UK Carp & Coarse Fishing

Trip 48 Carp Fishing- 2017

Posted on June 12, 2017 by richardhandel

The school holiday’s are over and a fantastic time away camping in Wales had been had. I have got the fishing hat back on again. It’s only about 10 days away from the river’s being open again and a new adventure this year. I am going to be putting a lot of effort into catch some Hampshire Avon carp.

With a good old storm blowing through over the past couple of days (the winds are still gusting up to 30 mph), I felt I just had to be on the windward bank, despite the problem of getting the brolly up, it had to be worth the effort.

With the brolly facing away from the lake, I was set up. I had a nice view up into the New Forest.

The rod were placed on a couple of my new spots – with my normal bag set up and a few baits chucked out in the area, to draw the fish in.

The night was mostly peaceful, other than the wind, I was lying in the my bag watching the sun come up over the forest.

The right-hand rod belted off, as they do in this lake due to the shallowness. I got the fish into the back quite easily and I was thinking it was a very low double. This was until it was under the rod tip and burst in to life and proceeded to give me a good run around until it was finally in the net.

It was a bit fresh out this morning.

Until next time

Richard

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Trip 47 Carp Fishing 2017

Posted on June 2, 2017 by richardhandel

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.

Until next time

Richard

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Trip 46 Carp Fishing 2017

Posted on May 30, 2017 by richardhandel

I am out for my normal Tuesday night session but I didn’t do a day session as I needed to get some work done. It’s the school holiday’s next week and I am taking the kids camping in Wales for a few day – so no fishing for me. It’s always good to have a break and have family time.

After a bit of a look around and not really fancying the area I was in the last few time, mainly because the fish were coming in day light hour’s for me and this wouldn’t help tonight. So I headed off to have a look at the other lakes and sure enough, I found a likely area which took my fancy. It had also been a long time since I had fished this swim, which was well overdue a cast about. After I found a couple of spots, I put a bag in one with a few boilies in the area and the other rod was going to be fished as a single, a bit further out beyond the the spot.

I like to fill my bags with a mix of Pellet, a few boilies and a good load of liquid – for added attraction especially when fishing silt.

As darkness fell, I was starting to get liners and my hopes where building, this carried on through most of the night. This became very frustrating as I could also hear the fish crashing out, I was in in the wrong spot or could the fish just be preoccupied with naturals? Well, finally at around 4 am, one of my rods was away and into another hard fighting airfield lake common – yes there are mirrors in here. They are extraordinary hard to catch, the fight you get from these fish is truly amazing and just give you that fishing buzz.

19lb 4oz

I was very happy after all the activity, with no action for so long.

Until next time

Richard

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Trip 45 Carp Fishing – 2017

Posted on May 28, 2017 by richardhandel

With a couple of family things going on this week & weekend, I am limited to Saturday night only. This is not a bad thing and always nice to get an extra couple of hour’s fishing in the morning.

There where still a few people about when I arrived – some were doing the whole weekend, others were just starting to pack away. As luck would have it, no one had fished the swim that I fished the other night and with a very strong wind pushing on to the bank, I felt that it had to be my best option. There was on angler on the island which meant I was unable to put my right hand rod on my normal spot, so I took the opportunity to fish to my left and find two new spots. This swim covers an amazing amount of water and a high percentage is over looked by anglers, especially the clearer on area’s.

I found a couple of very nice spots and put a few pouches filled with Catalyst boilies around the marker float. I tied up some new Ronnie Rig‘s and put on Natural Pop Ups and flicked them both out.

With the rain finally passing and the sun came out, it was quite pleasant. The wind was still pushing very hard on to this bank, it was not long before I had my first take which unfortunately found one of the many under water obstacles. Oh well, out with another bag and cold pizza for lunch.

2 of the 3 fish that I have had this afternoon – not the biggest I have ever had but in shallow water, these things but up an amazing fight.

As the evening progressed the sun was setting, the rods where off again and oh this one feels better. You can never tell but once in the margins, I could tell by the way it was holding the bottom, after another hard fight, it rolled over the cord.

A nice golden 22lb 1oz common and a sunset to match.

What a pleasure to be outside. Oddly and handy the night was fish free, until this colourful surprise at 6 am.

I didn’t weight it but it probably was around 14 lb, very short and chunky fish, did not know that was in here!

With the sun coming up over the forest, it would soon be time to head home for a family day of fun.

Now that was an action filled 12 hours, can’t wait for my next trip out.

Until next time

Richard

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Trip 44 Carp Fishing 2017

Posted on May 25, 2017 by richardhandel

After looking after my poorly daughter for the past two days, it was nice to be out in the fresh air. It did turn into a very rainy evening, not quite what I was expecting.

I had found a lot of fish in this part of the lake and felt this had to be my best option. I set about finding a couple of areas in the silt and about 4 ft deep, just what I was looking for. After pluming around for a bit, the job was done. A few pouch fulls of catalyst boilies over the top and a natural pop up and with a bag filled with pallets, I was all set.

I had a interesting night in between heavy rain showers, I managed to land one fish and lost another. The main issue, being a snag in between myself and the area I was fishing. This is one of the features of this lake, it was originally filled in with bits of rubble after the airfield was dug up and then re-dug into lakes.