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!

By Tim Richardson.

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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

Winning the match was Mike Fuller with 32 lb 1 oz consisting of 5 pellet caught barbel from peg 16 above the bridge at Linley.  Tricasts Dave Roberts on peg 29 had a few pounds of dace to waggler and 4 barbel on feeder to end with 29 lb 10oz, and in third place was Colin Jones ( Larry's lads) also netted 5 barbel  to pellet bait at notorious snaggy peg 132 to weigh 26 lb 3 oz.

Further results;  Chris Parr (Sensas Thyers) 25 lb 8 oz, Steve Colwell (Sussex) 19 lb 4 oz and Chris Taylor ( Bromsgrove ) 18 lb 9 oz completed the main frame.

Qualifiers going through to the grand final on the River Wye, Hereford on 15th/16th November are:

Zone a – Mike Fuller
Zone b – Chris Parr
Zone c – Colin Jones

The Angling Trust would like to thank Brian Preece and all the match stewards and Bridgnorth Match Organiser  Rosa Bailey for doing all the results.

Source: Angling Trust Fishing News

Do you want to do far better against competing anglers using top readymade baits? So many anglers today are stuck in a rut of constantly buying readymade baits which do not give them an edge because so many other anglers are using that very same bait or are using very similar baits! But the exact point of bait is to maximise your chances of getting most bites as fast as possible, and why not!

How many times have you bought into the idea that the next wonder bait on the market will give you that edge and then found that it is simply another edge that thousands have jumped onto? If you buy readymade baits then this is your situation each and every time you move onto a newly marketed bait. The ideal situation is when you present carp permanently with new experiences each time you go fishing so even though you are highly successful all the time the fish simply never catch up with whatever version of new bait you are using.

The fact is that the bait industry wants you to buy as much bait as possible and part of how they do this is selling you on the idea that your bait must give fish a reward, be a food bait carrying a premium high price tag. But if you think that food bait is the ultimate in boilies then you are very mistaken! For example, how much soya must be packing out so many of these baits sold for as little as 5 pounds a kilogram? This really demonstrates how inferior their excess free amino acid-driven feeding trigger potency truly is! Do not measure a bait by cost per kilogram.

Measure a bait by its true feeding trigger density per kilogram. You might even remember a time when a pound of milk protein boilies caught as many as 10 kilograms of fish meal boilies. Well that says it all in terms of relative feeding trigger density. You only need to introduce many kilograms of bait if it is massively under-optimised for feeding trigger density!

So many ready made so-called food baits are a massive waste of money. You can do far better making your own, but truly optimised for feeding trigger density, functional practical physical diffusion pump ion exchange feeding trigger and attractor concentrations – with the right information and help OK!

Readymade boilies have one primary purpose for the commercial bait maker; to make a profit. To do this they must first be in a form, with features and characteristics that catch you! I have yet to find a readymade bait which is genuinely optimised for function and truly maximised for performance. The reason for this is clear; it would probably kill sales immediately, as such a bait would cost a fortune per kilogram, and secondly the modes of actions and format of such bait mean they are by definition unstable, and by no means as simple to use as a hard round or barrel boilie straight out of a packet.

Another fact is that readymade boilies are predominantly made to last a minimum of at least 12 to 36 hours intact in water. Most carp anglers have no idea that such bait that lasts this long intact are lifeless exceptionally poor baits in terms of true potential for inducing maximum feeding responses! The bait companies seem to keep this little fact very quiet!

The situation is now so extreme in terms of conditioning of the public that anglers actually now believe that washing out ready made before using them is better! This is simply insane as it shows that baits used like this have already blown!

Using a completely unique homemade bait is a stunning solution endlessly more effective, but only when you design such homemade baits using totally new paradigms of design instead of not old-fashioned food bait ideas most commercial bait makers are stuck in a rut with!

