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The principal with the ‘Improve Your Coarse Fishing’ series is to do what the magazine does – concentrating on UK pleasure fishing on the kind of waters anyone can fish, and techniques that anyone can use with a bit of application.
In presenter Kev Green’s words: “The series is all about helping people catch more fish and bigger fish on venues they can identify with. We are targeting many different species in many different ways.
“We cover carp, but the series is no means all about carp fishing, it’s about enjoying the pleasure fishing that the UK has to offer and learning things that will improve your own fishing.”
Fishing for bream (Bluebell Lakes, Northamptonshire), tench and perch (River Nene) are covered as Kevin, who is editor of Improve Your Coarse Fishing magazine, goes fishing with Angling Times’ editor Richard Lee.
Don’t miss Kevin’s visit to Docklow Pools in Herefordshire to show the quality of silver fish sport available on the country’s commercial fisheries, as he puts his pole to good use to for a superb bag of roach.
A brilliant episode sees Kevin visiting Willinghurst Fishery in Surrey, in a show in which specimen tactics and pleasure fishing collide.
Another of the carp episodes sees Kevin joining carp man Steve Broad in a head-to-head at a typical commercial carp pool, with Steve using Method tactics for big carp, and Kevin giving a masterclass in the use of marker floats and spods to target carp in numbers.
It’s not all about stillwaters though, with Kevin ‘hooking up’ with Bob Roberts for some real Mr Crabtree style fishing, stalking chub and barbel on a picture postcard tributary of the River Trent – there’s some amazing underwater footage of barbel and chub feeding to enjoy.
Also look out for Kevin teaming up with former Wasps rugby player Jonathan Watt at Hartleylands Farm in Kent. Jonathan shows how to fish paste on the bottom for carp, with Kevin enjoying plenty of action up in the water with a splasher waggler and big pellet waggler.
And Kevin’s back with the nation’s favourite fish when he visits Lemington Lakes in the Cotswolds, to target big tench in the margins…. and he bags a personal best on the pole for good measure! “With the techniques and instruction we have been careful to include plenty that will get you more bites, without making it too complicated. The series is all about enjoyment, and catching more fish,” adds Kevin.