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Stewart Bracey's Golden Rules for Margin Fishing

Stewart Bracey has enjoyed hundreds of match wins by targeting the margins. Here are his golden rules to help you get more from your marginal […]

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A worth while move - Ross Ryder

I arrived at Horton Kingsmead 1 late one Friday afternoon, with the memorial of the late Del Smith that Saturday the lake was packed with […]

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Dynamite at the World Carp Classic 2017

The World Carp Classic is almost here and we’ll have plenty of coverage from the event online over the next week… We’re are very happy […]

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Early Summer 2017 - Tony Gibson's Angling Blog

In Tony’s latest blog for he reflects on the early summer months culminating with a stunning carp from an impromptu floater fishing session… The summer […]

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Dynamite River Trent Championships

Bright sunshine and little in the way of breeze would always see it tough on a clear river but some excellent weights spread throughout two stretches previously […]

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World Carp Masters Champions 2017

A huge congratulations to Frank Wijnands, Jan Jaap Hiemstra and runner Gabriele Ceruti on winning the 2017 World Carp Masters at Lac Du Dur. The Shimano […]

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Evesham Festival 2017

Never been to the Evesham Festival? Well, here’s a short video to give you a flavour of what you missed at this year’s recent Dynamite […]

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Fishing Paste on the Drop - Leanne Knott

Paste is a brilliant bait, especially when looking to target commercial carp and f1s on the deck, but when the weather is hot and sunny […]

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Winner of tickets to the 2017 World Carp Classic announced!

Last month we launched our hugely popular website competition to win a pair of tickets to compete at the 2017 World Carp Classic finals + […]

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Barford and Decoy Wins for Wiles

Matt Wiles reports on two summer festival victories, most recently in the 4 day event at Barford and earlier in the 3 day competition at […]

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Horton Result for Ryder

I had arrived at Horton for my third trip since joining in April, the wind was picking up that day from the south west and […]

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Mark Cree Targets ‘Creatures From Features’

Mark Cree reveals how he targets ‘creatures from features’ in this video, fishing up to the lily pads for big carp. It’s a tactic that’s […]

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Junior Match Aid Result for Rob Swan

Young angler Rob Swan reports on an exciting 3 day festival at Partridge Lakes… Following my jam packed week at the fantastic Lindholme Lakes complex […]

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Dynamite Golden Ticket Experience

The Dynamite “Golden Ticket” is our hugely popular annual competition we’ve had the privilege to run since first getting involved in the World Carp Classic […]

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New PB for Thomas Cywka on Red-Amo & CompleX-T

Professional footballer Thomas Cywka made the most of the end of season break with a his 2nd trip of the year to France… This summer […]

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A Linear Believed to be a Myth

A rather stoked Wayne Iszatt reflects on what turned out to be the best consolation prizes… “I’d been fishing a testing swim in one corner […]

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Dynamite Baits 2017 World Carp Classic Prize Table

Dynamite Baits are excited to confirm the fantastic prizes we will be presenting to various category winners of the 2017 World Carp Classic. Overall Winners […]

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Canal Carping - Jake's Blog

Since my success on the canal at the start of the season a lot has changed. The carp in the canal have spawned and spread […]

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PB match weight for Dockerty at Summer Festival

Alex Dockerty reports on a hectic week with lots of fish caught and lots of laughs on the bank at the Lindholme Lakes Omar Lodges […]

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Bombay Barbel

Barbel are being stocked into more and more stillwaters these days. Not only are they doing well, on many waters they are well over double-figures. […]

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Open de Chalons kicks off in style

The 17th Open de Chalon’s was launched this weekend with 113 teams competing over a 60km stretch of river between Charnay les Chalon in the […]

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Time out of the Office

A few years ago I was shown a stretch of river I’d never visited before… the pinnacle of fishing for me…a stretch of river that […]

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Toot Hill's Annual Rod Race

This year’s Toot Hill Great Rod race, part of the Bingham-based school’s activities week, was sadly a rather bitter sweet affair for the 20 pupils […]

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Croatia session for Kristof Cuderman

My first fishing in Croatia this year was spent with my friend Emir Caro and it was a great trip. In nine days fishing we […]

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Spring 2017 - Tony Gibson's Angling Blog

My last blog entry ended up with a description of the lead in to my first 2-night session on my main bream/tench water for the […]

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Record breaking 70lb+ carp in 5 different countries! Kristof Cuderman

