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Thank you all, I'm going with the cultural cherrypicking 😂 I suppose we'll start calling the big perch 'hawgs' and need bigger engines on boats.

I fished Sywell a bit 5 years or so ago. It was slow going but I fished early season. If I lived closer I would love to give it another go but I’d wait until the water had warmed up and the fish were more active. It’s popular with the public but it is a really nice place. Even well past its...

Hi Joe, when I signed it up it didn’t say, ‘No pike fishing but MB and lease holder will be down there catching pike, making videos, creaming the easy fishing and posting it on social media’. Naive maybe, but I try not to think the worst of people until I have a reason to. It said no pike...

Yes, I would turn it down, live by the sword die by the sword and all that. It's one thing having it banned, another having it banned but putting videos of someone else doing it all over social media. I won't rejoin on that basis, to me a well run club has the same rules for everyone. I might be...

Hi Mike, how much is this one? Thank you

Hi Tom Fair enough, I've just distanced myself from being exposed to it all on social media in an attempt to stop my bitterness. There's been a good bit of drone flying down there though so I can only assume there will be a video up once a big one gets caught. Anyway as you said, I'm not a paid...

Agreed unfortunately. The icing on the cake for me is all the clips of pike fishing I keep seeing, on a stretch of river where the members are told they are not allowed to pike fish. Paying £200+ membership to then pay extra to watch someone catching pike I can't fish for would be self harm 😂...

A few old nighttime shots from the G10 (or 11 or maybe?) and a day time one

I’ll be keeping hydrotuff on the barbel reels for the time being. It’s a bit cheaper, serving me well and can’t see any advantage for my barbel fishing.

I wanted to spool up the carp reels with something with a clearer colour and that would cast a bit further than 20lb Hydrotuff. Instead of just dropping down on the Hydrotuff, on the enthusiasm of your post I went for some of this Solar Bulletproof in 15lb, I've only just put it on reels but it...

Hi Graham, did you take the photo? Is that the pub by the river in town?

My partner said it was bedlam near this Worcester this evening.

Relentless isn’t it. At least the rain is disappearing from the forecast over the next few days. I wonder how long it will take to properly thin down, the ground is going be chucking out water for a while I reckon. Not that much I’ll have much time to get out anyway.

Hi everyone Whats the deal with the bass like mouth grip on perch? Why are people doing it and is it bad for the fish? Personally I think it looks horrible and feel somewhat triggered each time I see a photo of it. Although I am aware that my reaction is not based on any substance.

I normally only fish one rod but it's a big swim and there's a lot of good looking water I'll often work the rod from upstream to downstream in a series of casts. Sometimes that might be 3 but could be 5, depending on the swim. Whether I'll fish upstream or downstream will also depend on...

Afternoon Dan, on the float, with prawns today. I've been enjoying that 11ft acolyte and watching the float go under so haven't given the drop shotting a concerted effort yet. That and I'm conscious I'm crap at it 😂

Hi Jon The barbel don’t know they’re on a club ticket (poor buggers), as far as I can work out the swims that look good on Wye and Usk will produce on HDAA as well.

I had a 2.07lb and 2.03lb first thing morning. Lovely fish but both recaptures of fish I had early in December. Off to look for a new spot this afternoon.

Hi Marcus Did you get the 11ft 1.75 chimera built? Just wondering how you got on with it if so.