Sticky consultant Ian Stott recently paid a visit to Linear Fisheries Brasenose 1 for a social session with a couple of mates and he ended up having a right result!

Stotty takes up the story: “One of the lads with us was a Linear bailiff and he told us where he wanted to fish so seeing as we were having a bit of a social we all decided to capitalise on his inside knowledge and fish in a line in that area. He also told us most people tend to fish at between 60 and 80 yards range so I decided to be a bit different and fish further out, thinking the fish would probably be hanging out at long range, beyond the majority of the angling pressure. I found a nice spot at 105 yards range and decided to fish all three rods on the same spot with a nice tight spodded bed of mixed Sticky pellets, Oily Hemp and a new all-season boilie I am currently putting through its paces for Sticky. I put the boilies through a blender to turn them into small, particle-sized baits. I mixed it all up and gave it a good dose of Pure Krill Liquid and Cloudy Bloodworm Liquid. Hookbaits were a Buchu-Berry pop-up on one rod, a test bait pop-up on the second and a piece of plastic corn soaked in neat Peach & Pepper flavour on the third. It was just a couple of hours later when I received my first take, which produced a nice mid double. After that I got the rod back out and thought it was going to kick off, but things went quiet until just before midnight when the corn soaked in flavour rattled off. A spirited fight followed but I was soon looking down at what looked like a big fish sitting in the net. Weighing the fish revealed it was in fact one of the biggest fish in the lake at 32lb 14oz and I must admit I was absolutely chuffed to bits. I had a big grin on my face for the photos that’s for sure.”

“For the next four hours I caught fish consistently although nothing went more than 16lb. After every capture I topped up the spot with a few spods of my mix to keep the fish interested. The following day I decided to have a recast and put fresh hookbaits on all three rods. I got them back on the spot and spodded out another full bucket of mix, hoping the action would continue after dark like the previous day. I did experience some action in the night, receiving a screaming run and hooking a powerful fish which I unfortunately lost after it picked up both my other lines. I didn’t receive any further action in the night but at 6am the middle rod was away and I bagged my final carp of the session at 25lb 3oz. It had been a really good session and landing seven carp including a thirty in January will certainly go down in my memory.”

Sticky consultant Ian Stott has been catching a few recently. Lets start with a 31lb 3oz common which he caught from Wellington Country Park. He offered a Peach & Pepper pop-up over half a kilo of Vor-Tex freebies. He also caught a 29lb 5oz common on the same baits. Hookbaits were offered on hinged stiff rigs. Ian's success didn't end there, though, he also bagged a 30lb 11oz mirror and a 27lb 15oz mirror on hookbaits tipped with plastic corn soaked in neat Peach & Pepper flavour. These were fished over a spodded bed of Bloodworm Pellets and mixed Vor-Tex and Bloodworm boilies.

Dave Armstrong has been a valued part of the Sticky team for a while now and he has been making a name for himself on the northern scene over the last few years with a string of impressive captures to his credit. Dave will be getting more involved with Sticky over the coming year so keep your eyes peeled from some features, video diaries, hints and tips and various other bits and bobs from him. He certainly has some good stories to tell and lots of experience to pass on! His latest success came during a guest session on the Westlands syndicate in East Yorkshire with fellow Sticky users Danny Fletcher and Alan Atkinson.

Dave takes up the story: “This is a venue I wouldn't normally fish but I ended up really enjoying my time on there. Seeing as Fletch and Al are both members and I was their guest, I ended up being pushed into a corner swim with not much water to go at (thanks Fletch!) Anyway, after a quick lead about and some advice from the lads I found a couple of nice spots and didn't hang around with getting the rods sorted as it was getting dark very quickly. Both rods went out towards a quiet margin on my right, one about a rod length off and the other a little further out at the base of a bar. In the night I had a fast take and I was attached to a very angry carp. I thought carp weren't meant to fight as hard in the cold weather, but this one obviously hadn't read the rules as it went mental! It took a good 10 minutes before the fish was ready for the net and once safely on the bank a weight of 20lb 4oz was recorded. Maybe not the biggest fish in the world, but very welcome at this time of year. Dave used a 12mm Buchu-Berry pop-up over a small PVA bag of mixed pellets.

New Sticky convert Jamie Potter has been in touch to tell us about his success since making the change to Sticky products.

He said: “I spent most of 2011 on a new syndicate in Norfolk. I had been catching the odd fish but I was still chasing the elusive dream of my first thirty. It was a conversation with Jim Shelley which lead to a change of fortunes. He advised me to get on the Sticky Vor-Tex range and knowing how successful Jim has been since starting to use it, who was I to argue! I got myself some Vor-Tex and baited the lake a couple of days before my next session. When I arrived to fish I had the lake to myself and I was buzzing. The following morning I got the reward I had been eagerly waiting for in the shape of a personal best, awesome-looking common at 30¼lb. The fish fell for a glugged 16mm Vor-Tex pop-up. I also managed to bag two more fish during the session to just under 20lb.”

Due to work and family commitments Jamie was unable to fish again for a couple of weeks but he did manage to get down to the lake a few times to trickle in some Vor-Tex and keep the fish on the munch. His efforts were rewarded when a cold December weekend produced a trio of twenties weighing 27lb 12oz, 25lb 8oz and 22lb! Again all his fish fell for glugged Vor-Tex pop-ups.

Over to Jamie again: “To say I was pleased would be an understatement as during this period only three other fish were caught from the lake!”