It was an early spring sunny morning when I returned to Chatfield to fish my favorite big open water reservoir. I had never caught a carp this early in the season from this venue. With water temps in the 40s, a cold wind gusting in the afternoon, it was going to be a challenge to …
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In mid March, I met up with James, Ron and his son, Jordan. With the water temps still cold I decided to go back to basics and fish simple rigs with a range of brightly colored, highly flavored, pop-ups. For those that have often asked, who want the “how-to”, hopefully this episode shows you a …
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The final episode of CarpQuest from 2015 sees Andrew, Ron, Jordan and I all meet up for an end of the season session at the Fairgrounds. We all banked a few good carp before the day was done including a beautiful 20 lb’er for me and a new PB for young Jordan. It was a …
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Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. I was fortunate to get the very latest item from Next Generation Tackle’s development department as an early Xmas present – the NGT Lightsaber! Oh yes, I think it will even be available in a carpy green. Available in stores in 3015, plenty …
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Here is a link to my full product review on Big Carp News where I take a real close up look at the very affordable VX & VC range of bite alarms from Next Generation Tackle.
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CarpQuest Blog – Quality time with a friend and CC Moore & Co Ltd bait testing Fishing for me is about spending quality time with friends and family. My neighbor, Roland, has had a rough year getting over shoulder surgery. With his recovery almost complete it was time to once again take him out with me …
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from my article on Big Carp News No, not the Iron Maiden song; rather my first experiences of night fishing for carp. This has been a crazy year for weather in Colorado. First with the never ending freezing winter followed by boiling hot days, cold nights and record rainfall, dust storms and electrical storms, high wind; …
Continue reading Fear of the DarkCarpQuest – S2E10 – Chatfield Carp Fishing – Fear of the Dark In this episode of CarpQuest we go on our first night fishing trip, destination, Chatfield Reservoir, CO. Arriving just before dusk we setup at the usual swim as a thunderstorm moved off into the distance. Ron walked an underwater camera out into the …
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