Preston Innovations Leger Weights
Preston has released several new additions to its leger weight range. The Flat Pear is ideal for fishing marginal slopes, as well as rivers, while the Distance Bomb has the classic streamlined ‘Arlesey’ shape to optimise casting distance. Finally, the Match Cube is great for casting tight to islands.
Sizes 15g, 20g, 30g and 45g.
Price: £1.99 per pack
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
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
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.
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 AS5 pole floats
The versatile AS5 Pencil, latest in the Alan Scotthorne Signature range of pole floats, offering little resistance to shy-biting fish.
The AS5 can be used with practically any hookbait as its slim profile cuts through the water cleanly on the strike. A top-grade balsa body is protected by an acrylic shell.
The carbon stem is bonded into the body, while a 1.5mm hollow Glow Tip is reinforced with a fibreglass spigot. The blackened stainless steel spring eye is double wound to avoid line becoming trapped or pinched. In eight sizes from 0.1g up to 1g.
Drennan Non-Slip Specialist Crook Rest
This Specialist Crook Rest is made from a non-slip rubberised material and one side is higher than the other, which helps to hold the rod securely in place against strong currents and winds.
This style lends itself well to Method feeder tactics, as the rod-tip can be pulled around without being displaced. Always strike up and away from the raised side.
Smooth contours and an extra-deep slot stop the line being trapped, and for touch legering the line runs freely through it. In black or green.
Drennan Specialist Wing rest
The traditional wing rod rest head is an angling classic, secure and trouble-free. This new
screw-in Drennan version, made from a non-slip polymer material, has smooth contours and an extra-deep slots that greatly
reduces the likelihood of the line getting accidentally trapped. The free-flow slot makes this rest ideal for touch legering or use with butt fitted indicators. In black or green.
Tronix Rockfish HTO Ultrabraid
THIS four-strand braid is highly resistant to abrasion, ideal for fishing by man-made structures. Its zero stretch factor and super-thin breaking strain to diameter ratio mean that you will feel every knock.
Price: £10 per 100m spool
Daiwa Tournament ready-tied drop-shot rigs
These two pre-tied rigs will appeal to the lure angler who likes a convenient life.
Made using Daiwa’s unique SaqSas lure hooks, there is a Wide Offset Rig that looks ideal for larger lures and features a clever moveable hook system that allows the depth to be adjusted without damaging the rig line. There is also a brilliantly pre-tied Fixed Drop-Shot Rig that looks ideal for all smaller soft baits and jigs. Two rigs per pack.
Nash Hookbait Balancing Foam Sticks
Price: £2.99
New Nash Hookbait Balancing Foam Sticks will add sight tips to boilies and pop-ups, balance nuts and particle baits, and form zig baits.
They come in 5mm and 7mm widths, are easy to trim down, and are available in red, orange, yellow, black, white, brown and beige. You get five 45mm lengths per pack.
Gardner Target Specimen Hooks
Gardner’s latest Target Specimen hooks have a covert camo finish, a beaked point and an inturned eye, perfect for a variety of baits and rigs.
Forged from high-carbon wire, they also feature a non-reversed bend which lines up the hookpoint with the shank, helping with penetration. It comes in sizes 10, 12, 14 and 16, in barbed or barbless versions, and a size 12 is said to be the ideal zig hook.
Price: £4.29
Guru Speed Stems
Price: £2.99
Due for release next week as a part of its X-Safe inline elastication system are Guru Speed Stems.
Fitted with Speed Beads, they allow rapid changes of hooklength, and there’s also a rotating swivel that allows the hooklink and bait to behave more naturally.
Speed Stems, in short and long versions, are fitted with either heavy black or light white elastic.
MAP Pole Cups
THE attachment for these MAP cups is universal, fitting all other pole brands.
Each set comprises two different cup sizes for different baiting scenarios.
In tough ABS plastic, the wall thickness has been increased for added strength and a reinforced brass thread ensures no corrosion or annoying cup twist.
Price: £3.99