Rigs

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Top-scoring rigs first

Every one carries our score out of 100, worked out from specs, build and value — highest first.

Ready-tied rigs

89%

Gardner Tackle

Gardner Tackle Covert Dark Chod Rigs

Available in hook sizes 4, 5, 6 and 8, with barbed or barbless options.

Need a tidy chod rig without tying your own? Gardner’s ready-made Covert Dark Chod Rigs give you a sharp, aggressive hook pattern, stiff Tripwire boom and plenty of movement for pop-ups over messy lakebeds.

• Three ready-tied chod rigs per pack, looped for quick attachment.
• Built with a Covert Dark Chod hook and 15lb Tripwire stiff hooklink material.
• Includes a size 12 Covert Flexi Ring Swivel for hook movement and rotation.

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Terminal tackle

89%

Fox

Fox Predator Deadbait Pencil Float

Fox Predator Deadbait Pencil Float

A proper pike float for fishing deadbaits over depth, with a slim profile, cracking visibility and a handy starlight option for after-dark sessions.

• Designed to present deadbaits over depth for pike fishing.
• Long, pencil-like body is strong and sensitive, with bites often lifting the float when set correctly.
• Bright orange tip and black band help with visibility in changing light.

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Terminal tackle

89%

Korda

Korda Ridged Hook Beads

Medium and Large

A dead-handy little bit of rubber that keeps your rig ring or micro swivel moving properly, without glue, faff or a bead sliding all over the shop.

• Available in Medium and Large sizes.
• Designed for hook sizes 2 to 10, with the Large version better suited to bigger hooks.
• Tapered rubber body keeps a rig ring or micro swivel sitting flush on the hook shank.

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Terminal tackle

88%

Korda

Korda Dark Matter Tubing

Dark Matter Tubing

Korda’s tungsten-impregnated tubing is made to hug the lakebed, hide your end tackle and keep everything sitting where it should. Handy stuff for carp and coarse anglers fishing over weed, gravel or silt.

• Tungsten-impregnated heavy tubing designed to keep your rig pinned down.
• Supplied as a 2-metre length with a 0.75 mm bore.
• Available in Weed Green, Gravel Brown and Silt.

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Terminal tackle

88%

Korda

Korda Distance Casting Swivel Lead

Distance Casting Swivel Lead

Need a lead that flies straight, keeps its head down and doesn’t turn a big chuck into guesswork? Korda’s Distance Casting Swivel Lead is built for exactly that job.

• Nose-heavy, weight-forward shape for distance casting.
• Condensed profile is designed to improve hooking efficiency.
• Stable in flight, with a straight and accurate trajectory.

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Terminal tackle

88%

Gardner Tackle

Gardner Tackle Covert Mini Rig Swivels

Size 12 · 20 per packet

A cracking little size 12 swivel for lighter carp and coarse rigs, with a smooth spin, strong build and a finish that won’t flash in the margins.

• Size 12 mini rig swivel with an anti-glare black finish.
• Twenty swivels come in a packet.
• Smooth-spinning design with round eyes for strong, tidy knots.

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Terminal tackle

88%

Nash

Nash Webcast Ultra Weave PVA

Ultra Weave PVA system

A fine-weave PVA mesh system for tidy little bags, deep-water delivery and keeping maggots where they belong.

• Ultra-fine 0.2 mm PVA mesh with additional fibres for a denser weave.
• Designed to resist breaking down before reaching the bottom, including in deeper water.
• Fine mesh helps slow live maggots escaping from the parcel.

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Terminal tackle

88%

Korda

Korda Grapple Lead

2oz, 3oz and 4oz options · Two per pack

A clever bit of marker tackle for finding out what’s really going on under your spot. The four-pronged design tells you far more than a smooth lead ever will.

• Four prongs help reveal lakebed traces that a smooth lead can miss.
• Available in 2oz, 3oz and 4oz versions.
• Supplied in packs of two.

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Terminal tackle

88%

Korda

Korda Heli Leads

Korda Heli Leads

A proper neat lead option for Heli-Safe users, with a flight-friendly shape, camo finish and enough weight choices for everything from lighter work to long chucking.

