Korda Zig Float Kit
Adjustable zigs are an incredibly effective way of fishing this method as they allow you to vary the depth that they are set at without the need to recast, and when fishing them a long way off of the bottom they make it far easier to land a fish, and cast out, than with a traditional zig.
The Zig Kit includes everything that you need to set up the perfect adjustable zig and to fish it in an effective and tangle-free way.
The precision, blow-moulded inline float features a soft rubber insert which holds a size 11 QC Swivel, and it also comes with an anti-tangle sleeve supplied – this allows you to ensure that your hook link isn’t twisted at all before you cast out, and this is essential to ensure that it works properly once it is in the water.
The Zig Kit also comes supplied with a stem to attach your lead to and which allows the float to easily be popped up and adjusted as desired.
The stem is constructed features a large ring to allow your main line to run through it freely and a foam polyball to keep this ring clear of any debris on the bottom, and at the other end of it is a ball bearing swivel with a Kwik Link, which allows rapid rotation and helps prevent tangles.
All you need to add is a hook length and bait, and a piece of dissolvable foam, and you’re ready to cast out!
Two different sizes are available – medium and large – so that the Zig Kit can be used at any range.
Each kit contains a Zig Float, Anti Tangle Sleeve, Size 11 QC Swivel and lead boom.Key features
For fishing adjustable zigs
Tangle-free
Precision, blow-moulded
Includes sleeve and QC swivel
Korda Hybrid Lead Clips
Since its release, the Hybrid Lead Clip has established itself as the best clip on the market. It has one very simple purpose, and that's to help you ditch the lead if the fish you hook becomes snagged.
The design features an integrally moulded Ring Swivel, ensuring that the swivel simply cannot pull free from its housing.
This forces lead ejection in the event of it becoming jammed, meaning that carp can be landed easily in weedy, snaggy conditions.
The streamlined, one-piece design means there are no fiddly locking pegs or hinges to worry about - just connect the leader to one end and the rig to the other!
The uprated arm allows leads up to 5oz to be cast safely even at extreme range and the clip is available in all four of the key Safe Zone colours: weedy green, clay, gravel and silt. You get eight in a pack.Key features
Ejects the lead if it becomes snagged
Swivel built into the housing
One piece design
Different colours available
ESP Syncro XT Loaded
The XT of Syncro literally stands for extra tough, indicating that this exceptional monofilament is highly abrasion resistant and durable.
Following its launch in 2011, the original ESP Syncro XT mono has grown to become one of the most widely used and well respected top end mainlines available.
And with very good reason, it ticks all the boxes regarding what's required from a top performing carp mono: unbeatable knot strength, optimum stretch, superb abrasion resistance without being wiry and this relative suppleness makes it a front-runner when it comes to distance casting.
Over the intervening period since the initial launch, we have carried on testing various different mono samples and have yet to find anything better than Syncro, which combined all the attributes required. However, during this testing process, we explored different colours having been asked by some of our sponsored anglers for a darker olive green.
So Syncro XT Loaded was born and the anglers that tested it for ESP have been completely sold on it.
Upon casting out it sinks through the surface film virtually unaided until it just hangs from the rod tips.
And if a slack line approach is required it stays that way, lying tight to the bottom to the extent that you can feel it peeling up off the lake bed when winding in.
The dark olive pigment disappears against any lake bed and is actually very difficult to see when suspended off the rod tips, even in tap clear water.
Regarding knot strength, just like the original Syncro XT, the new Loaded is underrated and the following knot strengths can be achieved using a carefully tied five turn grinner.
Although Syncro XT Loaded is limp straight off the spool we recommend soaking it overnight so that it absorbs water and becomes even suppler as it is loaded onto the reel spool.
Features:
1000m per spool
Slick surface
Excellent abrasion resistance
Quick sinking
Optimum stretch
Durable
Extra-tough
High performance
Thinking Anglers Curve Point Hooks
The Curve Point hook pattern combines a super sharp curved hook point and in-turned eye and is also finished in our super slippery PTFE coating.
