Fishing styles
From mainline to bank gear: honest lowdowns on real carp kit, with no pretend catch reports.
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Real kit we’ve dug into, each with our score out of 100 and a star rating. The same review can suit more than one style of fishing.
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Nash Webcast PVA
A clever little PVA mesh dispenser that keeps sticks, pellets and mini boilies neat, quick and properly fishable on the bank.
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Nash Double Ring Swivel, size 8
A cracking little bit of terminal tackle for tidy lead-drop setups, especially when weed and snags are part of the swim.
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Nash Marker Lead
A compact, pronged marker lead built for finding weed, detritus and food spots without making a right song and dance on the deck.
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Nash Chod Rig
A properly curved, short chod rig with a quick-change bait screw. Handy for fishing pop-ups just off the deck when you want a simple, inconspicuous presentation without tying your own.
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Centre Of Gravity (COG) Boom QC Flat Pear
A tidy, clever leadcore boom system for Flat Pear COG leads, with quick-change convenience and a proper focus on keeping the lead working right.
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Korda Essentials Shrink Tube
A cracking little bit of terminal tackle for shaping kickers, building line aligners and tidying up swivel connections without loads of faff.
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Korda Krimps
Want tidy, repeatable loops in stiff hooklinks? Korda Krimps make chod rigs and boom sections far less fiddly, provided you use the right size and the proper tool.
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Flatliner Pear Inline Lead
A compact, grippy inline lead for hard lake beds, sloping spots and a bit of flow. Proper useful terminal tackle when you want the rig pinned down and the fish to feel the business end quickly.
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Solid PVA bag fishing
A tidy, properly thought-through inline lead for solid bag fishing, with the shape, groove and ejection setup aimed squarely at clean presentation and efficient hooking.
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Weed/Silt or Gravel/Clay
A tidy bit of terminal tackle for weedy and snaggy venues, giving you a quick, controlled way to lose the lead when a carp bolts for trouble.
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Hybrid Lead Clip
A clever one-piece lead clip with a captive swivel and proper lead-ejecting credentials. Handy kit when the weed’s thick and the snags are waiting.
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Dark Matter Hybrid Lead Clip Leader
A ready-made, streamlined leader for semi-fixed lead setups, with tungsten sections, an integrated Hybrid Lead Clip and a lead-release system built in.
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Korda N-Trap KD Rig
The Korda N-Trap KD Rig takes one of carp fishing’s most effective bait presentations and ties it up ready to fish. Handy, sharp and nicely thought through — though one rig per pack can sting a bit.
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Available in hook sizes 4, 6 and 8, with barbed or barbless options
A ready-tied solid bag rig that keeps things short, supple and properly compact. Handy when you want to fish a PVA bag without faffing around tying one on the bank.
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Krank Boom · Size 4 or 6 · Barbed or barbless
A dead-handy ready-tied spinner rig for wafter fishing, with the Krank hook and stiff Boom doing the hard graft.
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Barbed or barbless, in sizes 4, 6 and 8
A handy pair of ready-tied carp rigs for anglers who want a reliable wide-gape presentation, sensible hookbait options and less messing about on the bank.
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Wide Gape X · Barbed or barbless · Sizes 4 or 6
A tidy, proven-looking combi multi rig built around Korda’s Wide Gape X hook, 25lb Boom and Slip D Braid. Handy when you want a sharp, reliable presentation without faffing around tying every rig yourself.
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Gardner Tackle PVA Systems
A proper little PVA setup for neat bait parcels, maggot pouches and aerodynamic stringers, with quick- and standard-melt options for different water temperatures.
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Quick Dissolve PVA Bags
A cracking bit of PVA kit for tidy little feed parcels, quick melts and less faff when you’re trying to get a rig fishing properly.
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Available in Quick Dissolve and Standard Dissolve versions
Two mesh sizes, clever loading kit and proper year-round versatility. The Gardner Double Barrel PVA System is a tidy answer to a lot of PVA faff.
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Latex bait bands in three sizes
A dead-handy way to present pellets, boilies and floaters without faffing about with a bait drill. Pick the right size and you’ve got a tidy little presentation for carp and coarse fish.
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Standard Suspender
A clever little floater controller that keeps your hooklink riding proud of the surface, helping you present a bait without that spooky underwater line hanging beneath it.
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11lb / 5m spool
A cracking bit of terminal tackle for tidy stop knots, back stops and a touch of shock absorption when your rig needs a little give.
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TNCB
A neat little bit of chod-rig kit that protects your main line, pins everything down and lets the swivel pass cleanly over the top.
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Silt
A neat little bit of terminal tackle for naked lead-clip rigs, giving your main line a smooth run into the clip without faffing about with tubing or a leader.
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Long and XL
A proper handy way to sharpen up your presentation, improve hook turn and keep the gape doing its job — without faffing about with shrink tube.
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Size 8 and Size 12
Strong, smooth and properly versatile, Gardner’s Covert Rolling Swivels cover everything from lead-clip setups to neat little finesse rigs without making a meal of the terminal end.
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Size 12 · 10-pack · FRQXT
A cracking little bit of terminal tackle for Ronnie, German and quick-change helicopter rigs. Strong, tidy and built to save you a fair bit of faff on the bank.
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Size 12 · 10 per packet
A tidy little bit of terminal tackle for quick-change Ronnie and German rigs, with a strong crook, smooth swivel action and a stealthy black finish.
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Gardner Tackle Hinged Stiff Rigs
A cracking ready-tied hinged stiff rig for anglers who want a reliable chod-style presentation straight from the packet. Just pick your hook size, loop it on and get fishing.
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White floating dissolving foam, approximately 50g per resealable bag, with a free session pot.
A proper handy bit of terminal tackle for protecting hook points, stopping tangles and giving your rig a little extra help on the cast.
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Critical Mass Putty
A proper handy bit of tungsten putty for balancing hookbaits, pinning down line and keeping braided hooklinks behaving themselves.
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Sizes 10 and 11
A tidy little bit of terminal tackle for Ronnie and Spinner rigs, with easy hook changes, plenty of movement and no faffy bending of loops.
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Size 11 · 10 per pack
A neat little pack of size 11 ring swivels for movable hookbaits, D rigs and a stack of modern carp presentations.
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Fox Edges Rig Rings
A simple, non-reflective rig ring that helps your hookbait move naturally. Nothing fancy, just a handy bit of terminal tackle for D-rigs, hook-shank presentations and general carp rigging.
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Fox Edges Kwik Change Heli Swivels, size 7, CAC700
A dead-handy little bit of terminal tackle for helicopter and Ronnie-style rigs, with quick rig changes built into the swivel.
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