Yes that's right folks, the all new baby Spomb has hit the shelves and I had to snap one up when I seen it at Todber Manor Fisheries. At roughly half the size of the original Spomb it is perfect for clipping onto your rod for instant bait delivery at longer distances and in smaller chunks, once baited just unclip and continue fishing.

Apart from that I can see there is only one main reason why you should get one of these and that is because they look the nuts!

On receiving some new Hazelnut boilies from CS Baits I decided to get on the bank to try them out. I could only manage a morning session due to other commitments. It was a Saturday morning so I thought I should get up early to make sure I got a chance at a good swim. I arrived at the lake at 7:00am and unfortunately the rest of the world had beaten me to it. It was the busiest I’d ever seen it. After a trip round the lake I found a tight, overgrown spot and fish were showing out in front. I wasted no time in getting set up and had all three rods in by 8:00am. There was a lot of carp showing in front of me but after speaking to a few of the guys, nothing much had been caught.

I decided to fish at short range fishing all three rods close together between 30 and 50 yards. Worried about spooking the fish, I chose not to bait heavily, just using small PVA bags of pellet and crushed boilies with a few boilies over the top with the throwing stick. I fished 2 rods on the new Hazelnut and 1 on the trusty Squid, Octopus and Scopex. My rigs were simple as I hate to overcomplicate them, just fishing curve shank hooks to uncoated braid with a fairly long hair. This was attached to a running rig with an inline lead. After about an hour and a half the fish started moving in over my baited areas but seemed to be hanging in the upper layers rather than feeding. There was a big fish close to the surface over my right rod and I hoped that it would get its head down on the bait.

Another hour passed and the wind picked up, encouraging the fish to move down in the water and I started to see fizzing over my right rod. Great news and 5 minutes later I had a slow rise on the indicator. Not wanting to miss it I struck as the indicator was falling back. The hook had set and right from the off I could tell I was in to something big thinking it was one of the resident catfish. It then stopped dead and hugged the bottom for a moment and I thought I was snagged before it made a huge run out to the island. Once I'd slowed it down I started to turn it and gain some line. By this time I was nearly up to my waist having waded out past the snags to the left and right of me. A good 10 minute fight pursued before I saw the fish come to the surface. From the glimpse of her head and shoulders I could tell she was big. I slipped the net underneath her and got her to the mat as soon as I could, weighed her and went to fetch the guy in the next swim to verify the weight and take the photos. Clocking up at 33lb 9oz, I'd caught Helen, the biggest carp in the lake.

We've had some unbelievable success on the Sqid, Octopus and Scopex boilies. So far since May I've had 8 20's and a 30 on them. Rik's had some really good fish too, the best being a stunning 25lb 7oz mirror. Rik and I have just started a baiting campaign on our other syndicate water where the carp are much larger, some of them running to over 40lbs. So stay tuned for future episodes of our Pure Carp YouTube channel to see how we get on.

We couldn’t wait to get our hands on the new PF1 boilies by CS Baits after the success we’d had with their Squid, Octopus and Scopex. It’s been really successful in field testing and in one of the first sessions it did a 27lb 8oz common.

They’re a sweet fishmeal boilie and the first thing that strikes you about the boilies is their quality, freshness and the fact that they have an awesome pineapple smell.

I’ve been testing them throughout July and August and managed to bag loads of carp on them so far. Including two 19lbers and two 20lbers. The biggest being 22lb 3oz. The only downside is we’ve run out and we’re waiting for our next delivery.

CS baits pride themselves on providing their customers with the best quality bait possible and only using the best ingredients. All their orders are individually made so they reach you in the best condition. PF1 is available in 15mm boilies and boilie stix at £8 per kilo. To order yours, visit their website at www.csbaits.co.uk.