Commercial stillwater expert Steve Ringer is renowned for his skill with the pellet waggler to catch masses of carp near the surface – but we bet you didn’t know he actually uses FOUR different styles of rigs! Here he reveals all... The Big Pellet Waggler This a set-up that I was first shown around a year ago by matchman Terry ...
Paste is a bait you fish only on the pole, right? Wrong! I’ve had a lot of success on it with a feeder. Here’s how to do it… Why does it work? When you say ‘paste on the feeder’ to many anglers, the first thing they think is that fishing paste on the pole is difficult enough, so why ...
Fishing tight to a feature while using a feeder is a technique that is anything but chuck-it-and-chance-it. In fact, there is a real art in being able to cast within inches of an island on a regular basis, and it’s this accurate casting that can be the difference between catching or not on many pressured commercials across the country. Get it ...
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 ...
If you’re only fishing with dead maggots as a feeder hookbait then you’re not getting the best from this awesome bait. I use them on the pole and as a dump feed, too. Here’s how… I started using dead maggots as a hookbait around 15 years ago. For years it was THE bait when fishing the Method, and it ...
Now that water temperatures have plummeted, one of the most successful winter tactics on commercials is the straight lead. This involves feeding nothing at all and casting a lead round the swim until you start getting liners or, better still, proper bites. All well and good, you might think, and indeed I’ve had several 100lbplus weights on this approach. Sometimes ...
Today's carp fishing tackle has changed massively since the days when Richard Walker hit the headlines with his impressive list of specimen carp caught using split cane rods and basic rigs. Newcomers and returners to carp fishing can easily become baffled by the huge changes in tackle, baits and terminology so here is a detailed insight into the basics that are needed ...
One of the questions I get asked more than any other at this time of the year is this: when you arrive at your swim, how do you know where the fish are going to be? The commercials have been frozen for ages, hit by cold snow-melt water, and few have seen much bait going in.So coaxing carp into feeding ...
There is far more to fishing with sweetcorn than many anglers think, and as a result of using it over the past 10 years on winter commercial carp waters I’ve learned how to get a few extra bites on the hardest of days. The most important lesson I ever learned when fishing corn was to plumb up properly. It’s important ...
When the bites from big specimen carp stop coming there’s only one thing to do – reach for the maggots. Top carp angling specialist Lee Birch explains how he gets that little extra something from these superb baits... Maggots first popped on to my radar when I started fishing Bluebell Lakes and heard the tales of how Martin Locke had really ...
