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Built like Mike Tyson

I did four sessions this week on Cawcutts lake. Monday's 10:00 am start saw me walking around with the minimum of kit and a single rod for a few hours, more in the way of getting to know the place again than anything else. Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursdays sessions were spent getting to know one particular swim where I had ...

I did four sessions this week on Cawcutts lake. Monday's 10:00 am start saw me walking around with the minimum of kit and a single rod for a...

Cawcutts Lake pictures

It was first stocked with carp back in the late 1980's by the club that held the lease. Many of the fish died off but the ones that remained grew to good proportions reaching high twenties within ten years. Then in 2016 it was taken over by Embryo angling and restocked, three years later in 2019 I secured a ticket....

It was first stocked with carp back in the late 1980's by the club that held the lease. Many of the fish died off but the ones that remained...

First fish

It was 15 years ago when I last fished this lake and back then I also caught a 20lb+ common so I guess it's apt that my first fish on my return should also be another 20lb+ common. Right now I'm fishing short day/stalking sessions before or after work which is enabling me to get around the lake and in just a few sessions I...

It was 15 years ago when I last fished this lake and back then I also caught a 20lb+ common so I guess it's apt that my first fish on my ret...

Living the Dream part Nineteen

There's nothing like finding somewhere where you can fish in relative peace & quiet and just get on with doing your own thing. Where the carp are not so pressured that they stop behaving naturally. Where you can study them in their environment feeding on your bait and moving around the lake. It's my last session on this lo...

There's nothing like finding somewhere where you can fish in relative peace & quiet and just get on with doing your own thing. Where the car...

All my birthdays

My sessions on the Great Ouse river are mostly short 6-8 hour affairs where I usually concentrate on just one swim. All the work like finding the actual areas/spots and sussing them out has been done before hand so when I move into a swim all I have to do is fish. Same as when I fished the river Cam I spend more time lookin...

My sessions on the Great Ouse river are mostly short 6-8 hour affairs where I usually concentrate on just one swim. All the work like findin...

Worth every single journey

The previous four sessions on the ouse were spent in bright sunshine and high temperatures, not the best conditions for carp fishing as we all know. On a river finding the carp can be hard enough but with temperatures so high and floaters being a difficult tactic (they just float down river to be picked off by the gulls) op...

The previous four sessions on the ouse were spent in bright sunshine and high temperatures, not the best conditions for carp fishing as we a...

River Great Ouse Pictures

It's been an ambition of mine to fish the river Great ouse for carp for many years now but with one thing and another I never managed to get around to it. But then a casual conversation with a mate in a local tackle shop in the spring of 2019 sparked my interest again. There was no mention of fish or locations it was all ab...

It's been an ambition of mine to fish the river Great ouse for carp for many years now but with one thing and another I never managed to get...

Living the Dream part Eighteen

It's monday and I'm back down the pool for another morning session. This time I drive past the morning swim and head straight round to the back of the lake. With the sun getting up high in the sky I expect the carp to arrive around 10-11 AM so plenty of time to get myself sorted in time and put on the kettle....

It's monday and I'm back down the pool for another morning session. This time I drive past the morning swim and head straight round to the ...

A rare riverbeast

Of all the fish I have caught from a river this has to be up there with the best. I've managed a number of fully-scaled carp since I started in 1980 but never one from a river. I know that mirrors exist having had many from the river Cam. Over the decades of flooding plenty have escaped from the lakes along the Ouse valley ...

Of all the fish I have caught from a river this has to be up there with the best. I've managed a number of fully-scaled carp since I started...

That bit in between

I think it's got to be one of the most exciting things in fishing, hearing your alarm go off whilst fishing a river. Even more so perhaps when you get it in the net, but that bit in between, that's the bit that leaves you breathless. It all means so much, it's no wonder it gets the emotions going and the heart racing. This...

I think it's got to be one of the most exciting things in fishing, hearing your alarm go off whilst fishing a river. Even more so perhaps wh...

