Korum Mini Grub Feeders
Following the success of its original Grub Feeder, Korum has added these Mini versions to the range. They make maggot fishing simple, quick, and extremely effective. Just click open the aerodynamic clam-style lid, fill with maggots, and snap it back into position. The 15g and 30g versions costs the same.
Price: £1.99
Korum River Feeders
With the start of the season only a couple of weeks away, these flat-sided feeders from Korum are sure to be of interest to the ardent running water enthusiast.
They come in two sizes – small and large – and three weights of 60g, 90g and 120g. Made from a super-tough plastic, their unusual hydrodynamic shape allows them to sit very low on the riverbed. Water passes easily over them so far less weight is needed to hold bottom. Specially shaped holes along their top and sides allow flavours and small particles to quickly leak out, to be carried downstream.
Price: From £1.99
Fox Mk2 Captive Backleads
These will keep your reel line out of harm’s way, tight to the lakebed. A unique fail-safe gated mechanism triggers with any forward line movement. The Mk2 versions are attached to 10m of highly visible orange cord and come in a range of weights from 1.5oz up to 5oz.
Price: £6.99
Fox Camotex Swivel Distance Lead
The new Camotex Lead range may not seem ground-breaking as far as product innovation goes, except for a quite superbly competitive price bracket starting at just £1, making these the cheapest specialist carp leads on the market. They are sure to be massive sellers this year.
As its name suggests, this lead is designed for anglers wanting to cast a long way. They have a tapered, weight-forward design that makes them very aerodynamic.
Sizes 2.5oz, 2.0oz, 3.5oz, 4oz.
Price: From £1.20
Fox Camotex Square In-Line Lead
The new Camotex Lead range may not seem ground-breaking as far as product innovation goes, except for a quite superbly competitive price bracket starting at just £1, making these the cheapest specialist carp leads on the market. They are sure to be massive sellers this year.
The shorter body length of the Square Inline makes it perfect for all PVA bag work. It too has a groove along the body for fishing ‘drop-off’ style.
Sizes 1.5oz, 2oz, 2.5oz, 3oz.
Price: From £1
Fox Camotex Square Swivel Lead
The new Camotex Lead range may not seem ground-breaking as far as product innovation goes, except for a quite superbly competitive price bracket starting at just £1, making these the cheapest specialist carp leads on the market. They are sure to be massive sellers this year.
The Square Swivel lead is ideal for short to medium casting ranges. Its body shape offers a lot of resistance once the rig is picked up by a fish.
Sizes 1.5oz, 2oz, 2.5oz, 3oz.
Price: From £1.
Fox Camotex Flat Pear Inline Lead
The new Camotex Lead range may not seem ground-breaking as far as product innovation goes, except for a quite superbly competitive price bracket starting at just £1, making these the cheapest specialist carp leads on the market. They are sure to be massive sellers this year.
This lead has the same uses as above, but with the addition of an outside groove for running a leader around when fishing it drop-off style.
Sizes 2oz, 2.5oz, 2.5oz, 3.5oz.
Price: From £1.10
Fox Camotex Flat Pear Swivel Lead
The new Camotex Lead range may not seem ground-breaking as far as product innovation goes, except for a quite superbly competitive price bracket starting at just £1, making these the cheapest specialist carp leads on the market. They are sure to be massive sellers this year.
The Flat Pear shape is a great all-rounder. Its flat profile makes it ideal for use on margin and island slopes, as well as sand and gravel bars.
Sizes 1.5oz, 2oz, 2.5oz, 3oz.
Price: From £1
Drennan Stainless Cage Feeder
Best on shallow still or slow-moving waters, this low-profile oval feeder holds the bottom well, and is ideal for introducing softish cloudy groundbait mixes containing a minimal amount of small loosefeed particles.
Price: £1.90
Preston Innovations Dutch Master Bullet Feeder
Streamlined cage feeders with a heavy centre-positioned weight that helps them to fly straight at extreme distances were developed by European match angers for large, deep, wind-affected venues.
Price: £2.25
Preston Innovations Distance Cage Feeder
Designed for distance casting, the lead is bottom mounted around the perimeter of the cage, making the feeder easy and accurate to cast even in crosswinds.
