The match was won by local angler Nick Burton at peg 28, the famous ‘Stump’ peg with 26 bream for a 121-10-0 total. Nick used open-end feeder tactics and fed two pints of casters plus 1/2kg of chopped worms with lobworm on the hook.  Next door at peg 27, Brian Rigby had exactly the same amount of bream, but fell short of qualifying by just 8oz after weighing 121-2-0 on the same tactics as the winner.

On the other side of the winner, at peg 29, another local angler Ian Shepherd finished third overall with 12 bream for 62-14-0.  More big weights followed with Scott Geens on 59-2-0 from peg 60 and Steve Hemingray with 41-0-0 from peg 53.

The incredible match didn’t just centre around bream catches either as B zone was won by Simon Deakin with 21-8-0, a catch made up largely of one carp weighing 21-6-0!

Top 5 Results
1. Nick Burton 121-10-0
2. Brian Rigby 121-2-0
3. Ian Shepherd 62-14-0
4. Scott Geens 59-2-0
5. Steve Hemingray 41-0-0

Qualifiers for the RiverFest final
Nick Burton
Simon Deakin
Scott Geens

Two qualifying matches now remain to decide the six anglers who will join the 54 others in the big money November final.  The next match takes place on the Yorkshire Ouse on Saturday 25th October.

Source: Angling Trust Fishing News

• Major draining of 200-year-old London canal for critical safety repairs
• 7.5million gallons, the equivalent to nearly 300,000 baths of water and 14 Olympic swimming pools
• Over 500 fish were rescued, including several 25lb carp and around 350 rare European Eels

The Regent's Canal has been drained between Johnson Lock and Limehouse Basin in east London to allow specialist brick-layers to repair large, 2-3ft-wide voids which have developed in the canal wall.  Works are expected to start this week and the area will remain empty for ten weeks, re-opening ahead of Christmas.

Over 500 fish were rescued and relocated upstream, including carp, bream and perch and around 350 European Eels.  A team of two sent an electric current into the water to encourage the fish not to swim and then scooped them out with nets. 

Born in the Sargasso Sea, the eels travel for three years to the Thames Estuary to spend up to 25 years of their life in London canals before returning to breed.

John Ellis, national fisheries and angling manager at Canal & River Trust, says: “The Regent’s Canal is an important habitat for the protected European Eel and the Trust takes our responsibility to care for the fish in our waterways very seriously.  The electric current does not harm the fish at all and it makes it much easier for us to move them to safety.  The essential works to improve the brickwork of the Regent’s will not affect their habitat once the canal is refilled.”

In November, the Canal & River Trust will begin a major overhaul of its waterways as part of a five-month, multi-million pound maintenance programme to canals and rivers across England and Wales.  As part of this, next month the public will be given the rare chance to go behind-the-scenes and venture into the bottom of the Regent’s canal, giving them the opportunity to see up close some of the finest examples of working industrial heritage in the world.

The essential maintenance will include the replacement of worn-out lock gates and repairs to aqueducts, reservoirs and tunnels. The works will also provide thousands of visitors the rare chance to go behind-the-scenes and venture into the bottom of drained lock chambers.

Richard Parry, chief executive of the Canal & River Trust, says: “The Canal & River Trust cares for a remarkable 2,000 mile network of historic waterways, ensuring they work as they were designed to 200 years ago. The Regent's Canal drainage and repair work is just one of many projects we undertake which also give the public a rare glimpse beneath the surface of our waterways and a chance to appreciate the work we do to care for these national treasures.”

The charity carries out a year round programme of works to maintain and repair 2,000 miles of canals and rivers so they can be enjoyed by the 33,000 boaters that use the network and 12 million towpath visitors each year.  Many of the biggest projects are carried out during the winter months to minimise the impact on waterway users.

