tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59394481792056628072024-11-01T11:33:48.850+00:00The No1 angling Blog based in the UK, for all forms of fishing, Features articles from well known anglers, instruction for the beginner. Bait tips, rig diagrams, fishing knots, angling tactics and fish speciesAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16534510676950120199noreply@blogger.comBlogger47125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5939448179205662807.post-84545177537445553912015-08-07T10:56:00.000+01:002015-08-07T10:56:48.136+01:00

By Steve Smith When Carp fishing a marker float has a number of uses but the main ones are. Depth finding, allowing you to calculate, with reasonable accuracy, the depth of the water around the hook bait. Feature finding, allowing you to discover the various contours and features lying beneath the surface of a swim. Accuracy, as an aid for accurate casting and spodding allowing you to get your

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By Steve Smith If you are fishing beyond the range of a catapult and Bait Boats are banned then a Spod or a spomb is a very versatile and invaluable tool for delivering a large quantity of bait in a tight area. Tackle for spodding/spombing The two most important pieces of kit for spodding are the rod and reel. The rod and reel you chose will depend on the type of spodding you intend to do.

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This Season I thought I would try out some new Waters, so I joined a local club, in the Cotswold, that has the fishing rights to 6 lakes of varying sizes and 2 river stretches one on the Thames and the other on the river Ray. The lake I have chosen to target first is one of the smaller lakes being approximately 8 acres in size, and averages around 12ft deep, and a few marginal shelves can be

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Luckily, I had managed to get a guest session on a local syndicate so made my way down to the lake with my friend who had got me the session. The lake is 4 acres in size and contains around 80 fish; the biggest being around 32lb. The lake is mainly clear but has a good number of silty pockets and weedy spots dotted around it, with depths averaging around 10ft. Its shape is hard to describe but it

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The Wels Catfish has a long scaleless body, like an eel, with a large head and mouth. The inside of the mouth has rows of tiny little like Velcro teeth on the top and bottom of its jaw, these are used to hold its prey before passing it to the two sets of crushing pads at the back of the throat. It has a small pointless looking dorsal fin whilst the anal fin stretches backwards until it

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The tench is one of Britain's most distinguishable and loveable fish, with its olive green flanks, tiny red eyes and powerful grey-brown fins. Anglers cannot fail but recognise this beautiful species, but by the same token, non-anglers recognise the tench too, due to its distinctive shape, colour and size, and due to the fact that many tench are sold in garden centres as pond fish. Tench

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Lure fishing for pike is a very mobile and active technique that requires very little tackle. All you need is a rod, reel, a few trace wires, Large landing net some forceps and wire cutters and you are all set. Rods So Lets start with the Rod. They are sometimes called spinning rods, sometimes called lure rods and sometimes called plugging rods – they all perform similarly in that they have

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By Ian G Burden It can be frustrating and tiresome not to be getting any fishing action but sometimes all it takes is to change the speed that you retrieve your line. The predatory instincts of most fish are triggered by anything that resembles an injured and easy meal. There's less work to be done chasing after something that's swimming a few strokes, pausing, lilting on its side, then slowly

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The British bream record has been beaten following the capture of a fish weighing in at a colossal 23lb. Smashing the previous best for the species by nearly 3lb. The huge fish was landed by specimen Carp angler Scot Crook from Cambridgeshire’s Ferry Lagoon, a water that has been well known for a number of years for its record breaking potential following the capture a British record in

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The first thing you notice when you pick up the 2012 Exist is its weight. The machined Zaion body and rotor is incredibly light weight yet exhibits mores strength than magnesium or any alloys available, it is lighter and completely corrosion resistant. Its precision engineering supports the re-vamped high accuracy Digigear II drive and silent oscillation system to produce smoother rotary

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We look at 5 key things to avoid or remember when taking photos of carp, whether snapping your mates first 40 or your kid's first double the following will help to ensure the perfect Trophy Shot. Bad Composition. There's a number of sides to this. To state the obvious trophy shots are about the angler and the fish so as a general rule these should dominate the composition, i.e. be in the

