Preston Innovations Pro Flat Rollers
This winter’s relentless high winds have been responsible for an abnormally high number of broken pole sections, many of which came as result of collapsing pole rollers.
If you’re unsure about the sturdiness of your roller, take a look at these three latest patterns from Preston Innovations. In single and double-shipping designs, The Pro Flat Rollers feature super stable telescopic legs, indented fixed uprights, double spirit levels, and a robust carabiner hook to add stabilising weights. The rollers also have a special lay-flat design that enables them to be placed ‘rock steady’ on the ground with their legs folded away – ideal when shipping up high banks.
Price: From £64.99
Wychwood Tactical Stove
All carp anglers love a bargain, and this new Tactical stove from Wychwood looks like being one of the steals of the season. Weighing in at just 231g, the gas burning stove features a very neat space-saving design, which not only provides a stable footprint with a low centre of gravity, it also folds down to less than 9cm in diameter, making it possible to carry inside a Wychwood Carpers kettle.
Made from high-grade aluminium and stainless steel, the stove’s special features include a preheater tube to improve combustion, and reduce spitting. There’s also a flexible 35cm hose, and it boiled a kettle in about two minutes, perfect for a quick brew between runs!
Frenzee 1624 and 1420 hooks
Welsh-based match tackle brand Frenzee has just released these two new hook patterns aimed at commercial fishery anglers.
Both come in eyed and spade-end styles, with the 1420 ideal for use with many types of bait including pellet, meat and maggots. The wide gape, super sharp barbless is an all-rounder constructed using a medium gauge wire and can be used with hooklengths up to 0.20mm diameter.
The heavier 1624 pattern is a much stronger hook, and constructed using a thicker wire gauge, making it ideal for margin fishing when confidence is key. The super wide-gape hook is suitable for a variety of large baits such as paste, bread and small boilies, as well as multiple particle offerings. A true bagging hook that will not let you down.
Price: £1.25 per pack of 10
Avid Day Session Kit
Avid’s super-smart Day Session Kit has everything the short-stay carp angler requires in the luggage department.
The light, compact combination includes a carp ruckbag, a two-rod sling for blanks with up to 50mm butt guides, and a lightweight day chair weighing just 3kg that attaches via clips to the bag.
The ruckbag itself features two large outer pockets that are size-compatible with all the latest Avid Tuned boxes, pouches and bags.
Price: £89.99
RW Floats
RW Floats are handmade patterns tailored to carp, F1s and silverfish on stillwaters. Pictured are five of the most popular patterns.
The Dink is the slim blue float with a 1.5mm hollow tip and a wire stem, designed for fishing pellets for small carp and F1s. A finer F1 Dink has a black body.
The Maggie (white body) has a carbon stem for fishing maggots, and the Muddie is the short float with a thick 2mm tip for fishing in shallow water in the warmer months.
The Shallow Slim is the small float with the carbon stem. Buy them at www.rwfloats.co.uk
Price: £2.20 each
Fox Multi Chod and Zig Bin
Fox’s Multi Chod and Zig Bin comes with six rig discs in three sizes. The smaller ones are ideal for chods, while the largest take zig rigs. You can measure rig length, as two wrap-arounds equal one foot.
The discs sit on a main shaft, and extras are available so you can customise the bin to your needs. A starter kit of 18 rig pins is included.
Price: £9 Spare discs: £2.99
Guru Inline Plummets
Guru’s new Inline Plummets come in 10g, 20g and 30g weights, and with the line passing through the centre, anglers can find the depth to within a millimetre.
The unique shape protects the line from snagging, and the tough body features a soft, orange latex section to stick the hook into. The absence of a full cork or foam cylinder is said to give lots more ‘feel’ over various substrates. In packs of three.
Price: £3.75
Gardner GT-HD mainline
Gardner has a great reputation for producing durable mainlines and this latest offering only enhances it. GT-HD is a low-stretch mono that offers improved feel and connection with fish, while also remaining supple and fast-sinking.
GT-HD casts very well and has that trademark Gardner toughness. The low-visibility colour is just right and it’s exclusively manufactured for Gardner so you won’t see this line anywhere else.
It’s available in 12lb (0.33mm diameter), 15lb (0.35mm) and 18lb breaking strains in 4oz bulk spools.
Nash Indulgence Lumbar Support range
Indulgence Daddy Long Legs LS: £131.99
Indulgence Big Daddy LS: £142.99
Indulgence Recliner LS: £109.99
Indulgence Recliner Big Daddy LS: £126.99
Fresh for 2016, Nash has launched a range luxury chairs with a neat device to keep you sitting comfortably.
A flexible sprung-steel mesh slides into the backrest of these chairs to mould to your back to keep you relaxed and supported.
As Nash’s Alan Blair explained: “If you buy any new office chair or look at any new car, they all feature some sort of adjustable lumbar support for individual comfort. It was natural to build that feature into our top-of-the-range chairs.
“Anglers spend more time than most people sitting down, and sitting with correct posture really makes a difference to how long people can fish comfortably.”
Nash has really perfected its beds and chairs in recent years and the feel and look of these new chairs screams quality. The Indulgence Daddy Long Legs LS and the Indulgence Big Daddy LS both have a raised seating position and armrests to help older and less-mobile anglers ease in and out of the chairs.
The Indulgence Recliner LS and its Big Daddy version are more low slung to sit under brollies and shelters.
