UK Carp & Coarse Fishing

Bigger Hookbait

Posted on April 27, 2020 by richardhandel

For those who love a bigger hookbait and especially those fishing around Europe, we’ve added a 20mm corkdust wafter to the range!

Catalyst

Classic Corn

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New Deeper Chirp+ Bundle

Posted on April 25, 2020 by richardhandel

New Deeper Chirp+ Bundle will be in stores very soon with a new RRP of £229.99 in the UK!

Deeper CHIRP+ is the world’s first castable, GPS enabled, Wi-Fi fish finder that utilizes CHIRP technology. The three beam frequencies, crisp clarity and extreme accuracy makes it ideal for quickly locating target species holding spots, pinpointing predator fish and fishing in extreme depths. CHIRP+ gives you the strategic edge to catch more, catch faster and catch better.

https://deepersonar.com/…/e…/products/smart-sonar-chirp-plus

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It all started here – Part 4 – Old Times

Posted on April 24, 2020 by richardhandel

This was my very first landed carp. I had hooked a few before but was ill-equipped to land them; between myself and the tackle! Back then, I was happy to catch anything that came along, if memory serves me correctly I had had a nice pike on that day as well. I had been fishing the river which was close by and riding there on my pushbike, I then progressed to doing nights on the lakes and have never stopped since 1981.

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Then I moved on to Weybread Middle Pit for a year or two.

Then back to Barham Pits for a year, until they, unfortunately, had a fish kill over the closed season and that was it.

It was then I ended up on Weybread again and stuck there until I moved down south in 1996.

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I did fish the odd place in between for a short period of time but it never gave me the searching for the ‘unknown’ feeling, I’d become accustomed to.

Bexford Lake

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Thorpeness Mere

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Brightlingsea

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Until next time

Richard

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Cracking Session Back in 2017

Posted on April 23, 2020 by richardhandel

Cracking session from a few years back, in the days we could go fishing.

Below is the full blog from 2017 it was an amazing night and an incredible thunderstorm.

Trip 47 Carp Fishing 2017

After getting a text from a friend saying do you fancy doing a social at the weekend and the wife say yep it’s OK for Friday night – we have a 50th birthday party to go to on Saturday night.

I let my friend pick the favourable area of the lake as he arrived way before me and it was just perfect. The wind was blowing nicely on to this bank. It was the perfect area and after a good lead around, I soon found a couple of perfect spots and flicked a bag on them both, with a few catalyst boilies over the top. Within the hour I was off and into a nice common.

That will do me as a starter. I re-baited that rod and settled down to a few glasses of wine and a natter, before I knew it, it was time to get in the bag. Even before I had put a foot in the bag, I was in to another fish. This tipped the scales at just over 17 lb. As the night progressed a very large thunderstorm went around the lake but luckily not really over it, as I continued to catch through the night.

Through the night I had 5 fish

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What an amazing light show!

Resulting in this lovely 27 lb+ Common and not long after that another Common showing 19 lb 14 oz on the scales.

Now, that was a stonking nights fishing and not long after that, I was away again with my 8th fish of the trip and all in less than 12 hrs. This was another common at 19 lb 6 oz and as the morning progressed I banked another one at 20 lbs!

I ended up banking a total of 10 fish and losing 2, what a perfect way to start my week’s break away camping with the kids.

All these fish were taken over a small baited area, using catalyst boilies. Fishing bags filled with Pellet over the top, in conjunction with a Natural or a FW Pops ups Masla pop up.