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Category - Coarse Fishing Articles
Bait Colour
From the late 70’s until the mid 80’s much of my angling time during the summer months...
Flood Fishing
Flood Fishing By Pete Tillotson October is usually a time when the river Kennet colours up and...
The Xmas Match
Disclaimer: any resemblance to persons living or dead is entirely appropriate! Billy gave a playful...
Pole Floats And Roach
What is the main difference between pole floats for rivers compared with stillwaters? Very much the...
Bream, Sliding Floats & Terminal Tackle
Dear Bob, I am a young match angler at my local club, who is a very keen fan. My local water holds...
Roach And Rudd
I’ve just started pole fishing. How do I decide how much line to have between the pole tip...
Striking And Legering
From Steve Farmer; When pole fishing for carp and smaller fish what’s the best way to strike...
Carp, Styls & Holme Pierpoint
From James Owen; Bob, I have seen 5 mirror carp on my local canal and am going to try and catch...
Sticking Elastic
From David Thomson; Whenever it rains, and my pole elastic gets wet it ‘stick’ and so...
Groundbait For Flowing Rivers
I fish a small river which has a flow. The flow can change quite considerably as the lock gates are...
Catapults, Striking and Weirpools
Hi, I’m using casters and every time I catapult them they go totally the wrong way due to the...