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Rob Mitchell

Rob Mitchell

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      Rob Mitchell reacted to Lewis Baldwin's post in the thread Avoiding bream !! with Like Like.
      Ive just read Tony Miles, Elite Barbel for the umpteenth time. When he was on Adams Mill before it became well known he would...
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      Rob Mitchell replied to the thread Avoiding bream !!.
      Double 18-20mm boilies on longish hairs stops them on the Trent for me. I’ve had as many as 30 Bream in a session before giving in and...
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      Rob Mitchell reacted to Ady Brayshaw's post in the thread Best pellets with Like Like.
      That's the same experience I've had. The sonubaits spicy sausage not a single fish, but quite a few on the blood worm. The fish in my...
    • Rob Mitchell
      Rob Mitchell replied to the thread Best pellets.
      I’ve used the 8mm 3ft twitch pellets for a couple of seasons now on the Trent. Caught loads on them, both the lamprey and herring, and...
    • Rob Mitchell
      Rob Mitchell replied to the thread Cows.
      Couple of years ago at Sutton…they lick everything! They were particularly inquisitive that year at the start of the season, rope and...
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      Rob Mitchell replied to the thread PVA mesh.
      I use mesh for stick mixes all the time. Westmore for several years then recently tried Carp King, which seems to be a finer hole size...
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      Rob Mitchell replied to the thread New Age Of Barbel Fishing.
      Inversely, those anglers disappear when the cooler weather comes and I have been the only person on Bob’s more than once in winter. The...
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      Rob Mitchell reacted to Paul Bullinger's post in the thread New Age Of Barbel Fishing with Like Like.
      Just to put a different "spin" on this topic: I live in Norfolk. We used to have barbel in the Wensum and occasionally one would turn up...
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      Rob Mitchell replied to the thread Combi Rig - loop to loop or albrighton?.
      Loop to loop for me with figure of eight knot. Haven’t had a single one fail in at least 5 seasons of using combi rigs, and I can’t...
    • Rob Mitchell
      Rob Mitchell replied to the thread Day / night ticket waters . . ..
      A1 pits is decent but gets very busy, everywhere starts to quieten down come autumn though. There’s also Bob’s Island in Newark. Price...
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      Rob Mitchell reacted to Connor Smith's post in the thread Heat! with Like Like.
      Too hot for me, did want to go this evening but il give it a miss with this heat. I don't really agree with fishing for them in this...
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      Rob Mitchell reacted to Jon Frisby's post in the thread Braid choice for hooklinks with Like Like.
      Quite an interesting thread lads... for combilinks I have for a few years used Korda supernatural in 18 and 25lb. Knots really well and...
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      Rob Mitchell replied to the thread Bite alarms on strong rivers (ie the Trent).
      Only use really is if they are the type that you can clip the line into, then a drop back at distance would register better than a...
    • Rob Mitchell
      Rob Mitchell replied to the thread Good bit of kit for self takes....
      Strange, as on mine it’s ’tap take’. I tell Siri to turn on voice control, ‘open camera’, ‘show names’ and all the buttons are labelled...
    • Rob Mitchell
      Rob Mitchell reacted to Carl Massey's post in the thread No passion for angling? with Like Like.
      Great picture Rob (and daughter)! I think that certainly sums up fishing as there’s achievement but more just the pure joy of it all. I...
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