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The pellet waggler is one of the best ways to put together a huge haul of commercial carp during the warmer months. It's basically a floatfishing tactic that relies on heavy feeding to bring carp into your swim and feeding just under the surface where they compete for the loosefeed. The best bait for this style of fishing is and ...
- Rigs
- Float rigs
- 20 August 2010
You may well have read or heard about match anglers fishing a slider float rig. If you’ve ever wondered what they are talking about, read on as here’s a compact guide to tying a slider float rig and how to fish the slider… A slider rig is one of the best ways to float fish a bait on the bottom ...
- Rigs
- Float rigs
- 27 July 2010
This simple yet very effective feeder fishing rig is perfect for catching river barbel, chub and bream. It’s easy to make and can be used in deep sluggish rivers through to fairly shallow and swift flowing rivers. The beauty of this rig is that it can be used to catch all of our larger river species, providing you use an ...
- Rigs
- Feeder rigs
- 27 July 2010
Barbel love to hide under or tight to streamer weed, sunken branches, tree roots and other submerged obstacles. That makes catching them really difficult. Static leger rigs may seem to be the answer, but often they aren’t. A mistimed or an inaccurate cast might see the heavy rig land bang in the middle of the obstruction – not only snagging ...
- Rigs
- Leger rigs
- 27 July 2010
We've all done it at some time - foul hooked a common or mirror carp in the fin or flank when pole fishing tight to the margins or an island. It's almost inevitable that the feeding carp will, at some time, swim into our lines and become foul-hooked. Not only is this unsporting, but playing a foul-hooked carp is twice ...
- Rigs
- Pole rigs
- 21 July 2010
The method feeder is a deadly technique for catching carp and bream. The groundbait that is moulded around the frame attracts the fish, they nudge the crumbs to try to get to any larger food particles inside and then they find your hook bait - that's when the fish hook themselves against the weight of the feeder and its lead. There ...
No matter what the depth is tight to the margins of your local commercial carp fishery, this rig will catch you fish from there. It is one of the best rigs to use to catch the huge carp that patrol the outer perimeter of all commercial carp lakes countrywide. A A short, fat and dumpy dibber polel float is best ...
- Rigs
- Pole rigs
- 09 July 2010
Of all the various pole rigs that anglers use, the paste rig is perhaps the most misunderstood but it’s one of the easiest to tie, easiest to fish and it catches absolutely tons of common and mirror carp each year. The most important thing that you need to get right when paste fishing on the pole is to plumb the depth ...
- Rigs
- Pole rigs
- 25 June 2010
The short, fat and dumpy chubber float is perfect for fishing shallow and fast river glides or trotting on streams. It’s capable of carrying a lot of shot, due to the size and buoyancy of the float. This is perfect because fast, shallow swims need a lot of lead down the line to ensure that the bait is pushed down ...
- Rigs
- Float rigs
- 19 June 2010
This simple yet amazingly effective marker float rig diagram will enable you to ‘see’ all those hidden underwater features and therefore ensure you can place your bait right where you need it. This rig can be cast to various spots around the lake to not only find the depth in that particular spot, but also to find out what lies ...
- Rigs
- Float rigs
- 01 June 2010