• Designed for the Korda Heli-Safe bead, with a ring connection instead of a swivel.
• Teardrop or pear-like profile designed to stay stable in flight and cast well.
• Suitable for helicopter and chod arrangements, including fishing over weed.

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Terminal tackle

88%

Fox

Fox Camotex Flat Pear Swivel Leads

Individual swivel lead

A low-profile, no-nonsense lead for short and medium-range carp work, with a cracking finish and a shape that sits nicely on awkward lakebeds.

• Low-profile flat-pear shape for hard bottoms, slopes and ledges.
• Available in 1.5oz / 42g, 2oz / 56g, 2.5oz / 70g and 3oz / 85g sizes.
• Large-eye swivel is fitted for straightforward rig attachment.

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Terminal tackle

88%

Gardner Tackle

Gardner Tackle Covert Mini Swivel Bait Screws

Mini · CSWBM

A neat little bait-screw setup for small pop-ups, cork-ball hookbaits and plastic baits. Proper handy when you want quick bait changes without faffing about with a bait needle.

• 5mm screw thread, designed for smaller hookbaits.
• Dedicated hook swivel rather than a simple rig ring.
• Black anti-glare finish helps keep the terminal tackle less obvious.

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Terminal tackle

88%

Korda

Korda Kamo Leadcore

Kamo

A discreet leadcore material for building your own leaders, with a tight weave, loads of suppleness and Korda’s Kamo camouflage doing the sneaky stuff.

• Kamo colour variant of Korda Kable Tight Weave Leadcore.
• Available on 7 m and 25 m spools.
• Breaking strain is well in excess of 50 lb.

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Terminal tackle

88%

RidgeMonkey

RidgeMonkey Connexion Rock Bottom Sinkers

Small and Large

A tidy, grippy way to pin down hooklinks and main line without faffing about with putty every five minutes.

• Soft tungsten sinkers for pinning down hooklinks, main line or end tackle.
• Sinkers slide directly onto the line material and have a grippy surface for casting.
• Ribbed exteriors help extra tungsten putty stay in place.

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Terminal tackle

88%

RidgeMonkey

RidgeMonkey Disperse Foam Nuggets

RidgeMonkey Disperse Foam Nuggets

These biodegradable foam nuggets keep your hookbait and hook point behaving through the cast, then dissolve to leave a cheeky surface marker. Dead handy when the bottom’s a bit grim.

• Available as a 1-litre Session Pack with a moisture-proof flip-lid container, or as a 4-litre Refill.
• Multi-coloured, highly visible foam nuggets help you track where the dissolved remnants surface.
• Biodegradable foam protects the hook point, helps hold the hookbait in position and reduces tangles during the cast.

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Terminal tackle

88%

Nash

Nash Flat Pear In Line Lead

Flat pear in-line lead

A flat pear lead with a concentrated profile, fish-friendly release system and a handy top slot for drop-off work. Proper useful terminal tackle for carp anglers who like keeping things tidy.

• Available from 1.5oz / 43g right up to 12oz / 340g.
• Flat pear in-line design with the same concentrated weight profile as Nash’s swivel version.
• Moulded insert and tail rubber allow the lead to release in weed or snags.

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Terminal tackle

88%

Nash

Nash Double Ring Swivel

Nash Double Ring Swivel, size 8

A cracking little bit of terminal tackle for tidy lead-drop setups, especially when weed and snags are part of the swim.

• Size 8 swivel with a high-strength construction.
• Double-ring design for separate hooklink and leader or main-line connections.
• Zero-glare finish for a more discreet terminal arrangement.

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Terminal tackle

88%

Korda

Korda Essentials Shrink Tube

Korda Essentials Shrink Tube

A cracking little bit of terminal tackle for shaping kickers, building line aligners and tidying up swivel connections without loads of faff.

• Available in 1.6mm and 2mm diameters.
• Camo green colour for a more discreet finish.
• Eight individual lengths per pack, each measuring 45mm.

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Terminal tackle

88%

Korda

Korda Flatliner Pear Inline Lead

Flatliner Pear Inline Lead

A compact, grippy inline lead for hard lake beds, sloping spots and a bit of flow. Proper useful terminal tackle when you want the rig pinned down and the fish to feel the business end quickly.

