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February 22, 2012

First trip out on the commercials 2012-By Dan Vallis

Filed under: Dan Vallis,Flaxlands Fisheries,General — hinders @ 5:00 pm

My main aim for the winter period was to target big Perch on the canal which was going well and after landing some cracking 2lb plus perch I couldn’t complain but, with no 3lber in sight I decided to take my nieces Chloe & Ellie to Flaxland Fisheries in hope of catching some of there stunning carp.

As I’ve not been down Flax for some time and Steve has spent most of his life down there I had a quick chat with him to try and get up to speed on the going swims and tactics etc. It just so happened that Steve has been working on a ready to use feeder mix and was looking for another angler to give it ago and give some feedback on it.  Going on the success of his G-force mix which took Flaxlands apart in its first year I was more then confident in giving his mixture ago. With the bait and swim sorted I was all set for a days sport!

My Favourite Feeder!

On Steve’s advise I went for Peg 4 on the big lake fishing up into the channel. A lot of fish seem to hold in this area all year round, so as a starting point I went with both rods straight on the feeder. I was fishing for about an hour or so and other than liners I had nothing to report. Steve turned up just as I put the rods back out and he suggested to fish up the side of the channel and not so much in the middle as most fish will run deeper and tighter to the sides along the channel. It just seems that when the fish are moving though the middle part of the channel they seem to run more so in the mid layers.

After the reposition of the rods with plenty of liners I knew it would only be a matter of time before I was into my first Flaxland carp of 2012. Around ten minutes later and I was in action on what turned out to be consistent  day landing 2/3 fish an hour. Over the day we landed 17 carp, like I said I took my nieces with me and let both of the girls land and play the fish, only landing around five myself. Even Steve got in on the action and had a few.  For my first trip out, myself and the girls were well pleased and we landed some cracking carp between us. Here are some of our pictures.

Ellie with a Cracking Flax Common Caught on the New Mix!

Cracking Flaxland Mirror, just one of many!

 

I’m sure I’ll  be back to Flaxlands some time soon and would just like to thank Ruth & Gordon for looking after us!

Dan

Alex Heath-Short Session

Filed under: Customer Catch Reports,General — hinders @ 1:41 pm

Here is the biggest carp I had from my latest trip from Sevington lakes. Being 13lb 12oz it was one of six caught on Little Gemz, Pellet Combo and Krill N Krab multi-mix fished with fish mix dumbell!

Biggest of the trip!

I’ll keep you posted.

Cheers Alex

Silver Fish On Commercials-By Sam Nobbs

Filed under: Customer Catch Reports,General — hinders @ 9:00 am

Silver Fish On Commercials

After waking up to a frost in the morning my confidence for a great day was reduced slightly, but who knew what could happen. This was a winter league match where only silver fish count, as it is on a commercial fishery and carp caught do not count. Many people do not realise that there is a massive head of silver fish in commercials, but they just are not fished for much. The fishery Walters Lake also known as Ridgeway was set to be the venue for this match, it is a commercial fishery which has 4 canal type lanes which all have a far bank to fish to at around a length of 16-19m. After  drawing out peg 14 I soon started walking down to the peg.

As this was a silver fish match I decided to set up a line at 13m which was 3/4 the way across to the island. The rig which had been set up at 13m was the same depth at top 2 plus half the number four section. These were to be my main swims. I also set up a pole rig at half the depth of my two swims, this would enable me to catch the fish if they were in the upper layers in the water. I then set up a rig at 3/4 of the depth this gives me the option if the fish are off the bottom. Then my final was a waggler rod set up at about 2/3 of the depth. Even though it has been cold recently I still decided to set up rigs which were off the bottom. I did this because of the weather forecasted, there was sun! This would warm up the upper layers of the water, and could bring the fish up in the water, and its no good fishing on the bottom if there aren’t many fish there.

I started up by cupping in 1 ball of ground bait and a few casters and maggots into the 13 meter line and also the same into the line at top 2 plus half the number 4 section.

