Questions and Answers with Nash Tackles Mike Wilson

Questions and Answers with Nash Tackles Mike Wilson!

 

Absolute Peach of a Mirror.

How long have you been fishing for?

I think the first time I ever picked up a fishing rod I was about ten years old when I was just catching silvers with my Dad. I first properly got into carp fishing probably about 5 years ago.

What are your favoured rigs to use where ever you go, why?

I have favoured rigs in different situations obviously but I mainly find myself fishing weed/choddy lakes so I opt for the chod rig. This is mainly because I have so much confidence in it as most of the fish I have caught in the last couple of years have been on the chod including my personal best common of 38lb 8oz. 

Who are your biggest angling aspirations? 

I don’t really have any to be honest. But If I could choose to go fishing with an angling legend it would probably be Martin Bowler. 

Is there anything you believe makes fishing over complicated?

Other angler’s ha-ha 

What lake would you happily re-visit at any time of the year?

A little private lake in Essex called the Blue Lagoon. 

Another Lovely Looking Mirror For Sure!

What are your top 5 items of tackle that Nash just released? 

1.       Ball Maker

2.       Cybershot

3.       Glow bugs

4.       Gyro bug mix

5.       3 rod Connect 

If there was one fish you'd like to catch again which would it be and why?

I would love to catch a fish called V-scar at over 30lb. 

Are you primarily a carp angler or do you go for other species and if so which are they?

Mainly a carp angler (I don’t get time to fish for anything else) 

What is your favourite pattern of hook and on which rig do you prefer using it?

The Fang X on a KD rig. 

What is your favourite part of carp angling?

Hearing that buzzer tear off. 

When did you first start fishing and is there any story behind it?

I was going with my dad most Sundays after football just catching silvers and I started to see people catch these big fish which were described to me as carp and all I knew was I wanted to catch one and since then I have never looked back. 

When you get on the bank, do you prefer socials or being on the bank doing your own thing? Or both? 

Both. Entirely depends on the situation and the lake I am fishing. 

A Nice Looking Common on a Beautiful Day As Well.

When you turn up to your target lake, what sort of process do you go through go settling down for the day or night? 

I will always do a lap or two of the lake until I find fish and if I don’t see any signs I will go on previous experience and the weather conditions.

What would be the one item of tackle you would never go fishing without, if you did, would it hinder your fishing strategies?

I can’t name one item because I feel there is a few I could never go without so I’m going to change it to the three things I couldn’t go without and they are; PVA, polaroid’s and spare bait. 

 

 

Well there we go, an insight into the mind of young carp angler and some of the stunners he catches, hope this was beneficial! Until Next Time.. On my next blog you will find me at Linear Fisheries in Oxfordshire! Join me later next week to find out how myself and Velocity Baits Junior Consultant Liam Morgan get on for 48hrs on the banks of Brasenose in Oxford!

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Surface Fishing With Un-Necessary Disasters.

 

Surface Fishing With Un-necessary Disasters!

 



A Stunning Fish Taken on a Zig Bug a Few Weeks Ago With Nash Tackles Alan Blair.

Firstly I'd like to welcome you back to my blogs, I haven't been posting recently as I have been away on work experience for one of my units at Shuttleworth College. As you may have seen I did manage to get out fishing but not very much only catching a few small fish with one of them noted further into this blog. Lets get on with the session!

Bank holidays, I hate them for the reason that I can never seem to get on the bank. Lakes all full and petrol wasted but it has allowed me to see what people are doing on the lake I'm going to approach.

I have fished this lake before using all manor of tactics catching some brilliant carp as well. I have previously fished this lake with floaters as fish are easier to catch when they are on the surface, providing your using the right tactics of course. I will be using a Medium Fox Bolt Bubble which is fixed on the line but can come free if a fish happens to get snagged. This is fished in conjunction with 8ft of Nash Zig Flo and a Size 8 Fang Gaper hook with a fake dog biscuit nicked on. This is all it takes to nail a fish or two off the surface.

Fox Bolt Bubbles Are Great For Surface Fishing.

I take the long drive to the small lake and hope to find some fish straight away. I walked all the way down one of the arms of the lake to find 3 fish on the surface which gave me one option, then I walked down the second arm to find no less than 30 carp all sunning themselves. It'd have been a crying shame to not have a go and walk past them.

All the gear for the session was packed lightly onto a barrow and I made way across to where I had seen them on the surface. One rod set up with floater gear was soon cast out following some of the fish which you could tell we're hungry.

Out the corner of my eye I had spotted a fish cruising with its mouth open lapping up the mixers, I had formulated a plan with the mixers to make the area a whole lot more interesting and this was soaking the mixers in NV-R Liquid and Vegetable oil to create a slick out in front of where I'm fishing. A few mouthed hooks later and BANG! I've got one on. It was a very scary battle as I have a load of marginal snags to my right and left and he didn't hesitate to plough through them! The fish is soon on the net and the scales spun round to 14lb 2oz. I can quite easily say this beats last weeks floater session.

A Lovely Fish, Showing Off Its Dorsal, She Went 14lb 2oz!

20minutes on from this fight I'm into another one, as its bow waving through the margins I spot it's a cracking looking linear.. It becomes snagged. The fish then sheds the hook onto a branch and its game over. A few expletives later and I'm back out looking for the fish.

Unfortunately the sun had gone in and the fish had cruised off elsewhere. At this point I decided to put a rod out on the bottom on a Velocity Baits Pear Drop popup on a multi rig with a liberal glugging in the new Berry V-Cloud Liquid, this is under armed into my right margin.

This Stuff Smells Awesome!!

The left rod is on a zig just under the surface about 20 yards out on a Glow Zig Bug as this'll mimic anything that is in the upper layers of the water, hopefully to intercept anything any fish in the vicinity they were earlier this morning.

Out the corner of my eye I spotted a few more fish on the surface slowly emerging from the snags to my right hand side. I spotted a few fish only coming out and taking a few mixers to go back into their safe haven. Roughly half an hour had passed and one fish looked like it was up for a picture so I cast just past it and reeled slowly over it, BAM! the fish was on and towing me round, this gave tell tale signs it was one of the mental ghosties that reside in this lake and in some numbers as well. As I'm only using 9ft 3lb rods it is hard to steer them away from the snag and he found his way in, after a few heart racing moments he managed to surge his way out as I was going to go for an early net to save any problem, oh did I speak to soon? Not long after the surge the line parts and I've lost another one, I checked the hook link and it was all frayed where it was grating on the snag which was gutting to say the least!


Zig Bugs, Who Can Beat Them, Get On 'Em!

After this heart wrenching moment I get on the move and decide to approach them from a different angle but I'm out of luck, its time to shoot off home and complete some assignments for tomorrow, specially as I have to go into work as well.

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