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I’m interested to know what the guys who fish the lower Severn do regarding moving or staying put. Other than the odd occasion I only started fishing down there last season when the fishing was dire anyway and this season I started doing afternoon into night sessions and probably done about 30...

I’m more likely to move in the summer than winter when in my experience you’re fishing for one bite unless conditions are great. It took me a long time to find a couple of pegs that throw up nice fish this time of year so I’m quite happy to sit and wait for that one bite. Plus I’m normally...

Sometimes I move sometimes I don’t. It’s a double edged sword though at times cause I really hate when you move and still blank when you’ve started in a peg that you feel will do a bite at some point. On the other hand if you stay put and blank you kick yourself for not moving

Even poor quality boillies will catch barbel if they are intrigued enough. As long as it smells nice enough for them to to try it they won’t know if it was £5 a kilo or £15 a kilo

It’s been years since I brought any boillies. I did like the meateor. I was on a carp syndicate for a bit and a guy on there used to do big bait orders so stopped using them and moved onto maple8 which I loved the smell of then mk1’s which Iv still got a couple of kilo in the freezer that I use...

Do ccmoore still do the meat ones. Think they were called meateor or something?

I’d say probably. They are probably like humans where some of us are shy and timid and others are bold and brave.

Hair rigs have been used for ages and still probably catch more fish than any other method. I think it’s less the rigs that they would wise up to and more the danger of being caught in a certain area by feeding on certain baits all the time. If you kept getting ill from eating pizza from a...

I think if they wised up to rigs we’d never catch them. The oldest rigs still work after decades. I’d say they probably wise up to certain baits in the same swims if they keep getting caught but pretty sure they forget before too long as they’ll get caught again sooner or later. If they are...

That’s all well and good when the water is warm. Cold water will shock you into a panic. A chap I knew from a carp syndicate died in France a couple of years back after falling overboard from the boat he was out in the lake on

I think that comes down to the ease of other baits. It’s a lot easier to just grab a tin of meat or some boilies or pellets from home than it is to go to the tackle shop and get some maggots

Scary stuff. Crampons are a must on wet banks. Absolutely no chance of slipping

Cheers for the info. Think I’ll give the place a miss

Can you nightfish this stretch? Sure I read somewhere that the house owner doesn’t allow it but I might be wrong

Yeah I never bothered sending them off in the end was cheaper to just buy some avons

I use the same line as my main line for hooklinks. After filling my reels the rest of the spool goes in my bag to make hooklinks. Iv used a few different lines over time and you’d be surprised at the different thicknesses throughout a spool that the line changes. You can noticeably see that some...

Used to love the sufix floating line back in the day that got discontinued. Used the 8lb for floater fishing for carp and was the nuts

Iv got some old flyweights that weigh pretty much the same as my avons give or take a lb or so. So either they are both ok or they are both way off. My main beef with digitals is that the first set I got were erratic straight from the off so returned them and paid the extra for some fox digies...

Did they come past at the same time or throughout the day? I was at ladyham I think it was last year and 3 floated past within about a minute. I can understand them getting bird flu and dying but thought it a bit strange that they’d pretty much die at the same time as each other. I must say...

Wasn’t it last year or the year before loads of swans died of it. Can remember seeing a few float past