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To catch pike you first have to find where they are in a water, "easy right!" wrong in a large lake or river it can prove a big challenge. Typically, being a predatory fish, pike will be near the shoals of small fish that they feed on. If you can locate theses there's a good chance pike will be near by. Look for features, pike feed by ambushing their prey and love hiding in weed, around fallen

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Tench have a thick set, deep, powerful body with rounded fins and a large broad tail fin like, with colour varying from a pale olive green to very dark brown green, they have a light golden to almost orange belly. The eyes are quite small and are very distinctive as they are red in colour and are located on the side of their rounded heads, a single pair of small barbules are set either side of

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To land a very large catfish, the finest catfishing bait you can use happens to be exactly what the catfish instinctively feeds on. Virtually all varieties of catfish are omnivorous, meaning they eat both plants and animals; and as such they are also foragers, eating just about anything along the way. Given the indiscriminate appetite of the big "cats", fishermen have a number of different types

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When taking up a new hobby, how you start can be the difference between finding enjoyment that lasts a lifetime and an unpleasant experience you don't wish to repeat. Fly fishing is no different and here you will find how we introduce and advise novice fly fishers through those first steps in the learning process. Firstly, choose a fishery conveniently located for you. Resist the temptation to

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I love night fishing. Most of the times it's because I don't get to go out and fish during the day because of my work, but now there's more to it than just the convenience. I've observed that night fishing offers you the same conditions as daytime, but with generally better results. Sometimes I can swear the fishing conditions are even better during the night, since there are fewer

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Bread is a bait that is as old as fishing itself and it is still just as effective today as it was when your grate granddad was baiting his hooks with it. It is readily available in many different shapes sizes and colours but for the fisherman plain white bread, either sliced or un-sliced, is  king  and the fresher the better. Bread can be used to target virtually any species of fish

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Naturally, the chub is a river fish, although the development of commercial fisheries has seen the species stocked in all kinds of waters nowadays, offering great sport to anglers throughout the country. It has even been caught in brackish waters in river mouths believe it or not! The chub is one of the most widespread fish in Europe, occurring in every location with the unusual exception of

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The bream is a really deep bodied fish, with compressed sides, which give the fish a very thin appearance. Larger, mature fish have a dark brownish bronze back, a lighter bronze side, and an almost white belly. Many really big bream go very black. The smaller of the species are a much lighter colour, very silvery across the body with a white belly. These fish are known as Skimmer Bream, or ‘

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The DUCK SENTINEL Designed and developed by LINJAZRO which is a new Uk based company. Who's mission and passion is to design, develop and manufacture innovative quality fishing accessories. The company founder has been a fresh water angler for over forty years and has gained considerable expertise and knowledge from fishing in many different demanding environments including United

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The carp is a fish species shrouded in myth, legend and lore. Highly regarded in many Asian cultures, the carp, in Western culture, often is kept in decorative ponds, as a sort of landscaping adjunct. To me, the carp is neither mythic nor decorative -- it is a worthy piscine opponent. The carp generally is regarded as a lesser sport fishing species, especially when compared to the more

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The Combi Rig is a style of rig that has been around for many years. Originally starting from joining a softer braided material to a much stiffer material, such as Amnesia or monofilament in years past. Then ever since the release of the first coated braided hook link material all them years back now, this type of set-up/material is now no doubt one of the most used by Carp anglers

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The Awesome Monster Squid in a new Black Special edition colour Nash Bait have been producing black boilies to special order for many years and for those anglers looking for something a little different, black baits have long provided a real edge. If diving birds are driving you mad then the chances are they won’t immediately recognize black baits as food and pressured carp that may be spooking

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The 'Blow Back Rig' is one that has become probably one of the most popular specialized Carp Fishing rigs used by today's Carp angler and one that I have been using a lot myself over recent times with excellent catch results. The rig is constructed from coated braid, which is weighted to help aid its ability to sink and lay flat on the lake bed to help with cautious feeding fish. Also with the

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Want to know how to catch carp We all realize carp fishing is addictive, thats why we now have put together five magnificent suggestions on how to catch carp Several anglers happen to be hooked from the carp fishing bug and uncover this sport highly captivating. Maybe, the explanation for the popularity of carp fishing is the fact that you simply must overcome the fact carp could be really

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