UK Carp & Coarse Fishing

Trip 4 Carp Fishing – 2017

Posted on February 1, 2018 by richardhandel

It’s been a week since my last trip (sounds like a confessional!), my dad has been down looking at options on where to live or if he fancies staying in Wales. It has been a fruitful week in this respect and it has done him a world of good. This is great news and has helped me lots as well. But I now need to go and fish!

I’ve decided that Sunday nights are back in order. After a nice big 40+ came out the other week, the weekends have gone a bit crazy. I’ve found Sunday & Monday night to be very productive in the past, as the pressure from the weekend is released.

In all honestly, I didn’t really have a clue where to fish, as most swims had been fished over the weekend. Also the lake was not looking particular fishy – probably as there were still a few anglers about. We shall see if anything shows as night falls.

I opted for a swim which had some deep water and a good view of the lake. I needed to get back in tune with it.

I was using 12mm Catalyst pop ups on both rods.

One had a double hook bait and the other with an Evolution Carp Tackle maggot cluster.

Perfect combination of products. I then Spombed out a small amount of Spotted Fin new Pva friendly particles, with some 10mm catalyst boilies. These had been soaked on the food dip, for a bit of added attraction. This was all just in time before the rain arrived, which I was unaware that it was forecast, I was hoping for a bit of sunshine for once.

With no a sign of a carp, the night was very blowy night and it was also very warm , I was very hopeful. It was not to be.

Until next time

Richard

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Few Hours On The Lake

Posted on January 31, 2018 by richardhandel

Not my normal lake, this one is just down the road.

Richard

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Out After The Carp

Posted on January 28, 2018 by richardhandel

Let’s see what tonight brings.

Richard

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Spotted Fin – Match Range

Posted on January 26, 2018 by richardhandel

Spotted Fin are not all about Carp, they have a fantastic Match Range.

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Trip 3 Carp Fishing- 2017

Posted on January 23, 2018 by richardhandel

It has been a bit too long between trips, I had a very ill daughter for a week and I then managed to pick up the flu again, which finished me off for another week. Last week, I had family stuff to do. I was going regardless of the weather, the god of fishing was not listening to this and the weather took a noise dive!

Effort = reward as they say. Luckily I had the chance to drive around mid morning today, so I had a good look and a chat if anyone was about. There was not a soul who was crazy enough. I had decided on the bank I needed to fish based on the wind direction. This gave me plenty of swims to choose from when I got back around 7 pm.

Morning arrived, with no action in the night. I set about positioning the rods for the next 24 hours. After markering around for just under an hour, I was happy with two spots, they were quite close to each other but at varying depths.

This will hopefully attracted a carp into picking up my hook bait – a FW medical berry wafter with a washed out maggot cluster. The other rod has a Masala Pops ups pop up on, I am going for a bit of colour this weekend and I have also Spombed out a small amount of Spotted Fin new particle range.