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I dont know if things have changed but it didnt used to be hard to get the licenses to trap crays.
You fill out a form and the licences come. I used to have quite a few and Roy did too, Chris.
ATB
Obviously there is the normal sack type slings which all fold up tiny and are great but this one folds in half and is pretty solid:
https://www.carpertackle.com/products/weigh-sling-green
Ive got a very similar looking rod and when it went off to Dave Lumb for re-ringing he reckoned it was a North Western Avon.
Floppy action and excellent fun to play fish on.
https://www.thefishingoutlet.co.uk/products/gardner-hook-clearance?variant=48797238690073
Might be of interest, very cheap and there are lots of patterns and sizes available
ATB
Ash
I had this a few years ago, moaned to Daiwa and they sent me out quite alot of freebies in compensation.
Ultimately stopped using it though and just used daiwa method feeder line instead.
ATB
It’s almost as if no one has ever watched an episode of Go Fishing? The edits are awful and it is so obvious that this stuff goes on.
Martin has been stitched up and from what I can make out in the clip the fish hasn’t even been unhooked to be rehooked.
Couldn’t care less tbh; if he’d left...
There is lots of emotive stuff from barbel anglers regarding barbel being in stillwaters; I reckon they just need the environment to be wet with enough oxygen and food to live👍
Its only barbel anglers that are bothered, and of course that is totally fair enough.
ATB
I miss mine so much 😢
Ive got a butt section that doesnt fit the quiver top section😤 There was something so sound about using this rod for everything river related, I miss it have I mentioned that 😩
Didnt like the Darent Valley 11ft avon/quiver; looks nice but doesnt feel right, big ol' flat...
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