Angling Lines Blog

By Gareth Watkins

Since running a fishery and being involved with Angling Lines, I see a large number of UK carpers during any given year. One aspect of current UK fishing seems to be the use of small hooks. Now by small I mean N° 8’s and below. Now I’ve always been a fan of big [...]

by Gareth Watkins
There is a statement I often here while I’m fishing, “Oh ! I’ve lost several fish because the Carp in here have soft mouths!!”
Most of the time I have a hard job accepting that carp in any particular lake have soft mouths. My own waters are gravel/sand pits where the bottom is [...]

by Samantha Collins-Ratcliffe
PVA RIG MADE EASY
One of my favourite methods of carp fishing is using PVA bags. It can be an absolutely deadly method of catching carp, because it presents a bed of bait you choose to use, with your hook bait disguised in amongst it. The rig can be cast a long distance when [...]

Craig Alldrick wrote:
When were the p/chat netted from Margot 2006 or 2007 and will there be a problem this year [any reports yet?]. I am going in June and know poisson-chats get more active as it gets warmer, any info or tips would be gratefully received as I would rather [...]

If you want a simple short-cut to carp fishing success you’ve come to the right place. This advice applies to any form of fishing because it is so vitally important. Here is a list of simple details that I wish I’d discovered when I began carp fishing when information was in much shorter [...]