I and my ebook readers and 1-1 personal bait tuition clients out-fish washed out Cell etc incredibly consistently again and again with our unique design homemade baits. (Email me about this at my site Baitbigfish if you want to do this too!) I only mention cell as so many anglers have been conditioned by advertorials and peer pressure etc into thinking it is the best bait in the world when it is far from it! (In fact if it was so good it would not need replacing with new baits brought out and would not need to be used as washed out baits having blown!) Having said that Mainline make great baits, but they can be beaten by homemade made baits with ease I assure you!

This year I have more and more been refining my one - to - one personal bait tuitions to make readymade baits irrelevant in my clients big carp fishing. This is done by empowering them fast and simply with a crystal clear basis for creating truly optimised for maximised feeding homemade baits, but not clinging to out-date paradigms of instant over-flavoured type baits or food bait nutritional paradigms which are both under-optimised in many ways on many levels, but by teaching new paradigms.

Most carp anglers think of boilies in terms of objects which have very typical features and characteristics, and anglers feel very safe with these because they appear to them to be successful. However there are very few carp anglers that have done the amount of comparative analysis required to prove that typical readymade baits can be beaten by other formats of baits repeatedly, without any pre-baiting whatsoever. Also you really can beat so-called food baits without using old school over flavouring using concentrated flavours, and without using old school high nutritional value or balanced nutrient value theories, which although work are not the pinnacle of what an individual can achieve today!

The baits you see as colour images in the magazines are fake, an illusion, because what matters in truth is what you cannot see. So for example the reactions of bait substances in combination (which interact upon each other like salts enhancing amino acids for example in solution, reacting with carp receptors with more impact; carp baits in truth are solution components actively reacting together unlocking carp receptor proteins so messages via the nervous system and brain transmit via hormones and amino acid releases which directly alter mood, brain and body chemistry firing muscle fibres to enable carp to feed!

Baits are not the solid round or barrel or cylinder shaped objects that the average guy on the bank imagines them to be! Are you in that mindset too? When you think of bait do you see solid objects in your minds eye? Think again about what bait truly is and it will lead to great results and personal breakthroughs in your fishing believe me!

I recently got back into big carp fishing after spending the majority of the last 6 years testing bait substances, levels, combinations, reactions within baits, and in water, in different waters, in different conditions, and much much more. I have taken just a small number of these refinements to big carp waters, and using homemade baits I have never made before nor tested ever, I have had in 4 short sessions on different day ticket waters two twenty nine pound carp, and five thirty pound carp including a thirty seven plus, and a forty pound twelve ounce mirror. The biggest fish were not caught by baiting in advance with food baits and were not caught using high levels of concentrated favours.

The homemade baits were simply based on a small number of top factors I have gleaned from all my bait testing over the past 6 years, and in 4 different short sessions to waters completely new to me using each time totally new unique baits, the biggest fish were caught on the first or second day or night. This was notably simply using a handful of hook baits, and a very small volume of PVA and other free baits.

By contrast, anglers fishing alongside me were fishing either having already baited with many kilograms of food baits like Mainline Cell, costing a fortune, or used some other brand of boilie and used large amounts in previous sessions to get fish onto their bait.

I was suckered into the old school HNV or BNV bait theory as being the best, but it is not. Since such baits in readymade format can be beaten so easily with very simply baits there is absolutely no doubt that the vast majority of carp anglers have no idea they are wasting a huge amount of money by allowing their perceptions to be skewed by flashy adverts, colourful fast paced videos with trendy street music etc, and all the advertorials within the fishing magazines etc.

I am an advocate of freedom in its many forms, and carp are free to dynamically evolve individually, right down to genetic level in response to readymade baits as these are their dominant threat, despite being a supplementary nutrition source on many severely over-stocked waters.

If it is controversial to write about homemade baits of different formats alternative to the stereotypical format of machine rolled readymade boilies then so what; I am walking the talk, and so are my readers of my bait secrets ebooks. I do not put absolutes in my ebooks simply because I want you to evolve in your own best way harnessing however you think and perceive, using your own personal unique advantages and bringing them all into your bait designs, bait application approaches and personal fishing evolution.

