Archive for September, 2010
Weekly Ramble #2: Carp Fishing Ethics, Have they dissapeared?
Firstly, apologies for this only being the second in my ‘Weekly Ramble’ series. This is just a short article for you on an issue which I’ve been thinking about for a good few months now.
Something which is becoming more of an issue now, particularly with the popularity of carp fishing is where anglers are not considerate to others around them. On my local water it seems that people just turn up and cast out. With no regard what-so-ever for the angler next door. The end result is anglers casting over other anglers.
This is even more apparent when the dreaded BAIT BOAT is allowed. Many anglers who own, and use a bait boat use them irresponsibly. They see a fish crash 180 yards down the bank, a rod comes in and the little vessel is chugging across the lake with a hopper full of bait and the anglers’ rig – crossing over everybody along the way.
Long gone are the days with 99% of anglers walked the lake before fishing. Long gone are days when 99% of anglers checked with their neighbour where they were fishing to avoid cross overs, upset and rows. Have our ethics disappeared?
It’s such a shame that our sport was once a place for an angler to go for an evening session, drop into a swim and enjoy a few hours fishing without worrying about bait boats or anglers casting over them. But I suppose, society changes and so does the sport.
What are your thoughts?
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Bed’s pit in-line for a bashing!
The weekend is fast approaching and Chappers is already dreaming of his medussa rigs set to nail some of the finest carp in Northamptonshire. With Smithy now recruited and Ace on the waggon it seems the weekend ahead could be an eventfull one indeed.
The pit is a silt fest, no two ways about it. If you removed all the silt from the lake you could probably build a shanty town that every Bellinge Resident would be proud of. But we have a new plan, a new line of a attack and a new personal swim that has never been fished and is inaccesible from every other part of the lake.
The tactics are similar to the last outting on the pit which resulted in a pristine 24lb+ common and a missed run, popped up maggots fished medussa style, attached would be a pva sock teaming with the little critters! Targetting the fact that the resident carping are constantly chowing down on the naturals in the lake, we should be in with a shot.
Smithy, the sly fox has wormed his way onto the lake, baiting up a few spots with his favourite nibbles and is no doubt going to get some action. Though to be honest in that peg, i’m guessing the rats, swans and ducks will be nibbling more than the carp, but don’t tell Smithy that!
So I sit here, at work debating what to do, Ace is all “I got no funds” and Smithy is planning an interview with perhaps the two most casual, un prepared and reclusive capr anglers this side of Iraq. The line of attack is simple, turn up at the crack of 3 ish on saturday, have a mooch, get our rods out (then our fishing rods) and dangle some maggots.
Will report back this time next week, no doubt with the headline being “Smithy lands a 40, Ace and Chappers neck 40?.
Tight lines!
Chappers
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Fishery in Focus – Billing Aquadrome, Northampton
I grew up living 2 minutes walk from Billing Aquadrome, spending most of youg fishing times on one of its 9 waters or more recently on the river Nene behind the complex.
The holiday park is known to most if not all veteran carpers, the once home to the UK record carp caught by Chris Yates on the Lilly lake the complex is steeped in carp history but in modern times is pretty much un-fished by serious anglers because of the hoards of holiday makers constantly patrolling the lake, not to mention the late night parties and events held on the park. But, and it’s a big but, the fish are there, trust me I have caught several quality carp, dozens of double figure tench and bream and 20+ pike.
In recent times the owners made a consious decision to try and improve revenue from the angling on the complex and in-so moved all specimen pike and carp into one lake, which was the wrong choice. Yes the square hole in the ground lake, with no features, debris covered bottom position right in the middle of the rollercoasters and the entrance road which is constantly home to hundreds of cars, motorbikes and caravans has around 15 different 30lb carp, including an amazing looking ghost carp, dozens of 20′s and around a hundred doubles but it really is not going to produce the levels of publicity and stable income they are looking for. By all means if you are looking for a day out with the family and some decent fishing it is worth a shot, or get down there in the winter, get the rods out and get a nice hot meal from the close by pub.
In my humble opinion the lilly lake was the perfect choice to shift all the carp into, a mature reed lined lake which in summer is 75% covered in lillies, with islands, overhanging trees and hundreds of features on a 3 acre lake, right at the back of the complex.
Though if you are looking to spend some time on the complex I would reccomend the river, though don’t fish the normal pleasure angling spots, go right to the top end of the river, cross the Clifford hill bridge adn lock, then cut across the fields and down towards the river, the overhanging conker tres are home to some glorious carp. Me and Ace only managed one night down there, but we bait up for several weeks prior and spent lots of time watching dozens of carp come and go, including some 20-30′s that just happened to be replaced by bream on the night we fished, typical!
But in all seriousness, Billing Aquadrome is on the up, if you can only get out fishing if you take the family with you it’s brilliant! Or get on the Nene at the back, bait up for a week or two beforehand and you will see alot of carp. Though there is allways the lakes right at the back, I can’t remeber the name of them, but if you walk up past the kingfisher club and take the track on the left when you see the next lake, you can walk over a small bridge, on the left is a small island that looks into a one of two ajoining lakes, there are some beuties to be had in there! Just ask my Dad.
