Carpworld 334 July 2018

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MYLES GIBSON

FINISHES THE SPRING IN STYLE

DINTON BLACK SWAN

STEVE BRIGGS

OVERSEAS FISHING ON YOUR DOORSTEP

ETANG 5

ROB TOUGH

REPORTS BACK ON THE IBCC 2018

LAKE BALATON

ALSO IN THIS ISSUE: IAN CHILLCOTT TIM PAISLEY NEIL MESSENGER DAVE LANE DARREN BELTON JULIAN CUNDIFF IAN POOLE BRIAN SKOYLES

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Pecky’s Progress With a burnt out car a dim and distant memory, Darrell returns to France’s huge Lac d’Orient with high hopes. But sometimes the decisions we make can have big consequences, and so trying to anticipate where the carp might move to with impending warmer weather proved a disastrous choice.

Still, things hadn’t gone too badly up to that point and a new Orient PB at 64lb 12oz was a very worthwhile result for all of Pecky’s efforts - Darrell Peck

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Carp Diary Myles takes up the story, following on from issue 332, and reports some incredible results. He’s managed quite a number of fish, including one of the lake’s real gems...

Nash Pinpoint Competition This month we have £600 worth of Nash Tackle hooks and sharpening kit bundles up for grabs

- Myles Gibson

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A visit to one of his favourite French venues saw editor Rupert struggle to catch a few fish, but watched an old friend literally take the lake apart. Still, there’s worse things that can happen in life than seeing your mates reel in big carp... and Rupert’s already booked the return match for August!

We take a look at the Babylon Rods range and the ‘try before you buy’ service from Banana Rods. There’s also new products from Fortis, JRC, Fox and RidgeMonkey, as well as a look at new clothing from Trakker X OTBT and Fox Chunk

This month in Baitworld there’s plenty to look at including the new Nashbait Scopex Squid Cultured Pop-Ups, Trent Baits’ Active Nut range, Floater Session Packs from DNA, Dynamite Bait’s Active Stick Mixes, and DT Baits’ Pukka Fish.

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75 International Balaton Carp

132 Understanding the Message

-Rupert Whiteman

14 From the Bivvy A few little highlights from the world of carp fishing this month. If you’ve got something to share, email us at editor@carpworld.co.uk - Carpworld

Competition 2018 Rob details the events surrounding his involvement in the International Balaton Carp Competition in Hungary and how he became engaged in competitive carp fishing

A key part of the DT Baits team, Neil Messenger sits down for a chat with Brett McGregor - Brett McGregor

- Rob Tough

29 Better late than Never Briggsy could perhaps make claim to be the carp angler with the world’s biggest car mileage – but on this occasion the car hardly got warmed up with a ‘local’ trip to Etang 5 just north of Paris

89 Ask The Experts This month Mainline’s experts answer your questions on keeping bait fresh on the bank, the best methods for scattering bait, and when to use the helicopter rig

- Steve Briggs

- Team Mainline

38 A question of time...

93 Discovering Day Tickets

Darren Belton came up with a cunning plan to blitzkrieg a lake during the time a very large carp had always made a mistake in the past – the two weeks at the end of April and the beginning of May. Like many a cunning plan, it wasn’t quite cunning enough...

Loz heads up to Lancashire to check out one of the North’s premier venues, with both day ticket and syndicate waters available

- Darren Belton

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101 A Man for All Seasons July brings sunshine and lots of weed. Some anglers really struggle with heavy weed growth in midsummer, but Dave recalls events when sticking at it and making the effort brought some outstanding results...

138 138 On the otter side of the fence Now here’s a feature you’re either going to vehemently agree or disagree with, or simply not read at all! Yep, it’s another one about otters. Ash Hubbard’s feature looks at why he believes we, as anglers, are going to have tolerate their presence and some of the misconceptions that surround them - Ash Hubbard

- Dave Lane

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108 Rigworld

Steve Briggs brings us his usual round-up of what’s been occurring big carp-wise across the continent over the last month

We take a look at PB Products’ Downforce range, new leads from Taylors Lead Lounge, and Gemini Tackle’s Tidy Booms

- Steve Briggs

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159 Thinking Differently

53 Think Tank

110 What’s the rush?

With summer now in full swing, we asked Ian Poole, Brian Skoyles and Ed Betteridge what their preferred method is for catching carp off the top

They say to travel hopefully is better than to arrive, yet waiting to reach your destination with ambition burning bright can definitely be one of life’s hardships. We rush to our destination, arrive, then lay back, take in the surroundings and wait...

Marcus ventured overseas in the hope of rekindling some of the magic and mystery from his formative years in carp fishing

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58 Milking it...

Everyone, no matter how good or how poor an angler you are, gets presented with opportunities. It’s on those occasions that Jules believes you have to milk it – give it everything you’ve got and grab what is being offered with both hands - Julian Cundiff

- Marcus Tackley

169 Still Carping On

In a series of features Andy Murray relates his experiences and the difficulties he had to overcome after his self-imposed period of exile from the carp fishing scene

Events sometime overtake us and Tim had to rethink his monthly column midstream.

