Recent content by Neil Blood

Start with all the Alan Stagg videos 👍🏻

The latest Drennan Specialist Video was released on Friday via YouTube. I didn’t personally find it to be very good and note they are promoting it as “free to watch”. Call me a cynic but that looks like more Dennan vs Bowler bad blood. Then again Martin goes out of his way not to plug current...

The Alan Stagg - River Loddon video, which has just dropped is incredible 👍🏻

The Fishflix video covering it is awesome 👍🏻

For me personally its wildlife encounters over the years: The Mole In my youth I was fishing a lake, where I was sitting on a high concrete wall, which dropped down to the waters edge. Something caught my eye as it swam/scurried along the lakebed, exiting the water right below my feet. It was...

Is this the fish caught in the upcoming Fishflix video?

I generally use a size 6 hook, with the hook through the worm’s saddle. I then add a drennan artificial red maggot on the hook, by just about hooking it. They grip the hook wire really tightly and it allows you to push the worm to the back of the hook bend, where it stays put 👍🏻

Congratulations on your capture 👍🏼 Claiming river records won’t have the same stringent rules and claiming a national record. Angling Times would likely cover it, if the other photos look good and backup the claim. One question you’ll likely get asked generally, is what does the sling weigh...

Exactly what I use for Chub and Perch, unfashionable but very good rods 👍🏻

Smart Cast is going back some, a good few years since I had one of them, has Arthur Negus seen it! Deeper is the way to go now and work well. Easy enough with a smart phone and plenty of vids on YouTube.

Horses for courses, when I fish half a tin of spam on a hook, its an 18” hooklength 🙂

If you are ever able to watch Barbel and Chub feeding over a bed of bait, they do so as follows and this assumes you are droppering in bait close in: 1, Boillies and larger pellets they move upstream over the feed area at pace, picking up larger items and turning away, or turning away as they...

Yep whatever you are comfortable with. I’ve rested fish close to 13lb in mine. If I expect bigger fish, then I use my 30+ Middy Barbel net.

Watching Alfie Russle on youtube using a powerful spotlight at night to stalk big Perch with lures changed my opinion! He didn’t just find Perch under the light 👍🏻

Depends what size Barbel you expect to catch? Personally I find the SS 26” perfectly adequate for fish up to 13lb’s in weight on the middle/upper Severn.