Coot Corner
….not my most favorite bird in the world – let me tell you! I’ve been trying to think of a name for my new swim, “coot corner” seems to be an appropriate name I think? My first three sessions in it I’ve considered myself lucky to have caught anything; putting any sort of bait in is a nightmare, as you’ll see by this short clip taken on the third visit. I spent hours and hours trying to come up with some... [Read More...]
Koi Capers
….faced with a brand new swim, a seasonally low water level and a full moon, I’m surprised by this outcome! Thanks to my fishing buddy ‘Nails‘ I’ve just had three unexpectedly productive sessions in a swim that he cleared – top effort that man! So when I say new, I’m pretty sure no one has ever fished it? Over the past five years I’ve observed some decent sized koi lolloping about in the area, but have... [Read More...]
Thinking, Blanking, Thinking, Blanking! ~ Part 1
….Even I found this video boring to watch! I appologise for the poor audio (I need to get an external mic for the camera), also I didn’t bother going mad with music and effects like the last one. I only put it on to try and emphasise how hard the fishing is here, and how the fishing on our river has become incrementally more difficult season by season as fish stocks decline. Every year I swear “this is my last season on the river“,... [Read More...]
Underwater Koi Footage
Oh yawn… not more underwater carp footage! Well, perhaps I can be forgiven for this lighthearted indugence, considering it has been a very long time since I’ve actually caught a koi. In fact it must be almost a year now – that’s shocking! But let me tell you it’s not for the lack of trying, it’s just that my local venue is extrordinarily hard these days. A recent fish kill has made the degree of difficulty... [Read More...]
Fugly Koi!
After my last article about Benson, I thought I write something a bit more lighthearted, otherwise you’ll begin to think I a doom and gloom merchant – and I’m not. It’s just that I wanted to emphasize right from the start of this carp fishing blog page, the vast differences between the carp scene of my old home turf (Kent, UK) and where I now live in Perth, Australia. Poles apart I know, with completely different laws and... [Read More...]
