Tackle & Terminal

This is the sharp end of the tackle bag. Ready-tied rigs, hooks, weights, booms, soft eels and the boxes to keep them in, all the bits that actually hook a fish. It's the biggest corner of the fishing range, so whether you're flapper-rigging for school bass or dropping baits over a sandy patch, there's something fishable to suit. If a rig label reads like another language, the fishing jargon buster decodes snoods and booms before you buy.

What's on the pegs

Don't fancy tying your own? The Zebco ready rigs in flapper, flatfish and shore patterns save fiddly knots on a cold morning, and they're made to handle salt. These ready tied sea rigs sit alongside bottom kits for flatfish and whiting, Eddystone Delta soft eels, Fiiish Black Minnow combos for bass and pollock, and crabbing drop nets for days on the harbour wall. A waterproof sea fishing tackle box is the quiet hero that keeps it all dry.

Matching a rig to the ground

Read the ground and the fish. Two-hook flappers are the dependable beach fishing rigs for mixed sport, while smaller-hooked flatfish patterns with attractor beads tempt plaice and dab over clean sand. Two short reads make it click: bottom fishing explained for working baits on the seabed, and fishing from a beach for reading the sand and tide.

Our tip

Keep a small box of spare hooks, swivels and leads topped up. The session you lose tackle on is never the one you planned for. When the fish switch on to lures instead of bait, our lures and bait range and the matching reels are a click away.