Carp-Talk - 25 March 2015

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It has been another outstanding

week at Farlows, with more coveted

 sh being photographed in the

hands of happy anglers.  e best

moment for the sta and me was

watching Lake  ree see so much

attention from youngsters who

were all catching plenty of really

stunning carp using various tactics,

including  oats, feeders and more

traditional carp set-ups. I had a

little go myself and it was pretty

much one a chuck, producing  sh

from a couple pounds up to around

5lb. It was really fun stu and a

great way for kids to learn from the

bottom up.

Lake One has now seen  sh

caught from every bank. Lewis

Daneshi and his brother both did

independent overnighters and both

managed 30lb-plus mirrors, with

Lewis taking a 33-pounder and Dan

bagging one a few ounces above the

milestone weight. What made Dan’s

session even more interesting was

his good friend John Baker, who he

was doubled up with, also managed

a cracking 31¾lb mirror. As if

written in the stars, their  shing

friend Paul Forsyth arrived a few

days later and had a beautiful

mirror of 34¾lb, which is amazing

given how close these guys are. It’s

also not far o the date last year

when all four of these guys had

simultaneous takes one spring

morning! Corrian Clusky, having

caught a stunning 30lb linear last

week, came back to land a 30lb 14oz

mirror. Chris  ompson had a

relatively quiet weekend that

Charlie Onslow

from Isle of

Dogs, east

London, caught

this 24lb 1oz

mirror (right)

during a 24-hour

session on

Walthamstow

Reservoirs. Carp

Company OPM

boilies produced

the 17-year-old

student’s only

 sh of the

session, which picked up a 12mm pop-up o ered on a size 8 Korda Wide

Gape hook, a 15lb N-Trap Soft hooklink and a 3oz Distance lead.  is

was  shed at 92 yards range, 12ft o an island where he scattered

freebies using a throwing stick.

THE FARLOWS BULLETIN BY ED MCDERMOTT

http://www.carptalk-online.co.uk

started with one of the new

mid-double stockies and was ended

with a dark common just in excess

of 30lb. An angler wishing to

remain anonymous but then

deciding to put his photos up on a

bait company’s Facebook page was

the lucky captor of mirrors weighing

31½lb and 34lb-plus. Another thirty

was banked by a lad whose name we

don’t have, but it went 32¼lb and

was a new personal best. Adrian

Woolgar was unlucky to miss the

30lb mark with Ribs, a lovely

grey-looking  sh that may well be

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the only old Farlows  sh to be going

a little backwards in weight. Peter

‘Spotty’ Leakey, who is a massive

help at the lake, managed a cracking

 sh we have been calling Baby Ribs

at its best weight of 27lb. Adam

Luck got amongst the  sh again,

adding another upper twenty to his

tally from peg 61.

Lake One has done a shedload

of good twenties as per usual, and

so far it’s been a pretty good start to

March across the whole complex.

 e great news is that the bulk of

the big  sh haven’t even woken up

at all yet, and looking at the

average weight gains, it could be

a staggering year for our visitors.

I make no bones about saying

that Farlows o ers probably the

best chance of a 30lb carp in the

UK on a day ticket.  e big

commons have yet to make an

appearance, so it should be a

very interesting time when they

start to  nd their way to the

bank.

Lake Two is  shing well in

parts and it tends to be doing

night bites still, but as always,

whatever does get caught is

beautiful regardless of size.

Paul Forsyth and

a stunning

34¾lb mirror

Adrian

Woolgar

and the

29lb Ribs

Jon Baker

managed

this 31¾lb

mirror

Lewis Daneshi

with his lovely

33-pounder

Daniel Daneshi and

a 27lb-plus mirror

Daniel also had

this cracking

30lb-plus mirror

David Grice from East Horsley,

Surrey, put in a  ve-hour

afternoon session on Brittens

Pond, Guildford, to take this 26lb

 is 24lb 2oz common (above) was caught along with an 18lb mirror by

Laurie Sparks from Ashford, Middlesex, during a two-night session on

Yateley South Lake. Laurie, 28, used Sticky Krill boilies to tempt his  rst

Yateley carp and  shed at 100 yards range to a bar adjacent to an

overhanging tree on an island where he baited with a handful of

freebies. Mainline Peaches & Cream hookbaits (one pop-up, one wafter)

were mounted D-rig fashion on size 6 Kurv Shank

hooks, IQ2 hooklinks and Korda CoG leads.

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