After a year with virtually no carp fishing I had a nice return to my syndicate. The 32lb 2oz mirror carp shown below was my reward. It was caught on 18mm Mainline Activ 8 Boilies. My rig was tied old school D rig style with 30lb GLT No Can See Fluorocarbon to a size 6 Gardner Longshank Incizor hook.
Best Fishes,
John
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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
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
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
Here’s a nice 35lb 2oz mirror carp I had recently. It led me a right dance as it got into a massive weed bed and even though the lead had dropped on the take I had to go out in the boat to free it. It was well hooked though and it was never going to come off. I used half a kilo of scattered 18mm Mainline Activ-8 boilies as bait and the hookbait was a snowman with a 10mm Mainline Hi Visual Milky Toffee pop up. The rig was tied D rig style with a size 6 Gardner Longshank Incizor hook and a 30lb GLT No Can See Fluorocarbon Hooklink .
Best Fishes,
John
Here’s a couple of nice mirror carp I had on a recent session. They weighed 19lb and 23lb 2oz respectively and were tempted from holes in the weed by Mainline Activ-8 boilies. I used a D Rig tied with 30lb GLT No Can See Fluorocarbon and a size 6 Gardner Longshank Incizor hook. I was able to land both fish from the bank in what is an extremely weedy swim by dropping the lead on the take using PVA’d Ace Lead Clips .
Best fishes,
John
James Kirk had a great result recently bagging himself two gorgeous linear mirror carp. They weighed in at 26lb 12oz and 21lb and as you can see from the photos’ below they are absolute stunners. James was fishing to a hole in the weed in 8ft of water at 30yrds range. The successful bait was Dynamite Baits Chocolate Malt & Tiger Nut Freezer Boilies scattered over a wide area and the hookbaits were double 20mm bottom baits straight out of the bag. James end tackle consisted of 3ft of Ace Hard On Camo Leadcore running on a 1oz Guru Square Leads . A size 6 Gardner Longshank Incizor hook featured in James’ rig. The venue was Wellingborough Lakes.
Best Fishes,
John
I went down to Farlows lake recently for a short session. The lake was fairly busy, but there were a few swims available. After a good look round I settled on one of the open water swims on the smelly bank. The conditions were fairly mild and sunny with the wind blowing over my shoulder as I cast my first rod. I felt the rod down onto a clear area and placed the rod on my pod to allow the line to sink. My second rod was cast about 10yrds to the left of my first rod and placed on the pod also to let the line sink. As I set the indicator on my first rod I noticed the line was going to my left “that’s strange” then the penny dropped, fish on!! After a fairly decent fight I slipped the net under a nice gnarly old mirror carp of 18lb 4oz.
Result!! It’s great to get a fish right at the start of your session. A 16lber folowed a couple of hours later and that put up a hell of a fight plodding up and down the margins like the monsters do, I just could not get its head up. Both carp were caught on my new sweetcorn rig and the hookbaits were Enterprise Pop-Up Sweetcorn . The hooklink was 25lb Rigmarole Hydro-Link Silt tied to size 8 Gardner Longshank Incizor Carp Hooks .