Budgie Burgess

Keep Those Trebles Out Of The Car!

When carrying ready made Pike rods with snap tackles on, stop the hooks catching on the car seats, you or bankside vegetation by covering them
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Attaching Braid To The Spool

When using braided mainlines always attach the braid to the reel spool via a few feet of nylon first.The stretch in the nylon will grip ...
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Pulling Out Of A Snag

When using a direct pull to try and pull out of a snag, always wrap the line around something as otherwise, especially with a heavy ...
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Care When Livebaiting

When using a live bait on a free roaming float rig, always use an up-trace as if not the bait can swim up, pivoting on ...
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Floating Lines For Livebaits

Lines for drifting and all float work with live baits must float.Vaseline is as good as most proprietory line greases and cheaper.Budgie ...
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Night Sight

When using semi barbed trebles at night for Zeds, paint the barbed hook white.It makes baiting up much easier.Budgie Treble Hooks For Sale ...
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Snap Link

Always use a snap link to join your Pike trace to the rest of your rig.This means you can quickly and easily change the trace ...
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Popped Up Deadbait Rig

You will all know about the advantages of popping up your bait but this is my chosen method. The curtain ring makes the rig quite ...
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Free Running Sunken Paternoster Rig for Pike

Despite the tremendous success I have had with the standard Sunken Pat Rig it does have one problem; when a Pike takes, it has to ...
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CV Safety Rig

Here is the original rig that I used to use. At the time I was fishing the Valley waters a lot and the "helicopter"rig was ...
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