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    New Chair

    Suggest you get a new arse!
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    New Chair

    One advantage with the Fox Duralight is that it has arms - the older I become the more I need arms to push myself up from a chair!
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    length of hooklengths?

    On a number of rivers I have used a 4 inch hooklength to a method feeder. I often feel a problem is barbell spooking off almost vertical line near the hookbait but I fish the method without a backlead with some success. However if I was to use a shorter hooklength I would normally use a...
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    Roach

    I remember a day in the pipe swim on the Royalty years ago. Barbel were caught in the morning but bites dried up in the afternoon. As we fed maggots shoals of chub and roach greedily devoured them on the drop but a single maggot on a hook was totally ignored (because they could tell the...
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    Bait additive.

    I'd put it on a piece of chicken!
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    It's Spawning Time

    Frogs spawning in the garden pond today so it must be spring and getting warmer but I imagine barbel will wait for at least another couple of months!
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    Preston Carbonactive 12.9 heavy Float rod

    I have used 10lb straight through on the basic 13ft Asaki Carbonactive blank with a 2ft extension to 15ft trotting for barbel to 9lb on the fast flowing Wye with no probs - it don't half bend!!
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    Original Fox Rods, What was in the range?

    Also in the green 12 9 Barbel Float 13 Barbel Float See Ebay currently for 1.5 Barbel and 12 9 Barbel Float
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    Original Fox Rods, What was in the range?

    0.75lb Avon / Quiver
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    Fox 11' 1 1/2 lb. Barbel Special Rod RD 3507

    Hi Brian see pm
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    Perch

    I don't doubt Grahams experience of perch taking livebaits head first. I think sometimes we argue because our experiences are different and we think our experience is the norm when others think their different experience is the norm! One of the addictive, frustrating and interesting aspects of...
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    Perch

    Another thought maybe worth a try: because perch can be inclined to attack their prey from behind some anglers prefer to hook their livebaits in the root of the tail.
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    new fishing jacket

    You sure its the rain!
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    new fishing jacket

    The zip went on my jacket which was still good. So I took it into a backstreet tailors who put a new zip in for £12
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    Barbel & Crayfish

    Other than using flavoured marbles and ball bearings are there any barbel baits resistant to crayfish or that they do not like? (to dream the impossible dream!!)
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    Dropper vs loose bait

    Although I have caught barbel "on the drop" using a "dinner gong" 5oz feeder crashing in like a housebrick(!), there is a train of thought that spooky barbel are scared of the (even small) splash of a dropper and particularly the thunk vibration it makes on the hard (gravel) river bed especially...
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    Daiwa Harrier Autobail 1657DM Reel with spare spool x 2

    I will have one. PM sent
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    Clip on polaroids

    One of the things I have noticed is that the lenses on your glasses can scratch where the clips fit. I have slipped some clear (shrink) tube onto the clips to prevent this. I do have some overfits as well which are better but more bulky and difficult to carry in a pocket
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    Socks

    In my experience we walk to a swim. Walking makes feet sweat, sweat chills, feet get cold. We need something to wick the sweat away and keep the feet warm. My solution: I wear merino wool socks on top of which I wear BAMA SOKKETS (£9 Ebay) which are really thick so I then wear boots at least...
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    Perch

    I too have had problems with prawns floating. To get them to sink you need to take them out of the freezer earlier and then give them a good long soak in water so they rehydrate
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