Recent content by Tim Marks

Guide Fly Fishing are really good. They used to import Scott rods - which I used in the days of 3 piece travel rods (pre 9/11).

Google says the average 50 - 60 year old U.K. male these days weighs around 13 1/2 stone…… I’m a skinny wretch which is probably why I have used an Aeronium chair for 3 or 4 seasons without breaking it. I’m told the welds on those break if you are heavy.

It looks a bit like a simplified version of an FG knot. I’ve never seen or heard of it before (and I’m a bit of knot geek as a result of my saltwater fly fishing). Recently I’ve tied my combi rigs with a size 11 swivel as the join. It looks awful but for reasons I can’t explain it works really...

Len A also wrote a chapter for the book ‘chasing chevin’ where he talks about using very light legering rods.

I think it was the light version. 2 mates of mine used the heavy version for a while - but stopped when they realised that they were losing fish on them because the action caused the rod to ‘lock up’ under compression and then pull hooks out. I remember watching one of them lose a big fish at...

There was an 8ft 4wt SLT for sale on Flyforums the other day. If you know, you know.

Cotswold Baits, now you are talking….

I use an Aeronium and the Duralite is better. I bought one as backup when a load got sold off cheap - the Aeronium is supposed to have dodgy welds. Mine is still solid after 3 or 4 years regular use.

Mattesons garlic sausage. 1990’s. Spectacularly more productive on the B Avon than ‘normal’ luncheon meat. Fished with stringers, a certain Mr T West described it as ‘cheating’.

I had an SS4 - 10ft, 2lb test. Green glass with a leather handle and Fuji plate reel seat. I built it myself when I was 18 (1976). It bent like a piece of overcooked spaghetti. Yet I kept catching 20+ pike on it. I lent/gave it to one of my brothers when he got a boat. It might still exist If...

I was on about the price point as much as anything. It is good to see bait manufacturers trying to sell quality bait for a change.

Seems like Baitworks Pro-flow has opened up a new segment of the market.

As per DJ above. A mate fished it a few years back on match gear and had fish to 13. I’ve just watched the 2024 Nick Marsh video and I would do exactly that. Short hooklink, heli rigs and a big cage feeder or a 50g black cap over a bed of bait. I’ve bream fished like that since 1990. They...

Same here. Paul built me a pair of Tristar 12ft 1.75 tc carp rods in about 1984. Century blanks. They became my go to specialist rods in later years and caught loads of big fish.

Dave Lumb, Mark Tunley, Kev Baines (but he might have retired).