Tip One – Steam Straighten Your Hook Link If you’re using coated braid, nylon hook links or fluorocarbon hook links, to get the best out of the hook link, steam the hooklink straight. After I have tied my hooklink, I put the kettle on, make a cup of tea,...
Float fishing for carp is almost becoming a dying art. Carp fishing is probably the most popular fish, I guess now in the British Isles and a whole industry, a whole tackle industry, and bait industry have all been drawn up into carp fishing on almost a cult basis....
Carp fishing has come a long way in the last 10 years. When I started fishing, there were basic hooks in the tackle shop, sometimes I had to use sea fishing line as a hook link because that was the only type of line available to me that had a higher breaking strain....
How to Catch Carp in a Pond What approach should you take to catch carp in a pond? I would typically class a pond as a small lake that isn’t necessarily classed as a specimen lake with predominantly carp living in it, for example. The type of water that has anything...
Fishing on gravel can be very rewarding, but not many people know how to fish over gravel properly and effectively. In the majority of lakes, there are different types of lakebed, typically its a mixture of weed, gravel, silt, and clay. Each angler has their...
Figuring out the best time to catch carp isn’t as straightforward as some anglers would like it to be. Seasons play a major part in how fish feed. Carp, in particular, respond accordingly to the weather conditions and feed differently through each season....