Two incidents triggered a lot of memories, dating way back to his beginnings in carp fishing and the evolving dreams of becoming a writer, a publisher, running his own water, catching big carp, creating the Carp Society... dreams that came true through unrelenting determination and never giving up on them

- Andy Murray

- Tim Paisley

- Ian Chillcott

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Diary With a burnt out car a dim and distant memory, Darrell returns to France’s huge Lac d’Orient with high hopes. But sometimes the decisions we make can have big consequences, and so trying to anticipate where the carp might move to with impending warmer weather proved a disastrous choice. Still, things hadn’t gone too badly up to that point and a new Orient PB at 64lb 12oz was a very worthwhile result for all of Pecky’s efforts

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What’s the rush?

They say to travel hopefully is better than to arrive, yet waiting to reach your destination with ambition burning bright can definitely be one of life’s hardships. Perhaps being in a hurry is a realisation that life is short, but like most anglers, paradoxically, we rush to our destination, arrive, then lay back, take in the surroundings and wait...

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he vast majority of my carp fishing life has been spent in a state of excited anticipation.

Anticipation fuelled by the thought of what is just about to happen, what there is to be caught and, equally as important, what it’s going to take to ensure one of the lake’s inhabitants sees the inside of my landing net! There are always thoughts of the landscape I am going to be spending some time in, and the wildlife that call this environment home. Will the fish give me the signs I need to establish my traps, that will hopefully catch them, and will they fall for my cunning ruse? There is probably only one definitive thing which will happen, and that is I will enjoy it all, whatever carp fishing has to throw at me. I have no wish for it to be easy, after all, isn’t carp angling supposed to be the most challenging of pastimes? It’s this feeling of almost impossibility that makes a lot of us come back for more but, just as importantly,

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isn’t it the escape from our real lives with a dream in our hearts that counts? As it happens, I would never have it any other way.

Probably one of the most important aspects about the pastime which I have allowed to dominate my life in such an enthralling way, is not actually knowing what is going to happen once my alarm clock rings at some ungodly hour of the morning.

It has exactly the same impact as one of my alarms screaming its battle cry, and it rarely gets to let out a second series of bleeps. Indeed, there have been so many times when I have been staring at it for as much as an hour before it calls me into action.

Which only means I will be leaving much earlier than anticipated! Invariably, it will still be dark, but I am always amazed at how awake I am, and I never have to start proceedings by engaging my autopilot. Everything will have been packed ready to rock and roll, the last thing I want to be doing is sorting out the gear at that stage of a mission.

Any two or three day session begins a day or two before my departure, and anything that takes my

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Carp Diary Dinton Black Swan,

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Myles takes up the story, following on from issue 332, and reports some incredible results.

He’s managed quite a number of fish, including one of the lake’s real gems...

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finished the trip having caught a couple on zigs, but with both rain and snow falling, the water temperature wasn’t going to be rising any time soon. The week after I was due to move to a new house and it was Mrs Gibson’s birthday – so I didn’t fish and I don’t think I missed much either.

The next time I was able to get back down was the first week of April. The banks were horrendous, following weeks of rain and there was sloppy, muddy mess everywhere. I had no option but to get the groundsheet down and just try and make the most of an unpleasant situation.

A couple of fish had been out from the central area, in between the islands, and it is always a good place to try when they start waking up. The weather conditions were ideal for fishing at range, with the wind off my back and I got the rods out without too many dramas.

The water was really clear and with it being shallow, the birds were a nightmare. I spread around a kilo of chopped Krill and some pellets over each rod, but not too tightly. Quite often, by the time I got back in from baiting up, the birds were moving towards it, so it was a case of blasting the marker towards them to try and steer them clear.

A mixture of Krill boilies, Bloodworm pellets and Clusters continued to produce the goods

I had a good trip, catching five carp. I had a small one to start with, followed by a couple of commons to 28lb and a couple of mirrors. The swim was rotated while I was away – it was clearly where people wanted to be. It was demanding fishing, at very long range and only a few were able to do it.

I was back on the Sunday morning and that swim was taken and someone had shouted it up after him. With the winds and low pressure, I wanted to be as close to that area as possible. I fished in peg 3 and to my knowledge it hadn’t done a bite since the previous October, but I was sure a few fish were moving in that area.

I got the spots sorted, wrapped the rods out and jumped in the boat to bait them up. Again, a spread of boilie chops and a few handfuls of pellets by the marker was the order for each, with balanced, home-made fruity pop-ups on claw rigs.

I was in the bag early, after a long day. The wind picked up in the night and during the early hours the left-hander was away. Luckily, it avoided the other rods during a crazy battle. It turned out to be a pretty linear of 27lb 14oz – a great start and a lovely one to do it with too.

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The range fishing was resulting in a few bites

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Myles uses bright hookbaits for the majority of his fishing

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Peg 3 wasn’t Myles first choice, but he still managed to catch a few

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Night time action. This time a 28lb common ABOVE INSET

Fishing at range was now made much easier with the new rods!

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Next Month

In the August issue Samir Arebi Samir sheds some light on recent events over at the legendary Lac du Der Loz East Loz travels east to take a look at Weston Moat fishery in Derbyshire Paul Forward Big things have happened in the world of Mr Forward Ian Chillcott Ian speaks candidly about the long road to recovery and more importantly, being allowed to drive on it again

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