Paul Cooper’s 2012 fishing diary continued:-

Another biggy on HG47

This year has been an exceptional year for my carp fishing. Since joining Quality Baits as a field tester I have had success after success on the new HG range of bait.

Due to lack of freezer facilities on a couple of my planned French trips, Simon put together my HG range of boilies in shelf life. I had tried out the baits on some of my local waters with immediate results so I was brimming with confidence for my next few trips abroad.

At the end of March I visited the new Angling Lines venue, Le Monument and had a new lake record while carp fishing in France. A few weeks later I was on another A/L venue with Jim Kelly, known as Blue Lake. Jim had 40 fish and myself 29 fish, all on either HG42 or the HG47.

Late April I turned up at on one of my syndicate lakes for a quick session having seen carp feeding in a shallow corner of the lake the day before. Out went a single 18ml HG47 boilie on my ever faithful blow back rig and 10 minutes later I was into a large common. It is a fish that I have caught before and it still showed an impressive weight of 40lb 7oz.

single HG42 boilie cast to feeding fish

2 days after this capture I was back at the lake and once again came across a small shoal of feeding fish. Out went a single bottom bait and an hour later I had this lovely common at 23lb 5oz.

In May a trip to Margot saw an additional 33 carp on the bank,  again on HG42. The carp here loved it and I got through 25 kilo of HG42 and 8 kilo of HG47.

Back to my local lakes and I am doing short sessions of a few hours and the bait just keeps on producing.

I have another trip planned at the end of July and I have already placed my HG bait order in with Simon for hopefully another successful week on a new Angling Lines water.