All Blog Posts Tagged 'carp' (4)

In the summer of 1976 the water level at Redmire fell drastically, for the first time in its history, reducing the surface area to about half. With the extraordinarily high temperatures that were experienced over a long period of time, the carp at Redmire appeared on the surface from shortly after dawn till well into the night. On occasions they remained on the surface right through the night. Fishing was hardly worthwhile, the carp being rarely interested in feeding. Most of their time was spe… Continue

As could be expected, on arriving at the lake for my first session on a Sunday morning in June, I paid the bailiff for my syndicate ticket and strolled down the lake with two rods, a chair and a holdall. A little sandwich tub with packets of terminal tackle and the rest of the space taken up with different size and flavour pellets, three different pop-ups, and a rather large selection of half used bags of shelflife baits I had gathered during the last year for fishing on a dayticket lake closeby… Continue

I woke up to the sound of my alarm at 8am saturday morning. Had a cup of tea and got washed etc. At 8:30am, i went into my garage and got my bait(maggots,casters,sweetcorn,hemp seed and pellets) out of the little bait fridge i have and put them in my bag, i checked i had all my gear and i set off to my mates house to pick him up. We gt there about 9:15 and we loaded all his gear into the back of the car. We were heading for 'non go bye' fisheries just past Leeds/Bradford airport. It took us abou… Continue

Well with this weather warming up it wont be long before we start seeing carp smashing the vegatation to bits again! Ive heard some people say that they can start as early as sept, im not sure about that my self as it could just be late spawning. One thing i am sure of is there will be a few fish losses here and there due to there frenzied activities. some carp can get spawn bound and not able to pass there spawn. I have heard that when they get spawn bound it can get used as body fat, therefore… Continue