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02 nd May 2018
Dave Coster's Fishing Diary - April 2018
April started much like the rest of the year has been so far, cold and miserable. My mate Andy was in town, so we decided to have a session on sheltered Lake One at Priory Fishery. There wasn’t anyone else mad enough to be out on the bank, giving
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31 st March 2018
Dave Coster's - How To Anchor Loaded Wagglers
There are a lot of fully loaded floats these days, particularly pellet waggler designs. If you are new to this concept, you might wonder how to attach these types of floats to your main line without being able to use large locking shot? There are in
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05 th March 2018
Dave Coster's Fishing Diary - February
January’s bad weather spilled over into February, so it was quite a time before I got out on the bank again. Many lakes had frozen over and local rivers were up and coloured. I kept an eye on my local stretches of the Upper Witham, and eventually
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02 nd March 2018
Dave Coster How To - Use A Method Feeder Mould
Method feeder moulds are brilliant inventions, making loading flatbed feeders an easy job, and allowing hook baits to be presented in different ways. One of the most popular techniques is to drop the hook bait into the mould first, in this case a
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05 th February 2018
Dave Coster - January Fishing Diary
The first three weeks of January were tough going. A string of storms blew in from the Atlantic, combined with bitterly cold temperatures. River levels were all over the place, so I thought my best bet would be to concentrate on a deep stillwater,
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30 th January 2018
Dave Coster How To - Tie A Pole Rig
There are many types of pole rigs and some are quite complicated, which perhaps puts some anglers off making their own. However, many of the rigs I use are relatively simple and yet surprisingly versatile. Here’s how I put them together…STEP 1The
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05 th January 2018
Dave Coster's Fishing Diary - December
I had a photo shoot planned with Angler’s Mail the first week of December, so the day before I went for a practise session on a local lake. It was pretty cold, the water looked very clear, so I wasn’t over-confident. I decided to fish the long
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28 th December 2017
Dave's How To - Keep Catching In The Cold
It can be hard to get motivated when you have to scrape frost or snow off the car first thing, but cold weather fishing doesn’t necessarily have to be an uncomfortable or disappointing experience. First of all, it helps to have some decent warm
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30 th November 2017
Dave Coster's Fishing Diary - November
After catching a decent perch on my first trip to the River Glen in October, I decided to go back, better armed this time with some lobworms. The plan was to feed chopped worm and caster on two pole lines: one down the middle and one close to the far
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29 th November 2017
Dave's How To - Make It Happen With Caster
Casters really come into their own after the first heavy frosts and make a very effective alternative to pellets, on both still and running water. Fish are less inclined to feed so keenly on man-made pellets when cold weather slows their metabolism
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