Well in the dying days of 2011 I managed to sneak out with a load of maggots and a rod I had been meaning to try out for a long time. I had bought myself a Hardy float rod in the sales before Xmas and with it came a Free center-pin. Now regular readers will know my fondness for center-pin fishing and catching hard fighting carp is more thrilling this way than any other way. I decided to fish Lizard fisheries near to the Thorney Weir complex as I figured that lake 1 offered he best chance of sport on the 31st of December. I started on maggot as it too is a proven winter catcher. The float was by Andrew Field ( who else) and was a porcupine quill that took 2 AAA. Read more…
following my previous post about using fox arma mesh to fish with a whole load of new / old baits I thought I would give a quick update from this weekend. This weekends session on Thorney Weir whilst a blank was interesting as it did prove a point in that you can fish bread in Arma Mesh and get it to last over night. Gone are the days that you would have to re cast every 30 mins if you had bread on the hook. Gone also is the notion that you can’t fish bread at distance. I put a 3oz lead well in excess of 100 yards and the meshed bread was perfectly fine.
Some of the bread pellets looked a little muddy as I was experimenting with meshed lob worms… not recommended the worms crawl out eventually 
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Sometimes it is not the size that matters but sometimes the method of capture. I had wanted to catch a double figure carp on my Bruce and Walker Mk4 ever since I purchased it and now that I have a full set of Andrew Field floats I had just the chance. I quick trip down to a small commercial near where I live and 1st cast landed this beauty. She pulled the scales fown to 11lb once the sling was taken off and was well deserved.
Bait… well nothing at all. I was just testing the float at my feet to get the correct shotting on the float and the hook picked up a ball of chod from the bottom. Carp grabbed the chod ( and my hook) when I dropped it back in the water. Read more…
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