Carp-Talk - 25 March 2015

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Resident chef Neil Stansbridge  shed

for 48 hours in peg 41 in Carp Alley

and took  ve, including two 20lb

commons. Neil used Red Bull

hookbaits on hinged sti rigs over

 ve kilos of freebies. Clinton Cooper

did a day session on peg 21 and

managed an 18lb mirror on Mainline

Cell cast to the reeds.  e biggest  sh

this week fell to the rods of Chris

Godwin, who  shed in peg 55 and

landed commons of 29lb and 21lb.

Chris  shed for 24 hours and also

lost a 30-plus mirror at the net! Dan

Ford  shed a night in peg 21 and

took a nice 19lb mirror on CC Moore

boilies  shed to the reed line. Mark

Jones  shed for 48 hours in peg 24

and landed a nice mirror of 16lb.

 e Lower Lake has been  shing

well of late, with the biggest so far

this year weighing 21lb. We will also

be running our meal-deal package

with  shing throughout the spring,

so don’t miss out.

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

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.

BROADLANDS

REPORT

BY PETE BEALE

David Grice from East Horsley,

Surrey, put in a  ve-hour

afternoon session on Brittens

Pond, Guildford, to take this 26lb

11oz mirror (above).  e 26-year-

old sales manager presented a

12mm ESP Tutti Twist pop-up on

a naked chod rig tied with a size 8

Korda Krank Choddy hook, a 15lb

Nash Chodlink link and a 1½oz Avid

Carp  at pear lead, and cast 50

yards to a showing  sh.

AFTERNOON

ACTION!

26 LB

11 OZ

A session on the River  ames produced this

20¼lb mirror (above) to Barry Ratcli from

Queenborough, Kent.  e 39-year-old  sherman

used bread and also caught a 15lb mirror.

Hookbaits were presented on bolt rigs tied with

ESP Raptor hooks and Amnesia hooklinks.

River result!

A 72-hour stint on

Hightown Lake saw

Daniel Sydes from

Southampton bank

“lots of bream” and

this 26¼lb mirror

(below). BGR boilies

was the bait chosen

by Daniel, and he

 shed at 126 yards

range on a silty spot

where he Spombed

two kilo of crushed,

halved and whole

freebies.  e

hookbait was o ered

on a helicopter rig

comprising a size 4

Korda hook, an ACE

Rigamortis/ESP

Ghost Soft hinged

sti ink and a 4oz

distance lead.

 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.

24 LB

1 OZ

24 LB

2 OZ

26 ¼

POUNDER

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