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My fishing mate has river fished with only barbless hooks for a couple of years (ever since a bad experience with braided mainline). He hasn’t lost many (if any fish) during that time. He tends to use fairly small (10, or sometimes 8) hooks and mono mainline these days. FWIW I lost a barbel...

Ended up on a Stillwater (again!) yesterday as even the roads were flooded round here - let alone the river. I was hoping for another carp after catching a couple last week, but things were a lot quieter and I also got absolutely drenched despite a dry forecast. After a couple of what I...

Could be really interesting; good luck.

As has been said, Shimano didn’t do ‘small’ Baitrunners in the early days. They did very good small rear drag reels - either simple match ‘float’ reels like the Aero Match 3 or fighting drag reels such as the 3000 GT which morphed into the 4000 super GT In about the mid 90’s. I still own both...

The perch fishing can be fantastic - I’ve heard of somebody having 4x 4lb fish in their landing net(s) at the same time ! That was a few years ago btw. Recently I’ve had numbers of 3+ fish by design (and whilst using wire traces to protect the pike!). Some days you can catch 2 lb + perch every...

For somebody who ‘hasn’t kept himself in the loop’ you make some pretty sweeping statements about Chew, it’s fishing and it’s management. Ive fished it on/off for trout, perch and pike for the last 25 years. The facts are that as a trout water it now makes a loss and it’s only the pike fishing...

I think it’s much more complicated than that. Ive used braid from 5 -150lb for allsorts of things including tieing on baits, lure fishing, carp hooklinks, marker work, fly fishing backing, catfish hooklinks etc etc. Some are great, some are shockingly bad. A mate bought some 30lb spod braid...

I bought a pack of the new BT wide gapes in size 8 as I like the std 8 version. I agree with Bill W's assesment- slightly finer in the wire and a more angular bend. Had a bit of time today so I took them carp fishing as a quick test. I lashed up super basic knotless knot rigs with a short hair...

Ask in the local tackle shop - Total angling. There is a big commercial nr Oswestry- Weston Pools. No idea what’s in there…..

Mine is a Garmin Striker Plus 4. Basic, small and cheap (£120 ish a year ago). It’s light years better than my old Eagle x96 (20+ years old and a similar price back then). It’s really good for solo boat trip when all I need is depth control and bottom make up info. That is entry level stuff...

I will check out out what my basic one is and let you know…..

Fantastic, well done.

It will be interesting to see how they differ from the ‘standard’ version. Please do report back. I use the standard wide gape 8 quite a bit. They have brought out a few new designs - one looks like a copy of an ESP Trighammer and the other is a version of the old Fox Series 5 (very long curved...

Same for me. They are more accurate than my Avons and a set of Reuben Heaton dial scales.

The Korum river brolly works for me on short sessions - £60 ish.

Great fish, well done. I would love a 7 from the Thames.

There is a set of 3 Harrison Chimera 3lb test rods currently on eBay. Currently very cheap. They make very serviceable pike rods (I have a pair). No connection to me.

How I wish I had your sense of humour.

You are SO out of touch it’s embarrassing…… Read the ‘Master Plan’ for the CWP. Then you might change your mind, It was funded by the government and NE (English Nature in those days). The basic outcome was an acknowledgement that there was NO money to fund biodiversity - so the perceived (!)...