Source: Canal and River Trust

Scottish Water admitted to failing to properly maintain the sulphuric acid tank in accordance with recommended practice. The cause of the spill was identified as the severe corrosion of a bolt securing a container holding this toxic substance. The concentrated acid is used by Scottish Water as part of the water treatment process and is highly toxic to fish. The escape of the acid caused extensive damage to the ecology of the River Devon and many dead trout, perch and sticklebacks were observed on the margins of the River Devon as far as 6km downstream of the spill.

Robert Younger of Fish Legal said:

"This appalling pollution incident caused substantial loss of fishing to the anglers of the Devon Angling Association, and Fish Legal will do everything in its power to ensure that Scottish Water takes full responsibility for paying for all the damage caused. This was a careless incident by Scottish Water that could and should have been avoided."

David Mudie of the Devon Angling Association said:

"The 2011 pollution spill caused the total destruction of the native brown trout population over 6 kilometres of the river Devon and even now trout numbers are a shadow of their pre-incident levels. The Association's members have now suffered a substantial loss of fishing opportunity over a number of years and we sincerely hope that Scottish Water address our losses as soon as possible"

William Rundle, Head Solicitor of Fish Legal, said:

“Fish Legal has a long and proud history of successfully representing its members who have suffered the terrible effects of pollution, and will seek to do so again here for the Devon Angling Association. We hope that by securing compensation for the Devon Angling Association we can help it restore its fishery, whilst also serving as a deterrent to future ‘would-be’ polluters. As a not-for-profit membership association we depend on our member clubs, riparian owners and other fishery members’ support in order to do this work for them, but with Fish Legal membership these members can be assured of our determination to get the best result possible for them in their time of need.”

Source: Angling Trust Fishing News

I expect you are most likely thinking that this must be my year; that at last I am going to succeed and really get into those big fish I have been dreaming of! This exact kind of thought is the mindset that programmes you to succeed in fishing and I will explain why it works and how to harness it much further. You might ask who are you to talk about fishing success and all I can say is for starters is that in 2006 I decided to catch the world record carp. Subsequently within 9 days of fishing at Rainbow Lake I had hooked that specific fish.

My detailed technical preparations involving bait design, very unusual bait applications and formats used and very particular attention given to every single item of tackle chosen and sourced for this mission all paid off. But most of all it was the mindset and constant self talk which paid off. This heightened my awareness and sensitivity to everything I could possibly harness within my environment and own past big fish experiences and focused them all towards my goal.

Winter and early spring are times when you simply must be positive at all times and be at the peak of your abilities as an angler because being in such an alert frame of mind maximises whatever chances may be available. But far more importantly still is that with this sharpened mindset you will actively proactively create your own unique catching opportunities and competitive edges!

When you focus in as great a detail on every single aspect of your fishing challenge then this crystallizes everything at your disposal so it is readily available at your finger tips. There is a reason why top match men practice the way they do. Practice does not make perfect. The truth is that perfect practice makes perfect. I have fished with and beaten a guy who matched for the England Sea fishing team, using baiting tactics and technical strategies from my carp fishing.

I have also beaten a guy in catching some of the very biggest carp from a very hard lake. This guy match fished for England as a youth and was technically speaking among the most refined carp anglers I have fished against. I was able to out fish him by using adapted details of lessons learned from sea fishing and river fishing. You are wondering how does this relate to your own winter carp fishing I guess so I will expand on what I have just described!

What I did to beat these two obviously highly talented and experienced anglers was to use my mind to focus extremely intently upon everything that could possibly be relevant that I ever experienced, read, seen, invented, imagined, or intuited. This included every single thing in fishing I ever observed in the past and present, and my gut feelings about it all in regards to the present fishing situation and challenges in detail that this had. This mental focus is really what Kevin Maddocks was referring to when he wrote about having a positive mental attitude when winter fishing.

To be a sharp carp fisherman is not to have the latest baits and equipment, but to hone your mind shaper than anyone else! This is what Richard walker did, and one of the things that made Rod Hutchinson stand out and what made so many truly great pioneers in carp fishing do so well. In fact so many of these were so sharp that other anglers thought they were crazy, and Duncan Kay is a perfect example of a great angler and technical bait pioneer too that really had vision and  as a result in the seventies he was well ahead of the crowd!

