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Ian Russell On Solid Bag Fishing
Total Carp Staff  |  Mar 20, 2017  |  0 comments
Quick-hit carping expert Ian Russell explains why you should be using solid PVA bags and shows you how to get the most from them. Often perceived as a cast it anywhere rig, I would slightly disagree, although it is probably as close as any I have encountered. I have spoken to a fully licensed scuba diver, who has been underwater to investigate how this presentation fairs in deep silt. He has had to dig anywhere up to two feet into the soft substrate to get these rigs out, and although carp do like to root around this is not an effective method and will often remain engulfed in the stinky black stuff until you decide to reel it in and cast out once more.
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Small Water Tactics
Total Carp Staff  |  Mar 13, 2017  |  0 comments
Contrary to popular belief, small waters can be extremely difficult to crack. Fortunately, avid carper RYAN NEED has 10 top tips up his sleeve… 1. SET TRAPS I’ve found taking a softly-softly approach is the most effective way to catch wary carp on intimate venues. The spod rod stays at home and the throwing stick in the van, while I create small traps that will trick the wariest carp.
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Manor Farm Catch Report 12th March 2017
Total Carp Staff  |  Mar 13, 2017  |  0 comments
Carp Lake has come into early form here at Manor Farm. Dell Ryder banked 5 fish to 21-8 on Manilla pop up and fake corn with a solid bag of Manilla pellets. Marek fished the weekend and bagged 9 fish to 24-8 and his friend Gary had 5 to 22-8. Mark and Wayne Johnson landed a 19lb and 18lb respectively.
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Manor Farm Catch Report 12th March
Total Carp Staff  |  Mar 13, 2017  |  0 comments
Carp Lake has come into early form here at Manor Farm. Dell Ryder banked 5 fish to 21-8 on Manilla pop up and fake corn with a solid bag of Manilla pellets. Marek fished the weekend and bagged 9 fish to 24-8 and his friend Gary had 5 to 22-8. Mark and Wayne Johnson landed a 19lb and 18lb respectively.
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Lewis Errington's Recent Session On Pit 5
Total Carp Staff  |  Mar 07, 2017  |  0 comments
Although the weather is being indecisive with warm winds, double figure temperatures one moment and ice covered rods the next, I am starting to see more and more signs that the fish are slowly getting back on the move. On Pit 5 of the hollybush lakes complex its been a very slow winter for me having just ended a near four-month blank, like a lot of lakes around the country the lake completely shut up shop at what seemed like flick of a switch. Ending the long blank was not a complete success as it ended up being an upper double common which was actually a repeat from the summer. With the blank behind me, it's time to start focusing on my spring approach which starts with emptying the contents of my rucksack onto the living room floor and having a good old sort out.
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Tip Of The Month Getting Ready
Total Carp Staff  |  Mar 06, 2017  |  0 comments
Tip Of The Month - With the carp season about to get into full swing, Marc Coulson reckons that if you’re not getting ready now you’d better start doing so! It might seem like the most obvious tip of them all, but that makes it even more valid in my opinion. I spent an entire day in my garage recently purely getting all my kit together after a winter in which I hardly fished. As well as the obvious stuff like sorting out the rod bag and making sure that I had all I needed in the rucksack, I took time to pay particular attention to my bait bucket. I literally tipped the bucket out on to the floor and sorted through what fell from it.
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Pole Fishing April 2017
Total Carp Staff  |  Mar 02, 2017  |  0 comments
Check out the feature-packed March 2017 issue. . . Out Now! Digital Subscription – Print Subscription -Single Issue A New King In Town Pole Fishing runs the rule over Maver's new Flagship seatbox.
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Long Range Zigging
Total Carp Staff  |  Feb 27, 2017  |  0 comments
Go The Distance CRAIG MORTIMER heads to Linear Fisheries’ Brasenose One to show how successful long-range zigging can be, but will it be that fruitful at this time of year? Linear Fisheries is perhaps one of the busiest and most popular day-ticket complexes in the UK, so when we spoke to TC contributor Craig Mortimer it was to our surprise that he had only ever visited the venue once and had never even set foot on either the Brasenose banks or the main site. He had simply turned up and fished Oxlease for a bit of DVD filming. This was too good an opportunity to miss, so we thought that because many of you may be venturing to Linear for your first time, we would challenge him to test out his preferred long-range zig tactics on the renowned water. Craig states: “The first thing I did was speak to a few friends who have fished the venue before about how they would approach it.
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Manor Farm Catch Report 26th February 2017
Total Carp Staff  |  Feb 27, 2017  |  0 comments
It has been a week of mixed fortune at Manor Farm, Darren and Ash Francis set up on Carp Lake on Sunday evening and fished through to Wednesday afternoon they had 31 fish between them. Some of the fish fell to 6-foot zigs in the daytime, they were also fishing over particles on the bottom. Since then, anglers have struggled for bites however, Jordan Pashley banked 2 mid doubles, an 18lb and a 17lb. Over on Damsel, Ian bagged a 15lb common fishing a white pop up, Caudiu Chesa bagged a 22lb mirror, and 18lb & 14lb commons on the 24th Feb and Steve Moodey on 25th Feb caught 2 commons at 12-8 & 14-0 and 2 mirrors at 12-8 & 16-8 and Darren Connor had 2 carp and a bream.
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Total Carp May 2017
Total Carp Staff  |  Feb 22, 2017  |  0 comments
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