Mild winter weather is ideal for the winter carp anglers with every chance of the carp feeding at some point during the day.
TONY KINGDON Reports:-
Adam Seaward banked an absolute belter yesterday in the shape of Martin’s Mirror at 28.14 the fish are all well up in weight as this one is normally 26!!!!! Nice one mate on a cracking fish
When I first read of carp they were considered a fish of the summer months and seldom fished for. How times have changed with many factors meaning that the carp are caught all year round with many anglers having the ambition of catching a carp in the snow. The lack of winter snow is perhaps one of the factors that ensure we catch carp all year that and the warm clothing and modern bivvys that make winter fishing far more comfortable. It would be good to get a picture on here of carp in the snow! There’s a challenge!!!
Steve Pinn sent me these superb images of winter carp caught from Stafford Moor’s Lodge lake. 5 fish, not bad for December. 20Ib 12oz (yellow fish) and 17Ib 8oz (orange) – both on CC Moore Northern Special pop ups on a bed of free-by live red maggots.
Scott Bowden enjoyed a recent trip to Lower Tamar lake catching a lovely brace of fish. A 23.06 Common was backed up by a 23.12 Mirror both caught on homemade boilies using a small stick of crushed boilies with Korda semi stiff silt braid N Trap and lakebed Leads.
MAIN LAKE PRODUCES AGAIN!
(Above) 21lb 1oz mirror
Nathan Butterfiled, from Newark took a break from his Manager’s Role at Cromwell Lakes to fish the Main Carp Lake and landed a 17lb Common and 21lb 1oz Mirror.
Nathan caught both fish on a size 8 withy pool rig baited with a cc Moores Ns1 yellow hook bait with over 30 freebies.
(Above) 17lb 1oz common
NEVER GIVE UP!
Is the Moral of the story!
Michael Pearson from Mansfield took some ‘time out’ of the Netting Madness last week to do some fishing on the Main Lake, the fish were playing very hard to get but that didn’t stop him!
He booked an extra Night’s Stay and his persistence paid off as he landed this beauty of a 18lb 8oz Mirror right at the last minute!
Michael used a withy pool rig size 6 razor point hook to soft braided hook link with a 10mm northern special pop up.
(Above) 18lb 8oz mirror
Scott Hessey with his 21lb 12oz catch from the summerhouse swim on Beattie’s lake today using pallatrax bait. (Above)
The Carp busters Adrian Carnell and Julie Carnell are at Stafford Moor where they landed this cracking carp from the beach swim using mainline cell boilies. (Below)
The exceptionally mild weather has ensured that the carp continue to feed. I recorded 13 Degrees C as I drove home from work at 5:30 this morning!
Lee and NIck Galley fished Stafford Moors Beatties Lake to land several carp. The best to Lee’s rod a fine specimen of 24lb 4oz; Lee also landed a fish of 16lb 8oz. Nicks best was a fish of 18lb 4oz. They also landed a couple of upper singles all tempted on their own black magic bait in conjunction with Gardner rigs and terminal tackle.
Marc Dobson with his birthday catch from Stafford Moor a 25lb 5oz mirror carp from the summerhouse swim on Beattie’s lake using Sticky Baits Manilla 16mm boilies.
A couple of Autumn crackers at Furzebray for Ben May weighing 29lb 8oz and C scale at 28lb well done on two fine fish mate especially after it’s been fishing so slow. Not to be out done by Ben his brother Matt May also got in on the action landing Pearly at a new top weight of 28lb10oz and looking mint in her winter colours! Tony Kingdom “Well done chaps on a great bit of angling in tough conditions…”.
Tony informs all that Willow will close for a short while see below.
Willow Closure!!!
Willow will be closed from the 8th of November for a couple of weeks for netting we hope to reopen it time for the winter tickes to start at the beginning of December. If anyone is interested in winter tickets for willow please post below they will be £75 for 3 months.
Jennetts regular Bradley Laughton has been in the action again at the day ticket venue in Bideford, Devon. Brad along with friend Liam Parsons managed four fish to the low 20lb range on hinged stiff rigs with a Mainline IB pop up fished over a bed of CC Moore equinox boilies.
Geoff Waring with one of his catches from Stafford Moor a 23lb 6oz from the summerhouse swim on Beattie’s lake using mainline cell.
