Day: August 28, 2008

A Week’s Carp Fishing at Island Lake

I have just come back from an interesting weeks fishing with Paul Cooper on the Angling Lines Venue, Island Lake. Island Lake is a mature looking Gravel Pit of approximately 25 acres in the Champagne Region of France; roughly 3 ¾ hours drive from Calais. As the name suggests it has a large island and […]

How do I catch the bigger carp?

Oliver Wilkinson wrote: I fish at my local day ticket water Birkwoods Farm in Stanley, Wakefield.  It’s a 10 yr old lake holding hundreds of 4lb carp but there bigger fish. My question is how do you get to the bigger fellas?  All methods I’ve used catch the 4lb’ers. To make matters harder there a few bans […]