Category: Tackle Reviews

CEMEX Angling Brochure

CEMEX 40 Years Of Angling If you have ever wondered what the big deal about CEMEX venues is, the 2009 guide will answer all of those questions. CEMEX is the biggest controller of angling waters in England, and this 148-page glossy publication is a great information source. The venue spotlights are split into groups based […]

Hardy EWS Wading Jacket

If there’s a better wading jacket out there, I’ve yet to see it. Totally waterproof and breathable, it keeps you dry without overheating, meaning that you can fish effectively even in foul weather. Features include a clever, contoured, Velcro-fasten wrist cloth to keep the water out and the wrists and arms bone dry. There are […]

Middy ShotGun Feeders

Designed with input from top open match angler Rob Wootton, who won the 2009 Ivan Marks Festival with a new venue record for Roy Marlow’s Glebe Fishery, these innovative pellet feeders literally push a ball of soft pellets around your hook bait, creating a PVA bag type effect. The feeders are in-line, with a tube […]

Mistral Advanced Carp Food

  Mistral Baits has strived to create a carp bait that ticks all the boxes – one that’s nutritious, highly-digestible and attractive to carp ‘to the point of addiction’. The result is a range of air-dried and freezer hook baits in three sizes and four flavours, plus a spod mix, all under the’ Advanced Carp […]

Fox Horizon Braided Mainline

This highly abrasion-resistant brand mainline with almost zero stretch is available in bulk 300m spools as such will appeal to the carp, predator and the sea angling market. For the predator angler fishing lures, it will transmit every movement of the lure through to the rod tip and help you detect delicate takes, while anglers […]

RYA Pocket Guide To Fishing Knots

A 32-page ‘waterproofed’ guide to most of the commonly used fishing knots, designed to fit easily into your tackle box or bag. Written by sea angler Jim O’Donnell and illustrated very clearly by Steve Lucas, it’s designed to serve as a ‘must have’ for the beginner and a reminder for the more experienced angler. Covered […]

Squad Max Margin Carp 3

Margin poles are a direct development from the size commercial fishery carp have reached and the fact that the bigger fish tend to be caught down the edge. But designed as they are to cope with the strongest of elastics matched with very strong line set-ups without flinching, for the match angler stiff, light models […]

Greys Digital Scales

Just in! The new Greys Digital Scales Pouches are now available from your local Greys tackle dealer. A neatly padded pouch specifically designed to safely transport your Greys Digital Scales and stop them getting scratched or damaged in transit. The pouch has two double zipped compartments which allow for carrying items such as forceps, pliers […]

SonuBaits Softs Hooker Pellets

There’s no shortage of pre-prepared expander pellets for the hook out there, but these have the consistency to be used side-hooked on the pole, waggler or feeder confidently. SonuBaits say they have perfected a way to make sure the pellets don’t go off or become mushy with time, and that’s without the use of chemical […]

SonuBaits Pellet O’s

Pellet O’s are great product from SonuBaits – small(ish) pellets that are pre-drilled ready for hair rigging. They come with a Korum Quickstop Needle and two Korum barbless Hook Hairs with Quickstops, and of course the size of the drilled hole is perfect for pushing the Quickstop through. The Pellet O’s come in 75gr plastic […]

Ultima Power Silk

I’ve been lucky enough to visit Ultima facility at Ramsgate and there is no other company that puts fishing lines (both their own and their competitors’) through such rigorous laboratory testing. They are well aware what the best-selling lines out there are, and they do what they can to more than match them. Remember that […]

Pete Rice T.B.F. Pole Floats

I have to admit to being a bit of an anorak when it comes to pole floats. The ‘T.B.F.’ in these, for those that don’t know, stands for Tunnel Barn Farm; the Midlands fishery that has helped pioneer the F1 carp as one of the number one target fish for match anglers in the UK. […]

Drennan Barbless Silverfish Match Hooks

These excellent new hooks from the Drennan stable were given to me by England’s Steve Hemingray when we filmed at Tunnel Barn Farm for the first episode of OnlineFishing.tv’s ‘Match TV’ series (see http://www.onlinefishing.tv/channel/list/none/34/latest/1/ ) . Steve, who as I write has just missed out at the Shrewley venue in the 2009 Fish ‘O’ Mania […]

Fox Carp Accessories

Huge improvements made to Fox Carp Accessories The vast range of Carp Accessories offered by Fox International has recently undergone a massive facelift with a number of key improvements made to eclipse the competition. The result is what we firmly believe to be the highest quality and best value range of Carp Accessories available on […]