Stewart Downing Goes Fishing!

French film trip…….

Just one of the reasons we fish....

The marketing team, and consultants from JRC and Berkley had been planning a return trip to Crystal Waters in Burgundy for several months, with the main objective being to cover off some new photography and video for use throughout the year. We were there for 6 days in mid April, and whilst we had a [...]

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Winter warm-up

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As I write this, my good friend, and fellow consultant Keith Standley (aka Backdraft) is probably buzzing around his house getting prepped for his first feature with Maximum Carp (http://www.maximumcarp.net ) tomorrow at Weybread Fisheries in Norfolk (http://www.weybreadfishery.co.uk ). He is doing a 12 hour In Session piece with new staff writer John Kneebone, and [...]

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Rainbow Lake Carp on the Red Crustacean….

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I just had to share these pictures sent to me by Berkley Gulp Carp consultant and fellow angler George Csonka…..all caught in one session on Rainbow Lake in France….On? Red Crustacean……Great angling George.

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The Bolsena battle continues!

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Thursday morning dawned brightly, after the rain finally subsided; but the wind had swung round and was blowing right to left now; and the bites had dropped off markedly, as fish were following the wind down to the higher peg numbers in our section off to the left. Great action captured on video………. We only [...]

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Team JRC….Wins the World Carp Classic!

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Just got a quick update from Stewart….Rob and Stewart finished 11th overall and the JRC Team finished in top spot…all fishing Berkley Gulp bait…watch this space pictures and post to follow…

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World Carp Classic….The battle of Lake Bolsena Begins……

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The Draw Well the opening ceremony went very well, topped by Ardy Verkamp pumped and oiled, and mounted on a Roman chariot! Ross Honey opened the official proceedings, and handed the microphone over to yours truly to say a few words before the draw commenced. I spoke about the long relationship that JRC has with [...]

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World Carp Classic……

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Following my visit to Lake Bolsena back in June, I found myself finally preparing for the 2012 World Carp Classic within about of week of the event starting. I had to settle the score with Heather, and was excited about getting back out there for the event to catch my first Italian carp. The lake [...]

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An Irish Angle……by one of our consultants

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Thought readers may find this article from our Irish consultant Terry Jackson interesting.

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Return to Rainbow Part 2

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After a good result on week one I looked back on what bait we had the most takes on, squid liver and tigernuts over hemp seemed to be working well, but we were having a big problem with the bream, as we were using small amounts of bait. I decided to increase to 3 kg [...]

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George Csonka return to Rainbow Part 1

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After a great trip back in June with my good friend Stewart Downing fishing pegs 1 and 2, before I knew it I was back on the way to Rainbow. I had peg 14 this time and it wasn’t fishing that good, as only 10 fish had been caught in 8 weeks. It was going [...]

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