After three early bream on the feeder, Drennan Oxford’s Carl Eland produced a waggler fishing masterclass to win round two of the eight-team Oxford Summer league on the River Thames at Medley.

Loose feeding three pints of hemp while presenting tares beneath a 3AAA home-made waggler set between 3.5 and 4ft deep above dense weedbeds from his peg one above the mudflats, Carl added more than 20lb of prime roach to his net for a 33lb 4oz victory.

Vastly experienced Thames angler Carl shared two secrets on how he prepares tares for the hook:

• I give every new bag of dry tares a shake though a maggot riddle. Those which fall through are those I’ll use as hook bait. I firmly believe matching size as close as possible to my hemp feed brings me extra fish.
• Before cooking I soak tares overnight with two pints of water per pint of bait. Then I add two or three iron tablets, available from supermarkets and chemists, to the cooking pot to blacken them up. Black tares definitely outfish brown.