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.

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Avid buckets and stands

Taking the backache out of baiting, Avid Carp’s square bucket stand in 10-litre or 17-litre sizes sits at waist height, perfect for spodding out free offerings.

It features a dedicated foam rod rest, as many baiting tools require you to put your rod down while loading up with bait. The frame will fit all Avid Carp square buckets, and many other popular makes.

Bucket stand: £29.99

Buckets: 10-litre £6.99, 17-litre £7.99

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Guru Bait Boxes

These simple but effective Guru orange and black-liveried bait boxes come in three sizes. The 3.3 pint and 2.2 pint versions both have a perforated lid, while the one-pint box comes with a lid choice of solid or perforated.

This box ensures match anglers won’t fall foul of strict bait limits, as it holds precisely one pint.

Over-moulded lids prevent warping, and stacking points in lids and bases are a space-saving boon.

Price: £1.99 (one-pint), £2.50 (2.2- pint), £2.99 (3.3-pint)

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Korda Stow Indicators

Price: Stow heads £6.99

Complete bobbin set: £19.99

Korda has released the second generation of Stow Indicators. The new bobbins stay faithful to the original straight Stix Elstow design, but with an upgraded line clip and a much improved full-colour, translucent, light-refractive body.

The side-mounted clip now features an internal spring to hold the line in position positively without any risk of damaging it.

Offering highly sensitive visual indication, this indicator is great for margin or distance fishing with both slack and tight lines.

To get the best from the system, the indicator must drop from the line when you get a run – this is controlled by the length of chain extension between indicator and bite alarm.

The complete bobbin pack includes two different lengths of chain extension, which locate with magnets into the Stow Stix. As a rough guide, Delkims and alarms of this size are best suited to the short  extension, while smaller alarms like Nevilles and ATTs are ideal for use with the long extension.

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Ringer Pellet Bander

The entrepreneurial Phil Ringer has added yet another super little product to his concise but very handy tackle portfolio. The latest gadget is this non-sinking pellet banding device in yellow – not easy to lose on the bank. It features a sturdy, reliable non-elasticated arm, and small recessed areas on the end of each prong make it much easier and quicker to open up a bait-band.

Price: £5.99


JRC Skyliner Throwing Stick

When carbon throwing sticks first came on to the market they carried hefty price tags. This offering from JRC isn’t a cheap tool, but it offers great value for money.

The lightness of the carbon means you can repeatedly fire out boilies without fear of fatigue.

The computer-designed curve provides the science, and in tests we found this stick capable of impressive distance and accuracy.

The Skyliner takes all boilies up to 22m diameter.

Price: £39.99


Fox Impact Spod

This is the world exclusive first look at Fox’s new Impact Spod. Designed to fly, straighter, further and more accurately than any other bait feed device, it will surely be a huge hit with specimen anglers.

Having looked at the bait delivery devices currently available on the market, the product design team at Fox believed that there was still room for further development for a product that could perform in a different way.

“This new spod is a really exciting development,” said Lewis Porter, Fox Group Media Manager.

“Watching the birth of the new product over the past two years – with secrecy paramount at all times – has been difficult but hugely rewarding,” he added.

“Most of my fishing is done using boilies, and I’ve found during testing that the Impact Spod gives me a far better spread of baits around the swim than any other delivery method.

“Because the spod enters the water at a slight angle, all you need to do is flick your wrist to fire the bait out of the spod and distribute the boilies over a wider area of your swim. That means you don’t have to use as many boilies, saving you money in the long-term.
“The spod also creates a much better feeding pattern.”

Following a two-year research and development programme, and countless hours of field-testing, the Fox Impact Spod was born.

Sold under licence from Spomb Fishing Ltd, the Impact Spod boasts unique features that set it apart from other bait delivery devices. 

Features such as the ‘scoop’ body shape allow for rapid, single-handed loading. This unique body and lid design not only enables you to fill the device very quickly, but it also makes for highly efficient loading, resulting in a ‘one scoop’ operation that fills the entire inner compartment!

The spod’s ‘complete fill’ enables you to put your bait out as quickly as possible, and additionally allows for an even weight distribution. This makes it very stable in flight.

Another benefit of the scoop design, in addition to the easy loading, is that it enables a tapered bait release should you wish to create a wider spread of free offerings, as opposed to tightly grouped patches. This  feature can be handy when fishing a boilie-only approach or ‘big hit’ fishing with multiple rods on one large baited area.

The small sized spod holds a payload of 30-35 15mm boilies, while the large size holds 55-60 15mm baits.Price: Large £12.99, Small £10.99Filling the spod
The way the spod is filled is integral to the way it works. When the spod is full, it is completely stable in flight.

The spod has an optimum weight distribution, so the bait doesn’t plunge down to the nose end and make it top heavy. Instead the spod flies straight and true, with a casting distance of more than 200 yards achieved in field trials.

Some of the Impact Spod’s features:
Scoop design allows for rapid single-handed loading
- Efficient filling shape for a ‘complete fill’
- Aerodynamically tuned for optimum casting performance for accurate baiting at extreme long range
- Spring mechanism is encapsulated to prevent bait from being able to interfere with it
- Intrinsically buoyant – in the event of a crack-off it will float and drift into the margins
- Robust, damage-preventing design
- Top quality, anti-rust stainless steel components
- Size 7 swivel moulded into top of flights for attaching to mainline
- Unique shape allows for a wider spread of bait, should you wish to achieve this










Trakker Boilie Air Caddy

This clever product that is an air dry bag and bait caddy rolled in to one.

The rubberised mesh main air caddy allows bait to dry efficiently and the zipped lid has been designed to fall away from the body, allowing easy access when baiting up.

The Air Caddy will hold approximately 5kg of boilies and also includes an elasticated external catapult retainer and a Nyplax waist protector to stop moisture escaping.

RRP: £16.99


Matrix Bait Alignas

These bait bands are taken from the big-carp world, but made smaller for the match, pleasure and specialist angler.  To use one of these unique transparent bands you simply slide it up the line with the mini-kicker pointing upwards, then tie on your hook and slide the band down so that it sits just over the eye or spade of the hook, facing away from the shank. I rather fancy these will be the thing to use with pieces of rolled-up bread this coming winter. Ten per pack.

Price: £3.49


Gardner Square Camo Buckets

Decent fishing buckets will last you a lifetime and will come in handy in a variety of situations.

These new offerings from Gardner are in three sizes and, thanks to their shape, are easily stacked and stored. This is a particular boon when trying to load and balance a barrow.

They’re hardwearing and come dressed in camo. What more could you ask for?

RRP 5L – £4.99, 10L – £6.99, 17L – £8.99


Fox Rangemaster 20 Carbon Throwing Stick

If you’re used to a plastic or metal throwing stick you’ll immediately notice how light the Rangemaster 20 Carbon Throwing Stick is when you pick it up.

This lightweight design makes sticking out baits an effortless task and allows you to put out a large bed of bait without suffering severe arm-ache.

One of the stick’s unique features is the loading port positioned just above the handle – a first on a carbon throwing stick, we believe.

This makes it easier and faster to load the stick which allows the user to maintain a much more consistent rhythm when putting a quantity of bait out. It also means you can keep your eyes focused on the area you want the boilies to land.

The oval-profiled handle prevents the stick twisting in your hand and ensures your stick stays perfectly straight which greatly aids accuracy, ensuring no bait is wasted.

The R20 is a tad heavier than the other carbon sticks on the market but this is only because the team at Fox wanted it to last and didn’t want to reduce the wall thickness.

In the right hands, and with a good technique, the stick is capable of putting a boilie in excess of 160 yards.

RRP £79.99