Recent content by Matthew Howell

I've fished both the Mole at Dorking & the Rother. The Mole is easier to catch Barbel, but the Rother is a much nicer & quieter place to fish. It is possible to fish the Rother in the week & not meet anyone else all day. I also haven't fished any Pulborough stretches. I know they were...

I've bought several things from Keith at Defiant & they have been excellent.

I'm sure I was told by Alun Parsons that TFG & Free Spirit started at the same time and due to their size, neither were big enough on their own to purchase good quality blanks, but together they could. As a result the early TFG and Free Spirit rods were built on the same blank. They had both...

20% Sale starts today. I believe the discount is automatically calculated when you add something to teh cart.

There is a report on the BBC website - Local News - Hereford & Worcester that was updated an hour ago. Includes some pictures

Superb pictures Dave. I particularly like the one with the fox & the swan.

Worked Ok for me.

Just for reference, Baitworks had a 20% off sale early in January this year. I'm pretty sure they do it each year at about the same time.

To give a bit of background, my mate who is closer things than I am posted the following on another forum. Chat on the forum was that shops like AD had killed Browns. It seems that isn't the case: In this case it’s nothing to do with foot fall. The shop is busy. It’s unfortunately due to a bit...

Mike. I've managed to find my ones & whilst they look identical, the hole in the top is 13mm meaning any standard bank stick will fit it. Are you sure yours is only 10mm? Mine also has 2 thumb screws & I can see in your picture it looks like you have lost one of yours.

Mike. The spike was made by Gardner probably over 20 years ago. I can't recall the name but I had a couple. The idea behind it was to be able to get a bankstick into hard ground. You screwed it into the ground using a tommy bar then put your bank stick into the top & tightened the screw to...