Tag Archives: carp

Redditch Tackle Fair – Further Thoughts

I’m delighted there has been some reaction to the pieces both I and John Stephenson have written on last week’s tackle show, and I especially liked the reaction to the pictures of “Old Man River’s” landing nets and handles, which were truly exquisite. Exquisite and surprisingly inexpensive, considering the work involved AND by comparison with […]

Tackle Shed Treasures – A ‘Pin on a Pro Carp Lake

Yesterday was a balmy day for early October, and by 11.00am the air was alive with insects, the reed beds thrumming with dragonflies, and yet, not a carp was caught, hardly a fish was seen. Perhaps this was the legacy of the mammoth low pressure that had deluged the country the day before, shedding so […]