Carpworld 340 January 2019

JACK FUNNELL -

WESLEY COGGESHALL -

PLANES, TRAINS AND ORIGINALS

MY TIME ON THE TIP

THE ORIGINAL AND STILL THE BEST

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My Time on

the Tip

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Wes has fished and caught from some of the toughest waters in the south-east over the last 20 years. The Tip Lake was one that had been on his radar for a number of years – albeit he felt his greatest challenge may come from the other anglers as much as the carp themselves

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first heard about the Tip Lake a while ago now, when a friend of mine, Dom, was fishing it. He used to call me up saying, “Weso, you have got to get on here, son”. For years I said I would think about it, but because of the bad reputation the Darenth complex had, I didn’t listen to him, but that’s a story for another time...

I was fishing a special little lake over in Essex throughout the early parts of 2016 – it was a small, intimate and tricky pond with a great stock of fish. As some of you will know, the traffic for us Kent boys trying to get into Essex on a Friday afternoon is horrific, we quite often find ourselves

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stuck in loads of stationary traffic on the M25 for hours on end. I used to know a little cut through that took me past the Darenth complex, to avoid parts of the M25, and that always reminded me of Dom telling me to get on there. So I always had it in the back of my mind that fishing on the Tip could be a good move for me in the future, especially with it being just 15 minutes from where I live.

My time on the Essex lake came to an abrupt end with a big algae bloom sadly putting an end to most of the stock, a great shame for a very special lake. I had a ticket for a large Kent pit already, but didn’t fancy getting on there as it was now early autumn and it didn’t have much form for

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ABOVE

The small fully

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I had been keeping an eye on it for a while.

This is the Tip Lake, in full bloom

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Mark Walsingham

The Redmire restoration – Part II With all the hard work now done and dusted, Mark takes the time to reflect upon the intense juxtaposition presented to him whilst undertaking all the hard work he and the team carried out on this, the most sensitive of angling projects

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Pecky’s Progress

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opefully, you have all read last month’s piece detailing the 14 nights I spent on the banks of Orient in September 2018? In this piece I will cover the session that followed. If you didn’t, then the very quick brief is that I fished 14 nights, for seven fish, up to 47lb. A reasonable return I thought, although without the true monster to really set my world on fire.

The planning and thought that had gone into that session was all-told and as I finally decided to pack up and depart, I will openly admit to feeling slightly depressed by the end result. I had been looking forward to this session so much, dearly wanting to hold aloft another of its super-rare beasts, to the point I had almost visualized it! A classic case of counting my chickens before they had hatched and assuming I knew enough to overcome and conquer a giant at will.

In a way though, this only ever makes me more determined. I look at it like this. To fail is okay, because if you are genuinely testing yourself, you just will at times. The important thing is to try to understand where you went wrong. Make adjustments and go again. With these thoughts consuming my conscious mind I headed back to the slipway before the long drive back to the UK. En route and just as I drew level with the harbour wall, I passed a guy in a canoe – to be honest I didn’t really give him a second thought.

I had been at the slipway for around 10 minutes when a man approached me and explained in broken English that he thought somebody was in trouble on the other side of the wall. About 250 metres in front of us on top of this harbour wall, people were waving their arms and shouting in French, beckoning me to come. At this point I knew immediately it was going to be the guy in the canoe. The sky was dark and the wind far too strong for the inexperienced or unprepared. I asked the first man to watch my equipment. There was thousands of pounds of gear, strewn everywhere, but I had to go. As I passed the point of the harbour wall with the boat’s engine on full throttle, the shelter was no more. Big white-crested waves rolled into the rocks and the little blue canoe was being driven towards them. It was 50 metres out, his oar a little further, but the people on the wall were frantically pointing for me to go further. I did, but it was obvious I was too late. For a few seconds I thought why isn’t he bloody floating, even if unconscious. I continued to circle the area for a few minutes but the only sign was his baseball

Our frequent traveller, Darrell, has been racking up the miles across Europe again. Once more, The Orient is the destination of choice and despite a mega session, he delivers a stark tale on the harsh realities facing those who go afloat on these vast waters

- Darrell Peck -

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A stunning 46lb mirror

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Across the Mountains

Mitch Godfrey has been visiting this notoriously windswept, southern French venue for the best part of 25 years now. Nothing in previous years has compared to this particular trip though...

Mitch Godfrey

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Next Month In the February issue Nick Shattock Nick looks back at some unusual moments and highlights from the past decade, since he made the life-changing decision to emigrate with his family and set up a guiding business on the Ebro Adam Clewer Adam ponders over the mysteries of time whilst enjoying a super session alongside his good friend and occasional angling partner, Rich Kingstone

Jim Wilson Jim’s back with the second part of his ‘Along the Way’ series, and what’s more, he is in dire need of somewhere closer to home and thinks he may have found a place that fits the bill

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