What follows is a basic guide to adjusting the drag range on Duel two-speed reels. Unlike most lever drag game reels, Duels can be very easily adjusted to suit different line classes or drag progression preferences. This is literally a five-minute job...

...There were quite a few wannabee brands that tried to jump on the coat-tails of Gulp!, but none had anywhere near as much success. One that arrived at the end of 2009, that probably does deserve to make the grade, is a similarly monosyllabic product called Slam, which comes from the stable that has been producing the Stimulate and Ultrabite berley products...

Maybe you think that cord rigging of front hooks on jigs and minnows is tricky. Nah. It's not witchcraft. It's easy. Here's how.

What you need for D-I-Y assist hook rigging: braided Dyneema/Kevlar cord, braid scissors, and some hooks:

I heard a funny story the other day, which I’ll now embellish and report as the truth. It won’t be too far from it.

Two anglers keen on catching wahoo and tuna around a far-flung Australian outpost just received their new bit of kit from Bluewater Tackle World: a nice big overhead reel, and a flash fully-rollered mini-bent-butt game rod that not only looked the part, but was actually almost ideal...

Fluorocarbon lines and leaders have been around for many years now, but it’s only since the bream-on-lures thing took off around Perth that there was a perceptible level of demand created here. The main reason, of course, is that very few people knew about the stuff...

The level-winding device, still standard fare amongst everything from tiny baitcasters to some massive electric boat reels, is born out of the design that William Shakespeare Jr patented in 1897, after perfecting it over five years. He was a smart man who was very lucky to be born at all...

Those of you who spend as much time reading the advertisements in fishing magazines as you do the text will have surely noticed by now that ‘the next big thing’ in fishing reels is ball bearings that don’t corrode as easily as they used to.

Fairly mundane stuff to many, but actually worth keeping an eye on if you’re in the market for a reel. There are duds to be had these days, and amongst them are reels that would have been called revolutionary only a few years ago.