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Making The Best Of Carp Baits - Pellets Are Dynamite

Pellets are great carp catchers. Period. Most anglers have used the usual trout, salmon halibut, betaine or corn steep liquor pellets in the past, but there’s far more to pellets than meets the eye!

The great boilie revolution in carp fishing meant that in Europe, carp became very used to being caught over large beds [...]

Reader’s Query: Tactics for Finicky Carp

Trev wrote:
Hi Gareth,
Just wondering if you could help me on my local lake, the same problem is occurring to other anglers on there when we have put a bed of pellets downthe fish are bubbling like crazy and no matter what we put in front of them they will not take we have tried 8mm [...]

Reader’s Query : Bait and Tactics for St Christophe

Lee Brown wrote:
Hi,
In early June I am going to St Chistophe main lake, what are the most successfully baits for carp and what tactics work best at that lake? (don’t want to go there blind!)
Many thanks for your help
Lee Brown
Gareth Watkins replies:
Hi Lee,
Angling Lines
Check out the Angling Lines videos to get tips for this [...]

Carp Fishing Tutorial: Crash course on Spodding

by Gareth Watkins
As I’ve written in previous posts I’m not a bait boat fan. I do though like to have a bed of bait accurately placed around my hookbait. If I’m fishing beyond catapult range then the Spod is the only real option left. I’m fairly comfortable with a spod up to about 100 yards. [...]