Long sessions on the bank mean that at some point you are going to have to think about cooking hot food. I have been known to live off of crisps, bread, and biscuits, but it really isn’t viable if you are going for long sessions. It’s nice to be...
Learning how to use a marker float rod and learning how to spod is a very important skill that will hugely improve your catch rate almost immediately. Whether you’re out carp fishing, bream fishing, tench fishing, used correctly, these can get some noticeable...
For every fishing session, you definitely need aĀ fishing net, in fact, without a net, you shouldn’t be fishing. If you are match fishing, you might get away with swinging the very small fish in, but there is every chance you could catch a bigger fish, such as a...
My suggestion is 10lb+ monofilamentĀ fishing line, simply because braid is banned as a mainline on most of my local waters. Iām currently using 15lb Daiwa Sensor monofilament ā It came free with my reels! This is available for about Ā£5 for 300 meters. The minimum I am...
My first reelsĀ are Shimano 10000RA baitrunnerĀ reelsĀ ā they have proved to be an excellent starter fishingĀ reelĀ and the action of theĀ reelĀ is pretty smooth. The baitrunner clutch is at the back, some people say its better at the front due to it being directly...
So, back to the rods ā what do you need? I still have my bargain rods which areĀ Oakwood Carp; these are 12ft 2 piece rods and have a test curve of 2.5lbs. They have done reasonably well so far, they are the best rod so I will be upgrading soon, they have done their...
