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Living the Dream - Watching Carp

A short from episode eight of Living the Dream Sitting up a tree watching the carp come in and feed on my bait and waiting for the opportunity to slip in a rig. Here we see a common occurrence, the carp come in and feed then move off, often circling the area before coming back again. They then repeat this until the bait ...

A short from episode eight of Living the Dream Sitting up a tree watching the carp come in and feed on my bait and waiting for the opportun...

Living the Dream part six

Two short morning sessions where I fish a few different swims and get about the pool to try and find the carp. As the sessions go on it gets harder of course. As the number of fish caught increases the number uncaught decreases but not only that. The ones you catch at the start are usually the easiest to catch so not only i...

Two short morning sessions where I fish a few different swims and get about the pool to try and find the carp. As the sessions go on it gets...

Living the Dream part five

It's my fifth session and i'm back on the spit, the main swim on the lake. Another short four hour session before work commences with just one rod and a handful of bait. It's now becoming obvious how the carp move around the pool and where they are going to be at different times of the day. As I knock off the residents one...

It's my fifth session and i'm back on the spit, the main swim on the lake. Another short four hour session before work commences with just o...

Living the Dream part four

It's monday and I decide to get down to the lake for four or five hours fishing before my shift starts. It's now my forth session and having already had a number of good fish i'm looking forward to getting down and nabbing a few more. However the main area of the lake has been taken by a couple of bivvies so I trot off to ...

It's monday and I decide to get down to the lake for four or five hours fishing before my shift starts. It's now my forth session and having...

Living the Dream - Bubblers

A short from episode five of the series Living the Dream, released on 30th dec 2018 Some thoughts on bubblers and why they might be so difficult to catch at times....

A short from episode five of the series Living the Dream, released on 30th dec 2018 Some thoughts on bubblers and why they might be so diff...

Living the Dream - Bait application

A short from episode five of the series Living the Dream, released on 30th December 2018. Some thoughts on bait application....

A short from episode five of the series Living the Dream, released on 30th December 2018. Some thoughts on bait application.

Living the Dream pictures

In October 2002 a year after graduating from university I picked up my rods again and one of the first places I visited was this little pool, at that time it held about nine carp upto 18lbs. The lake was gin clear and although I had them feeding on my bait it took me a while before I stated to catch them. Eventually all bar...

In October 2002 a year after graduating from university I picked up my rods again and one of the first places I visited was this little pool...

Living the Dream part three

It's a week later and my third session on this little pool. After losing a fish last week to the second rod I have decided to just stick to one. Since i'm getting plenty of action this will enable me to relax slightly as well as concentrate on just that one rod. The session goes well too! Four hours fishing, four handfuls...

It's a week later and my third session on this little pool. After losing a fish last week to the second rod I have decided to just stick to ...

Woolpack lake 8 special - Day sessions

Day sessions, something I simply love to do and this year has seen me get back into them big time. Doing a session of only 4-6 hours concentrates the mind and you're active all the time. Everything is compressed into just those few hours making for an intensity, you simply cannot get when taking the bivvy....

Day sessions, something I simply love to do and this year has seen me get back into them big time. Doing a session of only 4-6 hours concen...

Living the Dream part two

Four days after my first successful visit I return to this secluded, overgrown and neglected little pool for another short four or five hour session. The weather of late has been wet with torrential rain and so the trip in was even more carefully undertaken with the Suzuki's short wheel base and four wheel drive being put ...

Four days after my first successful visit I return to this secluded, overgrown and neglected little pool for another short four or five hour...

The Chalk pit

Whilst I was away on holiday in Devon I took my copy of Quest for Carp by Jack Hilton with me. Having previously had a copy it'd been a few decades since I had read it and I eagerly flicked to chapter four entitled 'Wildies'. 'The chalk pit' as Jack calls it, where these wildies lived, was one of the first carp waters that...

Whilst I was away on holiday in Devon I took my copy of Quest for Carp by Jack Hilton with me. Having previously had a copy it'd been a few ...

Living the Dream part one

It has to be said that the hardest thing about fishing this pool is the journey in and the journey out. The old concrete fenland drove that gives you access is 1.3 miles long and has 'bomb craters' along its entire length. Now some people use the word 'pothole' but that would be an understatement as most of these are well c...

It has to be said that the hardest thing about fishing this pool is the journey in and the journey out. The old concrete fenland drove that ...

Living the Dream - Belting runs

It's become evident to me over the last few years that not only am I getting a little too old for bivvying up, but short sessions lend themselves very well to capturing the essence of fishing. With only four or five hours by the bank the camera stays out on the tripod. Blog entries become more frequent and this in turn lead...

It's become evident to me over the last few years that not only am I getting a little too old for bivvying up, but short sessions lend thems...

Living the Dream - Trailer

In October 2002 a year after graduating from university I picked up my rods again and one of the first places I visited was this little pool...

Just do it

It's not often I post what seems to be a non fishing video, but it's not. I have always been a firm believer in positive thinking, it's the driving force that keeps us all going. I spent two months doing 25 short sessions, spread over late August through September and into late October 2018. Getting into and out of this p...

It's not often I post what seems to be a non fishing video, but it's not. I have always been a firm believer in positive thinking, it's the...

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