Recent content by Terry Simner

They should be fitted with S-lite guides John, sold by (they'll tell you the internal diameter required).. https://johnsonrosstackle.co.uk/rings/20403-free-spirit-s-lite-twin-leg-gunsmoke-frame-guides.html OR https://tacklebox.co.uk/rod-building/rod-guides/free-spirit-s-lite-ring-gunsmoke-rsl/...

https://felindreinnovations.co.uk/reel-servicing FOR RECOMMENDATIONS ..... https://barbel.co.uk/forum/threads/felindre-innovations-reel-parts-and-servicing.18591/

I bought a pair of Korum 2.5lb/12ft rods (Code : K0330023) in December 2024, for wanging big lumps of lead 20-25m out into 30ft of Lower Severn flood water whilst up to my calves in mud. They've not been tested by a big girl yet but they felt absolutely fine during half a dozen sessions. The...

Bump ... seeing as it's now the Close Season... a real bargain at £400.

No, I'd put that down to pure 'luck'. And I think the only thing you'd learn from that would be ...the only thing we do know, is often we don't know.

Tempted ... I'm down to just one of them, and never had a silver one 🤔

I think one thing that fosters a belief in 'intuition' or us having a 'sixth sense' is bias confirmation, in that .... if we look at a swim and think "There, that's the spot" (and we catch), or we've been fishing for a few hours and we're thinking of packing up and then think "No, just one last...

Maybe for those more used to baitcaster/multiplier reels (e.g. for the US market etc)

I wouldn't use the word "intuition", but I do believe that 'watercraft' is something that may be an increasingly neglected 'art'. Those that fish streams and small river will always need it so as to be successful ...but yes, I do believe that anglers/humans are increasingly less 'in-tune' with...

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There We Are Then

I started trundling in the early 80's, with lob worm on the Severn. I was frustrated being unable to cast a more or less unweighted worm across to the far side, and eventually (after talking to a guy in Fenwick's, in Wolves...remember them!) ended up building myself a rod on a fly fishing blank...

Well I reckon the only way the Teme (being an SSSI) will get any 'new' barbel swimming in it are from the small amount of small fish stocked over the last few years into the Severn between Bewdley and Shrewsbury. They'd have to migrate downstream to below Worcester though, then enter the Teme...

Only those connected directly to the Europe continent via Doggerland (circa 8,000 years ago)

Weed can be an issue at Duddy, but the weed is mostly on the field/popular/sunny side. I'll only fish for tench via the 'lift method' (ledger caught fish don't count imo :p ) so I find weed to be less of a problem. Their stretch of the Avon is ok for 5lb+ snotties, and zander, but not really a...