I then put a single red maggot on the hook and shipped out to 13m. This brought no success. So I shipped back in and placed a worm head on to the hook. This brought me greater success and I hooked into my first fish, a small perch. I then did the same thing for the next hour putting one skimmer and 11 smaller fish in my net. This wasn’t great so I then when on my short line only putting a few more smaller fish into the net, not very productive. I then went back out to the 13m line and only netted a few small fish again.

So I got the waggler out put a red maggot on the hook and cast it onto my 13m line. As the float buried I found myself un-hooking a roach around 2oz, I carried on doing this for the rest of the match, but also casting around 7meters to my right feeding maggot over the top.

Around 1o’clock the swims started to die off so I just feed the extra maggot into the swim and this helped, bringing more fish into the swim. It shows just tweaking things a small amount can change your catch rate. I continued doing this until the end of the match catching 68 fish. I think the swim mainly died off because the sun had gone in and the fish might have returned to the bottom. Although it was slow at the end I enjoyed the days fishing.

 

This was enough to come second with 6lb 4oz. A brilliant day on the waggler rod, which is sometimes ignored by anglers. Waggler fishing is one of my first methods I learnt to fish, it is also one of my favorite methods as it can be very effective when other methods are not working.

The Bait

For my ground bait I used 30% Hinders Magic Method mix and 60% Sensas bream 3000, with 10% Little Gemz, chopped worms and hemp. This made up my ground bait mix.

Hook bait: 1 Pint of Casters, 1 Pint of Red and White Maggots and a tub of worms.

Rigs In Detail

My first rig, the 13m pole line this was an 0.5g hand made pole float on 0.13 main line through to 0.09 hooklength tied to a size 20 drennan silverfish maggott, this was on a doubled up number 3 elastic. My shallow pole rig was the same as the 13m rig but with a 0.1g garbolino DC6 pole float. My waggler set up was 4lb guru drag line through to an 0.09 hooklength with a size 18 drennan silverfish hook. The line used for my pole rigs and hooklengths is Preston Innovations reflo powerline.

Until next time

Sam

February 21, 2012

Will Vincent-

Filed under: Customer Catch Reports,General — hinders @ 9:08 am

After deciding I was going to go fishing, I chose a lake near me that doesn’t get fished much. Not a lot happens up there but people reckon there are some hidden gems including a 20lb+ ghostie. After getting there, nothing was showing, so I stuck some long hook links on and a small stick to mask my hook. The longer hook link stops any debry on the bottom covering my hook. After getting 3 takes and all of them coimg off  I knew something was in there. I found loads of weed that looked like dread locks ha ha, so stuck some choddys on there. After getting the first take and it coming off I stepped the hook size up because of the major snags . After that I went on to have 3 carp from around 7-8lb they were all stunner’s. But one of the fish I lost at the start of the day felt like a lump.

The baits I was using  on my choddys was Snailz pop ups soaked in the concentrate, tipped off with fake corn which was soaked in Tiger slime, Pink slime, and Pineapple slime.

Cracking Winter CommonNot A double but still a stuner!

I’ll keep you all posted and hope to be back out soon

Will

February 20, 2012

The Carp Blog-By Ed Wilcox

Filed under: Customer Catch Reports,General,The Carp Blog-Edd Wilcox — hinders @ 1:00 pm

Hi and welcome to my blog, after not being able to get out for a few weeks I was well happy to be able to get my lines in the water. Watch my short clip and see my report!

I’ve been sent a few bits by Hinders and over the next few sessions I hope to put these products to good use.

Hopefully you will enjoy my videos and why not subscribe to my channel

You Tube channel Link

Cheers

Ed Wilcox

Young Dom effort equals reward!

Filed under: Customer Catch Reports,Dom-Gone Fishing Video's,General — hinders @ 9:42 am

Hello guys here is my latest video please check it out. Also I have announced the competition winner in this episode so check your in box.  I would like to thank all my supporters and I’m really pleased I’ve just hit over 100 subscribers so thank you for all your support and kind comments!

You Tube Link

Dom

February 17, 2012

Big River Barbeling with Brian Skoyles

Filed under: Barbel Fishing — hinders @ 8:00 am

Big River Barbeling

By no stretch of the imagination would I call myself a barbel angler but by modifying some of my carp fishing tactics I’ve had some fabulous barbel fishing over the past year.

