UK Carp & Coarse Fishing

Trip 21 Carp Fishing (2013)

Posted on July 7, 2013 by richardhandel

Here we are again after Mr Carp, we hope

I have settled for a swim down the deeper end of the lake. As on the way up the track, I spoke to another member on his way home from a two night blank. However, he did hear fish in the night crashing down this end.

Rod 1

I have put the bait under an overhanging tree branch in 3ft of water, along the margin with some Gulp Baits Tiger Nuts.

Rod-2

I am a bit spoilt for choice here, with pads down the margin and across the other side or even open water. I decided to put it over the far side and if I saw any signs of Mr Carp before night fall I could move it.

Lets see what happens!

At around 9pm, a nice fish rolled by a large set of pads on the far bank. My best bet was to reel in the margin and cast it over there.

I had put some Gulp Baits Red Crustacean boilies in a bottle of dip last year to harden them up and to soak. I thought I would give one a go, I also made up a small pva bag, as I was not going to put any freebies out.

At 6am, I had a couple of beeps and opened my eyes to see the tip bending round. I pulled into a nice fish, who at the time it was heading for the pads. So I had no other option, but to hold on until it turned, after 10 minutes or so it was safely in the net and I breathed a sigh of re-leaf. I knew it was going to be a good fish, as it was a plodder and when it rolled into the net I knew I had a nice big common and a new PB. It was not quite the 30+ , but I was still over the moon with a 28lb 12oz fish .

until next time

Richard

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River Trip No5 (2013)

Posted on July 2, 2013 by richardhandel

I am out for an evening session on the river, well about 4 hours.

There is a nice slow running area with a back eddy, which has a nice area of gravel. I have dropped a couple of hand fulls of Gulp Baits Red Crustacean boilies 12&16mm over one rod.

And the other rod with a large 2oz swim feeder, filled with ground bait and Bait Tec Hemp, which hopefully will do the trick.

My first bite was a nice 5lb 6oz Chub

Shame the G6 & remote are at home, so no self takes. I had to use the phone, which all the other photos are done on anyway.

Other then a few knocks from smaller fish, that was the only fish I had

Richard

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Trip 20 Carp Fishing (2013)

Posted on June 27, 2013 by richardhandel

This time I am out for a nice big common. The weather is not great, but it will have to do, there is a breeze nicely blowing down the lake.

I am fishing one of my favorite swims there, lillies on both sides and a nice gap giving you choice to fish across to more pads that can’t be fished from anywhere else.

I had no joy in the night, however frustrating, I had a couple of rod knocks when I was packing up. I gave it an extra 15min’s as i need to get to work unfortunately it was time to reel in.

Until my next trip

Richard

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Traps Set

Posted on June 26, 2013 by richardhandel

I Absolutely love this swim and over the years I have had a few good fish from it.

Richard

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River Trip No4 (2013)

Posted on June 23, 2013 by richardhandel

I am on the river again, this time with a friend as a guest. I like to give my guest the choice of the swim. We ended up opposite were I was catching the pike in the Winter, as the bailiff had advised that there had been good bags of Dace had along that stretch. This was my guest’s chosen target fish.

I opted to fish just up stream from a fallen tree and hope some Chub may be held up in there.

I also found a clean run on the far back, just above another fallen tree. This also looked good for the odd Chub and maybe just maybe a barbel if I am lucky!

As there were no signs of any chub or barbel, I ended up getting the float rod out, with my center pin reel a trotting for some Dace. I had about 8 Dace, 3 of which were a nice size (even they were hard work to catch!), by 7pm we both had had enough and headed home.

Richard