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Carp Fishing : Mangrove Session HD
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Second HD upload with Shaun Harrison where he takes time out to fish the famous Mangrove carp fishery, where he bags a number of good fish including the well known fish called Conan.
Duration : 0:8:43
Episode 6 Carp Fishing at Winsford Bottom Flash with Harry and Friends after some River Carp
In this video Harry has a short session over night at Winsford Bottom Flash in Cheshire. He uses a marker float and finds a deeper channel about 50 yards out to fish to. First cast he catches his first ever Bream and the video shows a typical Bream take. The Flash holds a good head of Large un-known Carp and a lot of Large River Bream. The Flash is a very beautiful relaxed place to fish. Harry talks us through his rigs and the baits that hes using. We capture night fall and Paul checking out the Sexy Models in the new diem-angling gear insert. On this session we had no Carp, but we do capture the angler on the next peg playing and landing a nice Mirror Carp. The flash also holds some specimen Roach and some nice sized Tench. The venue address can be found at the end of this short video. Thanks for watching!
Duration : 0:4:28
Korda State Of The Art Underwater Carp Fishing Part 3
part 3 of Korda State Of The Art Underwater Carp Fishing video other videos on the account subscribe and comment other episode’s on my account such as predators and matt hayes
Duration : 0:9:45
fishingIan ‘Chilly’ Chillcott Rig 1
Ian ‘Chilly’ Chillcott talks us through one of his favorite rigs whilst filming for his new series ‘Chilly On Carp’ exclusive to http://www.onlinefishing.tv
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Duration : 0:1:43
Cam reveals his secret anti bream rig,and his new bait concept…The New Chapter…
Well, where to start?
It’s been a while since my last post, the last 2 weeks have been so hectic and I have found little time to grace the banks.
When I left you last time I was just preparing for a night on “Heron” so that will be as a good place as any to start from.
I arrived at Heron at about mid-morning, I was greeted by a strong South Westerly Wind pushing straight into the “Car Park” swim, as I stood and watched the water a good fish showed towards the far bank, ”that will do” I said to myself.
I unloaded the van and quickly got the oval up as the sky was turning blacker by the minute, I took the opportunity in the light drizzle to relax a bit and tie up some fresh rigs and make a plan in my head for the next 24 hours.
Just as the sky started to clear Pete arrived and set up next door in the “Channel”, so I roped him in to give me some assistance doing my first rod, I cast a lead over to the far bank and walked round with a bucket of goodies and a rig tied up ready to clip on.
Once round the over side I waded out and found a nice clear spot in about 4 ft of water, I then attached the baited rig and gently lowered it onto the spot and put a good handful of hemp over the top – all the while Pete was standing in my swim keeping the line straight, Job Done!
I repeated the process for the other two rods put this time on the near margin, wading out two rod lengths until I found a suitable spot lowering the bait in and putting a handful of bait over the top then slowly making my way back to the bank.
That evening we were joined by a couple of mates for a social and ordered the biggest Chinese I have ever seen in my life, once finished we sat up late into the night talking about all things carpy and later putting the worlds to rights, at some stage we all dragged our now huge stomachs onto our our respective bed chairs and it didn’t take me long to nod off.
I awoke to a glorious sunrise, the kind that makes you glad you are a carp angler. We get to see these on a regular basis, where as alot of people have never seen one in their lives, when I think about it I do feel sorry for them.
It was a little after 5 am, I fired up the Coleman and rolled a smoke and enjoyed the Dawn Chorus. I was shocked that the morning passed very quickly without incident and it was soon getting towards packing up time, I was left scratching my head……I had fish on my spots throughout the session, I awoke a few times during the night by them rolling over my baits but yet couldn’t get a sniff.
It was soon time to leave and I made the short journey home, all the while thinking about what I should have done differently.
Once home it was time to pack the bags as we were heading down to Devon for a few days, and the following morning we were flying down the M5, Clovelly bound!
We had a great few days and it was nice for my son ‘Jack’ to spend some time with his grandad, it was funny – all he said whilst we were down there was “Pub, Pub, Pub”… he’s learning fast!
Once home again it was time to get myself ready for starting a new job on the Monday, now this job is better hours, money…everything in fact! However, it does mean that I am back with the weekend anglers now, I wish I had never taken my days off in the week for granted now.
My first week went well, everybody seems nice and its only 20 Min’s from the “Beds Pit”……I can cope with that!
That pretty much brings us up to date, I’ve just returned from a baiting up session over on the “Beds Pit” and I look forward to starting my Autumn campaign on there Saturday.
I will be nipping over during the week to trickle some bait in.
So for now its time for me to go and and get the Oven warmed up and peeling some spuds ready for Sunday dinner!
Be lucky,
Smithy
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