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Surface Fishing For Big Carp with Jason Cann: 17 Top Tips
Great tips from Jason Cann to help you catch more carp off the top 1 Which Chum? If you’re to be successful when fishing off the top, you’re going to need to take it every bit as seriously as you do your bottom fishing. It’s essential to get bait the carp will feed on confidently. Although they can […]
How To Tie The Apache fly (Stillwater)
How To Tie The Apache Fly This pattern combines marabou and rabbit, which makes it highly mobile even with the slowest of retrieves. A sinking line often works best. Fish the pattern on its own on a long leader and vary the retrieve until you get a response. With a floating line, stick it on […]
Shallow Waggler Fishing with Steve Mayo
At one point it seemed like the pole and feeder were going to completely take over commercial match fishing, but they haven’t. Over the last couple of years there has been a massive resurgence in waggler fishing for carp. Pellets have taken a hold on most fisheries and the carp have got bigger and cleverer, […]
Kennet and Avon Canal
Ben Leach with a typical Bathampton tench. CRACKING fishing is not all about commercial waters. There are more traditional venues where shorter evening sessions can give great sport with quality fish. The Kennet and Avon Canal is a typical example of a ‘wild’ water where you can cash in on some brilliant summer sport with […]
All About the Blockend or Maggot Swimeeder
The Total-Fishing.com team focuses on blockend (block end) or maggot feeders with a look at what’s out there and how to get the best from them.. What’s a blockend or maggot swimfeeder? It’s a swimfeeder that closes at both ends but one of the ends can be opened to allow you to put bait in. […]
The mahseer of India
By Misty Dhillon “There he stood the Mahseer off the Poonch beside whom the Tarpon is a Herring and he who catches him can say he is a fisherman”. (Rudyard Kipling) THE great Indian Subcontinent enclosed, in the north – stretching to the northeast by the grand Himalayas and in the south delimited by the […]
All About Fishing With A Stick Float
What is a stick float? Any float that is attached to the mainline using float rubbers at the top and the bottom of the float (‘top and bottom’ fashion) designed for fishing rivers. In fact most anglers use one in the middle as well. As you can see from these pages, stick floats come in […]
A Guide To Centrepin Fishing Reels
Buyers Guide To Centrepin Reels Although they can be an expensive investment (some cost in excess of £300), today’s centrepin reels are so well engineered they will last a lifetime. You just have to look at some of the antique ‘pins’ still around to see that quality lasts. Most have handles, but once you’ve used […]
Fishing The Block End Feeder
Blockend feeders are a valuable addition to any match anglers tackle box, but there’s no point carting them around in your box if you don’t know how to get the best out of them. Fox backed Mark Pollard tells you everything you need to know about fishing this method. COLD water fishing is all about […]
A Guide To Spodding For Carp
By Chris Berry Too many anglers are a bit trigger-happy when it comes to spodding and cannot wait to blast large amounts of bait out to the horizon. It is a fact that many anglers fall into the trap of automatically spodding on certain waters, the Linear Fisheries waters particularly spring to mind. In the […]
Floating Maggots
The ability to make maggots float gives the angler an extra weapon in the armoury against the old enemy. Note that the maggots float when dropped into the water, but as soon as you put a hook on they sink, crucially, more slowly; indeed, you are almost creating a neutral buoyancy hook bait when the […]
Carp Fishing: Bite Indication
Carp ace Dave Lane shows how you can improve your bite indication when fishing for big carp – and catch more fish… Rig Rejected! THESE days our rigs – or more to the point our hook baits – are being tested and successfully rejected more and more by the carp we fish for. On some of the […]
Bloodworm And Joker Tackle And Rigs
Here we explain the best tackle and rigs to employ when fishing with bloodworm and joker.. IN the main, bloodworm fishing is conducted within 18 inches of the bottom – there are times when this isn’t true but these tend to be few and far between, simply because this is where bloodworm and joker are […]
How to tie the Big Ball Buzzer fly (Stillwater)
When you see fish moving at the surface, yet they are refusing a dry fly, it’s often the case that they are feeding just under the surface, rather than on it. To be able to hold a nymph an inch or two under, try using a buoyant pattern to suspend it. Use the Big Ball […]
Big Hit Carp Fishing – Rigs And Hook Baits
Clive Owden looks at the rig he uses when going for an all-out big hit at Horseshoe Lake. He also reveals what hook baits he uses and why… THE Carp Society’s Horseshoe Lake is one of the country’s carp fishing jewel, writes Jim Foster. Not only does it contain some of the prettiest carp in […]
