THINK FISHING WITH DES SHIPP

Welcome to Issue 54 of Think Fishing and for this issue I’ve decided to bring you back to one of my favourite winter haunts, Shearwater Lake, near Longleat Safari Park, in Wiltshire. It’s not just a beautiful place to fish, it’s also stuffed with roach, bream and some big carp and today I’m going to try and catch some bream and carp on the Method feeder.

The water’s deep here and today it’s got just a tinge of colour so it will be interesting to see if it’s going to be a bream day or a carp day… or both! I’d love to catch some carp though because they’re big, beautiful fish in here so fingers crossed I can get into one or two of them today. The peg I’ve chosen is on the roadside and this seems to be more consistent for big fish than the swims on the opposite bank. There’s a good depth of about 16 feet where I’ll be chucking today and that’s at a distance of 55m and 65m, and what I want to show you is how I catch loads of fish at this time of year by fishing past my feed.

Des Shipp