Welcome to the official RU-vid Channel of Mark Carp, writer of the North West Carp and Anglers Diary fishing blogs. I’ve been fishing in the UK for 51 years and I’ve been a dedicated Carp Angler and Specimen Hunter for the last 34 of those years. On this channel you’ll find all sorts of videos about fishing for carp, pike and perch plus river fishing for barbel and chub. My Videos include the tackle, methods, techniques and baits I use to catch these species of fish. All my videos are supported by the two blogs I've been writing for the last 16 years so check them out too for extra details. I try to make my videos as educational as I can so you’ll find plenty of hints and tips in all of them. If you have an interest in fishing then you've definitely come to the right place so make sure you don't miss out on my future updates, hit the subscribe button and tap the bell icon. Thank you and Tight Lines Mark.
Great video and advice here Mark - I've been a fan of chickpeas for many years and would like to be able to make them Tench and Bream proof! Any ideas on this would be greatfully accepted and lastly I think we may well be the only people in the UK still using monkey climbers - won't get rid of mine in a hurry!!!
hi mate, i'm not sure you can make them bream proof, i'm sure i read somewhere you can fry them in oil and they go like bullets but i've never actually tried doing it and i'm not sure how long they'd stay rock hard once out in the lake?, i just change to tigers if there's too many bream/tench. long live the monkeys, best indicators ever🤣
@MarkCarp Thanks Mark - I'll give it a try when they get too bothersome and let you know how i get on. Yep - the monkeys take some beating - far more versatile system than swingers!
@@urbanaut100 people follow fashion mate, monkeys did come back in style for a while but they've gone again, for me they are so simple and pretty much unbreakable so as long as you don't lose them you'll never need to change them🤣 fried chick peas actually sound quite nice🤣
@MarkCarp Yeh absolutely - you couldnt get big chunky one's backbin the day so I had some heavyweights made at British Steel in early 80s out of 30mm tufnel by a Lathe Turner and used them ever since - they're brilliant and have gone the distance over the years and never failed me. The thing I like is if you're snag fishing you can put the rods at 2.5 feet high to give them a long drop - but then they hit the reels and game over!
@@urbanaut100 the days when you made stuff yourself, i was lucky my dad was an engineer working at a local firm, he made me banksticks and lead moulds back in the day. i miss those days👍
That blue gantry bridge at the start of the video as you probably know goes over the Weaver. There used to be a turning gap there but it was closed off because it was too dangerous. If you go up to the roundabout and come back on yourself you can take a left turn I think just after the bridge (with Northwich behind you) and that takes you down to Hulse's Island. You can fish the old (non-navigable) or the new (bypasses the old) river there, and afaik it frequently produces fish to 20lbs, especially the old river. I think it's on the Winsford Anglers ticket. Slightly shorter drive and maybe a tad cheaper? Edit: I checked Winsford Anglers and Hulse's Island is no longer on their ticket. I don't know who has it now sorry.
brought one of those jointed shads and in 2 short after work sessions i had 4 takes, 2 pike actually hooked into and 1 landed, better than any lure i’ve ever used
it's an old video, it's actually the sound of thunder which coincides with the text of my fishing blog appearing across the screen. back in the day we made silly intro's like that until we realised they were a waste of time, i don't use any intro's today.
Hi rhys, technically you can cook maize this way but I wouldn't risk it, maize expands a lot and you'd be running a high risk of breaking your flask. Hemp barely expands at all hence you can get away with it👍
@@rhyscooke9939 i haven't done it myself but it should be ok, maize expands a lot so don't put too much in, a pint to start sounds ok, you'll have to experiment with it and see how it goes mate.
I work in a flour mill and i will take a few kilos of wheat home every now and then to use as fishing, i also add some strawberry jelly powder to the mix when its all done just to add a bit of flavour, i think wheat is overlooked as a class bait these days.
nice one harry, the only thing better than cheap is free😁 you're right, i reckon it's one of the most overlooked baits there is, it's always worked really well for me👍
soft plastics for me mate, all my lure fishing is in the winter months and a treble means more leaves, you've more options with a small plastic too, between jig and dropshot you can fish them a lot slower than a spinner👍
@@PaulFrancis-bj6vp they are still catchable, quieter banks too and less boats if you fish the canals. it's bloody hard going though, sometimes you can spend hours for next to nothing.
i like the braid for lure fishing paul, i think most people do, you're one of the few that prefers mono these days, i think braid has pretty much taken over?.
I agree , I don't target pike but the hto rockfish can deal with the smaller ones I think the money people spend on lure rods is crazy I have a shimano vengeance and a ron thompson perch stick but the rockfish is favourite Cheers
agreed, i have a more expensive lure rod but i bought it second hand off a mate, so it didn't cost too much. lure fishing is like carp fishing these days, full of tackle tarts with too much money😁
