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
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Lots of catch reports lately, we’ll get back to rigs and such as soon as I catch up. Still catch reports are good as they show that carp can be caught and gives you the methods they’re caught on. Below is my nephew Julius with a 14lb common carp caught on his first cast on his first carp fishing trip. How happy does he look ? Julius used Dynamite Baits Red Fish Shelf Life Boilies and a PVA bag of pellets on the hook to bag his first carp. The winning rig was a Rigmarole CamH2O Fluorocarbon Readymade Rigs . Julius used the new Nash rod and Shimano Baitrunner ST 6000 RA that he got from Carp Catchers.Well done Jules!!
Best Fishes,
John
After struggling to catch from his new syndicate customer Rob O’Brien is now on fire!! He caught his first UK 30 and a common at that. This stunning common carp weighed 30lb 2oz and was caught from a pre-baited hole in the weed at 80yrds range. The winning rig was tied KD style with 25lb Atomic Jel-E-Wyre tied to a size 8 Korda Kurv Shank Hooks . Rob also used the new Korda Safe Zone Kamo Leader Hybrid Lead Clip to drop the lead on the take. Well done Rob stunning fish!!
Best Fishes,
John
After a very long lean spell customer Sean Bowen has landed a nice common from the difficult Pit 6. It’s not the biggest carp in the world, but they all count and when your struggling size doesn’t matter. Sean broke his blank spell using Baitcraft T1 Freezer Boilies his rig featured a Korda Soft Coated Braid hooklink tied to a size 8 Korda Kurv Shank Hooks . Well done Sean on, keeping on.
Best Fishes,
John
After ten months on his new syndicate customer Rob O’Brien finally caught a carp and what a carp a new personal best!! Rob’s common was caught at first light and weighed 27lb 4oz. The successful rig was tied KD style with Atomic Jel-E-Wyre to a size 8 Korda Kurv Shank hook with 2.5oz square lead on a Korda Safe Zone Safety Lead Clip. It was cast to a clear spot in sunken dead weed at 80 yards range with a scattering of 30 boilies around it. Rob is family man with very little fishing time, so well done Rob on your new PB.
Best Fishes,
John
After deciding to change waters for the coming winter and due to busy banks I’ve had a little bit of a confidence boost. On my first weekend session from late friday evening to early monday morning I had a bit of a result in the shape of 6 mirror and common carp to 21lb15oz. After turning up in the dark at 8.30 friday evening I opted for the north bank as I had been told it was free of any other anglers. After watching the water for nearly 2 hours I decided to fish up the dam end in the the deeper water or what was left of it anyway as this is where I’d seen the carp showing the most . The reservoir serves the purpose of topping up the Grand Union canal so the water levels can get quite low at times.
During my session I banked 6 carp to 21lb 15oz from 3 different spots using Baitcraft T1 boilies over a spread of bait which included a spod mix of hemp, Solar Pure Bait BYT and crushed T1s over one of my rods. Most of the bites came during the hours of darkness which meant I had to have all my spots marked up to get them back on the spots in the darkness.
The rigs I used consisted of 15lb Korda IQ2 tied to 2 inches of stripped Sufix Stiff Silt with a size 6 Korda Wide Gape Hook, a small piece of shrink tubing over the eye and tied blowback style.
Tight Lines
Dave
(I should have turned my head torch off for the night time shots, but had forgotten while sorting the self takes. Luckily they didn’t turn out too bad.)
Martin Deathridge has been at it again catching this nice 34lb 5oz common carp from the Bluebell lakes complex. Martin used 18mm Mainline Cell Freezer Boilies at 120yrds range to tempt his fine catch. The rig Martin used was tied KD style with Korda Hybrid Soft to a size 6 ESP Curve Shanx . The hookbait was a snowman with a Mainline Cell bottom bait and a 10mm pineapple Mainline Hi Visual pop up. Well done, keep them coming. If you want to know how to tie the KD Rig see previous blog.
Best fishes,
John
Customer Sean Bown and his friends had a fantastic haul of French carp recently from The Sanctuary. Sean reports
“Hi John,
A top time was had by all at the Sanctuary in France with 54 fish being banked between the four of us, with 5 40′s and some 20+ 30′s, awesome!!!!
I accounted for 14 of the haul with one 40 and nine 30′s three mid 20′s and one at 12.”
Baitcrafts T1 Freezer Boilies purchased from us in both 16 and 20mm accounted for all of Sean’s fish. His rigs were constructed wth size 5 ESP Big T hooks tied to either Korda Hybrid Soft Coated Braid or Korda Supernatural hooklinks. Nice one Sean, really good looking fish. Photos’ are pukka too.
38lb 8oz Common Carp
41lb 8oz Mirror Carp
Best Fishes,
John
James Kirk really had the common touch recently with this stunning 34lb common carp, just look at the tail on it. Fishing to the back of a weed bed at 35yrds range James used a critically balanced tiger nut hookbait with a mesh bag of TFG PVA Friendly Tiger Nuts . James’ rig was tied with a size 4 Atomic Claw Hooks to an ESP Striptease Hooklink . Well Done James, a real stunner!!
Best Fishes,
John