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• Angling Times — A beginners guide to tench fishing
  Float and feeder line strengths; general tench tackle guidance.
• Angling Times — How to tie a maggot feeder rig for tench
  Short hooklength and size 12–14 hook guidance for maggot feeder tench.
• Angling Times — How to catch tench from weedy lakes
  Strong Method-feeder tench setup for weedy water.
• Angling Times — How to Catch Your First Bream
  Beginner running-feeder bream setup.
• Angling Times — Catch more skimmers and bream on the waggler
  4 lb mainline, 0.12 mm hooklength and size 14 hook example for bream/skimmers.
• Angling Times — How to rig up a method feeder
  Modern Method-feeder fundamentals, short hooklength and free-running setup.
• Angling Times — Hybrid vs Method: which is better?
  8 lb mainline and 0.17 mm / size 14–16 Method hooklength example.
• Angling Times — The best hook patterns for commercials
  Commercial hook and hooklength ranges for pole, Method and pellet waggler.
• Angling Times — How to catch big carp on the pole
  Heavy pole rig for large commercial carp.
• Angling Times — Catch more margin fish in spring
  Commercial margin line, hooklength and hook sizing.
• Angling Times — Improve your pellet waggler fishing
  Modern pellet-waggler tactics and tackle considerations.
• Angling Times — How to fish a waggler to an island for carp
  5 lb mainline example for light commercial carp waggler work.
• Angling Times — How to catch F1s shallow
  0.17 mm mainline, 0.13 mm hooklength and size 16 hook example.
• Angling Times — How to make the barbel pellet feeder rig
  10–12 lb mainline, 6–10 lb hooklink, size 8–12 hook.
• Angling Times — The only barbel rigs you’ll ever need!
  Barbel lead/feeder and stillwater pole tackle ranges.
• Angling Times — How to float fish fast rivers for chub and barbel
  6 lb mainline, 0.18 mm hooklength and size 12–14 hook for stronger river float fishing.
• Angling Times — Tips for winter chub fishing success
  6 lb mainline link-leger starting point.
• Angling Times — How to tie the adjustable link leger rig
  Size 12 hook with 0.16 mm hooklength and 0.20 mm mainline example.
• Angling Times — How to fish a waggler for chub
  5 lb mainline, 0.18 mm fluorocarbon hooklength and size 12–14 hook.
• Angling Times — How to catch winter roach on the pole
  0.15 mm mainline, 0.10 mm hooklength and size 16 hook example.
• Angling Active — Roach Feeder Fishing
  4–6 lb mainline and size 16 hook for a simple running feeder rig.
• Angling Times — Bread feeder rig for big river roach
  4–5 lb hooklength, size 12–14 hook and short river bread-feeder rig.
• Angling Times — How to fish the waggler on commercials
  3 lb hooklength and size 18 hook example for commercial silverfish.
• Angling Times — Awesome silverfish feeder rigs
  5 lb mainline and short helicopter hooklength for silverfish feeders.
• Angling Active — Perch Float Rig
  5 lb mainline, 4 lb hooklength and size 10 hook for float-fished worm.
• Angling Times — Prawn rig for big perch
  Size 8–10 hook with around 6 lb mono hooklink for a low-resistance leger.
• Angling Times — How to tie a stickfloat rig
  2–3 lb floating mainline and fine-wire hooks for roach/dace/chub trotting.
• Canal & River Trust — Dace | Fish species
  Light float tactics and size 20 hook guidance for dace.
• Fisheries.co.uk — Species spotlight - fishing for Rudd
  Fine float fishing and size 12–20 hook range depending on bait.
• Angling Times — 10 Expert Tips for Catching Big Stillwater Rudd
  Modern stillwater rudd tactics including buoyant-bait feeder presentation.
• Fisheries.co.uk — It’s time to catch a Crucian
  Sensitive float presentation and size 16–18 wide-gape hook guidance.
• GOV.UK — Freshwater rod fishing rules: When and where you can fish
  Current England/Wales close-season overview.
• GOV.UK — Freshwater rod fishing rules: Tackle you can use
  Current national tackle rules including lead-weight restrictions.
• GOV.UK — Buy a rod fishing licence
  Rod licence requirements for England and Wales.