Recent content by Ian Ashton

I have a 30 year old Screw in brolly spike, you cant have it! Just gonna measure the Dinsmores banksticks, against a brolly spike..... OK, so the screw in Dinsmores banksticks, have the same size internal, as a brolly spike.....get a short one, screw it in, and slide your brolly spike into...

I tried the blender, (no wife) didnt work. Pure Pellet have crushed krill and halibut pellet.

I think its getting the fish investigating and into your swim, or getting other fish into your swim that the barbel then follow. I always like at the start to get a heavy waft of something into the water, with very few free offerings and feed items. So there may be something in attracting the...

No braid snapped, only mono. When I say I hope they were not dragging a lead, I'm sure the Bank Tackle lead clip would release, but if for instance you had a tangle (unlikely with a leader and coated braid and sleeves) but maybe I'm just being overly concerned or paranoid. Bought new hooks, as...

Having a bit of a mare in the last 4 sessions 2 Blanks, when everyone around was bagging up, same baits, gear etc Saturday, full wrap around screamer, set off downstream in floodwater, and cut mainline above the leader on a outfall abutment. Hour later, same savage bite, clutch at full, just...

I've never tasted Barbel, does it not taste like chicken?

So Sometimes the magic of the 16th can be spoiled by catching fish, its just so crass! 😂

I think I had a cray issue yesterday on the Wharfe. I was leaving a sleeper rod out, and concentrating on my other rod. On the sleeper rod, Luncheon meat I thought was getting nibbled off by smaller fish or chub, so I switched to pellets, but they also dissapeared (soaked halibut in bovril, so...

Just mixed some evil home brew fish stink and hemp groundbait for tonight, had a good (not blank) opening day yesterday on The Wharfe, see my report.

On the Wharfe at Tadcaster at 11.30, 1 rod in at 12.10, second at 1, 3 foot twitch on the 2nd rod at 1.30, 6 1/2 lb Barbel, my first fish in 30 years, also got a 3lb chub and couple of pound stinky pan lid (that I didnt know I had on, and just reeled in!) Now remote lecturing, hoping to go out...

This is my first 16th, back when I used to fish with my old man, it was 1st June! Pulled my licence wallet out, last books were 89/90. So I am proper giddy for it!

I no longer live in West Yorkshire, now live in Tadcaster, so have town membership of Taddy APA, which allows me to fish the stretch between the weir and the bridge, although speaking to the bailiff on Sat, they head of downstream after spawning, and hide in the groynes near the A64, big tackle...

Yeah, so lucky to live in Tad, cannot wait for the 16th, the Taddy only stretch really does look prime, and full of fish too. Bit of water coming down, river is up by about a foot, but will be dropping by 16th.

Ive just joined too, but 30 years ago, and appears so today, Bradford No1 have the most waters, and good stretches on the Wharfe and Nidd, which always did the business in the 80s and 90s. I lived in Huddersfield, and we had to head north or east to find Barbel and Chub, as the Calder was a...

Ohh, was it Go Fishing?