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OF BOILIE FISHING!

EVERY LETTER OF THE ALPHABET CUNNINGLY REPRESENTED BY AN ITEM OR TACTIC. CLEVER, EH? BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY, IT’S BOILIE TIME – SO HERE’S HOW TO GET THE MOST OUT OF THIS AUTUMN!

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AUTUMN F:FISHMEALS Description: FEEDING Stand by to A: have the old Description: “It’s a delightful time of the year. school The leaves are turning brown, the conkers are concept of ‘no oils in falling and hatching and the winter’ there’s that fresh bite in shattered. the air,” confirms one Fishmeals these days are now prepared and weather nerd. To us it sold for all year round usage so get means just one thing: on them and stay on them. it’s boilie time! Cost: Around a tenner a kilo. Contact: Your local tackle shop. Cost: Nowt! Contact: For weather IN PURSUIT OF I:THE LARGEST forecasts, head to: Description: Boilie connoisseur, www.bbc.co.uk/weather Terry Hearn knows exactly the advantages of and describes *Picture courtesy of Damian Clarke those ‘plus points’ in his first, at Korda Developments. award-wining book. He even shows and talks how the famous DENTAL GREEDY ‘Hinged Stiff ’ works. D:FLOSS Purr-chase now. NB: His new Description: G:LOVE ’EM! Description: Simple maths here: book is out soon – yay! “If you’re how do you get a really fat kid? Cost: £21.95. gonna be Feed them loads. So person plus Contact: Bunter Hunter using pop- plenty of Big Mac burgers equals Publications Ltd on: ups, then a wobbler of a person. It’s the 01252 373658. tie them same with carp – they only on,” one of get mahoosive by eating – and our ‘big BARRELS by eating boilies – so give experts’ told us. Boilies just go B: ’em boilies! Description: At a time of year hand-in-hand with the likes of the Cost: Mass buy your bait. when the fish are just hungry, any and Tel’s Stiff Hinged Rig Contact: The Bait & Feed Company shape will do, but look at some of – both of which you need to tie on: 01920 438338. the facts. Boilies: used through the the baits on with. year, come in three regular sizes Cost: £2.99. (10, 15 and 18mm), and usually Contact: ESP on: 01865 748989. fished as ‘50 baits around each rod’. Result: The carp can get wary, so use barrels. Cost: £11.99(ish). Contact: www.tacklebox.co.uk C:CATAPULT Description: For up to 40 JUST LOOK AT (or if you’ve EASY J:THE BIG FISH got a real E:FISHING ANGLER’S Description: Your hookbait should HOOKERS RESULTS! match the size of your hook, which H:POP-UPS Description: Gaze through any makes fishing ‘bits’, such as corn, Description: If you’re looking for issue of CARPology and you’ll industrial jobby and trimmed down boiled food and half performance pop-ups that look see that most of our resident strong arms), maybe a growler (tiger nut), sooo much dead right and weigh as much as ‘big fish anglers’ have something 50yds you can bait up with ease. harder. With boilies you can get a Malteser, Surrey-based pop-up in common – boilies! Regan, One of the real beauts of boilie away with bigger hooks, bait up techs are what you want. “They’re Taylor, McAllister, Davey, Slowen. fishing is being able to bait up easier and, fingers crossed, catch all rolled with corkballs – and have Join their team and become without any hassle. Bombs away! some of the bigger residents… a nice, hard outer-coating,” says the ‘big fish angler’ of our Cost: From a tenner up to a Cost: Nothing more than you’d Lee Laggan. As used by Hearn, community. score (£20). pay already! Sharp and Read. Cost: £3.25 for CARPology Contact: Fox International Contact: CEMEX Angling for big Cost: £8.99 a tub. each month. on: 0208 501 0921. fish waters: 01932 583 630. Contact: Hookers on: 07890 796506. Contact: www.carpology.net

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A-Z Of Boilie Fishing! KORDA BOILIE K:FUNNEL WEB Description: Based in Essex and famous for their QUICK Underwater DVD’s and PVA funnel web systems, the Q:AND EASY Korda clever clogs reformatted the original design and Description: Guaranteed to make your fishing a lot easier. You can came up with this. Used nowadays mostly for the bait up quicker, re-bait quicker ‘Dynamite Stick’, but not used so much for it’s real and catch more quicker. “This is purpose – boilies. Place three in the tube and then dead easy fishing. Wang a load of boilies out and that’s it. Beats attach one to the Hair. It works a treat. all that spodding malarkey,” Cost: £10.99. Angus announced during our Contact: Korda on: 01708 749775. stay in France. Cost: Nowt! Contact: There isn’t one!

