Recent content by David Rogers

One of my local tackle shops is now stocking Nev Fickling's Lucebaits - a few more shops that previously stocked the BaitBox brand (who have now ceased trading) might well start taking them.

I bought a pair of the Fencham Ankle boots after reading a recommendation on an angling forum (I don't think it was this one) and found them both very heavy and over-sized (I normally take a size 12 and other makes I've tried have been fine). What has made them wearable has been these very...

That feeling of someone kneeling on one's chest at night is a classic symptom of sleep paralysis, which may also account for strange noises being heard. Science can't explain the cause. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_paralysis

I imagine it might be this? From 0:36...

My local forecast is usually far more benign when I look at the BBC app as compared to the Met Office. They're often both wrong, though...

I bought a pair of those too and agree the quality is good for the price - the sizing is massive, though! I ordered a size 12, which fits me perfectly in every other make of boot or shoe I've had previously, but these needed several pairs of socks/insoles before they were remotely safe to walk...

Another vote for the Grapplers - I've landed a couple of tench recently on them that would certainly have been lost on the barbless patterns I've used until recently. Both times, I couldn't stop the fish reaching bed of lilies, but the old trick of slackening off and hoping they'd swim free...

6lb tench and 6lb bream from a local estate lake today. :)

My first Mitchell 300 was bought mail order from Billy Knott, aka The Penzance Pirate. There were dire warnings back then (1979) that mail order discounters would spell the end for your local tackle shop...

Surely it's DPM (Disruptive Pattern Material), referring to the camouflage, isn't it?🤔

I'm exactly the same - and not just where tackle is concerned. Little Egret Press seems to have cornered the market in the piublication of interesting-sounding angling books of late, but because the editing and layout of some of their earlier titles was so appalling, I've vowed to never buy...

Korum seem to be particularly poor about keeping/supplying spare parts for some of their products. I lost the nut and bolt fixing for one of the mudfeet on my Aeronium chair and asked if they could supply a replacement, as none in my extensive nut and bolt collection would fit. They said they...

My missus shared a house with some early-adopter vegans when she was at college back in the early '70s. They tried to feed their cat a vagan diet and it voted with its feet (paws?) - it ran away and they never saw it again!

I think he must have had a taxi waiting outside - choosing David Attenborough as his answer was always going to mean an exit in the first round!

I'd agree with the advice about bait vs lures. Since the first lockdown, I've never seen so many lure anglers on the canals. They did well to start with, but the perch have now wised up and are generally ignoring lures. They never wise up to worm or maggot, though.