Aquabait Journal RSS

The final throw of the dice on the Car Park. I was sat at my desk doing another day’s mundane work. Suddenly, the music cuts out as a call comes in from Martin “We’ve just shut the Carpark they’ve started spawning”. The Sunday of the draw for the restart on the Carpark came around, and as usual, all the big swims had gone by the time Ray called my name out. Staring down the list of swims, I was not surprised to see ‘Waiting Mans’ was still vacant, as it had only done one fish in the last three years...

The idea of fishing on the park came to mind after a successful year down in the midlands. The park has always been somewhere I intended to fish at some point, but I just didn’t know when. That decision came after scoping up the red eyed wild beast I was after. I wanted to find that feeling that the midlands pit gave me, freedom and lovely carp without worrying about other anglers. Normally the size of the carp is less of an interest to me as long as I get excited about the place, fishing for a big carp is...

After finishing work early one day, I arranged to meet Spencer over at The Aqua Shack at around 4:30 pm that afternoon to collect some freshly rolled bait.  Whilst Spencer finished off down at the rolling house, this left me a few hours to kill. Knowing there was a real gem floating around in a low stock pit not too far from his, I decided to take a stroll around with the potential of popping back if I’d found them.   After a couple of laps around the lake, I managed to find the fish tucked up in a weedy bay. I...

I’d toyed with the idea of getting a Stoneacres ticket for a few years. It’s a place I’ve wanted to fish since I started fishing down on Linch in 2016, but I never felt like I’ve had the time or money required to commit to a place like that. I live in Manchester and it's a 360-mile round trip so it’s not like it’s round the corner for me. I managed to sort myself a ticket which was set to start 1st April. It was a funny old Spring that year, April was the coldest on record since 1922 and them...