All this and more brings further speeded-up and enhanced personal growth of skills and awareness and capacity to achieve more as an angler with constantly improving success as a result of being different to the herd in your awareness and thinking and skills levels, being more and more refined in how you think, and following that very directly, far more refined in whatever you do in your fishing practices!

Opening your mind and being different to the crowd is not a risk in modern carp fishing. It is and always has been the key to exceptional success! Success in carp fishing is more a path of constant personal refinements of baits, and skills and understanding and awareness in response to the fact that our baits and rigs dynamically actively condition fish fear responses (and their consequential changes in fish behaviours by association.) The most consistent carp fishing success is not about short cuts or gimmicks but in seeking the truth about principles and keys which with thinking are like doorways to always keeping ahead of your fish!

With every refinement you become aware of or make subconsciously in your mind and in your fishing, you bring exceptional success that bit closer, and you are evolving, just as carp are evolving to combat your mindset and entrenched thinking which needs to be in the future and not what has worked in the past – or even last month; carp evolve fast! As they say, when the student is ready, the teacher appears! 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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Oakley Feul Cell Sunglasses: Manufacturers Description

The Oakley Fuel Cell sunglasses are a design for men that boast a sleek and smooth style yet also create a bold statement and allow the wearer to stand out from the crowd! Fusing a fine blend of art and technology, the Fuel Cell sunglasses are perfect for those who like to assert their presence without the need to be too overstated.

The sunglasses are designed with a slightly wrapped fit and feature a thick and durable yet lightweight O Matter frame which is enhanced by the effect of the Oakley Three-Point Fit structure that provides maximum comfort. We tested the camo style but the frames are also available in neutral colours such as polished black, brown smoke and brown tortoiseshell or for something a little bolder, frame colours including polished clear and polished black with a blue Oakley logo for an effective pop of colour are also in the offering.

The two lenses are cut from a single shield of pure Plutonite and precisely placed in the frame to maintain the original and streamlined contour. Peripheral vision is fully maximised with the Fuel Cell sunglasses due to the Polaric Ellipsoid lens geometry and UV filtering provides protection from UVA, UVB and UVC light. Some styles within the Fuel Cell collection also feature an iridium lens coating which reduces glare and tunes light transmission and polarised lenses for enhanced glare reduction and the ultimate in visual quality.

Review:

So, the manufacturers description is rather technical to say the least but we wanted to know if they hit the spot with regards to comfort, style and performance.

1. Comfort:
I loved the feel of these Oakley Sunglasses from Shade Station. Unlike many sunglasses I have worn, I wasn't constantly repositioning them on the head and almost forgot I was wearing them. The wrap-around style provides all round cover for your eyes even when looking up and down. They grip your head well without being in the slightest bit uncomfortable.

2. Performance
These sunglasses performed really well when we tested them on a day with mixed sunshine and cloudy periods. Everything remained clear and in focus (even when the sun went in) and there was no glare from the sun. These Oakley Fuel Cell Sunglasses seemed great at filtering out light, images remained crisp with great clarity/definition and colours seemed true to life.

3. Style:
Excellent. The unmistakeable Oakley logo on both sides of the glasses indicates you are wearing a stylish and classy pair of glasses and with camo being the choice of wear for many anglers these days, these Shade Station stock Oakley fishing sunglasses are sure to hit the mark with anglers, particularly carp and game anglers who really need a decent pair of shades to inspect the water carefully when stalking their prey.

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Prices and where to buy:

The Oakley Fuel Cell Sunglasses are available to buy online at www.shadestation.co.uk

Price:
£112.00 with FREE delivery

Available frame and lens colours:
Visit Shade Station's website for a full list of Oakley Fuel Cell Sunglasses' frame and lens colours.