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I started using micro barbed last year after never using barbed before due to losing 1 in 3 fish to hook pulls most of which were when I’d got the fish to within a rod length out. I’d started using new rods at the start of the season and that’s the only thing I could put it down to. My old rod...
Yeah to be fair Iv sacked them off til it gets cold. Gone back to my army gortex. Still wearing shorts for work but recon I’d freeze on a night sat by the river in shorts lol
I brought a tracker 3 piece set a few weeks back. I had an old Shakespeare set Iv had for years but hardly ever wore. Decided to stick them on the other week when it was windy and I was drenched by the time I got in the car from condensation. Brought the tracker set and first time using them was...
One of the reasons I prefer a big chunk to small piece is that if an eel finds it it can’t wolf it down in one bite. Usually takes a while unless they bite right where the hook is. The first time I ever used half a big tin of spam on the hook I ended up catching the smallest eel Iv ever caught...
Big barbel will fit it in easy but you’re right in a way as sometimes they will bite the meat where the hook is and get hooked and occasionally when you land the fish you still have half your meat that has slid up the hooklink.
When I brought mine I brought 2 sizes bigger. I wanted just one size bigger so I’d have room to wiggle my toes as I think tight boots make your feet cold but that size was £35 more. I can wear a good pair of Marino wool socks and a pair of boot liners and still have wiggle room in the size 12 I...
Yeah I still get cold feet in mine but they’re better than walking boots. I brought a box of toe warmers a year or so back that help a bit but I have to stick them directly on my toes not on the outside of my socks
Brought a pair of 11 foot the start of last season. Unfortunately Iv not really got anything to compare them with as had been using my John Wilson rod for 16 years before hand. I always used to use barbless hooks and one problem I did have with them was I was losing a ridiculous amount of fish...
Plus I don’t know the Wye particularly so no idea where about on the river those measuring stations are so no idea of depths of water.
In saying that though also don’t know at what depths these measurements are taken. I don’t know if they measure in the river or remove a bit of water to analyse
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