UK Carp & Coarse Fishing

Pink Pepper Squid, Testing Captures

Posted on January 25, 2019 by richardhandel

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We’re starting to get excited about the launch of #PinkPepperSquid on Monday so we thought it was the ideal time to look back at some of the awesome captures during testing!

First up is Anthony Roughley with this absolute peach of a linear from Mill Field Pool fisheries. A 15mm Pink Pepper Squid Pop-Up with a little bag of Catalyst crumb was all that was needed on a cold December day session.

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The #PinkPepperSquid🦑 proved to be a winner onErics Willows Lake, this chunk was one of the first 40’s we heard of on the bait!

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Tim Davis kicked of 2019 in style on the#PinkPepperSquid🦑 – This Ghostie part of a 3 fish catch on a maggot tipped PPS wafter over a bed of Catalyst crumb!

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Terry Brooksbank with an absolute leviathan know as ‘Knobber’ from Erics Willows Lake, another UK 40 on the #PinkPepperSquid🦑
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Another massive #PinkPepperSquid🦑 victim to feast your peepers on!
A long lean 37lb PB for Richard Handel, backed up with two others upto 29lb, safe to say the Squid was the one they wanted.
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Additives in your fishing?

Posted on January 24, 2019 by richardhandel

Do you use oil additives in your fishing? If so which ones? Here are just a selection but you can find a lot more of these and more powders and other additives at spottedfin.com

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Top tips from Richard Chapman…@ SF

Posted on January 23, 2019 by richardhandel

Top tips from Richard Chapman…

For years the River Dove, which luckily is only a few miles from my front door, has been a mecca for barbel anglers across the UK, with known fish to nearly 20lbs. During this time it has become dominated by boilie and pellet approaches and the chub were of course quick to jump onto this abundant food source. Fast forward a few years and you now have a lot of big, wily old chub which often turn their nose up at the more traditional maggot and bread approach.
By still keeping mobile as you traditionally would with a mashed bread approach, but by switching up the baits the bites have definitely increase, as has the average size. The only issue is bread by it’s nature is quite an instant bait, but boilies having a tough outer skin are great for avoiding nuisance fish but not quite so attractive from the off so this is what I’ve been doing to really turbo charge them.

1. Starting off with the 12mm Smokey Jack, a quick waft of the smokey/meaty scent, you know chub will love it!
2. Give it a quick squash to break open the skin, it also flattens the bait to sit better on the river bed. If you are doing large quantities just use a flat board to squash them all in one go.
3. Add a good glug of the matching Particle and Pellet syrup to coat all the baits.
4. Give it a few minutes to soak in, having broken the skin really accelerates this process.
5. Finally give them a dusting of the Active Stick mix, you end up with a bait which gives off a cloud of ground bait the moment it hits the water, then keeps pumping out the liquid which it has soaked up. Although it takes a bit more time to prepare the results will be worth it!

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Trip 5 Perch Fishing – 2019

Posted on January 23, 2019 by richardhandel

After finishing work today, it was only a short journey to the river. So I parked around the corner, grabbed my perch kit and headed off for a walk, my first stop was by an outlet.
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A perfect place for perch I hoped, but not the case today. So, I walked up to the bridge, as they can be pukka spots.

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Which was also looking great, but still no joy! So I carried on up the stream to the far end.

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And then back again. With some very promising spots, it was not to be. I think it’s back to the lake on my next trip. As I have a bit longer, I am going to try two rods and prawns and worms a go.