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Why Not Try Deep Sea Fishing

Deep Sea Fishing presents several new issues for the angler who will be faced with not only different fishing techniques but also the need to be fully comfortable with longer and perhaps more daunting boat journeys in varying different sea conditions. Deep sea fishing generally means going for longer trips further from the coast ans [...]

Monster Record Carp and Carp Fishing Rods

The world carp record has been broken during the freezing cold opening days of 2010! Martin Locke, a fishing tackle representative for Kent based Solar, has caught a 94 pound mirror carp from Rainbow Lake in France, Bordeaux. The fish was known as “Briggs Fish” and had been caught by Martin in September 2008 when [...]

Trout Fishing Tackle Reviewed

Fly fishing in America and UK represents one of the most sophisticated markets for worldwide fly fishing tackle manufacturers there is. This is because together these countries provide millions of active anglers all with disposable income. As a result, there is a massive variety of tackle for the angler to choose from.

At a time when [...]

Winter Fishing Carp Tackle and Tactics

When it starts getting very cold the angler becomes increasingly challenged when seeking venues to spend a day out fishing. It gets too cold for barbel and the chub rivers are too high and colored. The big fish carp venues are hard to fish – it is too cold to spend long nights waiting for [...]

Choosing Coarse Fishing Tackle for the Derwent Near York

When I moved to York a few years ago I was faced with the happy task of finding some new fishing venues in the locality. The way I did this was to obtain a list of all the York Amalgamation of Anglers waters that they managed and started researching the type of fishing that I [...]

How to Buy Used Carp Tackle on eBay

What you generally find when you progress deeper into the techniques of specimen carp fishing is that you want to be continually trying out new rigs and techniques. It can be quite expensive buying all the modern lines, links, shock absorbers, swivels, feeders and weights needed to make the various different winning terminal patterns. However, [...]

Buying Fly Fishing Flies In Bulk From Africa

A few years ago I was looking for a business opportunity that I could run part time from home. I focused on my angling hobby and tried to find something I could offer a wide range of with little outlay needed for me. I ended up deciding to sell fly fishing flies.

Fishing flies come in [...]

Choosing Pike Fishing Tackle

If you are considering pike angling seriously for the first time then it would be useful to read this post about buying tackle specifically for hunting specimen sized predators.  The pike tackle used by experienced anglers can on occasion be somewhat heavy. A test curve rod of 3 to 4 pounds is normal.  This tackle [...]

Choosing Sport Fishing Tackle

One of the great delights of angling is its essential reliance on a wide range of equipment, bits and pieces, rods and reels, that allow for catalog browsing, armchair fiddling and yes – a wealth of pleasure on the bank-side. I sometimes wonder what a runner gets out of his or her sport – they [...]

Unconventional bite indicators for carp fishing

Being a recent convert to carp fishing and a bit of a traditionalist angler, I was a little loathe to kit up with carp tackle consisting of a battery of three identical rods and reels all held securely in a fancy pod rest complete with matching electronic bite alarms! I decided that I would take [...]

Winter Fishing for Carp

When considering what carp tackle to use in the winter for carp it pays to first learn a little bit about the carp’s biology as this can help you decide on your fishing tactics. The carp is a poikilotherm, which means that it is cold blooded and takes on a body temperature according to the [...]

Carp tackle - hooks, traces and hair rigs

I am a recent convert to carp fishing. Yes I have caught a few weighing up to a few pounds over the years when fishing for other species, but have never gone fishing for the fish with the goal being to catch this species and nothing else. I wondered what I might be missing out [...]

How to Tie a Hair Rig

As I have decided to take up carp fishing seriously I realise that I must take a long hard look at the current carp tackle situation. Whereas the rods and reels are pretty much standard items – I could use a decent barbel rig for light carp fishing for example, or my pike rods (one [...]

Carp Tackle and Techniques for Rivers

River fishing for carp occasionally raises its head as a subject in the angling press. It is surprising that it is not more popular. Carp are finding a foothold in an increasing number of watercourses propbably more as a result of regular flooding than an attempt to artificially stock them.

Anybody who has caught a carp [...]

Carp Tackle – Starting with Rods

Now that I am on the road to becoming a carp fisherman I need to get my carp tackle in order. The first place to start is with the rods to be used for the carp hunting. As I have said in a previous post I have already caught a number of carp over the [...]

Carp Tackle Guide Beginnings

Good afternoon everybody. It is a bright afternoon and I was sitting in my office at work thinking…I’d rather not be here, I would rather be fishing of course. Not easy thing to do at 2.30 in the afternoon when I am supposed to be working. Well I have been busy so a break is [...]