Paul Cooper

Follow Paul Cooper’s carp fishing stories, trip tips, tactics and venue reviews from real sessions to inspire your next carp fishing trip in France.

Carp rigs; How To Construct the Ultimate Pop-up Rig

Paul Cooper shows you how to construct the ultimate pop-up rig. Note from Paul; ” I didn’t make it clear on the clip why I use the short tag of 30lb Seaguar.  Well, it  keeps the shrink tube in place because although appearing stiff, without the Seaguar the shrink tuibe does not maintain its shape. […]

Return to Boux Carp Lake – Field Testing Tales

Being a lake tester for Angling Lines does have its advantages; one has to be the chance of a return visit to one of the best venues in France, Domain de Boux.  I had previously visited Boux in June this year along with Ron Key, and despite a hard week we still managed fish to […]

Great Boux carp session

Paul Cooper & Paul Brookes recently (w/c 1st Oct 2011) enjoyed a great session at Boux taking 33 carp including 7 x 40’s (to 46lb 9oz) & 8 x 30’s. In this clip we see carp on the bank to 45lb (common) plus a look at Paul’s successful rig.

Constructing safe carp rigs

Paul Cooper shows you how to make a safe carp rig. Ensuring that the lead can be shed in the event of a line break is the first rule of safe rigs.  In this video Paul shows you the components you need to be certain your rig is safe.

Carp Rigs – Tying the Knotless Knot

Paul Cooper presents a series of short video clips on carp rigs and tips… Over the next few months I intend to put a series of short video clips together showing the methods that I use when fishing home or abroad, that help me put those extra few fish on the bank. I have been […]

Accurate Spodding

Hi all at Angling Lines, I’ve just read Paul Cooper’s article on accurate spodding and a bit of help is required if you have a minute please. I always used to set my baited rods slightly longer than my spod rod to allow for the arc when the baited rods came to rest, but the article […]

A Year in the Life of an Angling Lines Field Tester – Pt 5

Paul Cooper is one of a small band of anglers we use to Field Test our venues. Over the course of several Blog Posts he’ll take you through his 2010 trips; Alder Lake Alder Lake was to be my last trip of the year and was planned for mid October with Jim Kelly. Unfortunately France […]

A year in the life of an Angling Lines Field Tester – Pt 3

Paul Cooper is one of a small band of anglers we use to Field Test our venues. Over the course of several Blog Posts he’ll take you through his 2010 trips; Part 3 – Lac Du Villefond It was late September when I visited Lac Du Villefond with Paul Brookes. Our task was to try […]

A year in the life of an Angling Lines Field Tester – Pt 2

Paul Cooper is one of a small band of anglers we use to Field Test our venues. Over the course of several Blog Posts he’ll take you through his 2010 trips; 40.04 Molyneux mirror for Paul Part 2 – Etang Molyneux Another call from David at Angling Lines in early June and Pat Gillet and […]

A year in the life of an Angling Lines Field Tester – Pt 1

Paul Cooper is one of a small band of anglers we use to Field Test our venues. Over the course of several Blog Posts he’ll take you through his 2010 trips; 36.04 mirror from Paul’s Sapphire trip From early Spring to late November with Angling Lines; Part 1 – Sapphire Lake I have been field […]

How do you get maximum return from a carp swim?

Here’s an article from one of our field testers, Paul Cooper.  Paul is one of a small band of very good anglers we send out to France to evaluate new venues for us.  They often arrive with very little feedback to help them and they are under a lot of pressure to get the best […]