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Five lessons Brad Wegner learnt that will transform your fishing!

Cold-water carping can be tough, but with a current personal best of 42lb 6oz, Dynamite Baits’ Tuck Hurley reckons there’s a lot you can do to swing the odds in your favour.

Our December issue is a real cracker – plenty to get your teeth into and, with a FREE A2 year planner included, it'll last you all year round!

Oz Holness explains how to set up a leadcore leader safely and the benefits of using this long-standing favourite of many anglers…

Frank Warwick shows his favourite anchor rig and how just a few small changes can create a big difference when it comes to rig mechanics.

In this month’s instalment, Ian talks to us about how he attacks a night carp fishing session and how you can do it safely and efficiently. After speaking with Deputy Editor Dan Murrell about this feature and our planned night time escapade I was immediately looking forward to a night on the bank, after all it is one of the major bonuses of being a carp angler, being able to use the often neglected hours of darkness to help up your catch rate and most of all expand your carp fishing experience. Dan wanted to know if my carping approach changed at all, the tactics, baits and techniques I apply in the day, do they still work at night or do I have to change my plan of attack. Well in a nutshell no, my rigs bait and tactics are to catch carp and this doesn’t change if the sun is bright in the sky or the moon is on the horizon, after all, do your feeding habits or senses change? Because from my experiences the carp certainly don't.

The early 1990s saw an explosion of big and somewhat unknown carp being publicised in the media for the very first time. One of those was The Royal Forty, a fish that grabbed the attention of anglers around the country for over 20 years.