Chew Valley Reservoir is a place that needs very little introduction. Widely regarded as one of the finest pike fisheries in the UK, if not the whole world, it’s a venue that has rewritten the British record books and it’s also where I have
The match results on this river I decided to fish for this session have been consistently good for months now and after keeping an eye on the weights coming out, I couldn’t resist giving it a go. When you’re seeing 60lb to 80lb winning weights on
During the winter months, water clarity on commercial fisheries often improves dramatically, and with that comes a change in fish behaviour. Carp, F1s and silvers become far more wary, regularly backing away from the margins to avoid having a pole
It’s just you and your rod. You’re fully focused on that float, thinking about nothing else but catching. Surrounded by flowing water and fully immersed in nature, that’s what I think most of us love about trotting a float down a river. It’s
Bread waggler fishing is one of those methods that you really do have to work out on the day. Until you do, it can feel slow and even a little bit demoralising. But once you get that first bite, it becomes a rig that keeps you catching no matter how
The River Avon really is a roach angler’s paradise. It offers every type of swim you could ever want to fish, from roaring weir pools to the most gentle, steady glides like the one I began this session in. Wherever you look, there is water that
You join me at Cawcutts lake, an Embryo water just north of Cambridge for 48 hours of specimen big carp fishing. The aim of the game for this session was to show you all my tactics for targeting large carp in the autumn.
The term “Big carp” can
Carp were the only species I fished for in my first year of angling. I was mostly catching smaller ones but I was lucky enough to land a 30 pounder in that first year. That capture even won me a ticket on a syndicate lake, and ever since then, I have
Over the years, the pellet waggler has been behind countless match wins up and down the country. For me, it really comes down to two very different styles. There’s the all-out carnage approach where you’re feeding heavily, casting right on top
It's undeniable that margin fishing is a huge part of modern match fishing. Catching big carp close in can often be the difference between winning and losing in a match fishing situation. But what happens when the margins aren’t shallow, and