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Match Fishing

Bristol Angling Centre's Match Fishing Blog

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  1. Beginner Guide - What You need and How To Catch Your First Fish on a Float

    Beginner Guide - What You need and How To Catch Your First Fish on a Float

    Fishing can be a complicated sport for people new to the sport and beginners. There can be confusion on what gear you need and what gear is nice to have. Well if you are looking to get into coarse fishing and you don't know what you need to catch a fish, then this blog should help you catch your first...
  2. Preston, Avid and Korum - New Product Launch Summer 2022

    Preston, Avid and Korum - New Product Launch Summer 2022

    Preston Innovations are one on the leading tackle companies in match and coarse fishing. Founded in February, 1997, the company have been providing high quality product for anglers across the world, and still to this day, their products are unique to anglers and remain high quality. Preston have always offered a massive range of products, suited for many styles of...
  3. Korda, Guru, Mainline - Summer Launch - Korda Celebrate 30 Years in Buisness

    Korda, Guru, Mainline - Summer Launch - Korda Celebrate 30 Years in Buisness

    Korda have always been one of the leading maufacutures when it comes to carp fishing products. Focusing on releasing quality and well developed products, it is no surprise that they have earnt that reputation. Recently, Korda have just celebrated being in buisness for 30 years, a milestone for any company out there, this really shows Korda's success over the their...
  4. Rushmore League at Gold Valley Lake 06/01/2019 - Callum Dicks

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F99AyrGYXY8 "Well we're here today at Gold Valley. It's the first round of the Rushmore League, now the Rushmore leagues I really like fishing. There's a lot of money to be won and it's a team match as well, it's not only you trying to win a lot of money for the individual price but there's also a team prize...
  5. Number One Pole Choice For F1 Fishing With Callum Dicks

    Right guys, this is my setup. First of all, the pole i'm using is the Maver Signature Pro 800. Now this pole fufils my requirements perfectly. The best  best thing about it for me is how stiff it is, you can fish it at lengths of 14-16m and when you're getting little tiny bites from these F1s, it's really responsive...
  6. How To Shot A Pole Rig Correctly With Callum Dicks

    My shotting pattern in the last month has actually changed totally to what I used to do. I know these floats that I'm using today take eight no. 12 shot, and what I used to do is just string them out over a four inch gap in a very basic 'shirt button style', but I've actually changed totally what I'm doing now...
  7. Shotting Pole Rigs Correctly by Callum Dicks

    My top tip for this week is shotting rigs correctly. When approaching most modern day commericals, one of the biggest questions I have to ask myself is which bait is going to be best; maggots or pellets. But it's not quite as simple as that, you have to shot your rig correctly depending on what bait is going to be...
  8. Bristol Docks Evening Series

    Thursdays match saw the water levels down by about a foot on normal and with the coloured water currently in the docks, nobody was quite sure how it was going to fish. This was the first match of the year at Baltic Wharfe, in the past the fishing always starts the year slowly as its the most exposed part of...
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