What you'll need... Step 1. Using a Peel and Pull stripper tool remove around 3 inches of coating. Step 2. Tie a small loop in the end to retain the hair stop when the rig is finished. Step 3. Tie a small loop in the end. [...]
What you'll need... Step 1. Start off by tying a small loop in the end of a length of your chosen monofilament hooklink. Step 2. Thread the hooklink through the eye so that the hair is on the outside of the hook... Step 3. ...and whip the hooklink [...]
Step 1. Using a Gardner Stripper tool peel back several inches of braid. Step 2. Cut off the tag end. Step 3. Tie on a Covert Ring Ring using an overhand knot. Step 4. Attached a size 8 Covert Mugga hook using knotless knot with the rig ring [...]
We made the short drive to our next location, which was peg one on Wild Boar. We had three hours to get set-up and ready until the next forty five hour match was underway. We spent a good ten minutes scanning the water that we had in front of us, looking for any signs of [...]
Well autumn is now well under way and many of us will be out making the most of it, hoping for a big autumn feed before the fish slowly start to wind down for the winter. Many anglers choose to hang up their rods in winter waiting for the first signs of spring to arrive [...]
We decided to give the rods another hour or so and then recast them with fresh bags back to the spots we had been fishing. Hopefully something would show some interest throughout the day. Heron Lake was looking great and it felt like I couldn’t think of anywhere better to be fishing at the time. [...]
This year hasn’t exactly been the best in my fishing life, with very few opportunities of actually getting out on the bank in the early part of the year. However, a huge opportunity came up that in no way shape or form could I turn down. This was to compete in the first ever European [...]
Gardner Tackle consistent big fish catcher Ian Stott has been amongst the fish on his southern syndicate lake and bagged fish weighing 31lb 8oz and 21lb 6oz. After spending his first night at the lake, Ian noticed a carp show in the early hours of the morning. The fish showed further out and more to [...]
I first started using this rig a couple of months ago on a small pressured syndicate that I had just joined. The lake has quite a large head of carp, with plenty of smaller fish backed up with a good amount of 30lb+ fish were the ones that I wanted to be catching! It seemed [...]
Well what an abysmal few months we’ve had for fishing recently, if it wasn’t biblical levels of rainfall turning the rivers from meandering streams into raging torrents bursting their banks and flooding the surrounding countryside, it was the eternal biting cold winds blowing across the land with a daily occurrence. It was in fact this [...]
As we approach the months of winter it's important to try and prepare for what lies ahead. Short days, long nights and freezing conditions make big carp fishing challenging. Unless there is a big improvement in temperatures, I rarely bother with the big deep low stock pits and instead concentrate on venues that hold a [...]
I had a walk around my syndicate Wednesday evening in the darkness checking all the general holding areas but saw and heard nothing, it looked very bleak! Amazingly come Friday I set off to work at 7:30am and my van’s temperature gauge read 10 degrees centigrade. I checked my weather App and it looked like [...]
Name: Luke Church Experience: Over 12 years Carp Angling Favourite Lake: St Johns – Linear Fisheries All-Time Best Bait: CC Moore Northern Specials My Number One Rig Is: Zig Rig Weirdest Thing You’ve Seen a Carp Do? Chase a duck in a small bay until the duck decided enough was enough and flew away – [...]
I arrived at Dream Lakes in France with five nights ahead of me. I was joined by three mates and this was our first trip to the venue, so we couldn’t wait to wet a line. We had the option of fishing on Lake 1 or 2 and luckily we had plenty of choice with [...]
For the past eighteen months, I have been concentrating on a very busy club lake, local to me. I have also spent a little bit of time fishing another lake on the complex, which is home to a very small handful of stunning carp and also completely different to the main lake. However, having done [...]
After spending some highly enjoyable fishing throughout September on a relatively small syndicate near my home, it was time to head back to the big pit I have been targeting for the last couple of seasons after the few I still really wanted to catch! I had timed my first trip back to coincide with [...]
I thought I would tell you all about a couple of rigs that have served me well of late. I've not caught any unknown monsters on them however; they have been really consistent for me. One is a pop up rig and the other a bottom bait rig. As I type this piece from the [...]
Having started a new job two months ago, my fishing had been non-existent much to my dismay, however as I was once again moving jobs I found myself with a two week gap before starting my new position. I had been part of a very private local syndicate for a few years and seen it [...]
During 2012 I was asked by a mate called Tristan, if I would I be up for a French trip in the autumn/early winter of 2013. There would be a group of ten of us so I said “yes”. The year flew by as I was concentrating fishing on Vinny. About a month before we [...]
It was Wednesday night and I had finished my latest shift at work, so my thoughts turned to my next session on my syndicate water. I had landed a nice 23lb mirror on my last trip which had ended a run of recent blanks. The conditions were still very similar and the lake had done [...]
