Carp-Talk - 25 March 2015

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JOB OPPORTUNIT Y

A 24-hour trip to Old Mill Lakes at Market Rasen

resulted in this 34lb mirror for Steven Grainger.

 e 30-year-old gardener made his own boilies to

tempt his catch, using a nutty-based mix at 20

yards range to a deep hole. He presented

hookbaits on Korda Kurv hooks, 25lb links and

3oz leads, baiting his spot with two kilos of

freebies.

Steven told Carp-Talk: “I turned up at Old Mill

to  nd a busy Birch Lake. I had a quick look about

and found a peg that just felt right.  e  rst thing

I did was get a rod out with just a lead on and

found a deep hole just o a little spit. I got set up

and decided to go for it so I put two kilos of bait

out,  shing a pop-up over the top. I sat back

enjoying the warm weather when the bobbin just

smashed into my rod.  e pick up was really

violent. It was screaming when I picked up the

rod. It was an epic battle and when I eventually

had it in the net I had to take a minute.  e owner

came round to help with the weighing and photos,

and it was a great moment as it was a new PB.”

 is 26lb 13oz mirror was

tempted from a low-stock

Lincolnshire pit by Arran King

of Grimsby.  e 35-year-old

process operator used 16mm

Sticky White Signature pop-ups

on size 6 Korda Krank hooks,

20lb N-Trap links and 3oz

square pear leads. Arran

commented: “With a full moon

above I couldn’t turn it down, so

I set o to work in the dark

knowing it was going to be

8.30pm by the time I arrived at

the lake. I had a good feeling the

 sh were starting to wake up and felt con dent even though there are only 12-15  sh in the lake. I

eventually got my rods on the spots and put a few Spombs of test bait crumbed up with sweetcorn

over the top. After an epic fail at trying to get some kip in the night, one of my choddies ripped o and

following a very gentle battle I slipped the  sh into

the net.  e  sh happens to be called Little Scaly

and was on my ‘most wanted’ list.”

Paul Hopper  shed 48 hours on

Raker Lakes and was rewarded

with this 28½lb mirror.  e

41-year-old used Mainline High

Impact pop-ups, o ering these on

size 8 Korda Wide Gape hooks,

20lb N-Trap Silt links and 2oz  at

pear leads. He  shed them at 50

yards range to a 2ft gully, which

he baited with a bed of Mainline

15mm Cell boilies. Paul revealed:

“At 1am, I was just nodding o

when I had a few bleeps. I sat up

looking to see if the bobbin had

lifted and it hadn’t.  en just as I

was going back to the bivvy, my

alarm screamed o! It put up a

great  ght for this time of year. It

was a new personal best and I was

very happy!”

Lakes PB

A large PVA bag of Ja a Nut Mix alongside a

12mm Ja a pop-up tempted this 26lb 7oz common

from Raker Lakes.  e lucky angler to track it down

was Paul Davies of Whitby who  shed the famous

day-ticket venue for 48 hours.  e 27-year-old

sca older  shed at 20ft range to a reed bed,

o ering his hookbait on an Atomic Grabba hook,

15lb Jellywire link and a 2oz Taska lead. Paul

revealed: “I was  shing in swim  ve. It was the

hardest  ght I’ve had in such a small swim.”

Raker

Tough battle

 is 26lb 13oz mirror was

tempted from a low-stock

Lincolnshire pit by

of Grimsby.  e 35-year-old

process operator used 16mm

Sticky White Signature pop-ups

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