Modern anglers today have mainly lost this creative mind power which assures great success. This is because most anglers are simply following the herd to a massive degree, and copying whatever fashionable baits and methods are the latest to be advertised or talked about in the carp magazines. I hope you can see how limiting this is to success!

For a start, using the same readymade bait as everyone else means you have just lost any competitive edge over them. But the entire point of bait is to be an edge, not simply over cautious carp but obviously over other anglers too. When other anglers catch your target fish on exactly the same readymade bait as you are using think about how much this drastically reduces your own chances!

I recommend that you use the winter and spring to seriously reassess everything you are thinking about your carp fishing. You have many blocks to your success which are actually caused by your own limited and out of date thinking. Carp are dynamically evolving creatures and every single one is constantly day by day individually changing on a genetic level, just like you! Many people do did not realise for example that your genetics are not fixed and that you are adapting genetically in response to the food you eat! I hope this makes you think!

There is no perfect diet! This is because every individual is unique in their genetic make up and details arising from this dynamic and every experience past and present an individual has. This applies to humans and carp equally. For example, a bait with an exact match to bloodworm amino acid profile may be invented that is in a format that physically fools carp. However, once enough carp are hooked on this enough times they will change, even to the point of avoiding consuming bloodworm totally.

Carp have evolved not merely to be acutely sensitive to potential opportunities for energy and nutrition, but also for threats and dangers from these. Not many anglers realise that the actual specific baits that they use directly condition carp to the danger that is associated with them. This is a big reason why I avoid using readymade baits!

I make my own homemade baits designing my own boilie recipes mainly using ingredients which are not used in readymade baits! It takes visualization and careful thought to do this and I do help loads of anglers achieve this very successfully. I do this because it works and because my greater satisfaction is in knowing my experiences are empowering other anglers to catch their dream fish! It has amazed me to discover that in fact doing this is far more satisfying than the highs of catching all the lake records and personal best fish I have over the past 35 years!

These personal catches are fleeting moments of ecstasy that is for sure, but these memories and feelings fade like photographs over time. But getting catch reports from anglers whom you have helped to catch new records using homemade baits on their water, to beat readymade baits such as Bait craft, Richworth, and Mainline etc, feels so fantastic!

So back to what you can control most of all in your fishing, and to positively creating your own detailed guaranteed success in advance!

The only place you can actually do perfect practice for fishing whether to win an international match, or to catch the biggest carp in your lake is to keep on doing perfect practice in your own mind! This is one thing I have a feeling that Terry Hearn for instance spends much of his time doing; far more than the average angler. This involves anything from location and fish behaviour patterns and feeding spots and how they change over time in a lake, to visualizing exactly how your target fish enter the swim, how they sample baits and respond to the presence of terminal tackle and baits on the bottom.

Spending far longer in a swim than average weekend anglers, days and days, you kind of become part of it, and get to know its secrets, natural rhythms, moods, observing and sensing everything moving, changing happening as day turns to night, and night turns to day, learning more and more about how and why the fish behave the way they do, and why.

For instance I learnt by experimentation, comparative analysis of set-ups and tackle arrangements with different lines and back leads, sinking tungsten tubing and more that it was important to pin everything down right from the rod tip on a water I fished for 8 years. Often the biggest fish in there would stop feeding if they felt any line or anything like it.

They developed a behaviour of spinning on line once hooked, and coming straight in giving you no resistance, and searching for another line to use as a lever to pull the hook out, and they did this immediately as close as the bank at you feet and that is no exaggeration, and I lost some near forty pound fish by them employing this evolved behaviour.

