Quietly sacking up over winter, top carper reveals amazing catches to Total Carp.


Top carp angler Sean Leverett has a good track record when it comes to finding the fish in winter. This year has proved no exception, with the Sticky Baits-backed ace targeting Cemex’s Longfield Road Lake with great success over the last few months.

Keeping things under wraps all that time to keep the carp coming, Sean has now broken his silence, revealing to Total Carp in full the tactics that have helped him fool three of the venue’s best known residents at new top weights. Over to Sean:

“For the past month I have been concentrating on the Road Lake and I’ve been fortunate enough to catch a few. I decided to keep things quiet at the time as I had stumbled upon an opportunity I wanted to make the most of without other people jumping in the swim.”

“A few weeks ago I started fishing a swim known as The Hump and I began to bait the area with a mix of Sticky Bloodworm Pellets, Oily Hemp and Pure Krill Liquid. The first session proved a very good start with the Little Ghost Common coming my way at 22lb 12oz. I knew my Vor-Tex hookbait tipped with a grain of ESP plastic sweetcorn was acceptable to the Road Lake residents and my confidence in the Sticky range was growing at a rapid rate.

“My next session the following week saw me get back in the same swim and by using the same tactics and continuing to introduce the same bait mixture I went on to land an awesome fish known as The Pretty One at 35lb 4oz. This was the point when I decided to keep things quiet, I didn’t even get anyone to help with the photographs, preferring instead to rattle of a few self-take shots.

“The following session saw me again get back in The Hump and things just got even better when a lovely fish known as Digit came my way at an all-time high of 37lb 2oz. Despite the lake being quite busy, I managed to keep the capture to myself and once again did a few quick self-take photographs.

“By now the fish were really on my bait mix and I made sure to top the area up before leaving. During my time away from the lake I was itching to get back as I knew the fish were in the area and loving the bait. Amazingly my success continued and the next visit saw me bag the biggest fish of my little campaign when I tempted Three Scales at an all-time high of 37lb 10oz.

“I was starting to worry that word would get out about what I’d been catching, but thankfully all my captures were coming at night and I still managed to keep it to myself. My final session of 2011 saw me bring a fitting end to things when I bagged another historic Road Lake fish at an all-time high weight with Cats Eye at 34lb 2oz.

“I really couldn’t believe how well things had gone with five bites in five sessions as this can be a real head-banger of a venue at the best of times, never mind in the middle of winter. To land four different mid-to-upper thirties from such a revered venue at this time of year was a real result in my eyes.”

Sean winter campaign has seen him fooling the fish using rigs made up from  size 7 ESP Curve-Shanx hooks tied onto a Strip-Teaze Two-Tone hooklinks and 1.5oz Atomic Dung Bombs. While each fish was beaten by Nash Xtreme Pursuit rods, Daiwa SS3000 reels and Syncro XT main line.