Barbel Fishing on the Trent

"Barbeling on the Trent"

Fishing the River Trent I’ve had double figure captures of fish to over ten pounds on several occasions and I’m sure that two tactical decisions have played a big part in keeping the fish coming.

Brian with a Trent Barbel

The Trent Barbel love Brian's Pellet & Hemp Mix

The first was a simple rig change to a long combi link consisting of 2ft of supple braid at the hook end and 4ft of fluorocarbon for the rest.

Brian's Pellet Mix

Waiting for the next barbel!!!

With a big powerful river like the Trent I reckoned that regular feeding was vital and initially I opted for using PVA Bags filled with mixed pellets (Hinders Pellet Combo and Nutrabaits Trigga Ice). I caught ok but it was difficult to maintain the momentum and I was getting through ridiculous quantities of PVA. Plus I wasn’t really happy with the bag approach as my hook-bait was always at the end of the line of free bait, so basically the fish had to eat or move over all the free bait before it got to mine. I tried attaching the bag to the lead but that was a pain as I had to keep drying the lead clip off, so it was time for a re-think.

I decided to switch to a feeder approach and acquired some large open ended feeders and modified them by fitting a larger swivel that would go easily in a standard lead clip.

Bait in the feeders would be a combination of pellets, hemp and maggots bound together with softened pellets.

A change of approach worked wonders

The final mix

When it came to the hemp, I’d never used pre prepared hemp before but browsing through the Hinders catalogue I decided to try the Hinders Salt and Chilli Pepper Hemp. The added attraction from the Salt and Chilli Pepper combination sounded worth a try in the powerful flow.

Sea Salt and Chilli Pepper Hemp

I can only say the results have been superb, if fact so far I’ve not had a blank when I’ve used the three part combination. After the past season I’m convinced that the three way mix of pellets, salt and chilli pepper hemp and maggots is a superb big river combination …. give it a try I’m sure you won’t be disappointed.

One of many barbel Brian had using the mix

Another Big River Barbel for Brian

Brian Skoyles.

Ps I’ve also started using the salt and chilli pepper hemp in my carp fishing as well, and it’s rapidly becoming a must have when I’m stalking … highly recommended.

February 16, 2012

Fishing Dorset – Still Catching In Freezing Mid February- (Episode 46)

Filed under: Customer Catch Reports,Fishing Dorset Carp Videos-By Chris Westley,General — hinders @ 9:51 am

Hello guys,after gathering  a bit of intelligence we found a lake that hadn’t been frozen for the past few days and opted to give it ago, but on arrival we were greeted with another solid ice patch. I guess the hard frost the night before just turned it and we were out of luck again!

Not one for wasting the day we opted for another day of piking on the river, so please check out this short video to see the results.

Also don’t forget I now run two channels, so if you would like to see my bonus features & enter the competitions check out the links below!

Channel One-Main fishing video clips

Channel Two-Bonus features & Competitions!

Facebook Page-Keep up with my regular updates!

Twitter-I’ll be posting from the bank,why not follow me!

Please sign up for my socials and keep up with my growing network,I would also like to take a minute to thank all my subscribers & follower for there support and comments!

Tight Lines

Fishing Dorset

(Chris)

February 14, 2012

The Social Networks

Filed under: General — hinders @ 12:34 pm

It’s never been easier to keep in touch, we currently run three social networks and our news blog!

1.Facebook

2.Twitter

3.YouTube

4.News Blog

The main goal with our social networks and blog is to be more accessible to you our customer, and not only do we wish to pass on our catch reports/feedback but we would like you to share yours as well. By doing this we will all get a better idea and understanding on not only the inside view but also the view of you the general public. This will then hopefully give everyone a better insight on how a wider selection of different anglers approach different venues, bait application, and bait its self. Not to mention the favored tactics so please help us to help you and sign up now!

We have two facebook pages, Home/social page

We also run monthly competitions

Catch report Competition-This competition is open to anyone, as long as you’ve used at least one of our products to catch your fish.Just send it in via our facebook home page and you’ll automatically be entered into our monthly draws. The winner will be picked on a combination of factors but not the size of your capture or species, so please don’t be put off. You can send in as many entries as you like per month. So for your chance of winning a bait pack worth over £40.00 just send in a catch report!