• Short, condensed flat-pear inline lead with two flat sides.
• Designed primarily for hard bottoms and sloping lake beds.
• Available from 1.1oz through to 5oz.

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Ready-tied rigs

88%

Korda

Korda Dark Matter Hybrid Lead Clip Leader

Dark Matter Hybrid Lead Clip Leader

A ready-made, streamlined leader for semi-fixed lead setups, with tungsten sections, an integrated Hybrid Lead Clip and a lead-release system built in.

• One-metre fused plastic leader with a 30lb breaking strain.
• Integral tungsten sections and collars help the leader sit close to the bottom.
• Integrated Hybrid Lead Clip is designed to release the lead when required.

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Ready-tied rigs

88%

Korda

Korda Basix Hair Rigs Wide Gape

Barbed or barbless, in sizes 4, 6 and 8

A handy pair of ready-tied carp rigs for anglers who want a reliable wide-gape presentation, sensible hookbait options and less messing about on the bank.

• Ready-tied hair rigs made with BASIX Coated Hooklink material.
• BASIX Wide Gape hook pattern in sizes 4, 6 and 8.
• Size 8 suits 12mm hookbaits, size 6 suits 15mm and size 4 suits 18mm.

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Terminal tackle

88%

Gardner Tackle

Gardner Tackle Suspender Surface Float

Standard Suspender

A clever little floater controller that keeps your hooklink riding proud of the surface, helping you present a bait without that spooky underwater line hanging beneath it.

• Designed for surface-feeding carp and floating-bait presentations.
• Keeps the hooklink entirely above the water surface.
• A counterweight at the base makes the float fish half-cocked.

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Terminal tackle

88%

Fox

Fox Edges Rig Rings

Fox Edges Rig Rings

A simple, non-reflective rig ring that helps your hookbait move naturally. Nothing fancy, just a handy bit of terminal tackle for D-rigs, hook-shank presentations and general carp rigging.

• Round-profile rig rings for hook-shank and D-rig presentations.
• Non-reflective coating helps keep the terminal end of the rig discreet.
• Available in Small 2.5 mm, Medium 3.2 mm and Large 3.7 mm diameters.

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Terminal tackle

88%

Fox

Fox Edges Kwik Change Swivels

Size 7 and Size 10

A dead-handy little bit of terminal tackle for changing rigs, adding PVA and keeping your end tackle tidy.

• Available in size 7 and size 10.
• Supplied as 10 swivels per packet.
• Anti-glare, non-reflective finish.

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Terminal tackle

88%

Fox

Fox Edges Ring Swivels

Fox Edges Ring Swivels

A tidy little bit of terminal tackle that makes lead systems smoother, neater and easier to tailor on the bank.

• Size 7 ring swivel
• Fits Fox Edges Slik Lead Clips, Safety Lead Clips and all Fox inline leads
• Anti-glare finish

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Terminal tackle

88%

Fox

Fox Edges Naturals Anti Tangle Sleeves

Naturals Anti Tangle Sleeves — Micro, Standard and XL

A simple bit of terminal tackle that keeps your rig behaving itself, covers the Kwik Change swivel and blends nicely into dark, weedy venues.

• Designed to kick the rig away from the lead setup and leader during casting.
• Available in Micro, Standard and XL sizes for different rig jobs.
• Micro suits PVA bags and quick-change stiff booms; Standard is for everyday presentations; XL suits long rigs and zigs.

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Terminal tackle

88%

Fox

Fox Edges Naturals Slik Lead Clip Kit

CAC989 · 5-pack

A tidy little lead-clip setup for anglers who want subtle presentations, dependable lead release and less faff around weedy or dark lakebeds.

• Five scaled-down lead clips in the pack
• Includes T-pegs to secure the swivel inside each clip
• Designed for compatible size 7 swivels and Slik Tail Rubbers

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Terminal tackle

88%

ESP

ESP PVA Mesh Kit

Available in 20mm, 25mm and 32mm diameters

A cracking little PVA setup for making neat parcels of bait, whether you’re fishing a compact Dynamite Stick or a rounder bag over the top.

• Available in 20mm, 25mm and 32mm diameters.
• 20mm and 25mm versions are designed for Dynamite Sticks and include a plunger.
• The plunger has a rubberoid handle, 25mm graduations and makes packages up to 15cm long.

