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Author: Amanda Hook
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12 th October 2025
Autumn Carp Fishing On An Embryo Water - Back to My Roots - Amanda's Angling
Carp were the only species I fished for in my first year of angling. I was mostly catching smaller ones but I was lucky enough to land a 30 pounder in that first year. That capture even won me a ticket on a syndicate lake, and ever since then, I have
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17 th August 2025
Summer Chub Fishing - Freelining Bread - Amanda's Angling
Along the river has quickly become one of my favourite places to fish. It all started during a pike session with Phil Spinks, when I accidentally caught a chub on a deadbait. That surprise fish started a passion, and since then, I’ve been hooked on
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19 th May 2025
ADTV Amandas Angling - Gravel Pit Tench Fishing
Welcome to the premiere episode of Amanda’s Angling, a brand-new ADTV series where I step out from behind the camera and onto the bank! For those of you who don’t know, I’ve spent the last few years filming some of the best anglers around,
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31 st August 2024
Shrink Tube Hack!
This tip is a great hack when fishing with shrink tube and a must know for you mobile anglers, who want to keep light on their feet and not carry a huge amount of gear with you. This involves using the Nash Shrinker Tool, but how does it work? Well
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27 th August 2024
Make Your Boilies Look Safe To Wary Carp!
On pressured carp venues, there can be no better way of preparing your bait then soaking your boilies 24 hours before your session in a bucket of water. Doing this will do two things, firstly it will make the bait go super soft and easily digestible
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23 rd August 2024
Eliminate Slack Line When Surface Fishing!
This one is for when carp fishing on floaters off the surface and all it is to smear Vaseline or pole float bristle grease all the way down your hook link just a little bit between your fingers and just above the float as well. This will aid buoyancy
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19 th August 2024
Keep Your Hookbaits Perfectly Presented On Hair Rigs!
This fishing hack is for when I’m using boilie rigs like a snowman rig. So I’ve got a boilie and a pop up on the hair and all I’m doing is using a float stop just underneath the boilie. This float stop keeps then nice, neat and together instead
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15 th August 2024
Use PVA Bag Stems!
Although, PVA Bag Stems are widely used by a lot of anglers in the carp fishing world, to me these are an absolute essential in my solid PVA bag fishing. As they allow me to pre -tie loads of PVA Bags ready before a session, basically as many stems,
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11 th August 2024
Fool Big Wise Carp When Surface Fishing!
This fishing hack is for those carp fishing on the surface that want to fool them big wise carp that have seen it all! So instead of using a hair stop, use a little split shot and then add little by little small chunks of tungsten putty until
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07 th August 2024
Tie An Extra Loop Onto Your Spod/Spomb
This one is really simple but makes life on the bank so much easier. All it it that when you tie your overhand loop not for your spod/spomb is to just tie another one at the end. All this does is give you a little tag where you can take your spod/
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