C. D. Fishing Tackle

Looking at the finished float many anglers confuse it with the “drift beater” but a closer look will reveal that it is entirely a different float. It is first and foremost a reversed balsa wood waggler. If you cut of the sight tip, you are left with a perfect reversed taper balsa waggler.The sight tip…

On their first day on the river Ebro they hammered the carp catching over a dozen fish to 32 lbs. The 32 lber shown here indicates the increasing size of fish now being caught from the river. Just recently another angler had several fish over 25lbs in one session. The River Ebro is renowned for…

Up until about the middle of the 1990’s most American anglers looked upon the carp as a trash fish only fit for the roses. I can tell you it’s now a different story. Today many American anglers are chucking flies for carp and thoroughly enjoying the experience. As they tell me “These carp fight hard…

Considering that I had just one day on the Ballynahinch, it was a piece of serious luck that I’d drawn Beat One of the Ballynahinch Castle Hotel water which took in the pool immediately below the lough. (A German guest at the hotel, indeed, sidled up to me and wanted to know how much I’d…

They were made very popular by Bristol match ace “Topper” Haskins who has used these floats to dominate matches on the Bristol Avon. However, Topper has moved on to using polystyrene bodies with his crow quill avons whilst I have stuck to the more traditional balsa wood bodies. Unlike Topper I have not yet mastered…

Specie: Spanish wels catfish Weight: 80-something pounds Location: river Ebro A giant Spanish wels catfish from the river Ebro. This one of many large fish that my friends and I have taken from this river. We have finally cracked how to catch them but only after a long hard struggle. This fish weighed 80-something pounds…