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Not strictly on the bank, but as I was on a fishing holiday it is near enough. Isle of Sky, 21st May this year , about 11.25 am . We were doing a tour of the northern tip of Skye , and came across a ruined church at a place called Hallin , which is a very isolated headland, no houses nearby at...

Quite popular in the vintage tackle world. I have a few, made from split cane, knitting needles, bamboo skewers etc. I use them on a local pond with a swimfeeder for whatever comes along really, they are very sensitive, but a liner can look like a full blown bite as opposed to the twitch you...

Something at least as important. Make sure the lead you want to melt is bone dry, water and hot lead do not get on , and will explode , Its no fun when that happens, I make large sinkers by the hundred for my boat fishing friends /club, and over the past 30 years plus have had a couple of near...

River Teme this morning, has about a foot on since Sunday. Just a flying visit to friends Mike, no chance to wet a line unforunately . We are up on the Teme for a week ,seems that I am cursed with Chublets no matter what I try 😋 David

River Wye at Bredwardine yesterday, about 5 ft on nsl Looking downstream from the bridge, there is normally a large pebble beach to the right hand side . David

If thats what it takes to convert chub knocks into a two foot twitch lead me to the green tights dept in Marks n Spencers . 🤭 Dave

I am actually sat here on the banks of the Teme now Neil . 👀 David

Read over the previous pages and dont understand a word of it 🤣🤣🤣. Call me old fashioned, but I just use a hook, and some mono or flouro , with a home made feeder or home made lead , or freelined bait and it seems to work for me. David

Looks to me like Korda are trying to re invent the wheel. Nothing new there . David

I really do not think there is a right or wrong way to “Wallis Cast “. I taught myself via the University of Youtube and reading a few books on the subject. I basically fumbled around until I found the most comfortable way of doing it for myself. As Ben says,the holding the lead method , I find...

I used to fish the upper Ribble a lot, got to know the swims and caught fairly consistently. The key in my case at least was putting in the hours , keeping diaries and eventually being confident in where I was putting the bait. Sounds easy , well it is not rocket science , but I can say that...

On another thread on here I read something that rung so true with me. I rarely ever buy new gear . What I have works for me , and so long as it does why should I replace it ? Some gear is very old, cane and pin mosty, some vintage fixed spools as well.I like using vintage gear , no doubt it has...

A bit difficult with a vintage Mitchell 300, but if I have to I manage to trip the bail by manually releasing the bail arm ”catch” . TBH the Mitchell Bail arm is a really good design imo and works as an auto closing system as well or better than many modern ones . My Beach fixed spools all...

Pellets and Spam , I do not see the need , or want to be bothered with boilies. For me they offer nothing in the way of being a bait , altogether too artificial for me . I do not dispute that they work , but I am a bit old fashioned, I even feel a bit of a fraud using Hali pellets tbh . In...

Ewe nuts, there used to be a chap fished the Ribble who only ever used them , he had a smallholding , kept sheep . When setting out for a day on the river he just grabbed a couple of handfulls on the way to the car ( handfulls of nuts , not sheep ) He always seemed to catch well enough . I have...

Good point Richard. I was not aware of this, and probably a good percentage of everybody using them arent either. Are trout pellets the same ? I could also ask what is the percentage of undesireable content in in the hundreds of bags of other processed baits sold to anglers . Nobody mentions...

Failing the above, take a quantity of Halibut Pellets and put them into a bowl, fill the bowl just below the level of the pellets with hot water and leave overnight as Steve says above re trout pellets . In the morning the pellets will have absorbed the water and with a bit of kneading you will...

Still cannot make it , the two dates fall smack in the middle of us travelling and visiting friends so “buggeration” again. Wherevere / whenever it happens tight lines to everybody. David

Bugger ,just a week too early , I am in Cornwall that week and near to your venue the week after .😕 David

Right and wrong is in the eye of the user. There are no fixed rules unless applied by the fishery owner/ licencing authority . We all have our own ideas as to what is acceptable practice, but is it right to be pedantic ? For instance I would never use braid in freshwater having seen the...