Recent content by Ian Woods

He did the same thing to me a bit back when I posted a centrepin reel up for sale.....an ignorant man! Regarding Jons rod, I have one myself, it's a little bit more powerful at 2.25 test, brilliant little rods and very versatile.

Neil, many years back when I keepered "Anything" that dared look sideways at a gamebird was eliminated, be it fur or feather. I know of keepers today who still have that old mindset. As a young kid on the ribble I used to see rows of cormorants lined up across from ribchester front with their...

Only just clocked this Neil, the above kind'a reminds me of the attitude of many anglers towards otters, cormorants, herons etc etc. I think the majority of anglers appear to want to kill anything that poses a threat to a fish, but same as the peregines those fish eating predators are only...

RSPB member ...oh well if thats the case i'll zip it then 👍. 🤣

Really, forgive me Kevin, I only kept, flown and bred birds of prey for many years along with a group of my friends. We had quite a few different species between us. Seriously, don't belive everything you read on google etc.

I didn't read the report, but how are they so certain it was done by a person? The eggs could have been koshed by a crow, raven, maggie etc?

I’ve only ever replaced several tip guides and used hot melt glue each time. Very easy to alter the position of the guide if you don’t get it perfect first time.

I had a few hours on a still water today, the water contains some quite nice chub, but also some very imaciated ones. The set up was a pin as usual, 8lb mono straight through to a size 10 hook and a large piece of bread. I did manage to catch one chub which was as thin as a lat and had a serious...

Yes Jim, I find there is much more chance of the tin type shot pinging off than the lead. I don't really use many saller than no1 so not so many ping off in that size and larger which is ok for me since I literally only use one at a time as a dropper shot below my olivettee. The anchor double...

Funny enough Jim that thought had crossed my mind also! I replaced the lead water pipes in our house 20yrs back with blue alkathene/plastic pipes. Regarding the banning of leads in fishing, will they ban the plastic feeder bodies, method feeder bodies etc also? Lead does occur naturally.

We all had lead water pipes in our houses for many years, probably millions of homes still have lead water pipes but I can’t remember it ever causing any major health issues. Why are they so bothered about lead weights in fishing scenarios 🤫. They knowingly release all kinds of much worse...

I can catagoricly say i've never had any issues with dog muck etc where i've been fishing. I'm quite positive it would be very visible if there were any on the grass, and if i'm honest i'd be more concerned about getting it on my hands and tackle than the fish. In reality dog muck would not...

So, there is a lot of controversy amongst anglers regarding the use of unhooking mats. There are anglers who no matter what type of suitable ground is available to lay a fish on they insist on using a mat. Personally, I am in the frame of mind that the use of a mat is down to commons sense...

Price drop to £350 incase anyone is interested.

If anyone is interested I will let the rod go for £170 posted.