About Darrell Creasey

I first started fishing at the age of seven, at first catching anything that swam, my first venue being the Dorset Stour at the rear of Pontins holiday camp as it was. From there I fished all my local ponds and lakes best of all being the lakes in Wanstead Park. All these venues held Carp but for the time being my mind were on Tench.

Summer holidays where spent up and down the River Lea and Lea Navigation once again for anything that swam. My early teens were spent fishing Hainault Country Park again for Tench and the odd Carp that nicked my Sweet corn.

My first real encounter with Carp came from fishing a lake in Colchester used to provide water to all the surrounding Potato crops. The lake was full of “Wildies” pound for pound truly a hard fitting fish. It wasn’t until I became a member of South Weald Country Park that Carp fishing took hold. During an intended Tench session on the bottom lake I opted to fish the top lake and landed a monster then mid twenty Mirror, that changed my fishing forever. 

Over the years I have been lucky enough to fish several quality venues in the UK and Europe with Mainline being my only choice of bait every time.

Since 1993 I have been involved in the Angling Industry covering many different roles and spending time working all over Europe working alongside some of the biggest tackle companies, as well as in the Far East working with major manufacturers on the product development side. In addition to this I also ran syndicate water in Essex for 15 years and was involved with the running of Thurrock Angling Club “Little Grange”.

All this has given me a wealth of experience and insight into all aspects of the Angling Industry from which I can genuinely speak about the qualities Mainline bring to your fishing, not only from a manufacturing view point, but also from a catching and fish welfare view point. Using Mainline products will give you the edge required to catch your dreams. Simply put quality all rolled into little balls. “Quality first”.