevouz in France and also caught carp of 25lb,22lb,18lb and 15lb in his week long session. Using a snowman blowback rig consisting of size 4 hooks tied to a Korda Hybrid Stiff hooklink Rob cast tight to the margins of an Island. Hookbaits were 3 pieces of maize topped of with a piece of Enterprise Pop-Up Sweetcorn these were put into a pva bag along with 20 freebies. Rob reports that he encountered every weather condition possible on his trip including hail and snow and winds from all directions. This week see’s Rob back at Etang Rendevouz, so hopefully we will have some more photos’ and catch reports from him soon. Good Luck Rob!!

Best fishes,

John

Heres the photo of the first twenty James caught on a recent day session at Headlands Lake. James’ PB carp weighed 23lb 6oz and was caught on a Blowback rig tied with Kryston  Super Mantis , hookbaits were Mainline Activ Maple-8 dumbells .

The photo quality isn’t perfect as it was taken on a camera phone but a cracking fish all the same.

Well done mate

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David ï¿½

The idea behind the Blowback rig is that a fish can’t eject the hook, as the bait will move back down the shank on the ring leaving the hook free to grab hold without the fish being able to use the weight of the bait to blow the hook out.

The components used for this rig are a Korda Longshank X Hook, a Korda Rig Ring, Clear Korda Shrink Tubing and Korda Hybrid Fluorocarbon Coated Braid.

Step 1.

Cut around 12 inches of Hybrid of the spool, strip about 4 inches of the coating off and tie a small loop in the end. (See picture below)

Step 2.

Now thread the rig ring onto the hooklink a tie it below the hair stop loop with an over hand knot so it will sit at the top of the shank with enough room for your choosen hookbait. (See picture below)

Step 3.

Thread the point of the hook through the rig ring, then thread the hooklink through the back of the eye and hold the rig ring in position at the top of the shank. Now tie the hook to the hooklink with a knotless knot. (See picture below)

Step 4.

Cut a small piece of the shrink tubing and thread it up the hooklink so it sits covering the knotless knot and leaves around 6mm below the eye of the hook, then steam it gently with a slight bend to help the hook turn. (See picture below)

Step 5.

Finish the rig with a figure of eight knot and trim the excess off. (See picture below)

Step 6.

Now steam the rig gently or pin it on a rig board to straighten the coated braid out but be careful not to pin it down too tight of it will straighten the shrink tubing.

The finished rig should look like this.

Tight Lines

David