Why is it that winter weather windows always seem to jostle their way across the North Atlantic to arrive over the British Isles at the most in opportune times? Normally, midweek when I’m languishing here at my desk beaver’ing away at Gardner HQ, or typically on a weekend when [...]
Classic D-Rig bottom bait rigs have been around a LONG time – for the simple reason that they work! It’s a presentation that offers amazing consistency in the way that the rig lays out after the lead and reached the lake bed - and then settles down nicely. It’s a fantastic alternative to hinged stiff, [...]
The Horton Rig was the brain child of Gardner Team member Lee Wagner, whilst fishing on the hallowed banks of the R.K Horton Kingsmead Complex. It is essentially a presentation tailored to catch the fish that are showing over an area that is both firm and relatively weed free - and is his own tweaked [...]
Here Jason Hayward answers some FAQs about the new Gardner Tackle range of Specialist Sharpened Covert Dark hooks. Method Based 1. Are Specialist Sharpened Covert Dark hooks suitable for all general use? Yes, they can be used in any angling situation. I never use an unsharpened hook and I [...]
After the enormous success of the Ronnie Rig, and the improvement in rig mechanics and reaction simply by putting a Covert XT Kwik Lok Flexi Ring Swivel onto the eye of the Mugga hook, it wasn’t much of a leap forward to apply the same tweak onto the already successful German rig to give the [...]
The design, development, testing and manufacturing of hooks is one that takes a huge investment in terms of time and effort. It’s a critical terminal item that must be right in every way and therefore new hook patterns literally take years to come to fruition. In the context of the [...]
Im Sommer gibt es viel zu tun. Der Arbeitgeber verlangt Überstunden, Haus und Hof wollen auf Vordermann gebracht werden und der Familienurlaub steht auch noch vor der Tür. Immer wieder höre ich von den anderen Mitgliedern aus dem Verein, dass sie schon mehrere Wochen nicht mehr am Wasser waren. Das [...]
With only one overnighter a week on my hands I try and plan them wisely. After seeing the forecast due Wednesday night, I asked the misses and she kindly gave me the nod. It’s been a while since we've had a strong warm Southerly wind combined with a pressure drop, [...]
I started going fishing in my late teens. To start with I began fishing for anything with a float or ledger rod and was happy catching silver fish and tench. Then one day I went to a local canal and caught my first carp. It wasn’t huge but it gave me such a buzz [...]
I wanted to write this article about one of my recent sessions when I landed my second UK forty pound carp. After arriving at my Southern Syndicate lake, I began by having a little walk around to try and locate where the fish were, so I had a good chance [...]
Rainbow lake gesitueerd in “Les Landes” en eventjes boven Bordeaux, staat niet meteen gekend om zijn “subtiele” manier van vissen. De mensen die er al gevist hebben kunnen dit meer dan beamen. De Rainbow manier van vissen verschilt grondig met wat wij hier in onze contreien gewend zijn. Wie de [...]
Das war die Aussage meiner Frau als sie erfahren hat, dass sie schwanger ist. Nun ja, besser als nichts, oder? Es sind nun ein paar Jahre vergangen und im goßen und ganzen existiert diese Regelung immernoch. Doch so ganz wollte ich mich damit nicht abfinden. Deshalb suchte ich nach einer [...]
The Slip D Rig has accounted for thousands of carp across the UK and main land Europe. It was first invented by Martin Clarke way back in 1986-87 season at Woburn Sands. At the time the rig was first tied using a large ring and dental floss as a hooklink and although it looked a [...]
The initials NS stand for ‘Nice and Simple’ and the rig is just that, very simple to tie but ultra-effective. It’s constructed using a size 6 Covert Dark Incizor and a length of Stiff Ultra Skin. The rig has all the mechanics of a sliding D presentation and it has a small section of coating [...]
My angling has taken a different turn of late. Whilst I have still been angling on the hallowed banks of the famous Wellington Country Park estate lake I’ve necessarily been accompanied by ‘Kev the Destroyer’, my uber lush 10 month old chocolate brained (and furred) Labrador. Let’s just say he [...]
Every year, a few of my mates and I have a trip to Lake Serene in the Champagne region of France, and this year was no different. Having been there a few times, and as we always rotate the swims to make it fairer, I knew it was my turn [...]
My last trip to Acton Top Lake went swimmingly! I arrived to an empty lake, but where many anglers would think ‘fantastic result’ I wasn’t so sure. Let me explain; on the few trips I’ve had time for this season, I’d taken great notice of the carp’s movements observing the [...]
We all know how good the conventional chod rig is at presenting a pop up hookbait down over all sorts of stuff on the bottom; bits of weed, silt and leaves, giving the perfect presentation every time. However, on occasions it can be a little bit blatant. The Roddie is a hugely effective alternative to [...]
It’s been a funny old year on the fishing front... I’ve not really been as succesfull as I would like, but that’s fishing I guess. It’s been hard going on the waters at home too, but I’m not fishing the easiest of waters so blanking is the rule of thumb [...]
The summer has been a dizzying mixture of the wonderfully sublime and the downright painful. Life away from the lakes has been wondrous, with a great family holiday; our first with our beloved Chocolate Labrador Kevin in tow, and was day after day of ‘bimbling’ about on Cornish beaches and [...]
