The Ned rig is a finesse-fishing technique using buoyant plastic stickbaits, worms and creature baits on a mushroom-style jig head. When twitched or bounced along the bottom, it kicks up silt and dirt and imitates a feeding or moving fish…

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Catch more big pike by using these cunning coldwater predator tactics

These quirky predators behave differently to pike and perch, so you need to adapt...