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FREE LINE / FIELD JOURNAL
KEVIN BEAUMONT
FIELD NOTES
Surprisingly there is a lot more stock present than I first thought now that
the weed has been thinned out drastically.
As these fish have not seen lot of bait over the recent years, I began
prebaiting in areas I used to catch from many years ago, giving them a
mixture of the ever-faithful Rod Hutchinson Ballistic B and KMG chopped
and whole scattering up and down the margins not focusing on a single
area but more to get them picking up baits and familiarising themselves
with bait again. After a few weeks of prebaiting three times a week, I set
aside a few hours one evening and was quickly rewarded with a stunning
little common as dark as mahogany but fin perfect like a wood carving
followed by its big sister at 19lb, a real old warrior, which I m sure came
from the stocking in the late 70s. Both fell to halved baits on the hair
back-to-back to match the chops on my simple stripped-back coated braid
rig tipped off with Carp Tackle Online Scorpion Curve in size 6.
I m lucky enough to fish up and down the country and around the globe
targeting the biggest of carp backed by a great brand in Rod Hutchinson,
however these are just that little bit special for me, and I m determined
throughout 2019 to bank a 20lb fish from this venue which I d take over a
30lb fish in any other venue in the UK. Since starting to write this article,
I have also banked a lovely mid double mirror, again a true old original
You just don t see carp like this anymore.
Thank you for taking the time to read my article, and I hope I ve struck a
chord with many other like minded anglers of where it all began, and I will
be back with that 20-pounder very soon.
Kev Beaumont.
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