Choose life. Choose a lake. Choose a swim. Choose a bait. Choose a rig. Choose sleepless nights under the stars. Choose the nocturnal music of branches creaking in the wind, leaves whispering, and the eerie night-calls of owls and wildfowl. Choose bright moons shattered in the rippling surface of lakes, and purple skies at sunset perfectly mirrored. Choose silent mist-shrouded pools at dawn. Choose visions of white-flowering waterlilies turning green-gold in the half-light. Choose the flashing bronze flanks of carp, twisting below the surface, on the edge of visibility. Choose a heightened heart-rate. Choose an emotional rollercoaster. Choose the psychological assault-course of planning, watching, locating, preparing, casting and waiting. Choose the endless hours of strung-out anticipation. Choose the rush of striking, hooking, fighting, and landing (or losing) the fish. Choose to walk the tightrope between desperate failure and the adrenaline-inducing, life-enhancing triumphant high of success. Choose life. Choose obsession. Choose Carp Fishing.
"Greg Freestone, Carpspotting 2011"

Monday 23 February 2015

February Bites

As most are at home in the warm and waiting for spring to come others are still out getting bites in the bitter cold

Nick Cotterill with little pecs at 39lb bang on



Nick Burrage with a stunning February 40lb and a few more stunners for back up



 
 
 
 
 



Wednesday 4 February 2015

Mr Cover Star

Mick Price on the cover with an absolute peach of a folly common coming in at 35lb 2oz! The fish fell to the new Test Bait and was landed using a cork ball pop-up over a bed of matching freebies of around 5 kilos