This is before I got wise to it when a few fish did this requiring me to exploit numerous back leads sometimes 7 or 9, which always made lesser aware anglers think I was mad. I also pulled my rod tips away from the edge of the water so only the first 2 rigs were over the waters edge. This had a hidden benefit too as by doing this I began to convert more single bleep bites as I had removed the buffering effect of having over half the rod sticking out beyond the buzzer acting like a great big shock absorber defeating the entire point of hook penetration!

Think about it and try it because I know you will have never seen this in magazines but it really does work, but use a line clip above your reels to establish that essential shock effect too! My best result of my own evolution there was a 46 pound leather only caught once previously. (It later occurred to me that it was probably an Essex record for a leather at that time in the late nineties though I never publicized the catch.)

You can get better and stronger and far more detailed in your fishing visualization at any time and any place; and not just in your bivvy! You can deeply detail visualize at home while making homemade baits, when making up rigs and when taking valuable hours manually sharpening your hooks well past the fineness of any chemically sharpened hooks! Very few articles have ever been on the mental side of fishing yet I make this point for this simple reason; every single action you take in fishing is a result of your mind and your thoughts and because of this your degree of success is totally in your own mind!

Perfect practice visualization of exactly the goal you have in mind hones your awareness and opens your consciousness to everything you need to improve upon and refine further and further until you succeed, so that success really genuinely does literally become simply a matter of time!

Perfect practice visualization is the most powerful thing you can constantly do in your fishing so I recommend you think about this! Revealed in my unique readymade bait and homemade bait carp and catfish bait secrets ebooks is far more powerful information look up my unique website (Baitbigfish) and see my biography below for details of my ebooks deals right now!

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Visitors enjoyed a host of activities that were organised place along the Thames Tideway  including paddle boarding, sailing, kayaking, angling, foreshore exploration, river dipping, wildlife spotting and a heritage walk.

The Angling Trust organised held a successful match at Strand on the Green, downstream of Kew Bridge, and congratulations went to worthy winner Clive Westwood for his fine feeder caught catch of 34lbs 8ozs of mainly bream which earned him a lovely trophy and a cool £500. Second was James Thornhill from the charity Get Hooked on Fishing (which also received a £200 donation from the participating anglers) with 21.05 followed by Keith Clark with 16.15 for third place. The sponsors Thames Tideway Tunnel have confirmed for next year and the organising committee are already making plans for a bigger event for 2015 on the last Sunday in September. This may include a 60 peg pairs match over two sections.

The Angling Trust's Martin Salter, one of the event organisers, said:  " Despite the bright sunshine and the less than ideal conditions for fishing there were some good bags recorded and it was great to see so many people out on the river celebrating what the Thames Tideway has to offer and to mark World Rivers Day. With the new super sewer now being given the go ahead and our sponsors already confirmed for next year we can really look forward to a brighter and fish filled future for London's river. TideFest will not only be a bigger and better match in 2015, it will provide an all important health check on the condition of the Thames Tideway. "

TideFest is a new river Thames event taking place to highlight and celebrate the recreational importance of the Thames Tideway to Londoners. TideFest is part of the Totally Thames festival and is supported by the Living Wandle Landscape Partnership and the Thames Tunnel Now Coalition which includes RSPB, London Wildlife Trust, Thames21, WWF, River Thames Society and the Angling Trust.

World Rivers Day began in Canada 30 years ago but became officially recognised as a global event by the United Nations in 2005 as part of their 'Water for Life' decade. It takes place every year on the last Saturday in September and involves thousands people across the planet in projects as diverse as identifying illegal dumping sites in Russia, holding community awareness programmes in West Africa, organising community clean ups in Poland and highlighting the need for better sewage treatment for the River Ganges in India.

It was the prospect of an ever cleaner river Thames in the heart of London that brought wildlife and conservation groups together to organise TideFest. Last year saw long overdue improvements at Mogden Sewage Treatment Works as part of a wider £5.4bn plan to clean up the river including the £635m Lee Tunnel, and the £4.2bn Thames Tideway Tunnel which the Angling Trust looks forward to seeing completed.

