By Elie Godsi

Every now and then you find a bit of kit that makes life so much easier that you wonder how you ever managed without it.

If you use a lot of PVA in your fishing then I think you’re going to like this little product. What I call the ’mega towel’ made by a company called Tiemco in Japan.

I use a lot of PVA mesh tubing and PVA bags in my fishing so much so that I rarely cast a rig out without hooking a small mesh bag or a PVA foam nugget onto the hook itself. I also fish PVA bags, placing the whole rig including lead and hooklink into the bag. As PVA is starch based it is designed to be water soluble. This means any rig components that come into contact with it must be bone dry.

Now I am really fussy about where my rig lands and will make repeated casts until I am happy that my hookbait is exactly where I want it. Sometimes I get it right first cast but more often than not I have to have another go until it’s ‘bang on’. If I am fishing a tiny hole in weed then this is the difference between a take or nothing. Sometimes in strong winds the cast doesn’t land where I want it to. Mostly my casting isn’t that accurate anyway! So each time I reel in I have to dry the end tackle and start again.

This is a pain in the back side because it means I have to put all that PVA back on the hook each time: in my case this typically means a small mesh bag on the hook, followed by a PVA foam nugget, then PVA tape around the foam.

I also like to use coated leads – the ones with gravel or compost on them and these absorb a lot of water.

For years I used an ordinary hand towel – then I discovered the ‘mega towel’ by Tiemco!

This is made from super absorbent material that was designed for drying dry flies when fly fishing. It’s very thin and only a few inches square. A quick dab on my end tackle with this little beauty and everything is bone dry in seconds. 

Just goes to show, little things please little minds! I think it retails at about a tenner and believe me, it’s worth every penny of that money.

Elie G

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