Dynamite angler Kristof Cuderman from Slovenia has dedicated a great amount of time and effort into achieving his goals, in this video by Kristof he […]

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Win World Carp Classic 2017 Final Tickets & €750 of Dynamite baits

It’s almost here! The WCC is back at Lac de Madine and we’re delighted to be able to give every passionate carp angler the chance […]

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244lb match win in 3 hours for Mark Taylor

Mark Taylor fished the Woodlands View evening match last night and with it being only a 3 hour match he decided on a short pole […]

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Five tips for quick overnighters - Dan Cleary

I’ve been doing ‘quick’ overnighters in between work for nearly 30-years now, on a variety of waters from rivers, canals and lakes to club waters, […]

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One of the A-team on CompleX-T

After finishing work on Saturday I decided to squeeze in a few hours on a little pit I’ve recently fished. I turned up around 5 […]

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33lb 6oz common caps off top days fishing for Matt Povey

I arrived at the lake after work on Friday with only a few hours to fish before having to leave just after dark, I set […]

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Junior Fish 'O' Mania Champion - Will McCranor

I recently qualified for Junior Fish ‘O’ Mania and was really looking forward to it as it’s a really fun day out and there’s also […]

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Fish'O'mania champion - Kayleigh Smith

I knew that to be in with a real chance of winning the match I would need to catch shallow. I arranged a practice session […]

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Fish small to catch big - Leanne Knott

If you want to catch a few Trent barbel you almost need to target the bream. And no, I haven’t taken leave of my senses! […]

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Rob Wootton on his "go to" margin attack

Now that summer is well and truly here, I like to start thinking about how I’m going to attack the margins of my local commercial […]

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Quick hit carping - Ian Smith

In this high-pressured modern world, many of us are not always in the privileged position of being able to ‘session fish’ every time we visit […]

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Dobbing for cruising fish - Alex Dockerty

Dobbing is one of those tactics anglers either love or hate! Regardless of which camp you’re in, there is certainly a time and a place […]

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Women in Sport Week Competition - Your Photos

The 19-25th of June was Women In Sport week and what better time to introduce a female to the world of fishing. With this in mind […]

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Mike Bridges - Profiling

In order to constantly develop as an angler you have to be critical of yourself and recognise that there is always room for improvement, regardless […]

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June 16th - Jake's Blog

Spring has been overly busy for me this year and trying to make things happen on the big pit was failing. With this in mind […]

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Matthew Fernandez - spring & early summer tench blog

A double figure tench has been hot on my radar for a long time. So this spring I wanted to put 110% effort into my […]

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A great spring on Yateley Match Lake

After chatting too some good friends, I was persuaded to buy a Farnham angling ticket and target the Match lake in Yateley. This lake still […]

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"Polly's Method of The Month" - Pellet Waggler

Now the water temperature has reached its peak and the fish have spawned, if you love fishing the pellet waggler, then get out there. My […]

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Evenings down the edge

It’s now the time of year that we’re seeing the longest daylight hours and the other side of it is as the night’s start drawing […]

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Nick Speed's expander pellet secrets

Nick Speed demonstrates how to prepare expander pellets and gives away his secret twists…

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Win a Terry Hearn Signed Bucket & Bait Bundle

Win a bucket signed by Terry Hearn himself and a range of bait all developed by Terry! The winner will receive: A signed dual layer bucket signed […]

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A match with Nick Speed

We follow match ace Nick Speed from start to finish as he competes in a mid-week open match at Lindholme Lakes. Getting a first-hand look […]

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Overnight result for Ashley

After a hard days graft all I wanted to do was get myself to the lake! Luckily last Friday I was travelling back from work […]

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Mark Pollard's margin fishing tips

In this video Mark Pollard takes you through a margin fishing session on a typical commercial water, demonstrating the baits and tactics he uses to […]

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A new challenge - Aron John

After catching all my target fish within the first year on a lake at my Cambridgeshire syndicate and in between fishing another near Peterborough I […]

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A week at Parco del Brenta - Kristof Cuderman

I spent this year’s session at lake Parco del Brenta in Italy with my girlfriend Marina, it was an amazing week and we caught a […]

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Stewart Bracey - Worm Curry!

