We fished boilies over a particle mix.

The river Avon is well fished by match anglers, but very under rated and under fished for carp.

There are not a huge number of carp, but they do grow quite big, the biggest carp is 29lb and as you may know river carp fight twice as hard.

Because these carp are partly wild they are mainly nocturnal.

We fished in St Nicholas Park where the river Avon goes through, the only run we had resulted in a fish and it was a 17lb common that I caught.

I caught it on a 18m cc Moore meteor boilie, on a blow back rig, with a fluorocarbon leader.