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  1. Jim Ufton

    Prolonged heat

    Easiest way to help is to ban fishing altogether,,, i would be carefull how far you take this thread,,,,
  2. Jim Ufton

    Prolonged heat

    Wow, 27c water temp sid ???
  3. Jim Ufton

    Prolonged heat

    Dove and upper trent both 21c yesterday , i'm not preaching to anyone, but for me till its back down to mid teens my rods arn't coming out , Regards
  4. Jim Ufton

    Losing your mojo?

    Like i said in an earlier post, because its a part of the river angler ,we can't wait to get back at it, we have just had 3months off and surely the fish are ready, but how many of us get off to a flier,(unless you fish the aquariums) not many, ive been twice and come back home after an hour...
  5. Jim Ufton

    Losing your mojo?

    Spot on neil,
  6. Jim Ufton

    Hook length Braid sinking

    Surely easier to see with all the crap running over it !
  7. Jim Ufton

    Hook length Braid sinking

    If your catching adam, its working, don't break it, (when kryston changed their dark mantis it drove me daft trying to replace it, if i'm honest i still haven't settled on a hooklink, i tried many ,and most are in the garage or bin, i've been using the esp tungsten, and catching using it ,but...
  8. Jim Ufton

    Hook length Braid sinking

    I use 15lb berkley big game from the reel to the hooklink, and generally the hooklink is coated braid (20lb) around30 inch, connected by swivel, with a beadbuffer ,and a beefed up drennan blockend drilled out feeder ,(various weight/holes etc) free running swivel connection, fished in tandem...
  9. Jim Ufton

    Hook choice???

    Only use korum s5, managed to get enough to see me out, tried various hooks as i was learning , had a fair few pulled out of shape on the dove, including a few mentioned in this post, but never had a problem with the s5, why they stopped making them beggars belief, they hold on even when i've...
  10. Jim Ufton

    Hook length Braid sinking

    Esp tungsten loaded, nail it to the bottom
  11. Jim Ufton

    Hook length Braid sinking

    Combi rigs , more places to break, they can see fluro anyway,,,
  12. Jim Ufton

    Bite alarms

    But you can touch led all night and look at anything you want,,,,,,
  13. Jim Ufton

    Bite alarms

    Sorry chris but we will have to agree to disagree, no way will alarms beat eyes and fingers, and to say you never had a three foot twich from a barbel, however light you set a cluch, i rest my case m'lud Regards
  14. Jim Ufton

    Bite alarms

    Anglers miss so many indications by relying on alarms, nothing beats watching and learning whats going on, its not always a three foot screamer,,,,
  15. Jim Ufton

    Hooklength choice??

    Uppet trents crystal chris,,,,
  16. Jim Ufton

    Hooklength choice??

    Start of the season is always crap, unless you fish the aquariums,,,, not been out yet, roll on the fishing season, september onward,,,
  17. Jim Ufton

    Hooklength choice??

    Original mantis dark, i wish i could still get some,,,,,,
  18. Jim Ufton

    Barbel Groundbaits

    Never used pva bags, paranoid about them rolling off down stream with the free offerings, might be ok when the rivers low, but get a foot or so on the trent or dove and they might be ok in a peg down nottingham way,,,,,
  19. Jim Ufton

    Barbel Groundbaits

    Wow ,these baits really do catch, anglers
  20. Jim Ufton

    Downstream rod

    Two bites in one session!!!!!!
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