The hook pattern wants to bury itself quickly thanks to the angle of pull naturally created by combining the in-turned eye and super-sharp swept hook point.
This is enhanced by the slick PTFE coating and the point’s long tapered profile.
As soon as the fish is pricked the hook is embedding itself more and more securely, ensuring more pick-ups are translated into fish in the net.
The durable swept point is perfectly suited to fishing over rock hard gravel areas where the critical sharpness of the point could be compromised when feeding carp disrupt the area where the rig is laying.
Forged from a strong heavy gauge wire, the Curve Point is the classic pattern for boilie and particle fishing hard on the deck.
The pattern is truly versatile and has proven to be the perfect pattern to use in combination with the phenomenal Noodle rig.
Key features/specifications:
PTFE Coating for optimum penetration.
Strong double tempered heavy gauge high carbon steel.
Long, tapered swept hook point.
18° in-turned eye.
Drennan Loaded Giant Crystal (brown)
New and improved for 2016, Drennan Loaded Giant Crystals are similar to Loaded Insert Crystals but have an increased body diameter and perfectly proportioned insert.
The 5.75mm body is matched with an interchangeable 3.2mm insert for extra sensitivity and bite detection.
The tips are further enhanced with our latest ultra-bright Glow Tip paint finish that maximises visibility in all light conditions.
The green-tinted transparent Crystal body ensures the float is more discreet in clear water.
These floats also feature a removable base weight that can conveniently interchange between floats if required.
These floats are designed to be attached via the base eye or with a Float Attachment. Being loaded allows you to use rubber float stops or much smaller locking shot to fix the float in position.
Seven sizes from 1g right up to 4g enables these floats to cover close-range and distance work on both rivers and stillwaters.
Loaded waggler
5.75mm body
3.2mm insert
Tinted Crystal body
Highly buoyant
Ultra tough construction
Extra bright Glow Tips
Red, orange or yellow tips
Interchangeable tips
Interchangeable base weights
Engineered and built in Drennan’s own factories
Gardner Covert Dark Mugga Hooks
The legendary Mugga hook pattern has been pivotal in the capture of countless big carp. The latest Covert Dark Mugga hooks have been given a facelift with several key improvements that make them even better!
Firstly, we have totally re-specified the shape and length of the Mugga’s point so they are longer and much sharper than before. The new long tapered points are a massive step up and ensure the hook pricks and penetrates even quicker.
Next, we have swapped over to the new stripped down Covert Dark plating.
This new finish still offers excellent camouflage thanks to the matt finish, and also ensures that we keep the sharpest possible point on the hook as it is a single electroplated finish and the reduction in handling during the finishing process means the points remain immaculate and razor sharp.
We’ve also upgraded to a micro barb on all the new Covert Dark Hooks. This offers two major benefits.
Firstly, many commercial fisheries require anglers to use patterns with small barbs as it is kinder to the fish’s mouth, and secondly micro barbed hooks are stronger as less wire is cut out to form the barb.
This combined with the longer chemically etched point has made the Covert Dark Mugga a truly awesome hook.
If you look at the design of the Mugga it’s not hard to see why it offers unrivalled hooking potential when used with a variety of hooklink materials.
The aggressive hooking action and strong hook holds that the pattern gives are due to a combination of key features working perfectly together.
The combination of a sweeping, slightly curve shank and a 25° in-turned eye cause the hook to flip as soon as the hooklink tightens or the hook eye reaches the edge of fish’s lip.
This unique action means that the hook will take hold firmly in the corner of the mouth or in the bottom lip without having to add shrink tube to improve a less effective ‘similar’ pattern.
After this the orientation between the hook eye and the super sharp straight point creates the best possible angle to aid the hook penetrating quickly and securely. Simply, this means you will land more fish.
Covert Dark Mugga hooks are constructed using a forged, high carbon wire that has been double tempered to ensure they are amazingly strong relative to the wire gauge.*Heavier gauge ‘Continental Mugga’ hooks are available for anglers that need the strongest possible Mugga hooks.
