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As autumn is now here, Brad Wegner adapts his angling to keep on catching and shows how you can too!

It was a trip planned for testing Salvo Perrone's new gear, but soon became a session to remember!

From Dusk ‘Til Dawn A busy work and family life, combined with a burning passion for carp fishing, Duncan Arrandale believes that you should make the most of the hours of darkness while on the bank. I’ve been a carp angler for more years than I care to admit to, and one thing that I think is hugely underutilised are the hours of darkness. This is obviously exaggerated in the winter months, but even in the warmer months where it stays light until 8pm and onwards I see time and time again that people do not make the most of their time on the bank during these periods. The lake is often quieter, the surrounding roads will become quieter too, and there are many things to exploit during this time.

If you love the Ronnie rig, but it’s been hammered on your venue, Dan Hawkes has just the variation to keep those bites coming!

In this month’s instalment, Ian talks to us about how he attacks a night carp fishing session and how you can do it safely and efficiently. After speaking with Deputy Editor Dan Murrell about this feature and our planned night time escapade I was immediately looking forward to a night on the bank, after all it is one of the major bonuses of being a carp angler, being able to use the often neglected hours of darkness to help up your catch rate and most of all expand your carp fishing experience. Dan wanted to know if my carping approach changed at all, the tactics, baits and techniques I apply in the day, do they still work at night or do I have to change my plan of attack. Well in a nutshell no, my rigs bait and tactics are to catch carp and this doesn’t change if the sun is bright in the sky or the moon is on the horizon, after all, do your feeding habits or senses change? Because from my experiences the carp certainly don't.

The early 1990s saw an explosion of big and somewhat unknown carp being publicised in the media for the very first time. One of those was The Royal Forty, a fish that grabbed the attention of anglers around the country for over 20 years.

From Trout Fishery To Carp Haven.