UK Carp & Coarse Fishing

Spotted Fin – News – Pink Pepper Squid

Posted on January 17, 2019 by richardhandel

The release date for what you have all been waiting for – PPS

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Available online 21.1.19

This range has been working wonders and has produced some stunning fish for me when I tested it out last year.

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Notably this stunning PB Common

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Winter Fishing?

Posted on January 17, 2019 by richardhandel

As the weather starts to cool, do you like to swap over to smaller boilies or do you prefer to go for the high vis single approach?

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SF Match Update

Posted on January 17, 2019 by richardhandel

Jamie Hughes featuring this week on our new “Bait Hacks” Series. Some very interesting things will be coming on this channel available nowhere else this season so def subscribe …doesnt matter what fishing discipline. Will say no more

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Trip 2 Carp Fishing – 2019

Posted on January 16, 2019 by richardhandel

This could be classed as trip 3 as I was out the other day. Mapping the lake with the Deeper and also in the hope of finding a nice group of fish. With the lake completely void of people and carp, I spend 4 productive hours mapping and discided to come back today in the hope of wetting a line.

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So, after another good look round and still no signs of carp, (my rule for this situation, is if you just can’t quite pinpoint the swim you feel confident with, just go for comfort and move on from there). I’ve picked this spot on the smaller lake as it gives me a great view of this lake and the big lake behind me.

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I did this to spend some time looking out for fish and the potential of moving swim. One rod has been set up with a bag with a small number of pellets and a bucket load of SF Food Dip. My aim is to keep this rod static and cast a single hook bait around on the other one. Fingers crossed I may pick up a carp or if I am lucky see some signs of fish and move on to them or just take note for my next overnighter.

The static stayed static, with not even a bleep and I did my best with the roving rod and recast every 45mins. I saw no signs of carp and the water was pretty still.

Until next time

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Trip 1 Carp Fishing – 2019

Posted on January 12, 2019 by richardhandel

I am out for my first night of 2019. My youngest was have a friend over for the night and my services were surplus to requirement – phew. I did offer to stay at home but was told it was a girl only weekend.

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I arrived just after 9 am and had a chat with another member. He had been on her for a few nights but was still happily blanking. As the Christmas rush was over, the lake was a lot more peaceful and only 3 or 4 of us were on the lake. It took me nearly 2 hours before I settled on this area. I then proceeded to look for some new spots in this area. I hadn’t seen a thing looking around and purely pick this swim due to its location to the back bays and the sanctuary area. Both are holding spots for the carp at this time of the year. It’s been fishing hard for both the day and night anglers over the past month, but from my experience over the last 4 sessions on here and speaking to other old members, this is what generally happens each year and the lake will pick up as we move through January.

Conditions are not too favorable but could be a lot worse, the pressure has started to drop slowly. I find it more about the constant conditions over the winter months.

My right hand was fished on the drop off in a nice area I found with the deeper, this was away from the normal spots in this swim.

And the other was in a very nice weedy area that clearly would hold some warmth and a food source for the carp.

Both areas were baited up with the catalyst active ground bait and micro pellets. They were all soaked in the Catalyst particle syrup. The weedy area rod had a natural 15 mm pop-up and the other rod had a 12 mm Pink Black pepper and Squid wafter on. With this all done, it was time to set camp up and get some food in me.

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As the night started to draw in, the liners started and continued on and off throughout the night. I spent a few hours awake, in anticipation of a run, which never materialized. This was a worry, I started to think the rig may have got tangled. It shouldn’t have done but it does happen once a year (just to get you thinking every so often). There was clearly some fish action over the area, just not interested in picking up my hook bait.

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