11 items of tackle to put on your shopping list this month

Expensive pop-ups, super waterproof garments, lushest stainless/carbon pods, smelly liquids and sticky pastes… Here’s this month’s shopping list…

01. Solar P1 Sod Pod

Last year, Solar launched the P1 Worldwide Pod: A mouthwatering carbon and stainless steel blend of precision engineering. For an encore, Solar reengineered their legendary Sod Pod and this is it. Not only is it built for a lifetime of hard service, it’s clever too. Each leg is individually adjustable in length and angle; the buzzer bars drop in so they’ll never twist; and it comes with the same carbon trims.
£249.99

02. Aqua Landing Net Retainer Floats

Aqua are best known for their bankside buildings and luggage, but they also make some of the very best fish care equipment. Their latest offering reduces the fuss when it comes to retaining a fish. The floats simply slide over each end of your landing net, secured by an adjustable webbing strap and provide a short-term solution whilst preparing your unhooking mat, weighing kit and camera equipment.
£19.99

03. ESP 25k Quilted Waterproofs

Step out in anyone of these three new waterproof garments whenever the forecast looks threatening. With its 25,000mm hydrostatic head and 10,000g breathability rating, it makes this jacket, the matching trousers and salopettes the most superior angling waterproofs on the market. They’re warm too, with an insulated ‘waffle’ lining, high collar and peaked adjustable hood to keep cutting winds and driving rain at bay. Available in sizes S to XXXL.
Jacket and Salopettes, £149.00; Trousers, £109.00

04. DNA Fluoro Range Liquid Boosters

Pimp your hookbaits with max attraction with anyone of these three liquids. Sticky Sweet (£9.99): Perfect for Zig Foam, plastics, particles and fluoros, and unlike many sweet dips, this doesn’t wash straight off on contact with water. Liquid Booster (£7.99)is a high-attract, PVA-friendly liquid, and works great in bags, on Sticks and over pellets/particles. Intense Booster (£2.99): A small bottle that packs a mighty punch! Just half-a-dozen drops at a time is enough to keep your hookbaits smelling divine.

05. High Attract Specials

If you’re grinding your way through a winter, then you need to know your hookbait is maximising its output, and with High Attract Specials you’re guaranteed that. Whilst they’re not cheap at £14.00 a tub, they can only be classed as the crčme de la crčme of high-attract hookbaits. Mixing a top-grade pop-up mix with original Rod Hutchinson flavours and appetite stimulators, the outcome is nothing short of sensational. Full review next month. highattractpopups.co.uk

06. Gardner Lead-Safe System

Fishing a weed-free venue? Don’t fancy dropping the lead for the hell of it? Want to use a super safe bolt rig? If you nodded to any one or all three of those then you need to use this system from Gardner.
£2.99

07. CC Moore Paste

Create super-attractive paste-wrapped baits, or roll your own corkballs with these convenient paste tubs from CC Moore. Produced to the perfect texture and available in Equinox, Odyssey XXX, Pacific Tuna and Live System.

08. Advanta CSX Hypernova Stove

The latest butane-burning beaut from Advanta isn’t just compact and light, it’s brutally powerful too. With three heads instead of the traditional one, the output is a mind-boggling 5800w - over double that of most angling stoves, and also cheaper than its competitors’ weaker products.
£44.99

09. Spotted Fin Hi-Viz Fluoro Wafters

Winter is all about refinement: Lighter lines, smaller hooks, less bait - and the same applies with hookbaits.Spotted’s dumbell wafters aren’t just teeny at 8mm, but they are packed with the finest flavour combos thanks to Frank Warwick’s input.
£2.99

10. Avid Outline Items

Avid made its name in being inventive: Lead design, foam baits, bedchair mattresses, etc. Now they’ve turned their attentions to end tackle, and in particular, the colour of it. Going by the name of Outline, it’s a camo pattern that’s made up of flecks within the coloured plastics, designed to break up the outline of your rig and leader. Two examples of this great pattern combined with ace products is their shrink tubing and Line Aligners.
£2.99 each

11. Nashbait Tiger Nut Syrup

This PVA-friendly, super sweet liquid is the equivalent of Sriracha hot sauce: It will go with everything. A devastating liquid when used to boost hookbaits and poured neat into PVA bags, especially right around now when you want a hit of attraction coming off your mini baited patch.
£9.99