Improve Your Coarse Fishing

Improve Your Coarse Fishing magazine is Britain's best-selling coarse fishing magazine that helps you put more fish in the net with expert advice, gear guides and tips and tricks. Whether you’re new to the sport or have been fishing for years, you’ll find clear and easy to follow advice and expert instruction to help you catch more fish. Stunning photography is backed up with a friendly writing style and all the inspiration and practical help you need to really enjoy your time on the bank. Covering pole, waggler and feeder tactics on a range of different venues, there’s something for all anglers of all abilities.

TEAM IYCF's MONTH

Welcome…

5 REASONS TO…  USE A FEEDER IN THE MARGINS THIS MONTH

Nature's gift to angling • Accidents can happen in any walk of life, and Mark Dunwell visits a prolific tench fishery that only exists thanks to series of unexpected events

Live the dream at this idyllic day-ticket gem • Running-water maestro Hadrian Whittle heads to a stretch of river that he hasn't visited in decades… and gets far more than he bargained for!

Beat the bubbles with paste • Commercial fishery expert Tony Curd reveals why this soft bait is the key to unlocking the full potential of silty stillwaters

How to hook paste properly

Not just a commercial carp tactic • Frankie Gianoncelli shows how a pellet waggler attack can produce the goods when targeting barbel and chub on shallow rivers

Leave the groundbait at home • Dale Calvert shows why plugging your feeder with particles can often put more big bream in your net when tackling reservoirs

Pin your faith in hemp • Stu Redman shows why ‘the seed’ is the only bait you need when going in search of quality roach from commercials

LOAD YOUR METHOD FEEDER THE ALTERNATIVE WAY • If Longer waits for bites are the norm on your favourite fishery, this is the way to set the trap

Get a wriggle on to tempt a big cat! • Top all-rounder Duncan Charman reveals why lobworms prove irresistible to these powerful freshwater predators

Prioritise depth over distance • Kieran Marsden shows how fishing closer in can often reap bigger rewards than ‘going long’

RIVER BREAM FEEDER RIG • If you want a hassle-free presentation to compile a big bag of running water slabs, you won't go far wrong with this one…

Speedy's Tactical Masterclass • From reservoir bream to commercial carp, Nick Speed shares his know-how to help you put more fish in the net

QA & YOUR QUESTIONS ANSWERED BY EXPERTS…

A class above the competition? • IYCF's Tony Grigorjevs takes Guru's new ‘budget’ pole to a top commercial for a carp bagging session

New Gear

6 OF THE BEST FEEDER CHAIRS

THE ADVENTURES OF A FISHING FAMILY • Cosmo heads to a highly-regarded carp fishery to take part in an exciting event, but would the three-day outing pan out as he had hoped?

YOUR IYCF

Improve Your Coarse Fishing

The Big Angling Puzzle Break • Make yourself a cup of tea, grab a biscuit and see how many of our fishing puzzles and questions you can answer correctly in this months mag!

GET TO GRIPS WITH WEED • Carp love it, anglers often less so! Thankfully, we've enlisted a trio of Team Sonik's experts to explain how they safely fish in and around the green stuff

Quick-change chod rig • A convenient twist on this classic big-carp presentation makes it more user-friendly than ever before

CARP Q&A Your carp questions answered by Sticky's expert anglers…

Bol Roberts • My monthly ishuingodiary…

GLOSSARY OF COARSE FISHING… • A swift guide to the jargon used bg the anglers in gour family. Tempted to join them?

TACTICS Crack the code on wild waters • Cathal...