Sweetcorn has caught more fish over the years than almost any other bait. It is one of those bait that fish adore, especially in the cooler months when its bright colour helps it to stand out in the water. One expert with corn is Jonny Watt. Jonny is a real thinking angler and as well as using it straight out of ...
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- 25 November 2011
Normally associated with catching barbel from rivers, huge meatballs are a brilliant bait for commercial carp too, as Maver-backed match ace Matt Pillay has found. When tackling commercial waters where large 'target' baits work, a single hair-rigged meatball can be a devastatingly effective bait to use. The soft and strongly-scented meat is loved by carp of all sizes, including those ...
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- 22 November 2011
Method feeder fishing groundbaits tend to attract the average stamp of carp in any commercial stillwater. Why? Simply because the carp tend to have seen them all before, smelt them all before, and have tasted them all before. So, in order to attract and catch the much bigger carp that might be swimming around the lake, something extra special has ...
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- 21 October 2011
If you love to catch carp on pole fishing tackle, you'll love these two great bait tips we discovered when we visited anglers pole fishing at Orchill - Britain's most northerly commercial carp fishery. The best thing about these two simple yet highly effective tips is that anyone can use them... not just highly experienced match anglers! You'll find out ...
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- 29 September 2011
The Method is one of the best ways to catch lots of commercial and specimen carp, so when Dean Jones contacted us to reveal a brilliant new baiting technique that has caught him loads more carp than ever before, we jumped at the chance! He's been adding a very special sticky foodstuff to his Method mix to help draw in even ...
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- 29 September 2011
Catching carp - and big carp - from the margins of commercial carp fisheries can be a tricky business, especially when the fish surge straight towards nearby snags. But get it right and you can be in for some fantastic sport, as Matt Pillay knows only too well. Here, in this exclusive video, he visited Lindholme Lakes to tackle and ...
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- 29 September 2011
BREAM that think they’re carp, the ultimate barbel rig, a celebration of the start of the river season and a FREE spool of Ultima line worth £3.95 are highlights of the new Improve Your Coarse Fishing. Out on June 15 it’s packed with expert advice to help you catch more fish right now, here is a taster of what’s in ...
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- 14 June 2011
With its soft texture, instant attraction and awesome fish-pulling power, paste is one of THE best summer carp baits. G.O.T Baits’ Gary Thorpe shows you how to get the best from it… HAVING predicted a catch of well over 100lb by three o’clock, it looked like Gary Thorpe would achieve this goal in half that time. With his swim almost ...
Temperatures are dropping, the water’s getting cold and the fish are getting lethargic, but you shouldn’t. Even if there’s ice in the margins of your local commercial water you will still catch, but only if you fish intelligently and accurately. Some anglers will tell you to avoid stillwaters when it’s cold, claiming that it’s best to tackle flowing water, but ...
Narrow, winding man-made ‘snake’ lakes are full of fish, but how do you get the best out of them with your pole? Preston Innovations and Sonubaits-backed match ace Les Thompson shows a sure-fire way to catch on the carp-filled, canal-style commercials. Les Thompson loves fishing snake lakes because, if you do it half right, they can be one of ...