Source: Angling Trust Fishing News

The winner on the day was Robbie Quinn fishing from peg 20 below the weir at Bailey's.  He fished stickfloat and maggot to land about 9 lbs of roach and dace, plus a beautiful 12 lb barbel for 21 lb 2 oz.  small roach and dace for 17 lb 7 oz again on stickfloat and maggot.  Third on peg 22 on the municipal was John Small who landed 14 lb 10 oz of mainly roach again on stickfloat and maggot.

Qualifiers going through to the RiverFest final on 15th/16th November on the River Wye, Hereford are Robbie Quinn, Sam Merry and Sean Ashby.

Top 5.
R Quinn - Shakespeare 21 lb 2 oz
J Mills - Ferrybridge AC 17 lb 7 oz
J Small - Lincoln Whisby 14 lb 10 oz
S Merry - Bait-tech. 13 lb 4 oz
S Ashby - Starlets 11 lb 3 oz.

The next  RiverFest qualifier heads to the River Thames at Medley on Saturday 4th October.

Source: Angling Trust Fishing News

Angling Trust England Youth Fly Fishing is undertaking a transitional period following the departure of a number of key volunteers from the youth set up who have contributed significantly to the development and success of English Youth Fly Fishing for so many years. As a result a number of opportunities have arisen to join the AT EYF Committee; roles include Chairperson, Team Coordinator, Team Manager and Team Coach. Volunteers will receive support from the Angling Trust with coaching qualifications and other training opportunities.

Ben Thompson, Angling Trust Senior Competitions Manager said; ”English Youth Fly Fishing has prospered for so many years under the guidance of Chris McLeod and a fantastic team of volunteers. Their departure has left a huge void and they will be difficult to replace but with that comes the opportunity for new people to get involved, the opportunity to carry on the tremendous work of the previous team and ensure a bright future for English Youth Fly Fishing in this country.”

Role descriptions, person specification and adverts can be found on the Angling Trust website www.anglingtrust.net/vacancies and closing date for applications is Friday 31st October 2014. Interviews will be carried out at various locations around the country from week beginning 10th November 2014.

Further information can be obtained through Ben Thompson (Senior Competitions & Talent Development Manager) on 07854 240177

How to Apply
Applicants should complete an application form and diversity monitoring form available at www.anglingtrust.net/vacancies and send them marked “Personal” to;-

David Compton
Angling Trust
Strelley Hall
Strelley
Nottingham
NG8 6PE

or via email to david.compton@anglingtrust.net

Closing date for applications is 17:00 on 31st October 2014
Interviews to take place week beginning 10th November at various locations

Source: Angling Trust Fishing News

This basic introduction to Coarse Fishing video is aimed at the novice angler and explains the different types of coarse fishing rods available and how to choose the correct coarse fishing rod for different situations. Selecting the right rod can be a bewildering experience with so many different rods available on the market today. So where to begin?

Watch and learn from the experts at Shakespeare Fishing.

Krill are small marine arthropods in the same class group as crabs, crayfish, lobsters and shrimps. Each of these has proven attraction and stimulation to carp; the reasons for this are extremely significant to improving your catches and krill really is a super food having accounted for endless big carp over decades! Krill is an incredibly rich food source rich enough in essential nutrients to support the largest animals in the world; the whales!

Krill meal is attractive to carp for many reasons relating to a variety of substances it is composed of, very many act as appetite stimulants and attractants! These act upon carp via processes which are in at least some ways akin to our taste and smell functions, though carp differ in many structural, biochemical, nervous pathway and brain connectivity aspects etc compared to humans who sense via specialised cell, water-covered membranes.

Antarctic krill is best known as bait due to its purity, natural intrinsic nutrition and other benefits to carp. Krill’s natural abundance compared to very many already depleted fish species today realistically already heading for extinction makes it an ethical bait choice!

