Recent content by Tim Penn

Merry Christmas everyone

My custom build torrix carp rods are awesome, and I love my mark tunley multi tip, so I may look into a mark tunley Harrison down the line

I love it, I thought camp halibut was incredible, and the interview with the shark skipper too. Agree with all other comments, well worth the money. I subscribe to that, and also winning ways for some of my other fishing (I use a pole and seatbox sometimes and fish the odd commercial) and those...

I’m going tomorrow, fishing for anything that’s hungry, but as it’s the upper Lea I’m not sure it counts as it never seems to flood. The Ouse and ouzel are rising insanely quickly though.

To revive this, I’ve been to the test at timsbury once and the lower itchen twice in the past couple of weeks. In my view at the moment the itchen is fishing far better as its coping much better with the lack of rain we’ve had. I had a handful of grayling from the test but nothing of note, but...

I use the 15ft plus, it’s plenty powerful enough for grayling, probably too powerful, but my reason for using it is its also powerful enough to cope with the trout which are always close by

I’ll be sure to try more intricate tweaks next time, but I also think despite having a good day today, they will feed more willingly when the river has a bit of flow to it. Septembers rains seem to have only been absorbed by the ground, it’s very low atm

I got recommended Frost & Flood, but I don’t plan to roll my own with it. After speaking to JB about my idea and him thinking it was a great shout I’ve added a drop or two to a small diffuser mixed with water and I’m going to spray soak my pellets with it in the colder months

Funnily enough Graham I did give them a go and couldn’t get a touch despite the swim being black with fish, they weren’t a bit interested if a white maggot was involved either, red got hit immediately, nature eh!

Awesome session and video mate.

Had over 20 chub at around the 1.5-2lb mark today while actually trying to chase dace, had 9 barbel too. All on trotted maggots, didn’t get a single dace or roach all day despite there being giants amongst the shoals. Guess I need to fine down further, but that risks getting broken up by the...

Thanks guys, best to be prepared.

Do the stands take card or is it cash only? I’ve never been but I might take a trip down this year

Thanks Graham, I’ll give that a go on the itchen when I go.

Hi Graham, that’s the stuff I have now, the one I used before was from a company called fresh baits, they no longer exist unfortunately from what I can find. Their red corn was almost the same colour as a pomegranate seed, much deeper and darker. Whether it made any difference who knows. Wish it...