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With the association of class structure in angling you get your answer I would say. Coarse fishing roots are not the same as Game fishing where guides and ghilles are more common. That’s pretty much all there is to it. It’s a cultural perhaps historical thing.

Good to see Fergal getting the message out there loud and clear. But I’ve got to clear my cookies now I’ve watched that, don’t want to spend the next six months with thumb nails and suggestions from LBC and Mr O’Briens rage bait.

He always came across a good bloke on here. RIP Gerry.

It’s poaching pure and simple. I was about 15 when I saw it first, bit niave and thought he was just a bad fisherman. Turns out the chap doing this on the Stour was setting his traps, basically a rod top with a rig tied to the eye and come back in the morning. I later found out he’d have 10 or...

Very Chub like.

I like the Guru speed beads for this job.

I’ve never heard of Earthwatch and I assume they have commissioned test kits for the project. I’m also assuming that whomever specified that kit is better qualified than I, but, that is what I would consider a low range Nitrate kit. A testing window for that parameter would typically be 0-100...

Perhaps some of the Salmon nets would suit you better?

Interested in this topic and I think it’s probably a very valuable thing for the Barbel angling community to observe, with these fish becoming scarce our record keeping is quite important really. In terms of the sexual distinction I’ve never been aware of a marker of differences between male...

Didn’t know they did them. Just straight out the bag usually, drilled or glued back to back. I used to use the small boilies as well.

The Source pellet, 6mm. Probably caught more fish on those than anything else.

I assume that like the Terrapins we see round here, they will be unable to breed?

John Osbourne did pretty well from it…

I did try braided mainline for this style of fishing years back, admittedly the application would be better now than then but I found that cut offs where more likely and hook pulls more likely. No impact on the catch rate. One thing I feel, and I see no one else mention is that with a braided...

THE safest thing to do is not catch the damn things, it’s an unfortunate truth but it’s the truth but we’re not going to do that are we so best practice is to be a mindful as we can. It’s a bit like crossing the road. Limiting time out the water so that the fish remains wet, protecting its...

The same reason people throw French words into English sentences and buy over priced shoes from Italy etc etc, the foreign is fancy and it’s been that way long before the British even drank tea. The Romans left Britain over 1500 years ago and people still think flip flops are cool…

My guess, production costs. The Yeti was so different from other models in the VAG range that its production cost was probably a bit high. The Karoq shares its chassis with the VW T Roc and Seat Atec. The reason all the cars look the same these days, is most of them are!

We had the Volvo XC40 until summer. It was spacious but nothing extraordinary, and I have to say I found the build quality a little poor. We had an issue with the electrical tailgate which they took months to fix, admittedly under warranty. My wife liked it, I did not. We test drove a few...

Could you not use a bolt and some washers then use a nut to pull the bearing out the seat, then as the old Haynes manual refitting is the reverse of removal. Effectively make a puller. Be safer on the seat.

The braid colour makes it easier for you, to watch the cast to fish moving water with the bow etc. I have found that with the Perch using a flouro leader instead of wire helps, I’ve watched them spook on the wire but that is in gin clear water. If I’m doing that then I only use the smallest...