OIL O:’EM UP! Description: The last word on extra attraction. There’s two ways ROCKET! of doing this. “Just before you’re R: Description: When we say ‘Rocket’ about to freeze your bait, pour in we actually mean ‘Boilie Rocket’. LICK AND MIXED some liquid, reseal the bag and Thanks to Wychwood we can now place back in the freezer. The L:STICK! M:SIZES deliver boiled food up to 120yrds Description: Round boilies and Description: Don’t bait will now take on the liquid out into the pond. “Durable body barrels for fine heavy-hungry- confuse yourself, better,” Mr. Knight at Mainline with flexi fins, super float foam waters and canals, but if you fish a but the carp. Get Baits told us. Otherwise, give nose and brilliant aerodynamic pressured pond, then you need a selection of ’em a good dose before you design are the key elements,” this: Crack a boilie in half, lick different sized leave to go angling. Mr. Garner told us. The editors both sides and then place back baits – 10, 12, 15, 18, Cost: Around a fiver. favourite too. together. Catapult out and on 20, 22, 24 (you pick which Contact: Your tackle shop! Cost: £6.99. impact the two halves will split. ones) and fire them in. It Contact: Wychwood on: Repeat numerous times and you’ll means the carp will have 01527 587 428. be left with a bed of half baits on to suck at different levels the deck. Ace! and best of all, it means you can Cost: Nowt! use a bigger bait and hook. Contact: Issue 8 of CARPology for Outcome: better hook holds. more in-depth details. Cost: A couple of extra kilos, so around £20. Contact: Whatever bait firm you use.

*Picture courtesy of Richworth Baits. www.richworth.com NIGEL SHARP N:BOILIES Description: Whether it’s the mix of milk proteins, birdfoods and fishmeals, or that ‘one key liquid attractor’ we’re unsure, but whatever it is, this bait works STRINGERS bloody damn well. It even caught POUCH S: The Burghfield Common for Li’l P: Description: A three-bait stringer Nige – which hadn’t been out for Description: It may sound silly, is ideal, or if you wanna go old over four years… but B-Geeesus does this make the school Paisley stylee, then make up Cost: £10.99 whole ‘baiting up’ process a two or three bait stringers. a kilo. helluva lot easier. We recommend Because the fish will be ‘grazing’, Contact: ESP’s Boilie Pouch, which even the hookbait/stringer partnership Bait-Tech comes with a catty pult holder. goes hand-in-hand. Now cue: ‘W’. on: 01473 Cost: £7.50. Cost: Korda Kwik-Melt Tape, £3.99. 241811. Contact: ESP on: 01865 748989. Contact: Korda on: 01708 749775.

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A-Z Of Boilie Fishing! THROWING T:STICK Description: The most advanced throwing stick ever, has a ultra-lightweight body to create minimum air resistance, and XPANDA phenomenal velocity and spin speed UNDERRATED X:BOILIE U:APPROACH BUCKET achieved with flexing carbon arms. Description: What do you use? Description: Fresh is always best, It’s easy to load and takes single Hemp, pellets, corn, a few boilies… so keep them fresh is what we say. or multiple baits from 20-26mm Forget all about that and use just Nashy’s Xpanda Boilie Bucket is a boilies. Like we keep harping on reliable and fresh way to carry without the sleeve and 12-20mm about – and Li’l Nige does too – a boiled food. It’s clever too: as like with the sleeve. Solar’s bed of bog standard boilies just the name suggests, it can be greatest creation yet. doesn’t seem to get used much expanded and compressed as to nowadays, so get on them. how much bait you want to carry. Cost: £44.99. Cost: Nowt! Cost: £17.99. Contact: Contact: Haven’t got one! Contact: Nash Tackle on: Solar Tackle on: 01702 233232. 01689 826632.

YOU DON’T Y:NEED LOADSA OTHER CACK! Description: Because you’re just using boilies, you don’t need to VERSATILE carry loadsa other cack – dare we V: say it, but pellets, hemp and a Description: However… if the range of multi-coloured pop-ups. thought of just putting out 100 or “Go for the simple, clean approach so boilies isn’t quite cricket to and you’ll nail ’em,” was Rob Bell’s you, crush some, blend some, and closing comment. halve some and add them to your Cost: You’ll save money! spod mix. In six words, ‘the boilie Contact: You don’t need one – is a versatile product’. just do it! Cost: Nowt! *Picture courtesy of Dynamite Baits. Contact: Ditto! www.dynamite-baits.com

WIDE W:BAITING Description: Another real Brucy ZILLIONS OF Bonus with boilies is that you don’t Z:CARP FALL need to bait up real tight – in fact, TO ’EM! we vote you really spread the bait Description: Look through the about. The key to boilie fishing is weeklies, look through the to get the fish grazing – picking up monthlies, look on the web and one boilie and then moving on to you’ll discover zillions – maybe the next one. Get the ’pult or stick gazillions of carp have fallen to and cover the swim! them. Whatta you waiting for? Cost: Nowt! Tackle shop – boilies – pond – NOW! Contact: CARPology back issues 14 Cost: Nowt! and 15 at: www.carpology.net. Contact: Ditto, ditto, ditto!

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