Recent content by Rob Mitchell

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 moving to the big doubles, which very few Bream seem to be able to manage.

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 D-liver. This season I’ve started using their redemption boilies, so I also got some matching pellets and have caught on those both times I’ve been out so far...

Couple of years ago at Sutton…they lick everything! They were particularly inquisitive that year at the start of the season, rope and stakes was needed to stop them slobbering all over as they’d come back soon after being shoo’d off. In the years since then they don’t seem very interested and...

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 and slightly thicker mesh (the slow melt stuff) so is actually better imo. Both will do the job fine though, I use the 25mm size for stick mixes and the ~38mm...

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 fish are still there though! It’s only prolific day ticket venues, or those with the biggest fish that will generally be busy, with full waiting lists. A...

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 remember having a figure of 8 knot fail, ever. Main reason for me is that I’m not wasting loads of hooklink material if the hook point goes, I just take the short...

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 has gone up a bit there, it’s now £25 for 24hrs (£12.50 7am-pm / 7pm-7am) but there is an excellent mixed bag of fishing. Big Barbel, Chub, Pike, Perch, Roach...

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 single bleep and spring back on the rod you occasionally get. I never bother though.

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. The shutter button is labelled ‘take’, so saying ‘tap take’ takes a photo. Works flawlessly and I don’t know why anyone would use an app or whistle or anything...

My mate was catching well on the Trent last week using the dynamite hemp+snails (small snails) with a couple of them on a pellet band or hair.

You can have both. I’ve just spent nearly 48hrs on the tidal Trent with my 9 year old daughter. She loved it - the camping out, the food, taking photos of nature and the sunsets and enthusiastically showing me the pictures. She’s been Carp fishing with me a couple of times and always comments...

Turned my ticket down this year after 4 years on the list! Had to give it some serious thought but I just won’t get the time to justify it, Sutton has enough for me.

Shame about no spare spool (should be law that all reels come with at least 2 spools!) but I can’t fault it other than that. Smooth, nice line lay, can trot a float virtually out of sight with 6lb line and not really notice much more friction on the lip of the spool. Nice clutch as well.

Daiwa GS3000. I use one with a 15’ power float and it’s a lovely reel. I pair it with a 12’ power float for Tench fishing as well.

I’m glad others have noticed this. I’ve binned 3 reels worth of Syncro XT because it was horrendous. Just about to replace with the thinking anglers OGX, which feels and looks good but haven’t used it yet so can’t speak for performance. I’m gutted they discontinued the Berkeley CM90, that...