Palatability of krill is in part due to various amino acids, including glycogenic amino acids. Probably the most powerful aspect of krill is a certain quaternary ammonium compound that hugely increases the stimulation of krill to carp. After so many years of research I have done a very significant pattern has emerged that I’ve noticed in that many low molecular weight substances are highly attractive or stimulatory to carp, catfish and many other species!

So when you are looking for new and more alternative and more unusual substances to exploit which are genuine true feeding trigger rich substances to bypass carp or catfish wariness due to their exceptional feeding trigger potency for instance, this is part of what I look for!

Protein content of krill meal is approximately 58 percent. Meal is far more detectable to carp and far more stimulatory to carp, and far more energy-efficiently, more instantly digested and assimilated by carp, when the protein fraction is extracted and hydrolysed by enzyme actions producing instantly detectable, instantly assimilated peptides!
(So do exploit CC Moore Krill Amino Compound for example!) Some of the more abundant amino acids in krill meal (stimulatory to carp,) are aspartic acid and glutamic acid and proline.

The krill lipids 15 to 18 percent content is seriously significant to its outstanding success as big carp bait!
Krill carapace hard shell chitin converted to chitosan by enzymes, acts as usable carbohydrate and a significant immune system booster for carp. (Many well-known carp bait substances also boost balanced health and immunity of carp - carp respond to such internal impacts very positively!)

Krill meal is rich in natural carotenoid pigments, nearly all in the form of astaxanthin. This pigment is a potent antioxidant, protecting health of fish from oxidative processes and their negative effects. Astaxanthin has also been found to be a factor in higher growth rates in fish, as well as improving longevity. The pigments in tomatoes, peppers as in Robin Red additives, and in other crustaceans for instance, have similar internal positive impacts and make krill and meal and related products more productive as bait for carp.

Carp and other fish are instinctively drawn to foods containing vital nutrients involved with essential functions. Krill’s ratio of low calcium to phosphorus (1,5:1) compared to brown fish meal or shrimp or crustacean meals mean better absorption of both these essential minerals.

Many of the minerals in krill are very easily biologically-available as they are in one way or another joined to amino acids, proteins, or peptides. Carp instinctively are attracted such chelated minerals! One example in krill is copper chelated with the feed-triggering lysine amino acid, the level of which is 10 times higher in krill compared to fish meals; great for instant and long-term baits!

Use krill meal in boilies or stick mixes etc at 50 to 100 grams per kilogram. For buoyant zig-rig or surface floating baits, and wafting or pop-up hook baits, this light ingredient can be used in much higher levels! Usually krill is used at up to 3 ounces per pound of bait or roughly 300 or 400 grams per kilogram of boilie or paste base mix. This is dependant upon the density and weight or buoyancy of other ingredients included.

For instance 90 mesh rennet casein makes baits more buoyant with a soft center, while maize meal, or especially 60 percent protein maize protein is a very dense ingredient and makes baits heavier, (as do naturally mineral-dense clay powders!) Such effects can be manipulated to catch loads more fish in different fishing situations, fishing in silt, on top of blanket weed or to get free baits out much further distances etc.

Krill amino concentrates are denser than water sinks into and across the bottom holding fish for long periods. Krill meal and extracts can be exploited to boost and open up boilies and pastes baits, and indeed be used as soluble and particulate attraction as part of ground baits, stick mixes and so on as well as alter active characteristics of baits for weed or heavy chod etc.

As with krill, the more you can find out about bait substances, the more powerful new edges you’ll become aware of or create new to induce feeding situations that conventional approaches will fail to achieve as effectively, especially in regards to big wary fish!

I have spoken to anglers who have been making homemade boilies using old fashioned HNV or BNV theories and to direct about it, they have really missed the point. The aim is certainly not to feed fish with nutritional elements, but to get maximum bites as a result of their presence in the water in solution as attractors and feeding triggers, bioactive factors with internal impacts and so on which further induce feeding. This is massively under exploited in baits sealed with eggs, using conventional levels of proteinous materials offering excess free amino acids.

