Long time friend of Gardner Tackle, ‘Sir’ Pete Springate, has just achieved a truly remarkable feat of carp angling by catching a carp off the top on the 1st February 2013. It’s a remarkable feat in so much as this capture takes his tally of surface caught fish in consecutive months to 48.... Yes! That’s [...]
I suppose like many others I couldn’t wait for the ice age that came in mid January to end and the longer it went on the more desperate I became to get out fishing! That said I must admit to totally changing my attitude to winter angling over the last few seasons, as during the [...]
I’ve been playing around with this variation of a snowman presentation for a few years and along the way have made small adjustments too fine tune it. Although it’s not a new rig, in fact it’s been about for ages – it’s still very much underused, which is surprising really due to its versatility and [...]
Gardner Tackle is extremely pleased to announce the appointment of Leon Bartropp into our sponsored angler team of carp consultants. Not only is Leon a highly respected big fish angler, but he is also a prolific writer within the carp angling press and takes enormous enjoyment in producing his own informative carp fishing videos. Over [...]
After joining my new syndicate around September 2012, I started at a really busy period, regularly just making up the numbers on a Friday. Four nights in and I’d had two bites, one that managed to reach the sanctuary of an island snag and the other I landed which came in the form of an [...]
/]fter the ‘Roast Beefs’ had reigned victorious at our friendly England v France match earlier in the year we had discussed with David Dauchy and Professor Ludo the possibility of travelling over to Francais and having an informal friendly return match. Any excuse to go angling! The guys had told us about a great venue [...]
