Recent content by Sam Lloyd

As Alan says they did a 13’ 10”, 12’ 10” and 11’ 10” river version. I have a pair of the 13’ 10”s and a 12’ 10. They are my go to normal level Barbel / Chub / Bream feeder rods on the Middle Severn. Plenty of power, and fairly light (much lighter than Acolyte Distance Feeder rods, which I use...

Big barbel near the fire station I heard.

Just been sent a video of the fire. Not good 😞

I’m a bit of a tart… In the autumn / winter I take a cordless jet wash to give my box a blast down before it goes back in the truck (just to get the bulk of the mud off). It uses the same batteries as my groundbait drill which is useful. As I fish matches i tend to completely empty out my...

😂 While I remember, can you get me some more of those lobworms for Sunday from that place near you buddy? Mine are all dying in this heat

Lads if this ever happens to you one trick is to have two guys pulling, and have a third gently tapping the joint. It’s quite a common occurrence when pole fishing, and that usually does the trick.

Get your club to get a Polaris and check the water like mine has. I’ve even posted you up the tables to check against.

Absolute over reaction to blanket shut rivers. Perhaps you could post some actual data and facts like I have and back up why they should shut? I’ve not seen a single DO result below the normal threshold yet, let alone any causes for concern. A lot of parroting and virtue signalling going on at...

Be about 65C for sub-lethal and 80C for lethal. I reckon you’d probably have poached barbel before they ran out of oxygen at saturation point.

Perhaps all Barbel could be moved into stillwaters where the water can be aerated year round regardless of conditions?

Do you own / have you used one? Strange comment as I’ve had the odd barbel and plenty of chub on my acolyte float rods without issue. My “out and out” Barbel float rods are Shimano Beastmasters, 13ft for waggler (I’d prefer 14ft, but waiting for one to come up) and 15ft for bolo/avon/stick.

But they’re not “suffering to the point of killing aquatic life” …

I think a few are getting confused with the consequences of the lowered oxygen saturation point with increasing temperatures. We are not going to see water temps get to a level where at saturation point there isn’t enough oxygen for coarse fish. The important reading is the dissolved oxygen...

Sizes 12-20 super spades depending on how many maggots you want to present. Hooklength for Barbel would be something like 0.19 or 0.21 Preston reflo, starting at 1m and lengthen if you’re struggling for bites, and shorten if you are missing them (more likely to be Dace or Chub than Barbel in...

Soil plays a big part in a lot of match fishing groundbait mixes for silverfish. The idea being it’s 1) an attractor with low feed content 2) some soils are used for their higher density to help sink groundbait in deep water I’m lazy and buy it from tackle shops rather than go riddling molehills 😂