Recent content by Neil Kirk

PM for you Andy Neil

I don't have a proble with spam coming off because I use a meat coil on the hair rig and it holds really well.

I have just about recovered from no more Garlic Spam but found I caught just as well on standard Spam. Now I can't get my head around how expensive Spam is in the supermarkets. I therefore bought a tin of Aldi's Bramwell Chopped Pork and Ham before Christmas and I used it yesterday . It...

Thanks for all your responses. I'm going to take a deep breath and PM Chris Cheshire to sound out the Maui Jim option. Cheers Neil

Time for some new prescription polarised suglasses because my 20+ year old metal frames are knackered and the lenses keep falling out - I have sat on them a few times which didn't help. The Pentax polarised lenses in brown glass have been very good.I have got a couple of pairs of Maui Jims...

That's a very kind offer Daniel, I may take you up on it sometime.

Lovely water with fabulous crucians, rudd and tench. However, I was disappointed to find on my recent visit that there appears to have been a rule change and non-members, fishing on a day ticket, have to be off the water by 5pm.🙁 Neil

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I like my Reuben Heaton 9000's but they do go haywire when they get wet - very poor design flaw allows water to get inside - so I seriously considered getting a better pair of digitals and plumped for some Salter Electro Samson digital scales (as recommended by Bob Gill some years back)...

Well that is a very comprehensive answer! I think I will be very busy this weekend looking up all those knots.

You can't stop there Tim... 😫 Please share what knots you use to stop the 'big ugly fish' getting away!

I have followed up on the issue of a USA and European system of labelling Berkley Big Game and there are indeed 2 different spools of 12lb line available for purchase in the UK with the USA version labelled as 0.33mm and European version at 0.279mm. I will be carefully checking the line...

I have been using Berkley Big Game 12lb for years without any problems. I bought a new bulk spool from the same supplier and spooled up one of my centrepins - the line seemed thinner but I thought maybe I was imagining it. In my next session I hooked 5 big fish including a 13lb 10oz fish but...