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  1. Neil Blood

    Are Shimano baitrunner D and OC spools interchangeable?

    They are currently like rocking horse sh*t, so hence the original question.
  2. Neil Blood

    Are Shimano baitrunner D and OC spools interchangeable?

    Thanks Joe 👍🏻
  3. Neil Blood

    Are Shimano baitrunner D and OC spools interchangeable?

    Can anyone confirm if Shimano baitrunner D are OC spools interchangeable?
  4. Neil Blood

    If you could only have......

    Kev Baines 1.5lb 11’ Specialist No 1 - My fav Barbel rod. Acolyte Plus float rod, will cover most things on the float. Drennan Vertex 11’ Carp Feeder - Best Chub quiver rod that I’ve ever owned, it’s perfect! Sold my original Drennan Super Specialist Duo 1.25lb rod, after buying it and no I’m...
  5. Neil Blood

    Spam - or not?

    I now use the Sainsbury’s Chopped Pork and Ham, it’s also much cheaper than Spam and is very similar in texture.
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    Herb Boilies

    Herb Boilies sounds like some American dude!
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    Link ledger tips

    If we are talking link ledger in the true sense, I’ve never personally felt the need to do it and when fishing for both Chub and Perch on rivers. I instead use a free running rig, incorporating both the lightest lead and slow taper quiver tip that I can get away with. For close in work, the...
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    New Drennan float rods

    Drennan released a social media post today, where a guy who caught a 3lb Grayling, was using a ‘prototype 17ft Acolyte rod‘. Now assuming this is a stepped up version, I will definitely be interested
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    Save the River Wye

    I'm also not getting this E.A. only link, as it was Fish Legal who challenged NRW a couple of years back re phosphate pollution on the Wye, as a result of the spreading of poultry muck as fertiliser in Powys. You may recall that NRW came back quoting data from 2009 and 2015, stating there was no...
  10. Neil Blood

    Beaver reintroduction success.

    I'm generally all for rewilding schemes, I think its fantastic, when we live in one of the most nature depleted countries on the planet. Bring it on! This said I see nothing but conflict ahead with Beavers, as in the UK we have no true wilderness (and that includes Scotland) or significant...
  11. Neil Blood

    Fishflix.

    Are you restricted to watching it on your phone/tablet, or can you actually get it onto your TV? I know that Apple is quite restrictive in this respect, for their devices, as they expect a cut £££
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    WTD starter Centrepin

    I am intending to list a mint Okuma Kennet Centrepin on here later this week. Just need to take some photos and it’s a great trotting pin.
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    Perch mouth grip

    A few years ago people seemed to be all over it as a BIG NO, with the suggestion that you can damage the mouth of the Perch. They still do it on all the Scandinavian Perch videos I watch, including with some hefty fish, holding them from the mouth and just let to fish hang down. Personally Ive...
  14. Neil Blood

    17ft float rods

    Yep see the Daiwa offerings thanks, its finding someone who has used one that is the problem
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    17ft float rods

    Does anyone have experience of currently available 17ft float rods, other than the Acolyte? I want one for Perch fishing, laying on under a float, with 6lb Mainline and 5lb hooklengths. I also won’t be holding the rod, so it will mostly be fished on the rod rest with a centrepin. The Drennan...
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