Carp-Talk - 25 March 2015

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sweetener in 3ft of water.

Luke Terry’s e orts on Sussex

day-ticket water Swanborough

Farm are paying dividends. Luke

has banked more than 25  sh in a

three-week period and was

celebrating after landing a personal-

best 34lb mirror. Luke landed the

 sh on an Urban Bait Nutcracker

pop-up on a hard patch amongst

silt.

Mark Gibson enjoyed a great

72-hour session on the soon-to-be-

opened Wraysbury No. 1. Mark

banked 17 to 21lb 1oz during a

charity event for Stoney & Friends

McMillan Cancer Support. He

spodded hemp and particle mix and

used Evolution plastic maggots and

sweetcorn on a chod rig made from

Vardis end tackle. Wraysbury’s

owners RK Leisure believe the  sh

could be one of the famous lake’s

originals.

Catches at Chase Lake are

starting to hot up, with the tricky

Front Lake giving up a nice thirty.

Chris Walling was a happy carper

after banking a cracking 32lb

mirror. Chris set up in the Cherries

swim for an overnighter and landed

the  sh on a Mainline Milky To ee

pop-up. Andy Kitching  shed a

48-hour session on the Back Lake

and the highlight was a new

personal-best common of 23lb 9oz.

Andy set up on the Point swim and

landed a small mirror, before the

common took his 15mm Nutz

boilie. Andy also banked another

small mirror.

Lee Valley’s Banjo Lake and

Stock Pit in Stanstead Abbotts,

Hertfordshire, are both starting to

 sh well, and a big thank you to

baili Martin Phipps for getting in

touch. Birthday boy Lee Hawes set

up in swim one on Banjo for a

24-hour spell, moved to swim seven

and then enjoyed a fabulous

session. Lee banked 10 carp ranging

from 14lb to Lee’s new personal

best, a nice 29½lb mirror. All the

 sh were caught on claw rigs in

conjunction with Korda safety-clip

systems. His hookbait comprised

pink and yellow fake corn and was

 shed over a baited spot. Terry

Glasgow  shed swim 10 on Banjo

and managed two nice mirrors of

16½lb and 13lb 1oz, both caught

from the inside margins. Stuart

Palmer returned to Banjo after a

three-year absence and set up in

swim two. He was rewarded with a

lovely 26lb 7oz mirror caught on

the far margin, using the ever-

popular Sonubaits Code Red boilies

tipped with Purple Squid corn. Loz

Clark  shed swim seven on Banjo

and had mirrors of 18¼lb and 24lb

6oz, again taken from the far

margin. Craig Ellis  shed swim

three on Banjo and was rewarded

with a nice 26¼lb mirror.

 e big common that Lee Valley

 sheries o cer Jamie Godson

caught recently at 26¾lb from the

Stock Pit (details in last week’s

South East Report) was caught

again from swim  ve, so it is on the

munch now and can only get bigger.

Jamie returned to  sh on Stock’s

swim four and managed a nice 18lb

3oz mirror from the far margin on a

Code Red pop-up.

It is good to hear that

Stanborough’s  sh are getting

close to the 30lb mark. Steve Rogan

chose the  rst swim on the river

side at the Welwyn Garden City day-

ticket water and banked a common

of 27lb.  e St Albans carper used a

Mainline Hybrid pop-up and  shed

it on a hinged sti rig made from

Korda Mouthtrap and a size 6

Choddy hook.

By the time this edition of

Carp-Talk hits the shops, the Nos. 1,

2 and 3 and Warwick lakes at

 ames Water Walthamstow will be

closed until the summer. However,

one carper who avoids the busier

pits for the tricky Lower Maynard is

Richard Mills.  e Essex electrician

scores well on this water, which,

although tough, is capable of

providing some stunning  sh. On

his latest visit, Richard bagged an

18lb 2oz mirror. He plotted up close

to the machinery swims and found

signs of  sh close in on the end of a

cold north-easterly wind. Tactics for

the day were eight inches of Fox

Illusion tied to a size 6 Atomic

Chodda hook and a 3oz pear lead on

a helicopter set-up with an 18mm

Urban Bait Nutcracker boilie, tipped

o with a 12mm matching pop-up.

Cottington Lakes produced

for Karl Eastley when he put in an

overnight session on Lake Pepper’s

peg 11.  e regular at the Kent

venue landed a 37lb 2oz mirror and

a 15lb ghostie on Mainline Cell

dumbbells.

A 18lb 2oz Lower

Maynard mirror

for Richard Mills

Steve Byrne

tamed this 35lb

6oz common

during a session

on Menards

Luke Terry  shed

Swanborough

Farm and had this

34-pounder

Mark Gibson

topped his catch

on Wraysbury No.

1 with this 21lb

1oz mirror

Steve Rogan

visited

Stanborough

and took this

27lb common

Stuart Palmer

and a 26lb 7oz

Banjo mirror

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