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| The CARP FISHING GUIDE Saves you Time and Money. My Carp History By Lee Williams I've been fishing for around 30yrs now, it is a major part of my life, I've done match, Fly, Carp, Pike & Zonder fishing but mainly Carp, I've caught Pike in the lowTwenties, I'm not competitive, I do it solely for pleasure.
Along the pathway of fishing I've had the pleasure of fishing with good anglers like Mick Brown, Dave Harrel, Ritchie McDonald, Alan Lewis, Roy Marlow & John Cooper.
I just don't get enough time to go as much as I would like to.
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I've always had a passion for angling from a very young age around 6 or 7 to be precise.
My old man used to take me on the River Severn Newtown Mid Wales (The Severn is Britain’s longest river) and also Trawsfynydd Reservoir, (which is a man made reservoir near the village of Trawsfynydd in Gwynedd, North Wales and covers an area greater than the largest natural lake in Wales which is Llyn Tegid or Bala Lake as it is known in English.) from then on I was hooked.
When I was about 12 years old I took up Carp and Pike fishing. I also did a bit of match fishing but the fish were too small, and closed season I.jpg) was always fly fishing on a lake or a river.
I got right into my carp fishing and met John Cooper and he taught me everything he knew about bait, the right conditions etc, he was a real good angler and still is, We both ended up joining a syndicate at Wootton Wawen near Stratford Warwickshire which held a very large head of Twenties, we didn't work at the time so we fished mid week.
One day there was some bloke Eel fishing and he became a good friend of ours, his name is Mick Brown yes The Mick Brown, we fished the summer season for a couple of years and I had to get a Job so my fishing died a bit of a death. I went on to pinching a few hours here and there, but it is never enough. .jpg)
I then joined a syndicate down the road called Benks Well Lake and another syndicate called Little Aston; the late Ron Felton who ran the Wooton syndicate too owned these.
A few years later I ended up working for my old mate Steve Barker who used to work for the Ritch Worth Baits.
The job title was Bailiff for Packington fisheries as Steve was fishery manager.
It was an interesting job as we went out netting at a lot of different venues, most of the nettings were with the late Ron Felton; what a bloke, there wasn’t anything he didn’t know about fishing as he had fished for carp right form the start, he is even in the Redmire book in a photo with his mate Billy Walkden
I can remember him sending me up a tree at Edstone Hall to shake the branches, to spook the fish out into the net, me being a novice got on the wrong branch, which was about 20ft up from the water, Ron shouted over “The branch below you fool”, well the inevitable happened and a few seconds later and I fell flat on my back into the water; I got up really quick to see if .jpg) anyone was laughing. Steve barker buckled and filled his chest waders, Ron was on his back in the boat falling about laughing and the rest of the boys where in bits ha ha!
I then did the carp anglers worst nightmare and got married and tried to fit my fishing in with it, not a good mix, dig grave and lie in it springs to mind.
I did a bit of carping on the canal at that time with my mate, my best catch on the canal was 27lbs; I was also settling into match fishing at the time, which I mingled in with my carp fishing, not doing very well at either, as I found out, you can’t be successful at both types of fishing at the same time. After doing that for a few years I got disenchanted with my fishing, and having passed my motorbike test was into bikes for at least 7 years, which took over my fishing.
One day I picked up the angling times and in bold print was my old mate Mick Brown; so it was off to the fishing show, I had a good walk around and finally found him, we had a good chat about the old days and he basically told me to ditch the bike and come back fishing..jpg)
The bike got sold in 2000 and I was back Carping and Piking thanks to Mick I am back fishing now catching 20lbs plus pike and 30lbs plus Carp. There is no stopping me now. I will never give it up, when I came back fishing I started on local east day tickets waters as I was a bit rusty, after 3 years of that I was ready for a syndicate water so I had a chat with Richard Fosters of Fosters of Birmingham and joined the Penns Hall Syndicate where I did really well catching Carp to low twenties.
I fished there for 1 ½ seasons and by then my name came up the list for Broadwater syndicate where I am fishing now. See carp fishing lake for photos of some of its residents. .jpg) | |
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