I fancied a change from the carp fishing so bream became my quarry. Now I know that the mention of bream to most carp anglers would create a shudder but on the correct gear i.e. light tactics and bagging up can be great fun. So out came my 12 ft feeder rod with a stiff [...]
I have been using the Red Crustacean from Berkeley Gulp in 20 mm size with great success over in France but I have found that I have got more fish on the bank by balancing my hook bait. I used a core drill and took out the centre of a 20 m bait and replace [...]
Thought that you may like this short video footage of a Tuna and Spice caught fish going back….. Drafty
I have been out on the bank lately using the Gulp Tuna Spice Boilies in 16 mm to good effect. The rig that has been working for me is using the cocoon gravel and sand hook link braid stripped back by the hook to create a hinge effect and a connect size 8 3 mbt [...]
This video blog shows you a short clip of one of our 40lb plus mirrors taken on our recent ‘working’ trip to Crystal. What stunning fish they are….. Hope to see you there at sometime. Keith www.crystalwatersfishery.com
Well it has been a busy past four weeks for me – two 5 day working trips to Crystal Waters with limited fishing and a lot of driving !! The first five day trip involved just two of us the last working party before Crystal opens for business so it involved fishing nights only. Between [...]
Crystal Waters near Sens in the Burgandy region of France is now in its 5th year of business. With a fantastic 35 acre site, containing a 25 acre lake with two large feature islands, lily beds, large plateaus, deep holes, shallows, deep margins – basically everything a carp angler could want. Excavated for gravel and [...]
A Selection of Images from some of my Crystal Waters Fishing Looking back through my image library I came across some that I had almost forgotten about and thought that I would share some of them with you……
Rainbow Lakes, France – July 13th Update! With the chance to fish Rainbow Lakes for another two weeks I thought that it may be an idea to share our trials, tribulations and hopefully fish with you. So here we go I hope you find it both interesting and amusing! Arrived on Friday evening 8th July and after a long [...]
Back in that cold snowy winter of 2010, I was offered 3 weeks fishing at Rainbow Lake in Bordeaux France by a good friend of mine Kevin Gardner from Norfolk. Kevin has had many trips there over the last 5 years and with that in mind and he is a chef and we were using [...]
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