November 2017 - First Pike for Luke!

 Congratulations to Luke with his first Pike. Coach Dave managed to pick up a bonus fish after the session with this decent Perch.
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November 2017 - Carp a Plenty at the Coaches Social!

 With the summer coaching season over, it was time for a weekend Coaches Social. Paul Forman, Tony Forman and David Brown were joined by Pete Cardell as we descended on a private lake which we had been fortunate enough to gain access to for the event. It was an overcast start for us but at least that kept the temperatures up which were due to plummet the following day. We saw no action in the daylight hours...
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November 2017 - First Pike for jack

 Temperatures starting to dip so time to target the predators. Jack learned how to make his own spinning/pike traces and was soon putting them to good use, including his first ever Pike, well done!!!
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October 2017 - Big Perch on the feed

 Crayfish were really active today, but that means the big Perch will be close by. Best two of the day were 2lb 1oz for new student Luke and 1lb 14oz for Jack. Well done lads!
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October 2017 - Short Session sucsess for young Max!

 Nice 2 hour session with young Max this morning whose starting out in Angling with whip fishing. He caught really well with a good variety of species, well done!
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September 2017 - Supporting NFM & CRT at Hayes Canal Festival

 Saturday 24th September saw the last of our National Fishing Month events for 2017. We were in Hayes, Hillingdon on behalf of the Canal & River Trust for the Hayes Canal Festival. Over the 5 hour event, the team delivered 30 minute angling taster sessions for 77 participants. Fantastic to get a lot of people their first fish in what can be a tricky venue, but Perch, Roach and a cracking eel were caught. Thanks to all involved,...
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September 2017 - Big Carp Magazine write up

 Thanks to Chris Reilly for the write up in this months Big Carp Magazine A month of mixed emotions for us down Carpdell fishery in August. Sad news to lose the iconic Split Tail. Remember hearing about this fish when we first step foot onto "Rousebarn" as it was known back then in the early 90's. Over a decade passed before we returned to chase this king of the pond. She put many a smile on the faces...
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September 2017 - Schools are back and so is Jack!

 Good to catch up with Jack after the summer holidays. He will be moving into our Aims course programme from this term, nice carp for him today as he gets straight back into the swing of things.
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September 2017 - Final NFM Event at Carpdell

 2nd September saw the last of our National Fishing Month events in the Cassiobury Farm and Fishery open days. A huge thanks to everyone involved who helped us this year, delivering 30 minute sessions to over 400 participants, this number doesn't include those that had more than 1 session nor the many hundreds more that were introduced to the Angling Environment through the Tank Talks and Pond Dipping demonstrations. We are fortunate to have a solid team who not...
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August 2017 - On the bank with Rhys & Jack

 Many thanks to Darren for sending in some photos of his sons Rhys and Jack who joined Paul last week for a 2 hour coaching session. Both boys did really well on a day when light and wind speeds were constantly changing. They took on board the advice on how to keep changing presentation to keep the bites coming and ended up catching lots of fish for their efforts. Even better to bump into them both with their dad...
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