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But surely they'll soon spread naturally to maximum levels anyway? Even the "think on" message will cause anti-angler feeling among the general public, if say for example anglers started to campaign against the recent trend for building daft tokenistic artificial otter holts in riverside parks...

Thanks Jason. I'm not telling anyone what not to campaign about, I'm just explaining how it isn't apathy that will stop people joining the Spartacuses on this one. It's just realism.

I've spent a lot of my life campaigning on issues (not angling ones), long enough to have worked with thousands of wonderful Spartacuses on successful campaigns and failed ones, and long enough to see a total non-starter when I see one. The otters have won, they will continue to win with the UK...

My Mrs wants to go to the Unicorn for bank holiday weekend but I've been researching and I reckon it'll get too crowded and we should lave that one till September ... if anyone else has a suggestion where we can camp behind the peg on severn, and where dogs are welcome on lead , please let me...

Found out from Worcester's FB that the annual Bishopswood tickets are now only available by post or from the shop in Worcester.

Thanks, the reply is appreciated.

Thanks Graham. Wonder if the garage now do the yearbooks for Bishopswood? They didn't previously. And could you remind me what the Hom Green stretch is called? Dioes Angling Dreams do that now?

After this very sad news about a great character and a wonderful shop, full of great advice ... Can the club tickets (Ross, Worcester, Monmouth, etc etc) still be purchased anywhere in Ross, given that the Angling Dreams chap in the other shop is basically an agent for his own posh stretches at...

The study linked by Joe is very convincing in its conclusions: Isotopic analysis results highlighted that all weight classes of P. clarkii were subject to predation by eels. As reported in previous studies, smaller crayfish were most strongly preyed upon regardless of predator size (Engl- und &...

Some ugly beggars on there, aren't there? Makes you realise why we love our barbel so much.

Plus you learn the secret hand-shake and get the private body piercing which is still obligatory although the secret is out and it has been widely copied for well over a century, even by royalty. Means you always have a handy spare running ring for your rigs too.

Agree with the general idea that many stretches on many rivers are pressured and do not need any peg-snaffling vultures "gegging in" (as they say where I come from), so names are generally best not named. Just to point out though that some are not pressured, and need more fishing. So whereas i...

Never had a chub on slug yet, but it's always been a real 'Mr. Crabtree' type experience that i want to to tick off. There's so many crawling all over on an evening on the banks of the Nidd, literally all over my gear, that i always try a couple of casts with slugs as a bait rotation, but no...

I can't comment on that supplier. the bulk price looks OK. But what i wanted to say is it makes me realise what a good deal we get at the Bobco shop in Leeds, where you can choose any 3 bags of any size or colour pellets, mix and match, totalling 0.6 kg per bag, for £5, with 10% loyalty card...

I'm looking on that Aliexpress and there's not a Chinese reel for less than I'd normally pay for a second-hand reel on Gumtree, to collect locally, or at a car boot sale. Most of my major tackle (except line and hooks) comes from Gumtree, especially job lots when people get rid of departed dad's...

While I'm sure our views on the matter are similar Graham, I hope it was deleted for sound arithmetical reasons - there are not 6.8 million anglers in the UK. 24 years ago, when there were many more than today, the pumped-up estimate was 2.9 million. In the seventies I always remember 3...

https://www.anglingtimes.co.uk/news-2019/498-vote-to-scrap-the-river-closed-season So only 13,680 could be arsed to respond. 6,800 anglers want to scrap the closed season. Is that a mandate for a step into the unknown?

Jusr re-spooled with Daiwa Sensor for the 5th season in a row. I think this is the third bulk spool in all that time, at about £8 a spool, covering several reels for me and a couple for my Mrs. In clear water not too snaggy with small mainly natural baits my set up is: Daiwa sensor main...

Closed season two thirds gone at midnight tonight. One month to go. Time to sharpen the slashers, ready for a few work parties.

Just realised that not only is the closed season already half gone at noon tomorrow (April 30th), but in all likelihood it's less time till I land my next barbel than it is since I caught my last one. Good excuse for another glass of wine that is, even on a Monday evening. Cheers everyone!