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Top Tips No. 4 - Hygiene Matters. Stay Healthy!

Saturday, July 12th, 2008

By Elie Godsi

I’m going to have to get down and dirty with you on this Top Tip. As anglers we come into contact with water every time we fish. Water is the very place that many pathogens (those nasty germs that cause diseases) are at their happiest, just waiting for their next victim to contaminate. Yet it amazes me how careless and sloppy most anglers are when it comes to hygiene while they’re fishing. It’s a case of ‘it will never happen to me’ type scenario. Think so? Think again.

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Tags: angling, anti-bacterial, bait, carp, fishing, france, hygiene wipes, product reviews, tackle, technique, tips, uk, weil's disease
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Wading and Bait Placement.

Tuesday, July 8th, 2008

By Paul Cooper

There are many options for accurate baiting and bait presentation. Probably one of the most neglected is wading out your baits to give you that perfect presentation. On 90% of waters this will not be possible, due to depth, silt or wading restrictions, but if it is possible then why not give it a try. 23lb 8oz mirror caught on a 20mil shelf life Rahja Spice bait, placed over 6 individual frre offering of the same.

On a local lake that I fish the depths of the waters quantify the use of chest waders. With depths of around 3 to 3 ½ feet, getting in the water in chesties is not a problem.

Prior to this I would have already have done my plumbing work with a marker float to ensure that wading is possible.

Care still has to be taken as there a some large areas of deep silt and weed. I initially take out my landing net handle to use as a prod to ensure that I am not walking into a silt hole or walking off or onto a ledge..

Now there may be some of you that are horrified that that I am disturbing the carp from the margins and scattering them to the far end of the lake. Most estate lakes, as with the one that I am talking about, are used to graze cattle etc.

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Tags: bait, capture, Carp Fishing, estate, hookbait, mirror, Rahja Spice, silty
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Reader’s Query - French style lakes in the UK?

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008

On the 30th June Phil Parker put the following question to the bloggers:

OK here goes. Now I’m sure this subject has been touched before. Why do we not have venues in the UK similar to those advertised in (PLUG) Angling Lines. In fact perhaps I should ask them this and other companies this. There seems to be a couple venues that do this but not many. I am not knocking France or any of the lakes over there as I have fished many of them over the years and love the places I have been to. Its just that there seems to be missing opportunities which I’m sure could be grabbed. I know there are places like White Acres and Anglers Paradise, again top notch venues but the chance to share a lake with friends on an exclusivity basis or a 20 acre lake shared between a maximum of 10 anglers has surely got to appeal. There must be plenty of anglers who would relish this as syndicate waters are sometimes far and few between and not within budget for many. So come on everbody lets have your thoughts, suggestions and opinions on this.

Elie Godsi offers an initial response:

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Top Tips No. 4 - Hygiene Matters. Stay Healthy!

Wading and Bait Placement.

Reader’s Query - French style lakes in the UK?