My own new unique paradigm of designing astounding feed trigger dense active and bioactive, prebiotic and probiotic thermogenic, metabolism-boosting, feeding prolonging baits are a world away from those using conventional liquid egg, carbohydrate binders and whole proteins such as fish meals and milk proteins which are not already hydrolysed totally.

Carp are the same all over the world and to date anglers in over 70 countries are using my ebooks each in their own uniquely creative ways. The series is about exploiting the sensitivities internal and external processes and sensory systems using vital true feeding triggers, plus attractors, incitants, enhancers of various forms, sweeteners and other substances, which all are used to maximise the impacts on these processes and systems to get fish to feed to induce as many bites as possible.

This is a very wide and deep subject and my ebooks span 4 years of research testing and writing on top of my previous 25 years of making baits for myself, and not only have I personally hooked a previous world record carp, and a previous UK best catfish and county biggest carp, but I understand how and why, as these happened by design, by logical application of bait knowledge and systematic bait application.

The ways bait work in probably what can be considered the most prominent way is to ionise water. Basically effective baits in solution very significantly increase the hydrogen ion concentration in a volume of water and carp both detect this ionisation plus detect the fact that water is different.

Carp also detect and are directly and indirectly influenced by the different amino acids, organic acids, solvents in flavours, low pH sugar enhancers, chelated salts substances ionising or reacting with the water the water in different ways all simultaneously. All of these impacts upon various external and internal aspects of the sensory systems of carp and induce feeding responses! These induce feeding depending on concentration, duration of concentration, strength of potency, levels of feed-triggering substances used as the actual basis of your baits and so on.

The strength of response, form of feeding actual that takes place, intensity of feeding response and aggressiveness and competitiveness of carp while feeding, or measured very prolonged almost in a trance type slower feeding can be induced directly by how you design your baits and by very careful consideration to substances choices, combination and levels choices and so on, which takes some knowledge and previous real fishing and bait making experience to optimise!

The aim of my 7 bait secrets ebook series is to give you the biggest picture on how to create feeding trigger-based baits as easily and as potently as possible in your very own unique way so your baits always represent new experiences to wary carp which abound in most carp lakes today!

Readymade baits are made for profit, so by definition cannot be made to induce truly maximised feeding responses due to too many compromises having to be made on feeding trigger density cost and functional limitations of such baits which are heated!

But you can create truly optimised for function and truly maximised for feeding trigger density and internal and external physiological impacts within your baits, with no limit to feeding trigger density! Another point is that boiling baits or indeed steaming baits (which means heating at a higher temperature even than boiling point,) makes them seriously under-optimised as baits as they are sealed by coagulated proteins which are long chains damaged by heat.

Such baits have serious flaw because they cannot become what they need to be i.e. feeding triggers and attractants etc in concentration in solution because the coagulated proteins stop water ingress and penetration for a very significant time! For this reason then such baits only ionise via the surface of the baits, and then take many hours to break down and dissolve to ionise water so fish really detect them most easily.

But one of the most powerful actual points of baits is to promote and generate extremely significant ionisation of water! Thusly you can see that making your own high potency baits not boiled or steamed is a very serious advantage indeed. If you think that using a barrel shaped boilie instead of a round shaped boilie is an advantage then think again! Far too many carp sort these within weeks of initial introduction and they do not have the advantage they had years ago!

In fact barrel shaped machine formed baits might as well be the new round baits because they are no better today! Carp simply adapt by association with danger and they do this extremely fast, some carp do it instantly as they are more sensitive than others. Do not be fooled by slick advertising; do your own comparative testing and the truth is obvious and it will more than probably shock you as it did me before I really questioned everything about the modern commercial bait industry and their claims and hype!

So to catch carp far more easily make your own baits as different in features and characteristics and modes of action as possible. To do this most effectively for maximum results to beat ready made baits so well as to make them forever irrelevant forever, you need to be thinking deeper than just creating a recipe, but how to optimise everything about the entire bait format and application.

