Stalking in the


margin..On hot sunny days, it is natural for carp to seek the shade of overhanging trees. Margins also provide a much greater variety and wealth of natural food that can preoccupy carp and hold them there in numbers. Close up and personal, eyeball to eyeball with a big carp is heart stopping!


It is more likely that you have limited


options - as is the current trend in modern day carp angling - and you have only a selection of particles/boilies and nothing else, with no other options open to you but to fish as the huge majority do. I find it quite astounding that the popular and much bandied phrase ‘be different’ is actually nothing but hollow words in reality. All you need to do is take a look around any venue and you can be pretty sure that around 95% of the anglers fishing there are doing 95% the same thing - 3-4oz lead, 6-8” hooklink, boilies and pellet/particle - essentially, almost every angler will be set up to fish in


Variable Zig-Rig fishing..In the context of this article, it should be apparent why variable zig-rigs are, or should be an important part of every angler’s tactical armoury. Be proactive and hunt for them at various depths in the water column!


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