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If something is too big it wont fit and likewise if its too small it wont perform to its full capacity. Vauxhall Vectras dont win off-road rallies and you dont buy forty foot artics as the family run-around. All things are designed with a purpose. Similarly, some fishing rods are six feet long and others…

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Blood knots and Uni knots are the most useful and widely used to tie on hooks and swivels. When making a Sliding Leger using a tubular boom or slider such as the Zip slider or Knotless heavy Slida, the final knot to the hook length comes under constant attrition from the boom because of the…

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…

In one way I am very pleased that it is one less lad left on the street corners; bored and directionless but I do have this selfish nemesis within me crying out, pleading that I’ve tied enough hooks for others and answered enough questions already to put adequate numbers on the slippery slope of fishing…

Articles by John Olliff-Cooper John Olliff-Cooper John started his writing career with Angling magazine in the late 1960’s, since when he has contributed to most of the better-known hard copy magazines. Flirted with modernity for a few years, then panicked at the shallow hype of it all, and fled through 180 degrees. Having been properly…