I encourage you to take advantage of every aspect of my multiple ebooks, some revealing catfish sensitivity issues of substances and metabolic secrets which applied to carp bait recipes will catch you far more big carp! You will benefit for life, and also your understanding and skills and growth in fishing and actually in other areas will be dramatically improved, including your awareness about personal nutrition and its impacts on mood.

The most potent homemade baits and foods with internal impacts are in fact mood modulators. In other words all food or bait are drugs altering brain and body chemistry and crucial balance of inner sensations and feelings and drivers of key behaviours which means carp moods can be changed on purpose in your unique favour to catch you loads more fish! All this can be harnessed and exploited in whichever ways you choose; the information is within the ebooks series!

In summary, for the big fish specifically, krill offers vital key components that not only promote cumulative internal effects which make carp feed more on your baits (instantly and repetitively,) but big fish require extra energy-efficient elements of nutritional potency and krill has the intrinsic power to fuel big fish feeding big time! Revealed in my unique readymade bait and homemade bait carp and catfish bait secrets ebooks is far more powerful information look up my unique website (Baitbigfish) and see my biography below for details of my ebooks deals right now!

By Tim Richardson.

Seize this moment to improve your catches for life with this essential worldwide-proven fishing, readymade and homemade bait secrets bibles series: “BIG CARP FLAVOURS FEEDING TRIGGERS AND CARP SENSES EXPLOITATION SECRETS!” “BIG CARP BAIT SECRETS!” and “BIG CARP AND CATFISH BAIT SECRETS!”

For these, plus new bait secrets ebooks now coming out now and details of Tim Richardson’s cutting-edge ultra-modern 1-1 personal bait tuition and much more unique revealing information.

NOW VISIT: http://www.baitbigfish.com

The home of the world-wide proven homemade bait-making and readymade bait success secrets bibles series - make this year your best ever!

During the week the venue had experienced an Indian summer with catches of over 100 lbs from all of the pools. However, heavy overnight rain dropped the temperature of the water and the 36  competitors experienced a cold, overcast , windless day  with the fish proving hard to tempt in the final.

A worthy winner on the day was 2013 Fish ‘O’ Mania Champion Jamie Hughes (Maver/Bag’em Baits) fishing Bridge pool peg 8.  Jamie failed to catch any fish on pellet shallow or down the margins which are the favourite methods on this water.  However, by persisting with pellet he fished a depth at 16 metres to be able to catch carp throughout the day to end up with a weight of 113.7 lbs to take the first prize of £2,220.

In second place and just one fish shy of winning was Sean Huggins (Dynamite Baits/Drennan Leicester) a previous winner of this event. Sean was drawn on peg 10 on Willow pool and was able to reach on one of the islands with a pole at 16 metres. Here he caught a few carp on maggot then endured a blank three hours before putting together a few fish in the last hour to weight 111.6 lbs for a second place worth £1,665.

Third place went to Steve Openshaw (Lingmere Fisheries) fishing Bridge pool peg 23 where he had a few carp on his favourite method feeder plus a few margin fish for 73.8 lbs and a prize fund of £1,110.  The final big money prize went to Charles Simpson fishing Willow pool peg 19 with a weight of 71.11 lbs and winnings of £555.

Section Winners were
Section 1  Bridge Peg 4 - Ritchie Bedder  Maruku Baits 57.8 lbs
Section 2 Bridge peg 20 - Paul Knapman  36.1 lbs
Section 3 Bridge Peg 28 - Steve Ringer Ringer Baits  59.2 lbs
Section 4 Willow Peg 3 - Chris Hill 22.3 lbs
Section 5  Willow Peg 15 - Aiden Mansfield  37.2 lbs
Section 6 Willow Peg 26 - Ian Cox  24.9 lbs

The Angling Trust would like to offer their thanks and appreciation to all the staff at Blythe Waters for their help with the running of the event.

Photo from left to right; Jamie Hughes, Sean Huggins, Steve Openshaw and Charles Simpson

Source: Angling Trust Fishing News