How to not spook carp in shallow water

John Allerton explains a top tip to reduce the chances of spooking carp in shallow water. This is a tatic used by many top anglers when fishing up-in-the-water or across to islands on canal-type carp lakes.

How to play carp on the pole

Sit back and let Fox Match star Mark Pollard demonstrate how to land carp on the pole without fear of losing the fish or breaking the pole.

The perfect pole set-up

Sitting comfortably when pole fishing is essential for a productive day, so follow Mark Pollard’s advice on organising your gear when pole fishing.

Steve Ringer on using the perfect quivertip

Picking the perfect quivertip when legering or feeder fishing is a real problem for some anglers.
Not only do some anglers insert the wrong strength of quiver to suit the conditions and the fish, but some feeder rods are poorly equipped with bad quivertip designs that create flat spots on the blank, therefore bad fish-playing actions.

Here Steve Ringer introduces a new design of quivertip that has helped him to land even more fish.

Rigs for beach fishing at range

Alan Yates details the rig he uses for sea fishing at range, utilising impact leads and cascade swivels to ensure the baited hooks are released when the rig settles on the sea bed.

Tackling a weedy carp water

Silkweed can cause all sorts of problems for carp anglers. Here Danny Fairbrass shows what to do to ensure your bait isn’t masked and your mainline remains out of view from any passing carp.

How to tie the Figure-of-8 loop knot

Roy Marlow is a bit of an expert when it comes to monofilaments, fluorocarbons and braids, how you can get the most from them, how they perform underwater and what are the most reliable knots for them.

Here's the man himself telling you how to correctly tie the Figure-of-8 loop knot - one of the strongest knots known to anglers.

Using shockleaders for Carp

Danny Fairbrass explains the uses of shockleaders and shows how they react underwater when coupled with leadcore leaders. Unique underwater footage is used to clearly prove the effectiveness of shockleaders.

Bob Roberts on floatfishing for roach

All-round specialist Bob Roberts visits Wyreside Lakes in Lancashire - a typical big-carp water - and shows how to keep those bites coming thick and fast throughout the autumn and winter. He leaves his carp tackle, boilies and bedchair at home and instead opts to use his simple waggler gear, loosefeed small baits little and often and catch himself enormous bags of quality roach.

This is how he does it...

Legering for Tench with Danny Fairbrass

Danny Fairbrass enjoys a session legering for tench, while watching his sweetcorn bait being taken by the fish. Another stream of unique tench footage showing how this wonderful species feeds.

Mark Cole's favourite rig for carp fishing

Everyone has their favourite - be it a float, a bait, a venue - and Mark Cole is no different.

He has a favourite rig that he has used throughout the year to great effect. It has accounted for loads of huge carp using all manner of different baits.

In this video Mark shows what you need to create and how to make this simple and effective carp rig.

Will Raison's 10 top winter fishing tips

Current angling World Champion Will Raison is here to help you continue catching when the weather's cold, as here are his 10 top winter fishing tips.

He covers bait, what to catch and when, lines, comfort and much much more.

So, if you want to make the most from your coldwater fishing sessions this winter, take a look to see how Will can help you keep those fish coming to the net.