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Somewhere buried away I have an old cane fly fishing “noodle rod” that a previous owner has yacht varnished the handle on. I really ought to put a photo on here and anyone having thoughts of applying varnish onto their lovely cork handles will see how such an action is likely to result in not...

Washing up liquid and a scotchbrite seems to be the preferred method amongst the restorers but I always favoured a bit of 320 silicon carbide, as I usually have a few hundred meters of the stuff. Anything dirtier than normal usage can be sorted with oxalic acid. You won’t get the stuff I have...

This lot are now raking pre-orders so I guess they might be available pretty soon. https://www.tackleuk.co.uk/shop/RodsFloatRods/daiwa-theory-specimen-power-float-rods.htm

A lot of cane enthusiasts will tell you not to oil cork handles. I think Edward Barder also advises against doing so. I’m a French polisher and antique furniture restorer by trade and I have to say that I agree. Personally, I don’t like the look of oiled cork but perhaps more importantly, I’ve...

But on a more serious note: fishing an extremely low density stock river like the Great Ouse makes it hard to experiment in any meaningful way. People fish whole seasons without a barbel weather they move a lot or stay static.

I’ve always been convinced that whichever one I don’t do would the best option. And so I try and double bluff myself but that doesn’t work because end up double double bluffing myself. 🙄

I’ve heard this from others before Julian. You’ll get a phone call out of the blue one day telling you it’s ready. As a warning of the perils in delaying these milestone purchases, I remember lusting over a Lythe reel and considering buying it for my Fortieth. I balked at the price back then...

🤔 I’d rather a Chris Lythe with enough change for nice weekend break somewhere myself. I remember when Barders released that reel thinking how over priced it was for an outsourced manufactured, machined, and frankly boring looking reel. Needless to say the The Barder fans snapped them up quick...

Probably more chance of being apprehended by a unicorn to be fair. 😉

Only 14734 mph in my area but it is a north easterly so expect a chill too.

A recent post in another thread by Graham Elliot mentioned these. Not wishing to digress that thread onto something totally different, can someone remind me how and why you’d scour your worms? Are scoured superior to unscoured? Is it something you do to certain types of worm or all? I...

We’re at the patent office tomorrow. Tearful video being filmed next week. 😉

You think that’s impressive eh? Check out my current rig. The fused, hinged washer rig.

When Angling Technics bring out a bait boat that looks like this then I’ll be all ears.

One of the many great things about angling is that you are, by and large, and notwithstanding any club regulations, free to peruse the hobby in your own way. Like Rob, I’ll happily fish behind buzzers and baitrunners if the mood takes me but equally I’ll leave the 21st century behind me and...

I bet there’s been some right old specimens caught on this.

https://www.sfca.co.uk/record-fish/record-fish/record-fish-barbel/

I think we’ve all done the rounds of good, bad, indifferent when it comes to cold weather clothing. My worst purchase was the Trakker clothing bundle that was being sold pretty much everywhere in the early noughties. First time out, in heavy rain, in a boat in France, absolutely soaked through...

Probably the last thing my pal was worried about too, until he found himself squitting through the eye of a needle.

Wow! That’s some strong preservative treatment in that meat. Be warned though, a mate of mine caught a nasty case of the Ballroom Blitz after cross contaminating his own lunch with some unmentionable bacteria from his bait. He was poleaxed for a good few days after that.