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MARCUS HOWARTH showed how effective maggots can be for big carp in the colder months when silver fish activity dies down with fours specimens on the grubs.
Wimborne, Dorset-based Marcus fished a 48 hour session on a Berkshire club water and had The Brute at 43 lb 12 oz, a 32 lb 6 oz common and others of 25 lb 15 oz and 29 lb 8 oz.
The 29-year-old tackle shop employee said: “I was fishing 50 yards to a silt gully and fed maggots plus 5 kg of crumbed up Sticky Baits Manilla boilies.
“I used a size 6 Atomic Chodda hook with a 25 lb Amnesia hooklink with a balanced maggot rig.”
DANNY MARTIN had struggled for eight nights on a local syndicate so decided on change to day ticket Farlows Lake in Buckinghamshire and had mirrors of 34 lb 10 oz and 26 lb 8 oz in 72 hours.
The 20-year-old salesman from Loughton, Essex, fished at 104 yards to the back of a gravel bar in a 12 foot silty gully using Sticky Baits 16 mm shelf-life Manilla.
STEVE POTTS tempted 11 carp in two overnighters at a local pit including Dumpy at 32 lb 8 oz, a 33 lb common and a mirror of 30 lb 10 oz.
Sedgley, West Midlands-based Steve, 28, who works for Angling Direct at Willenhall, sales assistant, fished at 170 yards to a silt patch on a Sticky Bait shelf-life Manilla boilies over maggots.
FIREFIGHTER Marc Cavaciuti had a great trip to the Essex Manor when he tempted this mirror called The Pearly Lin at 37 lb 7 oz plus others of 42 lb 6 oz and 32 lb 4 oz.
The 32-year-old from Welwyn Garden City in Hertfordshire, used a 12 mm pink Sticky Baits Signiture pop-ups tipped with five maggots in PVA bags of Krilled grubs and bloodworm pellets.
MARK ROBINSON tackled a tricky northern water and banked this corking 31 lb mirror. He was trialing a new test bait from Nutrabaits which is due out in the spring.
ROB PLESTED had a productive trip to a Cambridgeshire syndicate topped by this lovely 33 lb 7 oz mirror. Local Rob added others of 30 lb 4 oz and 20 lb 2 oz on legered boilies.
BEN TIPNEY set himself a target of a day ticket 40 this year and managed it with this 41 lb 6 oz mirror from Oxlease Lake at Oxfordshire’s Linear Fisheries.
The 33-year-old training consultant from Bourne End, Buckinghamshire, also had a 28 lb 6 oz mirror and mid double common in 34 hours on a Sticky Baits White Krill pop-up tipped with maggots on an adapted version of the multi-rig.
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