Technical Carping

Boost your carp skills with technical guides, tips and techniques that focus on improving tackle, baiting and tactics for success on the water.

Tackling Pressured Day Ticket Carp Venues

Tackling Pressured Day Ticket Venues By Josh Bennett Whether home or abroad, carp fishing is becoming more popular. This has a knock on effect with the amount of pressure that venues are seeing week in week out. After a fair few years of fishing this type of venue, there are a few tips and pointers […]

How Do I Combat Weed in a Carp Lake?

Eddie asks; I have booked a lake with a party of friends on the 19th of March.  I recently had a tour of the lake and was disappointed to find it was thick with weed.  I would be grateful if you can give me some advice on the best method & rig to use? Hi […]

A memorable Villefond carp session…

Our Villefond session; 25th March to Ist April 2011 Sick as a Parrott… Our trip to Villefond was to celebrate my good friend Andy’s 40th Birthday. The weather had improved showing a large increase in temperature in just a couple of weeks in both England and France. On arriving at the venue we were met […]

Carp rigs – a new twist to glaçon/ice rig method

I continually assess my fishing methods with a view to improving them wherever possible and I’ve come up with a twist to my glaçons or ice rigs (see Vaux BLOG Winter Carp Fishing – The Ice Rig dated 8th February 2010) as my earlier method was slightly inconvenient, owing to the fact that a hook […]

Moon phases and carp fishing

This article first appeared on the Quest Baits Blog in June 2010 and is reproduced here by kind permission. A few days ago we published a post posing the question “Does the moon phase affect your chance of catching carp?”  This post by Shaun Harrison indicates that he thinks it does… “Big Moon Big Common” […]

Do moon phases affect carp fishing?

You’ll probably be aware that many people believe that the phases of the moon have an effect on animal behaviour and in particular the behaviour of fish.  So is your chance of catching carp affected by the particular phase of the moon? Well, you’d be surprised to learn that many well respected carp anglers pay […]

Winter carp fishing at Laroussi

  Mark Oakes experienced some true winter carping at Laroussi just before Christmas (w/c 26th November 2010).  As you can see from the photo above he experienced around 6 inches of snow and had to come home 2 days early because the lake froze over! Did he catch?  He sure did…. a 43lb carp & […]

Best Bit of Carp Fishing Tackle in 2010

I was sat in the bivvy at the week-end thinking about the various bit of kit we add to our arsenal and how every so often one item will become one of those you really couldn’t do without and would replace immediately should anything happen to them. There have been four items of kit for […]