A1 Pits Forum

Hi all, Fished pit 6 for a couple of nights last this week, got there at about 4pm Wednesday 28th.
I was suprised to find Pit 6 almost empty with only 2 anglers on, anyway point was vacant ,so I plonked myself in there. Steve related it was'nt fishing very well due to a daphne bloom.
Anyway I found a couple of clear spots at about 100-110yds and put some bollies over the top, out went a couple of pop-ups set at 3" off the bottom.
Next morning my middle rod blasted off, which resulted in losing a decent ...

Hi all, Managed two from a recent session down on 6, me and my mate fished pike point, had 5runs the first night!!! I don't know why..and it's the first time it's happend, but out of the 5 takes, I only hooked two! both in the bottom lip. been using short chod rigs/helicopters with pop-up baits, which have never caused me a problem before, anyone else had this with these type of rigs? anyhow, the fish were both commons of 16.4 & 17.4...excuse the night time pic! I was down to my smalls with it being a hot night and I've cropped the image as far as I can without spoiling the fish. ...

First off thanks to tattman, Burnt and mozie for the details along with pictures you can find the full thread HERE - Two Tone has come out this afternoon at 41lb verified by Steve the Baliff and Mr John Burnett the owner of the A1 complex hands over £1000 prize to captor Michael Dunworth of Louth one of the A1 regulars. Taken at 40yards, from the 1st peg of the A1 bank on single grain of fake corn in a PVA bag, Two Tone has smashed Michael's previous personal best of 7years (23lb 14oz). He was still shaking and grinning when I saw him about 2 hours after. ...

Just got back from the Trent still quite low and clear managed 2 barbel biggest 7lb, 2 chub to 4lb 8oz, couple of bream plenty of runs and lost a few fish! nice to get back on the river a good weekend and cant wait to get back down next week! The staff have done a great job at tidying the pegs up too. ...

Hi all just done 36hr session on pit 3 fri nite til sun morn and managed 4 fish 3 of them were caught in the first nite and they were only 4 or 5lb stockies but about 11 sat morn i had a screamer which went straight into a weed bed it felt like another stockie with about a ton of weed around as it came closer and the weed came off i cud see it through the water and new straight away its was a pb for me and my first "proper" carp from the pits lovley 20lb commom will upload pic off my digi camera tonite if i get time. ...

just finished a 3 day session on 6 and managed three fish, 23.01 20.5 and 15 all commons although i lost 6 good fish!! i have been useing the 360 rig i seem too be hooking them well but they just dont stay on well, has anyone else had this problem? I have since seen a few rig safety concerns on the 360 from a few people online which has put me off. Anyway im very happy to have caught and endured the most awsome thunderstorm ive ever whitnessed!! have included a photo of a lightning stike looking south of the bin swim ...

hi all just returned from a stint from the pits, managed to get into " little Gap" and saw fish messing about and tailwalking about 100 yards out , managed 7 fish and lost 2 ...

Fished friday night through til saturday afternoon and ended up with a stunning 22lb mirror on the dog biscuit ;-)
thought was gona blank after a quiet night although there were alot of fish in my margin but they avoided my hookbait! woke up early saturday and seen carp cruising in the morning sun so got the floater rod out and within 20 minutes ...

Finally managed my 1st session on pit 5 for this year. Did 3 nights on the 4/5 split. On the 1st afternoon I had a screamer but after 5 mins the hook pulled, which wasnt the start I was looking for!! Lol. That night I got cleared out by bream, banking 2 about 8/9lb and had loads of liners, that stopped at about midnight once they had cleaned me out! Lol. ...