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 ...
The Method catches fish on the bottom, right? Wrong! With the right tackle it’s possible to fish the Method just under the surface and catch even more than you would when fishing it on the deck. Don’t believe us? Prepare to be amazed IAN CHESTNEY knows his stuff. He fishes the Midlands commercial fishery match circuit, and he’s very good. ...
Catmeat is one of the most effective summer commercial carp baits. Everything that we anglers dislike about catfood – the smell, the mess, greasy and oily texture – is absolutely adored by fish. Especially carp. Add this to the fact that catmeat comes prepackaged in fantastic carp-attracting flavours like pilchard, tuna, salmon and sardine, and it’s easy to see why ...
For baiting up a carp swim when fishing at range there can be no better technique than spodding - and no better tool to use than a spod. Here is our guide showing you how and what you need to spod effectively… What is a spod? A spod is basically a cylindrical bait rocket with a buoyant nose cone. ...
