13 things to put on your shopping list this month

1. Chub Vantage Base Layer

This two-piece outfit might be featherlight, but it offers heavy-duty warmth. When temperatures start to drop and it’s time to grow a second layer of skin, thanks to the Thermatex 100 material it provides superior insulation whilst driving moisture away from the body, maintaining a dry insulating layer of air in-between your skin and your outer layers. “GIMME”: £34.99; chubfishing.co.uk

2. Gardner Deluxe Weed Rake

Granted, weed was a nightmare, but not for the summer of 16. Imagine being able tie this onto your braided main line, whacking it out, clearing a spot and then creating a pathway to get your line perfectly down. It feels good, doesn’t it? So do it! Just remember to use a bloody strong rod. “GIMME”: £11.99; gardnertackle.co.uk

3. Urban Tuna & Garlic

Whilst everyone else is obsessing over the brand’s Nutcracker, here’s something different to try. The unique smelling, neat flavour has a number of uses. Firstly it can be used to roll your own baits. It can also be used to boost the glugs and dips sold within the Urban range. Just the smallest of small dowsings on any pop-ups will enhance the bait’s attractor levels. “GIMME”: £9.95; urbanbait.co.uk

4. Wychwood AVX Bite Alarms

Bite alarms that mix a cheap price with high-quality output are difficult to come by, but Wychwood’s latest offering, AVX Bite Alarm, offers performance that far exceeds its RRP. It boasts adjustable volume, tone and sensitivity settings and comes with a soft-touch, matt black finish. “GIMME”: £19.99; wychwoodcarp.co.uk

5. Spotted Fin Liquid Food

Looking to give your hookbaits/boilies/pellets/Method mix/Stick Mix an extra kick this summer? In that case, go for any one of the liquids from Spotted Fin’s Liquid Food collection. From as little as £5.00 for a 250ml bottle, they’re cheaper than the competition but thanks to the high-grade oils used, you’ll have the finest glugged food on the pond. And thanks to their quality, you can’t overdo them, so feel free to get heavy-handed. There’s a huge range, so check out spottedfin.com

6. Crafty Catcher Big Hit Method Mix

Sure, Crafty’s Big Hit Method Mix is loaded with attraction. But the real allure is how well it binds, making it superb for long-range casting – i.e. putting a Method feeder where the carp in your lake haven’t previously found one. The mix is adaptable too: it can be customised with up to 20% extra additives/liquids without affecting its performance. “GIMME”: £11.99 for 3kgs; copdockmill.co.uk

7. RidgeMonkey Water Bucket

Like no one’s using regular hard-sided buckets anymore. Fold flat ones with soft handles make transporting them far easier too, because when you don’t need it, it hides away in your rucksack, taking up limited space, and when you need it, simply pull it open. It also comes with a free RidgeMonkey towel. “GIMME”: £12.99; ridgemonkey.co.uk

8. Eagle Claw TroKar Long Shank

Let’s start with the facts. Eagle Claw’s TroKar hooks are honed with Surgically Sharpened Technology, or SST for short, and is the term used to describe the three-sided symmetrical point that is scalpel sharp. In tests against other leading brands, these hooks consistently pierced with half the pressure required for other hooks – TroKar hooks: 60g; competitors’ hooks, 120g! The Long Shank, like all the patterns in the collection, features the brand’s signature nickel PTFE coating and each eye is sealed with an epoxy resin, meaning there’s zero chance of any hooklink slippages/breakages. Available in barbed and barbless in sizes 4, 6, 8 and 10. “GIMME”: £5.99; reubenheaton.co.uk

9. Gardner Camflex Leadfree

Lead-free leader material that does everything leadcore does, but just in a safer manner. Soft = it hugs the bottom. Matt finish = it doesn’t spook the fish. Tight, woven thread = easy splicing. Abrasion resistant = it stops your line getting battered. 10m = there’s plenty, so it’ll keep going for ages. Two different colours (Muddy Silt and Weedy Green) = you can match the lakebed. “GIMME”: £10.99; gardnertackle.co.uk

10. Mainline Stick & Bag Mix (Essential Cell)

Cell wasn’t Mainline’s debut bait, but it’s certainly the most famous. Essential Cell is the bait firm’s next generation to what is the UK’s biggest selling bait of all time, and now they’ve rolled out this version of the award-winning flavour to their Stick & Bag Mix. Just add water or the matching liquid to create the most perfect mix for the various types of PVA products you carry. “GIMME”: £6.99; mainline-baits.com

11. SSP Dumbells Hookbaits

“Use the knobby bits you find at the bottom of the bag,” wrote one very big, highly successful bait guru some months back in CARPology. “It confuses them: they’re a different shape and weight to the standard round ones we all fire in,” he typed. And of course he’s right, and hence why SSP are rolling out these barreled-shaped baits. Available in their blockbuster System-X and in two colours: Beige Gravel or Dark Silt. “GIMME”: £5.99; sspbaits.com

12. Nash Packaway Waterproof Outfit

When it’s belting it down, you need a zip-up that keeps you dry without boiling you alive. Nashy’s new Waterproof Jacket and Trousers are paper thin but treated with a waterproof coating to block the wet. When the sky clears, they ball up small enough to fit inside the smallest pocket on your rucksack. Available in sizes S to XXXL. “GIMME”: Trousers, £34.99; Jacket, £39.99; nashtackle.co.uk

13. Bait-Tech Poloni Glug

Commence drooling liquid fans. For August, Bait-Tech has finally launched a glug to compliment the hugely successful Poloni boilies. Featuring the same eight secret herbs and spices used in the boiled food, it isn’t just great for glazing the baits, it’s also PVA-friendly so it’s perfect for adding to solid PVA bags and Stick mixes. “GIMME”: £6.99; bait-tech.com