Stanley Vacuum Flasks
The famous Stanley brand has just added three new flasks to an impressive product range.
The classic twin-walled vacuum mug features a dishwasher-proof push-button lid that lets you open it one-handed. The 14oz Adventure vacuum food jar looks ideal for soups and stews, and will keep your meal piping hot for up to eight hours, while the Adventure steel canteen holds 1.1 litres of water or squash, has two-stage lid opening for quick filling, and boasts an adjustable nylon carry strap.
Matrix Quad Pole Rollers
With their four legs splayed out, these Matrix Quad Rollers are all but impossible to topple. Add to that roller ends which can be turned inwards, to stop the pole being blown off the ends, and you have two of the best hassle-free pole rollers on the market.
Avid Carp Bait & Bits Boxes
These excellent boxes come in four sizes and have a multitude of uses. The large and XL versions have removable inners, making them ideal for glugging, flavouring or drying baits.
The smaller containers are ideal for lead storage, althoough their sealed waterproof lids make them perfect for your bankside tea, coffee or sugar too. They fit perfectly inside Avid’s latest Tuned Luggage system.
NGT Drop Shot Kits
Just in from NGT are these two Drop Shotting Kits.
Ideal for the novice lure angler, you have a choice of four 5cm or 7cm lures in various colours, 5g or 7g weights, and two pre-tied ready rigs on 8lb line to a size 4 barbed hook (or 10lb line to size 2 barbed hook).
Both options come on handy foam winders.
Woodgrain Tackle floats
These beautiful floats are meticulously crafted by Chris Snaydon of Woodgrain Tackle, using natural materials such as bulrushes and quills. Whipping thread decorates each tip section, while a photo-luminous vinyl makes them glow in the dark once charged with an LED light. Much more than just collectors’ items, the full range covers virtually any floatfishing situation.
Info: Go to www.facebook.com/groups/woodgraintackle for more information and pricing.
The Knot Tying Bible, Colin Jarman
Every angler should have one of these. This brilliant little book is a practical reference to tying more than 60 of the most commonly used knots, bends and hitches.
Full of clear step-by-step illustrations, each knot is organised by its physical properties rather than its technical name, making it quick and easy to find the best knots for the job at hand: www.fireflybooks.com
Daiwa Tournament Pre-Tied Drop-Shot Rigs
Daiwa’s Tournament pre-tied Drop-shot Rigs offer the lure angler an excellent and convenient ‘quick fix’. The Fine Finesse versions feature fine wire hooks and are ideal for smaller lures in a fixed position.
The WOS (Wide Offset Dropshot) rigs use an innovative knot and whipping arrangement to create a system that allows the hook to be moved without damaging the line.
Both types are tied to 120cm of quality monofilament, in hook sizes 2 to 3/0 and on 0.20mm to 0.35mm lines.
WOS Rigs £3.99
Fine Finesse Rigs £2.99
E-S-P Zig & Floater Mono
This clear, semi-buoyant mono is ideal as a hooklink material for all zig rig and floater fishing situations. Featuring a fine diameter to knot strength ratio, it is tough and durable, with just the right amount of stretch to make it perfect for combining with smaller hooks. It has superb knot tying qualities, with optimum strengths achievable when using carefully tied five-turn Grinner or Palomar knots.
Available on 100m spools in 8lb (0.23mm), 10lb (0.26mm) and 12lb (0.28mm).
Price: £4.95
E-S-P Mini Butt Grips
Designed to fit carp rod butts with shrink tube, cork or Duplon handles, these new E-S-P Mini Butt Grips come in small, medium and large sizes. They have machined stainless steel screw fittings with Rubberoid cups made from specially formulated polymers that give optimal fit, grip and release. In use they are neat, tidy and very unobtrusive, yet they provide a vice-like grip to prevent rod movement, and release quickly and easily when a rod is picked up.
Price: £3.45
E-S-P Tungsten Loaded Coated Braid 20lb+ Soft
Tried and tested by big-carp legend Terry Hearn, this matt camo coated braided hooklink material has a tungsten coating that helps to pin it to the lakebed. It’s easily stripped and, impressively, it can be straightened out without the need for steaming. The super-strong Dyneema core has achievable knot strength of over 30lb.
The Soft version is perfect for subtle presentations using small boilies, plastics, nuts and balanced or buoyant baits. There is also a Semi-stiff version that is rigid enough to push the hookbait away from the lead, ideal for use with hinged stiff rigs. Both types come in muted camo Weedy Green, Camo Brown and Choddy Silt colours, supplied on 10m spools that fit most tackle boxes.
Price: £8.95 per spool
Drennan Slimline 2-Rod Hard Case
This latest Rod Hard Case is a practical and efficient means of carrying up to two ready made-up rods. The Short (160cm) version is ideal for standard three-piece rods and 10ft two-piece rods, while the Long (196cm) case takes most two-piece rods up to 12ft long.
Like all new Drennan luggage it is made from tough, semi-rigid EVA which gives extra protection to valuable rods. It features a padded central divider and additional internal pockets for quivertips and spool storage.
Usefully, you can also attach two Slimline 2-Rod Hard Cases to the outside of the 4-6 Full Zip Rod Holdall as well as the 6-8 Tube Rod Holdall. The Slimline 2 comes with two sets of neoprene rod-retaining straps.
Price: Short £36.95, Long £39.95