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A waggler is any float that is attached to the line by only the bottom eye. As such, it is the most commonly used stillwater float and one that is regularly in use on many flowing waters. Straight peacock wagglers nsert peacock waggler Ultra sensitive crow quill insert waggler Bodied wagglers Bulk shotting used with…

The trouble was, the carp and the weather were not really playing ball. After over a week of frost and fog, the weather had slowly warmed up and the first session of the week looked promising with cloudy skies and no wind, perfect conditions. Despite the lack of rain over the previous ten days though…

I have used this static surface tactic on hot Summer evenings on many waters and found it particularly deadly on Meadow Tree Fishery at Hale in Cornwall, Dever Springs in Hampshire and Black Wool Farm in Sussex. All these waters are big fish waters, the fish responded well to the small suspender buzzer producing several…

Geoff is off on a jolly so he has asked for a Carp Diary or two up front so I知 afraid there is a break in the Carp fishing for a week or two but in early September I値l catch up with what痴 been happening on the estate lake I致e been fishing all summer. I…

Each year some fish will die, and so it doesn’t take many years for there to be very few fish left. So the older and bigger you get, the less of your year class will be left. This does not always follow, some times conditions will lead to an exceptional year class being formed. An…

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