At this time of year, just after the carp have spawned, worms become ‘the’ bait. If you put me on the spot, I couldn’t say […]

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WCC 2017 Competitors – Bait Order Terms & Conditions

Competitors at the 2017 World Carp Classic can order and collect a select range of Dynamite bait on site at Lac de Madine including pop-ups, […]

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Dynamite Lindholme Festival Results 2017

Warm weather, big weights and a lake record all added to another enthralling Lindholme Festival as 50 anglers competed for the honours in the five […]

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England International Rob Wootton reveals two of his favourite feeder-fishing edges

With so many big matches based around feeder fishing, it has been this type of angling that I’ve been focusing on this month. With so […]

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Early Spring - Tony Gibson's Angling Blog

With the rivers now closed, it was time for me to concentrate on the stillwaters to try and catch my target species for the early […]

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"Polly's method of the month" - Catching shallow

Well, both the weather and water temperatures are ‘on the up’ and that means that on many venues fish can be caught shallow. In this […]

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24 hours of carnage - Ross Ryder

A recent 24 hour session on my local southern syndicate resulted in three lovely mirrors and one of the most memorable trips I’ve ever had. […]

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Rob Perkins shows how he adapts the new Skimmer Mix for a variety of venues

In this video Rob Perkins demonstrates how he adapts the new Skimmer Mix groundbait for a variety of venues as well as showing how to […]

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Lessons learnt in my week at White Acres' Milo festival - Grant Albutt

Day one of the festival and I drew Bolingey peg four. Not the best draw, but I thought could pick up some good match points […]

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Nick Speed's spring/summer pellet boost

In this short video Nick Speed’s show’s us a simple 30 second spring/summer tip for pepping-up your hard pellets…

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The story of a record named “Dynamite" 

At the end of April, my friend, Cosmin Anghelescu and I marked the beginning of the 2017 fishing season with a seven-day fishing trip to […]

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A risk worth taking - Iain Macmillan

We’d been put onto an amazing lake in Austria by Steve Briggs who was the first and only ever English angler to ever wet a […]

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Alex Dockerty's Sloppy Groundbait Mix

Alex Dockerty talks through the three different sloppy groundbait mixes he uses when shallow fishing for F1s, before demonstrating how to mix them correctly…

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Kristof gets season off to flyer in Romania

Just like last year my first session of this year was at Monster Carp Lake in Romania and I was joined on the trip by […]

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Chasing the win! Alex Dockerty at the Commercial National

The Commercial National is the biggest team commercial fishery match of the year and one that I always look forward to as the buzz from […]

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Quick breakdown Method Feeder Mix - Rob Wootton Top Tip

In this short video Rob Wootton explains his top tip on creating a quick breakdown Method Feeder mix…

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Bucket list carping - Wraysbury WCC Qualifier 2017

Specimen match carp fishing is a wonderful if slightly weird world! It’s an incongruous mix of highly competitive spirit and respect from all those participating. […]

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CompleX-T on the river

With the terrific results that I’d been getting with the barbel while using the CompleX-T it was a big disappointment to find myself incapacitated following […]

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Spring Crucian

This winter has been one of the coldest for a while so I was desperate for that spring warmth! Although this winter was a productive […]

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Spring Haze - The Last Of The Big Five

This spring, I had set myself the challenge of trying to single out a very special carp to me, an old mirror that resided in […]

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Farlows Lake 2 UK Carp Championship Qualifier

The 2017 match season kicked off for Jake Dale & Matt Eden with the UK Carp Championship on Farlows lake 2 between 7th & 9th […]

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"Polly's method of the month" - how to feed a margin line

With the weather now on the up, it is easy to get carried away. Many anglers over feed and also bait with the wrong thing […]

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New PB for Chris Johnson on CompleX-T

I arrived at the lake early doors and after several laps the only fish I could find showing were in front of an angler in […]

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Nick Speed - White Acres Frenzee Champion 2017

Dynamite’s Nick Speed experienced some fantastic sport last week to take the title of White Acres Frenzee Champion 2017. Competing against a field of 159 […]

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A brief winter mission with Paul Codman

Find out what Paul’s been up to this winter. In this, his first video blog Paul shows us the bait and tactics he’s been using, […]

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Lessons learnt this winter - Alex Dockerty

I’ve had a brilliant run this winter at Lindholme Lakes and I’ve been fortunate enough to win the league overall, with over 50 in the […]

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The magical Bin el Quidane - Alex Hager

At the beginning of February I was able to fish one of the most impressive carp waters on the planet, the magical Bin el Quidane in […]