Price: £1.75
Preston Innovations Leads
Any flat-sided lead will hold bottom on a gravel bar or island margin, but the Distance Bomb (Arlesey) will suffice in nearly every bream fishing scenario. Use a bomb rathere than a feeder when the fish are feeding really well, or have backed off the feed a little.
Price: £1.90
Maver Micro Pellet Head Feeder
This small capacity feeder is ideal for hard-fished waters in the colder months or, alternatively, great for getting tight into reeds or features.
Simply load with soaked micro pellets and place the hookbait on the top before squeezing on another layer of pellets to cover.
An ‘explosive’ effect is created by the water entry holes at the base. Available in 10g, 20g and 30g casting weights.
RRP £1.99
Frenzee Accu-Cast Cage Feeders
Frenzee’s Accu-Cast cage feeders are built with distance and accuracy in mind. A special lead system runs along the body of the feeder in the normal manner but also wraps around the bottom half of the cage, helping it to fly straight and true and preventing it from plugging itself into the lakebed. Sizes 18g-42g.
Price: £1.50
Fox Rage Drop Shot Tungsten Weights
Drop shot fishing requires finesse and ensuring your lure is the noticeable part of your rig, not your lead so small legers are key and Fox’s pencil-shape, tungsten weights offer high density in a small package.
The shape itself is low in profile for low disturbance in the water and easy casting, and each weight features a pear-shaped locking swivel so you can literally thread your line through and it locks in place – no need for knotting. This also means that if you should get snagged the lead pulls off the rig easier so you don’t lose your whole set up.
Available in 3.5g, 5g, 7g, 10g and 14g from £5.49 for packs of 5 weights.
Korum Inline K Grip Leads
Ideal for holding bottom in a flooded river or on a steep-sided shelf or gravel bar, these bobbly leads can have groundbait, pellets or paste moulded around them to add appeal to your hookbait. A hard-wearing brown/black flecked paint job helps to disguise them on the bottom. Available 1.1oz-2.5oz sizes.
Price: £1.35
Korum Grub Feeders
You're looking at what may be the single biggest step forward in the design of maggot feeders for 50 years.
This unique, inline model is hinged and opens up like a clamshell for filling, and then clicks shut.
It also features a flat, weighted base – an idea borrowed from commercial pool flat Method feeders – so, like them, it always lands correct-side-up, and is less likely to roll when cast on to a sloping bottom, or into fast flowing water.
The Grub Feeder comes complete with a Korum Quick Change Bead and is designed to be free-running on the reel line so, in the unfortunate event of a snap-off, a hooked fish can easily throw the feeder without danger of being tethered.
However, it can be semi-fixed by replacing the bead with a size 10 swivel, or by lightly nipping a size 6 split shot on the line just above the feeder. Like a traditional flat Method feeder, this produces a self-hooking bolt-rig effect.
Like flat Method feeders, Grub Feeders work best with very short hooklengths with around 7cm (3in) being perfect. The Quick Change Bead enables you to change looped hooklengths in seconds.
The feeders are available with 30g (1oz), 60g (2oz) and 90g (3oz) weightings.
River fishermen targeting chub that often pick up and shake maggot feeders will be delighted to hear that every Grub Feeder incorporates a moulded ‘V’-shaped peg on top of the feeder canopy. This is designed to grip your hooklength and allow natural or imitation buoyant maggots to be fished extremely short directly above it.
In tests on both rivers and commercial pools, the Grub Feeder performed well. It’s fast and easy to fill – providing you have a long thumbnail to open the slightly fiddly canopy. Only time will tell how effective this snap-shut locking mechanism will hold.
On several of occasions I reeled in (both with, and without a fish on the line) to find it had somehow sprung open – presumably on impact with the water, or as a result of a struggling fish. Reeling in the open clamshell causes extra drag and line spin.
The canopy is made from high impact plastic but I did manage to knock a 2cm chunk out of one when a mistimed cast bounced off a wooden stage on the opposite side of a small commercial pool.
RRP £1.99 EACH
