At the time of writing, the weather is almost Mediterranean around sunny Preston. This weekend could be a great time for a bit of surface fishing for carp on your local stillwater. Nothing complicated – just some dog biscuits or a Sonu Floater Fishing Pack, rod & reel, net, mat and catapult, and you’re good to go. Evenings are best.
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We had an interesting phone call this week from someone trying to buy his father a pair of bib & brace trousers that had been discontinued by the manufacturer. Nothing especially unusual about that – it happens quite often with all sorts of tackle, not just clothing. The solution we came up with is probably worth a mention, though.
The National is always a special event for those competing and this year was no different. The Trent requires methods and approaches that are somewhat different to our usual styles. The last National on here saw us finish 9th overall, largely with a feeder based attack, on this occasion most anglers had a big fish or even several in some cases. However there seemed more areas this time round where bigger fish were noticeable only by their absence?
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The team for today changed slightly as Barry Thomas stepped in for Mitch who was sunning it up in some foreign country.
The Trent and Mersey canal around Northwich was the venue for the forth round of this popular league.
The team for today consisted of,
Further to last week’s post, preparations are reaching a head for tomorrow’s National. Most of the lads are leaving very early tomorrow morning to be at the draw in plenty of time. No-one is especially confident, but they all want to draw well! We all wish them good luck and good skill.
New Preston Innovations ReelUpdate
They’re here – Preston Innovations Inception 4000 Reel!
With the trade show season approaching, manufacturers are starting to show us new gear that will be hitting the shelves over the next few weeks and months. One of our eagle-eyed customers tipped us off about one that we hadn’t been told about yet, so we found out a bit about it…
One of the things about running this website is that we try to make it so that customers can find what they are looking for. We tweak the navigation, so that you can find products by brand or by category, or by search box. Without going into too much geeky detail, there is a good lot of programming behind that search box that tries to find the product being searched for, and/or offering suggestions on spellings and such. Don’t misunderstand, it’s nowhere near as good as Google, but it’s pretty good.
Here’s something new and dead clever for the carp and specimen angler.
Spods are ok, they get your free offerings out there, but they spill bait all over the place. Well, this might be the solution…
Two of our intrepid colleagues, ‘Disaster Dave’ Williams (more on the nickname later) and Lewis Kennedy had a couple of days in Plymouth for some wreck fishing. They both caught plenty of conger to 40lb, but the best one landed at 50lb had taken both their baits, so they shared it. Nice.
