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I will get a size guide from mine for you . I Am 6 ft tall and 14 stone . Jacket Salopettes. I am fairly sure that if you buy online and they dont fit you can get a refund from an Aldi store, but dont quote me on that . I bought something from an Aldi in Cornwall when I got home...

A lot depends upon where I am fishing, a slow moving or slack water swim , I will only loose feed small amounts of hookbaits in the area I hope to catch, plus a pouch or two of hemp. The hookbaits are usually Spam or Halibut pellet behind the smallest lead I can get away with, even sometimes...

You can buy the bib and brace, and the jacket online from Aldi. I bought a spare pair of the salopettes a couple of years ago, but the ones I originally bought a year or two before have been so hard wearing , warm,and waterproof I have not needed to open them yet . The jacket is likewise a warm...

Sat one evening fishing on the Ribble down at the bottom of one of its steeper banks, speaking to wife on the phone . All quiet , a peaceful evening, birds chirruping , the odd fish rising, we were chatting away when suddenly there was a bellowing at hundreds of decibels from behind me, at the...

Thanks for that Rhys, 👍 David.

Hi, for next year I am looking for a stretch of water on the Severn with a reasonable head of Barbel ,somewhere around Ironbridge . I would like somewhere that I could buy a reasonably priced yearbook for . Could anybody recommend any clubs that fit the bill please ? Many thanks . David

To be honest, I like both Mortimer and Whitehouse as comedians , they have both done good things in the past but having watched a couple of episodes of it, it just did not do it for me, so I have not bothered at all since then . Just the same things , but different places. It seems disjointed...

Not really Gage, even though I dont use them too often, they are my go to floodwater rods. If I let them go I would only have to replace them with something else. Dave

Not that I fish the Trent much at all, but I have a pair of 12ft Fox Barbel Duo floodwaters ,2,75lb TC.They are Green with a nice cross weave They are lovely rods, lots of low down power. I suppose they are on the older end of rods , I hesitate to call them old school though when I usually use...

For me it started way back when I was about 13 yrs old, 1965, it would have been, a friend took me to see the Swale at Topcliffe, a very different place then really, the Bull length below the bridge was day ticket and had Barbel that lived just under some nearside bank willows, the willows had...

One thing I didnt mention, is the “ bycatch “ of some big Chub occasionally, a 7 lb Chub has no problem engulfing a a haf a tin sized bait at all, goodness knows how they do it but when they come along they are a welcome interference. David.

Hi Michael,, Thank you , yes, I am a sort of dedicated cane bodger 🤣🤣. I make things from all sorts of odds and ends. The top of the rest is actually a wooden spoon that I adapted as a sort of rest top to stop a fish pulling the rod in .It is a telescopic rest as so many places need a...

I think Bob is bang on the money there. I fish a couple of swims on the Wye very similar in description, I do use a small link ledger about two feet back from the bait . I use 12 lb hooklength to 15 lb main line.Why the heavy setup ? Well I have been seen off a couple of times with fish heading...

👍 Well spotted Mike !

No Joe, I named that one Elisabeth after the recently departed .😋 Actually it is bamboo with a sort of forked branch snag top . I have a pair of them . David

Dawn breaking , River Wharfe .

Basically I think commercially made rigs catch more anglers than fish , after all they would not be made unless there was a market for them, and boy there must be a market because there seem to be thousands. All you need to make an effective rig is Mono and a hook IMO. I manage fine with...

Somebody has grabbed a bargain here 👍. David

River Bohme, Bomlitz, Lower Saxony Germany . This section of this little river is in the bottom of a forest ravine . It suffered greatly from a storm some time ago, when a lot of the trees came crashing down and either bridged the river or made a blockage, as a result it has silted up badly...

Works the opposite for me, unless we are away and say I am fishing the Wye , its a case of in bed by probably 11pm which is early for me, up at 3.am and on the bank fishing for 5 am . Early sessions are my favoured approach although I used to fish till about midnight regularly when I was fishing...