GONE FISHING: THE BEST ANGLING GADGETS
John Wilson loves his fishing gadgetry
Sunday November 9,2008
By John Wilson
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Whilst at the C.L.A. Game Fair held in the grounds of beautiful Blenheim Palace at the end of July, I was given several interesting items for review.
The first being an unusual new specialist rod from Mike Willis Fly Fishing Products Tel 01525 222644. Except this revolutionary 12 foot Collett System rod is not for fly fishing. It has been... Read Full Story
Congratulations to Andre Kormoniki from London on landing the world record carp. Andre used a Greys Platinum 12ft 6” 3lb Carp Rod to land the 91lb, YES 91lb monster from Luke Moffats Le Graviers water in France last week. The leviathan is known as the scarred fish or the fish of two halves as it has a scar running round its body. The scar was caused by a rope which was tied around the fishes body to retain it, this was done many years ago before people were less concerned about carp care... Read Full Story
We have a few new arrivals to look at this time. The New Waverunner Atom Bait Boat looks set stun, it is compact and robust with lots of unique features. One of Atom Bait Boats unique features is a magnetic hook release which alllows you to drop your hookbait independantly from your bait. This feature amongst other crafty little ruses enables you to place you hookbait off your main baited area to hopefully trick one of those bigger carp. Check out the main site for a full list of... Read Full Story
The Angling Intelligence 12 Metre Baiting Pole and Feature Finder are now in. These products look really exciting and will give you an edge I’m sure. Firstly The 12 Metre Baiting Pole was developed because anglers using the 8 metre Baiting Pole were having such good results that they realised with another 4 metres even more of those carpy hotspots would be in range. The baiting poles allow you to drop your hookbaits and particle baits under bushes and other marginal hot spots with minimum... Read Full Story
The idea behind the Blowback rig is that a fish can’t eject the hook, as the bait will move back down the shank on the ring leaving the hook free to grab hold without the fish being able to use the weight of the bait to blow the hook out.
The components used for this rig are a Korda Longshank X Hook, a Korda Rig Ring, Clear Korda Shrink Tubing and Korda Hybrid Flourocarbon Coated Braid.
Step 1.
Cut around 12 inches of Hybrid of the spool, strip about 4 inches of the coating off and tie a... Read Full Story