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Ready-tied rigs

88%

Trakker

Trakker Blowback Rig

Available in barbed, micro-barbed and barbless versions, with multiple hook sizes.

A ready-tied blowback rig with a sharp Clinga BP hook, sensible anti-tangle bits and enough bait flexibility for everyday carp fishing.

• Ready-tied blowback rig supplied in packs of two.
• Built with a razor-sharp Clinga BP hook and 25lb/11.4kg semi-stiff coated hooklink.
• Available in barbed, micro-barbed and barbless variants, plus multiple hook sizes.

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Terminal tackle

88%

Fox

Fox Predator Kebab Kit

Red / Natural Grey

Want a deadbait sitting proud and pinned neatly? Fox’s Predator Kebab Kit gives you a simple bottom or popped-up presentation without loads of faff.

• Designed for bottom or popped-up deadbait kebab presentations.
• Each pack contains four complete kits, with a pin, popper and bait fin in each.
• The pin attaches to the trace or treble hook, while the fin helps hold the bait in place.

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Terminal tackle

88%

Trakker

Trakker Leadfree Leader

Lead-free carp leader

A supple, fast-sinking lead-free leader with a camo finish, easy splicing and enough abrasion resistance for serious carp work.

• 10m per spool, giving you plenty of leader material for multiple rigs.
• Available in 45lb and 65lb breaking strains.
• Wire-free inner core with a supple, fast-sinking construction.

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Terminal tackle

88%

Trakker

Trakker Flat Pear QC Inline Lead

Flat Pear QC Inline Lead

A tidy, versatile inline lead with proper lakebed grip, PVA bag potential and a handy quick-change setup for carp anglers who like to keep things simple.

• Available in 2.0oz, 2.5oz, 3.0oz, 3.5oz, 4.0oz and 4.5oz.
• Flat pear profile helps the lead sit securely on various lakebeds.
• Suitable for PVA bag setups and includes a recess for boilie paste.

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Terminal tackle

88%

Airflo

Airflo 10ft Trout Polyleader

10ft Trout — seven density options

A tapered fly leader with seven density options, welded loops and a 12lb core. Dead handy for adjusting your trout setup — provided you pick the right version and keep the tippet sensible.

• 10ft tapered trout polyleader.
• 12lb core; suitable for tippet up to 12lb breaking strain.
• Supports tippet lengths up to 16ft.

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Ready-tied rigs

88%

Drennan

Drennan Carp Method Spike Hooklengths

4-inch / 10cm bait-spike rigs

Short, ready-tied Method rigs with barbless hooks and bait spikes for mini boilies and wafters. A tidy option when you want a fresh hooklength without stopping for a knot-tying session.

• Eight ready-tied hooklengths supplied per plate.
• Each rig is 4 inches / 10cm long.
• Barbless Carp Method hooks tied to extra-tough monofilament.

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Terminal tackle

88%

Drennan

Drennan Crystal Dibber

Crystal Dibber · 0.2g, 0.3g and 0.4g

A compact, clear-bodied dibber with a tough build and a bright domed tip. Properly at home when the fish are feeding shallow, rather than a float for every swim.

• Available in 0.2g, 0.3g and 0.4g sizes.
• Transparent, blow-moulded Crystal body.
• Bonded glass stem and domed fluorescent glow tip.

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Terminal tackle

88%

Drennan

Drennan Visi Avon Floats

Visi Avon · No.1–No.4 · 3g–6g

A broad-shouldered balsa Avon with a chunky Visi Tip, built for keeping track of your trot without squinting halfway down the swim.

• Four capacities: No.1 3g, No.2 4g, No.3 5g and No.4 6g.
• Balsa body with a fuller profile and more pronounced shoulder than the Visi Trotter.
• High-visibility Visi Tip measures 4.5mm in diameter.

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Terminal tackle

88%

Drennan

Drennan Visi Trotter Floats

2g, 3g, 4g and 5g

A chunky, colourful sight tip, streamlined balsa body and long carbon stem make this a sensible shout for river anglers who want to follow their float without squinting all session.

• Four carrying capacities: 2g, 3g, 4g and 5g.
• Streamlined balsa body.
• Long carbon stem measuring 1.2mm in diameter.

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