Here’s the link-Facebook Competition

Our second Facebook competition requires very little effort. For your chance of winning a Snailz bait pack just click the link below and like our Home page, it’s that simple

Here’s the Link-Face book Home page-Just Like!

Twitter

With twitter its never been easier to keep us and other anglers up to date on what’s occurring, so why not sign up and keep us and everyone else posted from the bank. Start now with a simple follow by clicking the link below

Here’s the link-Twitter

You Tube

We know reading text format catch reports can some times get a bit boring, so why not watch the action on screen. We have many videos for your entertainment covering the ins and outs of fishing, from targeting different species, to fishing all sorts of methods and tactics, as well as covering bait in depth with our How to videos so why not subscribe now.

All of our subscribers are automatically entered into our YouTube prize draw at the end of each month. The prizes will range from bottles of liquid to Pop-ups and even bait packs worth over £40.00.

We are also running a separate one off limited competition where one of our lucky subscribers will be winning £100 of our bait! We will pick a random subscriber when we hit 100,000 views so enter now to be in with a chance of winning this one off special prize and kick start your 2012 season!

Don’t forget to check out our you tube bloggers found on our You Tube page!

We hope this finds us easier to contact and feel free to send us a message Via a facebook/twitter/Youtube

Or alternatively if you wish to send an email please use

sam@hinders.co.uk

sara@hinders.co.uk

or just phone on 01793 333900

Kind Regards

Hinders

February 10, 2012

The Social Networks

Filed under: General — hinders @ 9:49 am

It’s never been easier to keep in touch, we currently run three social networks and our news blog!

1.Facebook

2.Twitter

3.YouTube

4.News Blog

The main goal with our social networks and blog is to be more accessible to you our customer, and not only do we wish to pass on our catch reports/feedback but we would like you to share yours as well. By doing this we will all get a better idea and understanding on not only the inside view but also the view of you the general public. This will then hopefully give everyone a better insight on how a wider selection of different anglers approach different venues, bait application, and bait its self. Not to mention the favored tactics so please help us to help you and sign up now!

We have two facebook pages, Home/social page

We also run monthly competitions

Catch report Competition-This competition is open to anyone, as long as you’ve used at least one of our products to catch your fish.Just send it in via our facebook home page and you’ll  automatically be entered into our monthly draws. The winner will be picked on a combination of factors but not the size of your capture or species, so please don’t be put off. You can send in as many entries as you like per month. So for your chance of winning a bait pack worth over £40.00 just send in a catch report!

Here’s the link-Facebook Competition

Our second Facebook competition requires very little effort. For your chance of winning a Snailz bait pack just click the link below and like our Home page, it’s that simple

Here’s the Link-Face book Home page-Just Like!

Twitter

With twitter its never been easier to keep us and other anglers up to date on what’s occurring, so why not sign up and keep us and everyone else posted from the bank. Start now with a simple follow by clicking the link below

Here’s the link-Twitter

You Tube

We know reading text format catch reports can some times get a bit boring, so why not watch the action on screen. We have many videos for your entertainment covering the ins and outs of fishing, from targeting different species, to fishing all sorts  of methods and  tactics, as well as covering bait in depth with our How to videos so why not subscribe now.

All of our subscribers are automatically entered into our YouTube prize draw at the end of each month. The prizes will range from bottles of liquid to Pop-ups and even bait packs worth over £40.00.

We are also running a separate one off limited competition where one of our lucky subscribers will be winning £100 of our bait! We will pick a random subscriber when we hit 100,000 views so enter now to be in with a chance of winning this one off special prize and kick start your 2012 season!

Don’t forget to check out our you tube bloggers found on our You Tube page!

We hope this finds us easier to contact and feel free to send us a message Via a facebook/twitter/Youtube

Or alternatively if you wish to send an email please use

sam@hinders.co.uk

sara@hinders.co.uk

or just phone on 01793 333900

Kind Regards

Hinders

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