Rob Marsh and Lee Merritt unveiled as Ultima Consultants

Carping duo Rob and Lee have been snapped up by line specialists Ultima. The pair will be working alongside existing Ultima consultants such as Steve Renyard, Frank Warwick and Mark Hutchinson on a range of projects that includes a series of films for the Ultima site. Rob and Lee are no strangers to the camera and have a wealth of experience for Ultima to tap into and judging by the popularity of Ultima’s first DVD, The Power of Carp, and the eagerly anticipated Power of Carp 2, Renyards Rigs,Lee and Rob will have plenty to keep them busy.Rob and Lee will also be involved in the design and development of Ultima’s ever evolving Specialist Carp Range, ensuring that every Ultima product is thoroughly tested and approved before and after release.

After qualifying into the semi finals and finals for the last 6 years it was almost as if we were expected to qualify again this
year.The
field of anglers were the stonger than ever with any team quite capable of qualifying.Once the match started several teams broke away but
we struggled for our first bite but we started to get fish passing through the swim and then we nailed them soon placing us in 3rd place
tactics were Atomic solid Grenade pva bags filled with Hinders Mini Combi and Halibut pellets with trimmed down cell boilies tipped with
fluro corn soaked in Hinders Betalin. On several occasions we were second and at one point we were only a few pounds of 1st but as the
match went on we were battling for the 3rd qualifying spot 2 pairs fishing either end had pulled well clear with an hour of the match
finishing we were comfortably in 3rd when the 5th place pair received some hectic action which saw them knock us into 4th place we needed
a fish of 17lb to take back are spot with 30 minutes left Lee was in to a fish but was it enough on the scales we could not believe it
17lb 3oz we were now back in 3rd place! Ten minutes before the end of the match our hearts sank as we watched the other pair slip the net
under a 13lb fish we received no more action we were totally gutted but thats competition carping and we will be back next for another go!

Just got back from a short session over on Heron Lake and although the conditions were not great I still managed five fish with the biggest being a stunning  36lb 1oz  common. I used the new Atomic Choppa droppa leadcore set up allowing me to drop the lead on every take used with an Atomic 4.5oz Anka lead and 25lb Jel-e-wyre hooklink with size 6 Grabba hook fished with a blow back ring, Mainline Cell dumbbell tipped with half a 10mm pineapple pop up. The rig was fished in Atomic grenade pva bag with Mainline response pellet an Hinders Mini-combi pellet and 3mm Halibut and 3mm betain pellets.

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