Gardner Tackle’s articles. Written by our team of highly experienced carp and specialist anglers.
I looked into the net and shouted at Terry that I wasn’t sure what it was, but that it was a decent fish. Only when I laid it on the mat did I realise that it was indeed the Half Lin! With the scales steadied on my shiny new (rarely used) Gardner weigh bar, there was no getting away from its official weight being 39.15!
Lengthening and increasingly warm day and night time temperatures and the dawn chorus getting earlier each day can only mean one thing if you’re a specimen angler, it’s time for a spot of tench fishing!
Well that was an epic weekend! Following on from my capture of the 30lb common carp on Thursday night, I wanted to get back in ‘The Day Swim’ for the weekend as I’d seen fish showing the night before and hoped they might still be loitering around.
When Ellis turned five years old, three years ago, I started using the Easter holiday to gradually get him to enjoy the solitude and tranquillity carp fishing has to offer. During this time, it’s grown on him and it would be fair to say he is now hooked...
Kai Richards details a successful carp fishing trip, where he lands some lovely looking specimens for the cameras using a zig rig set up.
I have had this public complex of waters on my mind for a long time and this year I am definitely going to fish there more seriously, after walking around there every year for the last 20 years. A few fish had caught my eye, and for the first time a few targets got on that wish list.
By the time we reached January this year I felt ready to get out fishing again after family circumstances had meant it had been several months since I’d been out. During that time, I had kept my finger on the carping pulse, staying in contact with a few close friends, and then early in [...]
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 [...]
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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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