Gardner Covert Dark Mugga hooks feature:
COVERT DARK matt finish.
Longer, sharper chemically etched straight point.
Short curved shank and 25˚ in-turned.
Manufactured from forged, double tempered, high carbon steel wire for strength.
Barbed or Barbless.
Supplied as 10 hooks per packet.
Korda Mini Heli-Safe
The Mini Heli-Safe is a scaled down, compact version of the original and retains all of the features that helped to make it such a huge success… plus a few more.
It still works in exactly the same way, which was revolutionary when the Heli-Safe first hit the market.
We were able to arm anglers with a way to fish any helicopter style presentation, but with the ability to drop the lead as soon as a fish was hooked.
This was a massive advantage in weedy or snaggy situations, or when using set-ups such as chod rigs.
The Heli-Safe also allowed anglers to fish in this way quickly and effectively, simply by attaching a lead to the system, and the product did the rest, releasing the lead as soon as your hook link swivel pulled against the top of the bead.
Technology has moved on since then, and we have managed to make the system much smaller, which not only makes it less obtrusive on the lake bed; but also reduces drag through the air and will improve your distance when fishing at extreme range; as well as making it less likely to get caught in weed or snags during the fight, once the lead has been jettisoned.
Aside from being more compact, the biggest difference to the original is that it now has three different ways that it can be set – it comes fitted with the normal tensioning spring that you will be familiar with from the original and which allows the lead to be dropped as soon as there is any pressure on the top of the Heli-Safe; but is also now supplied with a red spring which requires significantly more pressure to be applied before it ejects the lead, and is perfect in situations where you only need to get rid of the lead on the odd occasion and the lake is fairly clear of weed and snags; it also still comes with a collar, like the original, that prevents the lead from being ejected at all.
The Mini Heli-Safe comes supplied with a size 11 half barrel swivel and can either be fished naked or with leadcore. Despite its smaller size, it is still incredibly strong and can withstand the force of using any of the leads in our range, even when casting extreme distances.
Key features
Scaled down, compact version
Reduces drag through the air
Additional red spring requiring more pressure to drop lead
More streamlined
NOTE: Mini Heli-Safe is not compatible with Dark Matter leaders or the Heli-Safe Tubing Kit.
Drennan E-Sox Trace Spin
With an easy-to-use swivel snap link, this trace is ideal for spinners, small spoons and also for smaller plugs and jigs.
Produced in 28lb (12.7kg) nylon coated E-Sox Super Trace Pike Wire, the crimp to swivel joints are streamlined with tapered sleeves to improve durability and reduce the incidence of tangles.
35cm long
28lb (12.7kg) E-Sox Super Trace Pike Wire
Swivel joints are streamlined with tapered sleeves
Durable
Korum Allrounder Quickstop Hair Rigs 15”
Designed to provide stronger hair rigs when fishing for bigger fish. Increased line diameters and more powerful japanese hooks provide the perfect big fish Quickstop Hair Rig.
Korum Clear Quickstops
Korum Supersteel Allrounder hook
Highly abrasion resistant Korum line
Strong loop knots for quick rig changes
ESP Metal Bait Screw
The added benefit to using bait screws is that hookbaits can be changed within seconds. They come in packs of ten and have a matt black finish.Features:
10 per packet
Metal
Durable
Korda Textured Square Pear Swivel Lead
This lead design came about as a result of what Danny Fairbrass observed during the filming of Underwater Part Four, and he wanted to create the most condensed shape possible, so that the fish moved the minimum possible distance before feeling the full weight of the lead.
The most condensed shape is actually a ball, but a lead of this shape isn’t practical for carp fishing as it rolls and is prone to tangles – so Danny made the sides square and gave the back end of the lead a taper to help prevent the hook link tangling around it, and thus the Square Pear lead was born.
This version of it has a textured camouflage coating.Key features
Square pear shaped swivel lead
Shape and weight distribution offers great hooking potential
Textured camouflage coating
