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The complex boasts a well-stocked tackle and bait shop. A range of Gold Valley brand tackle, clothing, nets and luggage is available. Tackle by Drennan, Daiwa and other leading manufacturers is stocked and any tackle item can be obtained from our suppliers. We take great pride in the service offered in our on-site shop and feel our baits’ cannot be surpassed. Our worms are supplied by one of the country’s top worm importers with fresh Dendrabenas and Reds being available. Our maggots are obtained from the Ouse Valley Bait Company. Based in Cambridge, Ouse Valley specialise in quality maggots and only sell to the trade. Our casters are of the highest quality being freshly turned on site on a daily basis. Our association with Ouse Valley goes back to 1972, and in the opinion of John Raison, they are the finest, cleanest, black fly free, large regular sized maggots freshly available on a daily basis. Ouse Valley are professional breeders and operate under full Government licence on their Gransden site.

The lake bed is mostly made up of silt/chod with some small gravel spots that are not easy to find but well worth an hour looking for them in you swim with the marker rod there are also loads of lilys to fish up to in the shallows and other swims but you CANT FISH IN THE SHALLOW tho as this is where all the carp can be seen sunbathing when its hot and from what ive seen most of the fish in ham pool are well over the 20 mark . How did i get on?? Well on my left hand rod i was fishing over a spod mixs on a very small gravel spot around 40 or 50 yards out. In my spod i had sweetcorn,trout pellet,cell pellet,hemp and pineapple boillies witch in total was around 9kg of spod mix. On this rod i fished popup sweetcorn and only got (15) bream to 4lb hopping that the carp would come in and push the bream off the spot but to no joy. On my right hand rod i was fishing 57 yards out over silt/chod on a chod rig and the bait i was using was heat boillies. I was baiting light on this rod putting out around 30 baits in the morning and just befor dark i would put out around 60 baits to see me thorught the night and nothing came to this rod the hole time. I did this till thurseday morning where we had a rethink. On the rethink we mad the desishion to move lake.

All of us at one stage started somewhere in our carp fishing lives, and I think that it is sometimes easy to forget that there are beginners coming to the sport all of the time. Recently we have seen many people starting Carp fishing who have not had an apprenticeship from catching skimmers as a child under a father’s watchful eye to later, migrating to carp or another specimen species. This leads beginners to wonder “ where do I start ?” and often they start by pouring through the magazines for the latest wizz bang rig that uses £8 of swivels and tubing and then they end up blanking. They blank not through lack of enthusiasm but because they didn’t have the confidence to realize that simple is most likely better. Some of the rigs you see in the magazines have been designed for really specialized applications that 99% of us will never see. The cynic in me also suspects that they are to sell magazines and tackle . Carp fishing is all about confidence, confidence in your bait, tackle and rigs, in this article I want to cover some really basic rigs that I wish that I had known when I started carping some 24 years ago ( though with a 10 year break). A lot of what you will see here might have been covered by other anglers but I want to boil the rigs down to the very essence of what they need to be. Once you have gotten experience with these rigs feel free to move onto other more complicated rigs as if you have the basics right then you can’t go too far wrong. The rigs / methods I will be covering will catch you carp from almost any water from weedy to weedless, from close range to distance. They are: Basic mono rig Hybrid rig Basic running ledger rig ( plus lead core version) Bolt rig ( plus with lead core ) Inline lead ( also on lead core) I know that this is not an exhaustive list but if you are starting carp fishing and want to know where to start this is a good place.