14 awesome items of tackle you must buy this month

1 Mainline Liquid Match Additive

These new super-strength additives are a stellar complement to any hookbait, PVA bag or Stick mix. And because they’re so concentrated, you only need a small amount. Full in-session test in next month’s edition.

“GIMME”: £4.99 for 250ml; mainline-baits.com

2 Chub Outkast Net

Building on the foundations of the legendary Outkast rod collection comes this: the matching 42” landing net. The arms and handle are made from the same carbon as the rods, whilst the medium-depth green mesh is held tight thanks to a tough, reinforced glass-filled nylon spreader block.

“GIMME”: £89.99; chubfishing.com

3. Crafty Catcher Cloudy Spod Mix

This mix will cloud and flavour the water column, intercepting cruising fish without over-feeding them. Just mix with lake water and the included activator oil and you’ll turn out a gourmet sloppy spod mix – no additional additives/liquids required.

“GIMME”: £11.99 for 2.5kg; copdockmill.co.uk

4. Taska Withy Curve Creator

Sure, you could shrink and mould your own Withy Pool set-up, but when Taska’s Withy Curve Creators will do such an awesome job, why would you bother? Formed from tungsten so less putty is required to counter-balance your hookbait and available in two sizes: 6-2 and 10-7.

“GIMME”: £3.95 for six; taskacarp.com

5. Bait-Tech Bait Bucket

This bespoke camo patterned bucket holds 17 litres of mix, keeping all your bait-related goodies together in transit. And once you’ve knocked them all together, the locking lid will keep the mix fresh.

“GIMME”: £7.99; bait-tech.com

6. JRC Contact All Season Sleeping Bag

You want to stay snug throughout all the seasons, but that costs a lot of money, right? Not any more. The All Season is light, and its rectangular shape lets you spread your limbs. Its fleece-lined for super comfort and it features a clever ventilation strip. Really feel the cold? Combine it with the JRC X-Lite Bedchair Cover.

“GIMME”: £69.99; jrc-fishing.co.uk

7. Rig Marole Cam H2O

Camo H20 provides everything you need when it comes to stiffness. It’s perfect for boom sections on Hinge Stiff Links and is the ultimate material for Nigel Sharp’s Stiff Bottom Bait Rig. Available in 15 and 25lb (Sharpy opts for the latter).

“GIMME”: £6.50 for 20m; rigmarole.co.uk

8. Cotswold Camo DLX Handy Bag

Hand-stitched and assembled in the Cotswolds means anything bearing the Cotswold Aquarius logo will last a lifetime. They’re also functional too, just like this bits bag, which makes for a perfect “soft” tackle box. And best of all? It’s DPM camo.

“GIMME”: £32.99; cotswoldaquarius.co.uk

9. Gardner Net Float

Gardner weren’t kidding when they said they were going to make a float with a difference. Ultra buoyant: tick. Compatible with all nets: tick. Cheaper than everyone else: tick.

“GIMME”: £4.99; gardnertackle.co.uk

10. Nash 'Your Path' Clothing

Nash is renowned for simple but slick cuts, muted colour palettes and solid prints. Understated but finessed if you will. And their new collection, ‘Your Path’ continues in that vein with a hoodie, cap and these two: a Tee and pair of shorts. Sizes S to XXXL.

“GIMME”: £19.99 and £24.99; nashtackle.co.uk

11. Berkley Big Game

For 30-plus-years, this workhorse of a main line has been landing huge carp the world over, and whilst it’s now most definitely part of the ‘old school’, it does still match the young guns when it comes to distance, strength and reliability. And it near as damn beats most on price too.

“GIMME”: £9.99; berkley-fishing.com

12. Trent Baits Freshwater Shrimp

The bait might be over a decade old but it remains unchanged and still it continues to break catch records each year. Combine these two – the glug just smells of carp-catching success! – for a summer of smiling into a camera.

“GIMME”: From £6.50; trentbaits.com

13. Sonik SKS Unhooking Cradle

There’s no better place for a carp to spend its three minutes on the bank than in this new cradle-style mat from SONIK. Easy-clean, fish-friendly rubberised inner lining and high side walls ensures it’s comfortable and safe, while the mesh vents allows for easy drainage of excess water.

“GIMME”: £39.99; soniksports.com

14. Greys AirCurve Rods

Pros can put a hookbait super tight to an island at extreme distances with seeming ease. For the rest of us, there’s the Air Curves. Thanks to some seriously clever carbon, it results in a rod which is both responsive and extremely quick at recovery on a long chuck – and this means more accuracy at greater distances.

“GIMME”: From £249.99; greysfishing.com