Beautiful golden grains of Classic Corn, with their unmistakeable corn aroma from the boilie range, now becoming so popular on the banks. Shown here in natural light in 4mm. and they stay that strong yellow colour when immersed in water until they eventually break down.. and all done with natural UK/EU feed approved ingredients as well as some carefully chosen attractors. Available in 900g and 3kg sizes. If your off to France, baiting up new spots or just love a PVA Bag, these hard pellets in a 3kg pouch is a great way to get going. With sizes from 2mm – 8mm, you’ll keep the carp grubbing around for ages, hoovering up every last morsel and we know how much they love corn!
The GO2 Sweet Meat Bait Sauce has arrived and perfect for specimen carp where its on pellets or in a mix as it is winkling out Barbel from the river. A rich liquid with a little heat to it gives you another option in the armoury to target your chosen species and of course it wouldn’t be Spotted Fin if we didn’t add a touch of Class to the recipe.. but for that you will just have to try it!
The Sweet Meat bait sauce new for 2022. Its the perfect partner for our Sweet Meat range of method pellets and groundbait and has been used to great effect for Carp and Barbel. Now in its GO2 form the Sweet meat sauce will be an added advantage for commercial carp anglers.
Instructions: Pour liberally over anything and everything and watch the results.
What an earth is going on with fishing etiquette these days? Even on one of my sydicate water’s, things are starting to go in the wrong direction and some people are starting to behave like they would do on club waters. They seem to have no regard to others, a simple 1 minute conversation could/would eradicate any issues and with a modicum of commonsense would really help to stop any issues before they occur.
We need to start to respect each others space a lot more. You just don’t need the extra stress of dealing with these issues. If you are greeted with an aggressive welcome, it puts you into the same mode and off you both go. You gain nothing but pain.
Over the years I’ve been carp fishing, I’ve seen some funny phases. When I first started, it was very secretive, but other angers would have the decency to talk to you, be very polite and ask you to leave the swim before they baited up or cast out again. Even to the point of casting in the wrong area until you had gone. Back in those days (what a line!), no one would set up anywhere near you and if they wanted to, they would have the decency to ask if they could do this.
Then came the stage, where anglers wouldn’t talk to each other. They would just hide in their bivvies’ or just point blank ignore you. This then moved on to the set up anywhere and cast anywhere brigade.
Anglers have started to reserve swims, which I can see the point of this. As 30 years ago, there were very few anglers and you could spend all day looking around with not even the hint of another angler.
Nowadays, you pull into most lake car parks and you can be followed in by 2 more cars. Getting back to the point. I’ve seen buckets put in swims for 2-3 hours, which in my eyes is NOT acceptable in this day and age. Having found the person who owned the bucket and made inquires re the bucket, I was told his mate was down later and wanted to fish near him (was he scared of the dark!?). He arrived 4 hours later. I have even seen a row of buckets & a chair once (is it beating the Germans to the sunloungers syndrome?). I have also been told by a person who set up next to me on a empty lake that he fished this swim every Thursday night (even if the fish are topping round the corner?). After a bit of a heated chat, he thought that it was a good idea to move swim and even up the odds a bit.
I’ve also found that it’s very hard to even get a swim on some of the circuit waters, nowadays due to the volume of anglers. This is why I’ve stuck with small syndicates & club waters for the Winter, when most stay at home and only coming out on sunny days.
What I do on lakes that have secure parking, is to have a walk around with my bucket and place in the most likely swim, based on past trips in the weeks before. I then carry on with my wheelbarrow until I find a better one then go back and collect the bucket. This process only takes about an hour or less. Now, if you have the luxury that you have the place to yourself the ‘world’s your oyster’.
I know I’ve got a bit demoralised with carp anglers due to the above and moved back onto the rivers where it’s a pleasure to fish and other anglers are very courtious to each other (and helpfull).
This page is all about thinking of other anglers before you set up. Most lakes I fish, anglers leave one swim apart and do not fish opposite to each other. This is just an unwritten rule and it works well. On the syndicate that I am a member of on the River Avon, people will not fish within a 3/4 of a mile.
It’s so peaceful.
My point in this page is to think of other anglers and also yourself. Enjoy the peace and tranquillity of fishing. Walk a mile in the other person’s shoes – how would you feel if you were spoken to like that or someone set up right next to you?
That’s all for now
Richard
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I managed to get back over to the lake on the 11th July to find an empty lake, partly because England were in the finals of the Euros. Sorry folks, not a football fan. However, I did keep an eye on the score as it would’ve been nice to win. I found a perfect corner, lake full of fish and weed, but with the help of my Deeper Chirp I found a few clear spots.
However the carp didn’t agree with my choice and over the next 48 hours never got a bleep, despite their presence the whole time.
My next trip was the following weekend, just has July’s heatwave started, I only managed 2 nights as it was ridiculously hot. The carp were on the top and clearly not interested in feeding. I wouldn’t be back until early September as I had decided to not fish in August. Instead I took the kid’s away for a long weekend camping and then we were away for a couple of weeks in a boathouse in Norfolk. The previous year we didn’t feel the love to go away that much.
September arrived, with my family holiday fun over for this year. We managed a fabulous time camping in Wales for 10 days and then spent 2 weeks on the Norfolk Broads as you will have read in my last blog. I’m back out after the carp again, Autumn is fast approaching and I’m looking forward to the coming months. I have a big dilemma. A couple of 40s have past away on my new syndicate, these things happen unfortunately and only 2 others remain. One now tipping the scales at over 47lb, which in all honesty is the one I’m after. It was only caught this morning, it’s not worth the effort this time around. We are very lucky that every carp’s capture is posted on the FB page a few hours later, so you can adjust your plans accordingly. I’m not sure what effect the past few weeks will have on the other members, whether the number of anglers on the bank will reduce or the fact the big one has been out twice in 3 weeks (ish), this could easily make them a lot more keener than the past few months.
After coming back from my Summer holidays, it was clear that I wasn’t in the right frame of mind to go back onto this new water just yet and I needed a few weeks on the Airfield Lake to get some sort of plan on where/what I needed to be focusing on.
I ended up fishing on the Airfield Lake until the end of the season – putting it simply, it’s 64 acres and only 8 angler’s most weekends and even fewer in the week day. I was able to set up on an island completely undisturbed for 2 or 3 night’s. This is just my type of fishing – all alone with Mother Nature at her best.
I pulled off there at the end of October and I had spent a great deal of time thinking over my future plans. After much thought, I’d taken the hard choice of not to join this lake again, for a bunch of personal reason and no reflection on the fishery. It’s a shame but I don’t fit into the soundings of the water. I love wild water and fishing for the unknown, which is more like how I started out in the 1981. I’ve just got older prefer my own space and tucked away in the middle of nowhere. I blame the Airfield Lake, there is still so much to offer and not much time, this is something you start thinking about when you get ever closer to 60. If I was younger, this story would have gone in a completely different direction, but tines change and your perspective/focus on things changes.
We shall see where and how next year unfolds.
Until next time
Richard
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