The Monument

After a recent visit to my local tackle shop Leigh Tackle & Bait, one of the guys who works in the shop,Chris Holland showed me some photos of a couple of carp he had caught at the Monument in Shropshire.

Chris is a specimen angler and the photo's to the left show his catches over several sessions.

Details of the rig & bait used to catch these fish.

All fish caught on pop up corn on a semi stiff hinged rig.Rig consists of 8" Korda Hybrid Stiff 20lb with the chod section of the rig made up from 15lb Korda Mouth trap at 2 1/2" long.

Hook pattern,Korda Choddy size 10.

Lead arrangement was a 3.5 oz square pear,helicopter syle on 4 feet of ESP Leadcore.

The rig was fished over a bed of corn,milk,rock salt & crushed Cell Boilies.

Baiting style was little & often , 3 spombs every two hours, Chris told me his secret to picking the bigger fish off, but i'm sworn to secrecy.

Chris uses Bait-tech Sweet Coconut Method Mix & Mainline Cell Boilies during his sessions out on the bank.

Fish Weights working from top of page down.

34lbs 4oz

30lbs 8oz

28lbs 7oz

32lbs 12oz

24lbs 8oz

32lbs 5oz

Hover over the images & click to enlarge.