Gardner Tackle’s articles. Written by our team of highly experienced carp and specialist anglers.
Spring is the time of the year that we carp anglers look forward to the most. Not only are the longer days and lighter evenings so much more pleasant than the long winter ones, but big fishing rewards are also there to be had as it’s when the fish are often at their easiest [...]
For several years now I’ve firmly believed that baits and rigs are relatively less important to tricking wary fish than line lay and disguising your end tackle. In modern carp angling, most decent baits will catch fish on their day, and enough is written about rigs for anyone to either make up something or [...]
We have launched our newly designed Gardner Tackle App. Free to use and download it will keep you up-to-date with all our news, tutorials and products. With carp fishing and specialist fishing videos, hints and tips, catch reports and product launches plus localised weather and information, there is something here for every level [...]
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This method can be very effective at picking off bites from fish that you wouldn’t catch if you kept you rods fishing conventionally down on the lake bed.
In this article James Clarke, Gardner Tackle's new Sales Rep. details his carp fishing triumphs and his misshaps of 2018. No matter what, we're pleased to have him on the team.
Rick Golder tells us about his last years carp fishing. Even though he had a
Kai talks us through his carp fishing in 2018. With some lovely captures including a personal best called The Scar Common, it may not have been his most prolific year of angling but the quality has easily made up for that.
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Dan Chart details his past year's carp fishing, starting off on Yately and then moving onto Dinton pastures, making some nice carp captures and discussing his methods.
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The year started with a few sessions on the AK (The Albert canal) but blanking was the norm, so after a few trips I gave up and purchased a few tickets for some other waters. One was a small club/park lake and the other was a 74 acre deep sand pit, which I planned to [...]
Well, the brief from the Gardner office asked for a quick round up of how my angling went in 2018 so here goes. Somehow, I don't think a sentence saying "I caught loads of carp and 4 of them were over 45lbs the end" will be enough, so I best expand on this and [...]
Time for a change and a few new experiences were my goals for 2018, so I had a new water that was sure to set me a few challenges, a couple of trips over to France and a pledge to try a few different day tickets and guest sessions along the way. I [...]
Sometimes you fall in a bucket of s##t and come out smelling of roses, other times you fall in a bucket of tits and come out sucking your thumb. Certain things become out of our control and sometimes doors open which is exactly what 2018 showed me. For me, March started with the return to [...]
After 12 weeks or so of no angling due to family illness, both my wife and mother in law were finally on the mend. Both medical procedures went ahead and both went as planned thankfully, and around mid-March I finally got the rods out. My first trip of the year was a 48 hour [...]
