Hello fellow Carpers and welcome to a piece of my fishing life. I have been solely Carp Angling for over 22 years now. (Yes I’m old!)
I learnt my trade the proper way in 1982 by first learning the art of float fishing before trying the various ledgering tactics like the quiver and swing tip and feeder fishing before graduating to rivers and then match fishing. I fished all the inter county police matches in my younger teens but then got the real buzz when our family moved near a lake called Whirley Mere in Cheshire. The lake was full of decent size crucian carp up to about four pound and I regularly used to pick up large bags on the float but just before dark every night the float would dive under and I would strike to an almost instant snapping of the line from ‘the one that got away!’
Two rods soon became the norm with one on the bottom and the other being a float rod and you know how it goes though I’m sure, you lose a couple of bigger fish on the ledger rod, snapping five pound line like cotton so you then up the tackle a bit and land one after the most exciting fight that you have ever been a part of.
You then catch a few more and before you know it the Carp buzz is firmly implanted and you have two rods out for the Carp. Then come the matching buzzers, rods and reels and before you know it you’re camo’d up to the max becoming used to questions like, “what you stay all night?” or “you put them back after all that?!!”
I fished many lakes as I moved around the country with my music career fishing lakes such as Rodney Meadow and Woburn Sands where I caught my first 30lb Carp in 1995.
I then moved oop North and after a couple of years break from fishing I joined a syndicate called Wyre Lake which was a major stepping stone for me to move into big fish hunting as I upped my PB a couple of times and became really keen to fish harder lakes and catch bigger fish.
It was then on to Elstow 2 in Bedfordshire which was by far the hardest lake I had fished because at the time there were only about 17 Carp in a very deep 35 acre pit that was situated in less than enticing terrain.
The plus side was that there were two 40lb plus carp called ‘the twin’ and ‘the mother.’
After 23 fishless nights wondering if I would ever catch a carp form the lake it all came good and I ended up pulling off the lake in October because I had become the first ever angler to catch both fish over 40lb in one season.
I went on to catch a 40lb common carp the following spring from a very hard lake in Shropshire and then to the catch a December 40lb plus carp from the notoriously tricky Yateley Car Park lake and after catching a number of newsworthy fish from the likes of Fen Drayton, topped off my fishing career to date with a mahoosive 58.8lb beast from Cambridgeshire.
Many times I have been asked to do slide shows so later on during the 2007 year I will start to tell some of my fishy tales publicly so please contact me through this website if your club or association is interested in booking me.
Tight Lines!!
Jamie
Jamie Clossick
24 Peel Avenue, Blackpool, Lancs, FY3 7AQ
Tel: 07967 005 607 - info@jamieconline.com
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