Rolling & Breaching Carp

This is a carp breaching for the second time over about three feet of water late October 2018. What's interesting about it is on this lake, that's all I have ever seen them do, I honestly don't think I have ever seen them roll. Rolling usual occurs over deeper water than this and the reason is because when a carp rolls what...

This is a carp breaching for the second time over about three feet of water late October 2018. What's interesting about it is on this lake, ...

Living the Dream part Seventeen

It's friday, two days after my last session and the plan is to return to the pool for a session lasting the whole day. The lads that arrived on Wednesday will most likely still be settled in and leaving later so I should have the place to myself by the afternoon with a chance of an early morning bite on the cards. However...

It's friday, two days after my last session and the plan is to return to the pool for a session lasting the whole day. The lads that arrive...

An unstoppable force

When you fish the river Great Ouse this is what you can expect, hard fighting beasts. Wild as you like they roam freely but, they do have their habits. I've now finished my third week fishing the Great Ouse river and in that time I've concentrated on two areas and kept my eye on one other. The distance between them is man...

When you fish the river Great Ouse this is what you can expect, hard fighting beasts. Wild as you like they roam freely but, they do have t...

Putting in a lot of bait

How a Rudd can get hooked squarely in the bottom lip on a size 8 chod and an 18mm Crazy Nut boilie I'll never know, but it did. So do the bream although not the skimmers thankfully. The other culprit for taking my baits is Tench, which is a bit of a surprise on a river to be honest. I expected the Bream, but I've had just a...

How a Rudd can get hooked squarely in the bottom lip on a size 8 chod and an 18mm Crazy Nut boilie I'll never know, but it did. So do the br...

All fins and anger

I didn't manage to get out on the first day of the river season as I was at work but I was out on the second. I'd spent the previous week looking for places to start and this seemed a likely spot. I was due up at 4AM but I couldn't sleep past 3:30AM and so I got up and just went fishing I was that excited by it all. I love...

I didn't manage to get out on the first day of the river season as I was at work but I was out on the second. I'd spent the previous week lo...

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Retro Baits

Retro Baits represents everything you could want in a bait company, run by an experienced carp angler who has an in-depth knowledge and a passion for producing the best bait, based on natural balanced ingredients, that are good for the carp, the environment and results
These are the two baits that I am currently using in my fishing, Shropshire Gold & Crazy Nut, and as a Retro Baits consultant I am able to bring my patrons a nice discount
All Patrons receive a 5% discount on bait, CarpCatcher Crew receive 10%, Sneak Preview and above receive 15% discount on bait
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Shropshire Gold

Boilies

Three of the most effective fishmeals you can get, balanced with GLM, Krill and two of the most effective feeding stimulants on the European market
Available in freezer bait only as it contains active ingredients

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Price: £6.00/Kg

Hookbaits

Matching hookbaits that have exactly the same stimulants and attractors as the bait
The Popups are super buoyant, the wafters come in Dumbbell and the Hard Hookers last forever
All Retro's hookbaits are hand rolled to ensure a perfect finish

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Crazy Nut

Boilies

This is a Nut/Milk/Birdfood blend using high quality liquid attractors to enhance the bait. With added vitamins/minerals it can be used all year round
Available in freezer bait only as it contains active ingredients

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Price: £6.00/Kg

Hookbaits

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Bait Soak

Retro bait soak is based upon the glugs but just a little thinner which makes it perfect for soaking hookbaits, boilies, pellets, particles, or adding to a spod/stick mix
Thicker glugs need thinning with water to get the take up but this is used neat, straight from the bottle and is designed to be quickly & fully absorbed by the bait
Comes in a heavy duty bottle with enough for multiple soaks

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Price: £10.00/750ml bottle

Sweet Shop Popups

Retro's Sweet Shop pop-up range comes in six classic flavours and a mix of five colours in each pot giving you plenty of scope for an edge
White, Pink, Yellow, Orange & Red
They are super buoyant and are great as toppers in the 12mm size for snowmen rigs/spinner rigs
All Retro's hookbaits are hand rolled to ensure a perfect finish

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