Author: Amanda Hook

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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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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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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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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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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