Carp Fishing – Lite-Wave Head Torch – Video
So your hands are caked in bait or fishy mucus (the mark of victory!). Inevitably, you find yourself fumbling around in the darkness trying desperately not to smear it all over your forehead, whilst dealing with a fish or re-tackling or baiting? Fear not… We have the answer! Gardner Tackle’s very own Sales Rep James Clarke describes the new Lite-Wave head torch...
Carp Fishing – Rigs PVA Tip – Video
Here’s a great little tip for mounting Micro-Mesh PVA bags, that Lewis originally wrote about years ago! It makes your rig virtually tangle proof and avoids the possibility of retaining a blob of PVA on the hook.
Carp Fishing – Hook Sharpening Tips – Video
In this short video Lewis demonstrates a couple of really helpful tips and techniques that will hopefully make your hook sharpening even better, and help ensure that you achieve a wonderful sticky sharp hook point, quickly and with consummate ease.
Carp Fishing – The German Rig – Video
Gardner Tackle team member Matt Lockett runs through a hugely successful bottom bait rig known as The German Rig. This presentation has accounted for some huge carp from some of the countries most difficult venues.
At first, I thought it was indeed a barbel, but after a heavy thumping battle in the flow, I saw the brassy flanks of a big chub surface. A couple more nervous minutes followed, before I managed to slide it over the drawstring into the net. Straight away I could see it was probably a '6'; a target I had been chasing for years.
From the first time I saw pictures of the Big Lin I knew that it was the one I would really like to catch. Little did I know that it would start a five-year quest for me to finally hold it up in front of the camera. I’d been fishing the Roach Pit for a couple of years, slowly building up a picture of the lake...
The next morning came and went, and nothing happened. The whole lake looked dead, as an easterly wind had picked up. I decided to sit it out in my current swim and was rewarded on the third morning of my session with an 8lb 14oz female. Then on the last morning, I managed a 6lb 6oz female tough going was the word, but I went home happy.
My real love in angling is Tench fishing, and it’s mainly on the big pits where all my serious tench fishing is done. I’ve been doing this since the mid-1970s, so I think it’s fair to say I’m addicted to big pit fishing, but most of the ideas and methods in this article will work on any water, of any size.
From the carp's perspective there is just so much going for areas of the lake that are full of vegetation. Freshwater shrimps, several species of water snail, mussels and other natural food abound in the green stuff. In addition, the fish are afforded both safety and security and weed emits oxygen.
I had also started pike fishing in the November, and this started off with a bang, with the capture of a scraper 20 already and then only a couple of weeks later a dream fish came into my net. At 47” long and so close to my target weight she weighed in at 29lb 3oz!
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Gardner Tackle has been manufacturing quality carp fishing and specialist fishing tackle for 40 years. Founded in 1980 and as one of the original carp tackle companies we have been at the head of carp angling innovation and design. We are still a family run business and the ethos of producing ground-breaking carp fishing tackle that is high quality and reliable has never been diluted. Every member of the company lives and breathes all things carp fishing related. From the moment we wake (and even while we sleep!) carp and their capture are at the forefront of our minds. This translates itself into the continual development and refining of our carp focused product ranges. And with a dedicated carp fishing team, that includes some of the most well respected carp anglers in the country, you can be sure that each product has been tested to the extreme and meets the exacting standards that we strive for.
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