Carp Fishing Articles

From The Privvy - Chapter Seven Rambling After my initial success using boiled baits and hair rigs, I thought I should perhaps try and catch some big fish, at this time ... Full story

From The Privvy - Chapter Six The Boring Bit While living in Canada, I had developed an interest in trout fishing and the first few years of living in Ashford I ... Full story

From The Privvy - Chapter Five Transatlantic Reunion The next season at the Rookery has never arrived for me, my apprenticeship finished at the same time as my marriage and I ... Full story

From The Privvy - Chapter Four A Mistake With A Monster My return to England in 1969 marked some very significant changes to my life, none of them very conducive to ... Full story

From The Privvy - Chapter Three Moor Flung Dung We returned from our holiday in late August, just in time to get a new reservoir permit, but unfortunately didn't return to ... Full story

From The Privvy - Chapter Two Hoo Flung Dung? My first sight of Hong Kong was when I woke up on a wet miserable morning, I looked out of the porthole ... Full story

Carp Fools! I was once a sane angler who enjoyed fishing for any species that came along. Then one day after amassing a huge bag of rudd ... Full story

The Power Of Prebaiting Prebaiting a water undoubtedly helps you to put more fish on the bank. Like most people, my time on the bank is severely restricted by ... Full story

The Syndicate (A Preview) I guess in the beginning we were much like any of the hundreds of carp fishing syndicates up and down the country. Just a small ... Full story

Bait, Boilies And Making Them Perhaps one of carp fishing's most contentious areas, along with rigs, is bait. There are almost as many theories as what there are flavours and ... Full story

The Matchman Metamorphisizes In his last article, you'll remember condescending carp angler Mark Cunnington gave you the lowdown on all the equipment it takes to change from a ... Full story

A Change Is As Good As A Rest There comes a point in everyone's life that there has to be change to overcome the mundane similarities of day to day living and of ... Full story

Moon Effects The Swedish based tackle firm, ABU, used to produce a superb catalogue which, in addition to product information and exotic location 'dream trip' features, had ... Full story

Angling Ethics The Oxford Dictionary defines 'ethics' as a moral philosophy or a set of moral principles. Keeping the rules, in fact.... or is it? Suppose you ... Full story

Wind Problems QUESTION: Some anglers say that carp follow the wind; others claim that wind direction makes no difference. Even those who write about carp fishing seem ... Full story

Kitting For Distance Occasionally we encounter situations where it is an advantage to be able to fish at distance. There are numerous reasons why this may be so ... Full story

2003 Carp Journals - Part One Up until August of last year everything was going fine; I was getting plenty of fishing in on the Top Pool, the 20’s were coming ... Full story

Back Leads - The How & The When Hi, I would like to know when to use back leads and when I shouldn’t. Can you help? Regards, Paco Ask a group of anglers ... Full story

Carp Hook Choice Hi, My Dad and I are new to carp fishing and are soon to try day fishing a more challenging water, Yateley RMC Sandhurst Lake for ... Full story