Essex-Fishing

Hi all

I am planning to head down to the Warren at the weekend. Anybody know if the carp are showing.

Tips/ Advice appreciated

Cheers

there was a carp or two out last week according to our local paper fella, the square lake is always worth a crack imo

have a look at the web site.

www.shellangling.com/s...08_jan.php

Square lake is easier and still hold a good head of fish, if you park over in the back carpark and go to the swim just infront its a nice swim. When i was fishing it in 2006 alot of fish where coming out on Icelandic Red fished over a small bag of halibut pellets.

did you go and how did you get on mate????

Yeah, I went down for the whole day and fished the westbank. Had two runs and two hook pulls. One on Tutti Fruity and one on Pineapple Plus.

My Daughter had two small common and a stack of roach on red maggot. Her best carp was 7lb and got her junior angler of the week, picture on shell angling website and picture and mention in local paper.

Outfished again !!!

Any suggestions on decent hooks greatly appreciated.

Grahame

Korda Longshank X
ESP Raptor X
Gardener Incizor

And also try adjusting your end rig down a few inchs.

Cheers for the hook advice mate.

I am new to this carp game having fished the pole and for pike my whole life.

Can you explain the meaning of adjusting your end rig down.

Cheers

saw the piccys in the paper, well done to her.
agree with Nick_M on the raptors, use them alot in my fishing.

Will give the raptors a go.

Will pass compliments to my daughter........she cant wait to get back down there and that works to my advantage !!!

Gonna head down again next weekend. Will post results.

He might mean the lenth of your hooklink,if to long shorten,viceversa.good luck and congrats to your little one.

Just seen the pic in the Gazette mate. She looks well chuffed....and no wonder . Well done

I ment to shorten the hooklink down Sometimes if the hooklinks to long it give the fish that extra chance to shake the hook after a take. I normally use 3/6 inch hooklinks in my fishing using a stiff coated braid or flurocarben, Because the warrens quite mirky u can get away with a stiff braid. I would probally look at a 5inch Sufix Black Silt keeping the coating ln for 4inchs and off the other inch and the hair tied to a size 10 RaptorX.

Cheers for the advice Nick.

I will pick some bits up.

Gonna head down there on Sunday and see how it goes

Dont take my advice as gospel mate though, im no fantastic fisherman these are just things that have worked in the past for me. best thing to do is to experiment and keep you rigs down in a notepad with notes underneath with what went wrong.

Dont get obsessed with changing things like i did this season though as it proved devistating to my fish catching skills