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Bluewater Bonanza - Dan Cleary

Last autumn I was invited to join an exclusive lake booking on Bluewater Lakes in the champagne region of France, where it is just littered […]

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Targeting Silvers at St. John's Linear

Ryan Gibson spent three days pleasure fishing with his Regimental Angling Club on St. John’s Lake at Linear Fisheries, possibly the UK’s most prolific big […]

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Dockerty‎ wins 2016 Garbolino Lindholme Winter League

Alex Dockerty was “absolutely buzzing” having all but won the 2016 Garbolino Lindholme Winter League this weekend! Having drawn peg 30 on the Beeches Alex […]

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New Rainbow Lake PB for Thomas Cywka

My last trip of 2016 was to amazing Rainbow Lake in France. It was only supposed to be a one week session, but a few […]

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Chira's Scorn - Winter session in Gran Canaria

Winter – the older I get the more I dislike this word, so I decided that this year I would seek out some winter sun, […]

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Dream Start on the CompleX-T (Part 2) - Tony Gibson

From the outset, I had a feeling that CompleX-T was going to be a fantastic barbel bait. In my experience boilies that have a true […]

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Dream Start on the CompleX-T (Part 1) - Tony Gibson

My carp fishing results for the year were already looking quite respectable, with some nice fish, including a few 30’s falling to my tactics of […]

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Andy Geldart wins Decoy Winter League Final

Dynamites Andy Geldart won the Decoy Winter League Final last weekend and it was a Dynamite one-two which Chris Barley finishing second. As Andy explained […]

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Terry Hearn lands The Parrot at 63lb

So here’s the result of Tel’s morning wake up call yesterday. As most of us were heading for our daily commute at 8am to face […]

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Murphy’s Lake Result for Emir Caro

Emir Caro recently returned from a week long session at Murphy’s Lake in France. Having fished the venue before Emir set himself the target of […]

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Impressive result for Will in under 25's Wye Festival

Last weekend Will Mc Carnnor went to the river Wye at Hereford for the first ever under 25’s Wye Festival sponsored by Diawa. It was […]

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CompleX-T The wait is over... (Video)

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Dyson takes top spot in Heronbrook Winter League

Fishing for Maver Gold Dynamite’s Andy Dyson took top spot in this fourth round of the Heronbrook Individual Winter League at Heronbrook Fisheries, Ecccleshall last […]

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Early morning brace for Michael Stewart

White Chocolate & Coconut Cream did the business for Angling Direct’s Michael Stewart as he got his weekend off to a great start… “I managed […]

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Lovely scaly on CompleX-T gets Ash's season underway

It’s been a tough start to the year for Ashley James but a lovely scaly last weekend got his season underway. “I’ve been struggling on […]

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A tidal carp or two

What do you do when all the lakes and rivers are frozen over??…..go catch at tidal carp or two! At least that’s what Jacob Dale […]

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Change has brought success for Peter Kingsbury

I was struggling in my 2016 season on my target venue, it seemed every time I went I had a disaster, but things were about […]

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Wraysbury Results on CompleX-T for Dave Williams

I first saw the CompleX-T whilst I was working with RK Leisure, it was the World Carp Classic UK Qualifier and Dynamite had a stand […]

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Dan Cleary's Winter Session's

As winter approached once again I turned my attention to a club water which poses a slightly better chance on producing than my chosen venue […]

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CompleX-T...don't hold back...

With our last bait by Terry Hearn (The Crave) being launched five years ago it was time to introduce a new premium bait that would […]

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Iain Macmillan on CompleX-T

I’ll be the first to admit I’m no bait buff; however I do trust the people that are.  So when I got my hands on […]

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Bright Fluro's - Iain Macmillan

I don’t know where my fishing would be without a bright Fluro. I literally use them at every single opportunity, whether it’s as a single, […]

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Ashley James lands new PB mirror

Ashley James just got back from his usual weekend trip down his local club water, but little did he know he would finally bank his […]

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A brilliant colour hook bait for all year round - Iain Macmillan

Spring, summer, autumn or winter, where I’d be without a white pop up I don’t know.  I’m not a fish scientist, but I do have […]

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Hemp & Snails - The next big edge - Iain Macmillan

Particle fishing is a massive part of the modern day carp angling scene, and I’ve lost count of the amount of fish I’ve caught over […]