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It’s surface fishing time and our editor shares a great tip to help you feed mixers and floating pellets beyond usual catapult range… They’re light, so they don’t go particularly far when you catapult them out – surface baits are not the easiest to bait with at any kind of range. You can spod them, but that creates disturbance and attracts every gull, duck and coot in the county. So how do you get round this problem? The answer is pretty simple and it was something I first saw when out shooting a feature with Terry Hearn about 12 years ago! You’ll need some stocking-type PVA, your floaters and a few dry stones. It’s important that they are dry and they need to be about walnut size or a little smaller, but try and find heavy ones.

Hitting the banks of the Waesmere syndicate on Friday, Solar Tackle team member Wesley Lagaert managed 4 bites in under 24-hours, the biggest fishing being an old mirror that tipped the scales at 33lb 6oz. “I had 4 bites from Friday night until Saturday morning,” explains Wes. “So, there wasn’t much sleep involved! I lost a small one at the net and, frustratingly, lost a real good ‘un shortly after due to a very odd occurrence. “Things picked up after that though and I landed a 28lb 10oz common and then a really old mirror of 33lb 6oz.

Following on from the extremely successful launch of the Camolite luggage range, the boys behind Fox are proud to release several new additions, from simple but necessary small accessory pouches all the way through to a feature-packed large ruckall. We thought we would look further into the Low Level products because these are designed to easily slip under your bedchair, allowing you to maximise space when out on the bank. Priced at £64. 99, the Low Level Carryall is simply, as the name suggests, a low-profile carryall system to accommodate tackle items.

So we have all heard about how useful yardsticks can be and it seems very widely accepted terminology to explain how far a certain spot is: “12 wraps to the pylon mate. ” Going one step further, Avid Carp is proud to offer the glow-in-the-dark variety, making it even easier to get your rods back out on the same mark whether it’s 1am or 1pm. Simply wrap around the subtle green tips and away you go. Supplied with a 12ft cord, you can always gauge a rod length with ease and the three separate and different coloured toggles allow you to clearly mark each rod’s distance for increased accuracy.