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some great advice and info in the thread. I always have to remind myself to take my little entrenching tool when fishing steep banks, to ensure the way back up is not going to be too slippy. Referring to page one of this thread, there are certainly plenty of beery (and/or stoned) oafs and...

I discovered the hard way that your normal £4 bait dropper in the maximum size is useless on a big deep river. But then I discovered the easy way that if you put in quite a lot of gravel it'll still do the business.

Aye, mid-50's now and too late to start paying into a pension fund, can't see meself ever being in a financial poistion to retire before ill health forces it but could see meself getting out of Leeds when in my sixties to somewhere in N. Yorks with good transport connections, say the likes of...

Wow, arrived this week and I'm just making up some hooklengths. They are MASSIVE for size 8 no wonder they are bomb-proof! Seem like an ideal hook for a big lump of meat though.

thanks Clive. that helps me decide against them, very helpful (anyway, instead of purchasing that one, my local tackle shop is closing down so 30% off and I've bagged a couple of rods which i may pass comment on in due course)>

Thanks for the replies lads, really helpful.

Looking at getting a 15 foot float rod second hand, mainly for 15 foot deep rivers here in Yorks, but also thinking about casting & long trotting control on shallow gravel stretches of the wye when I go down there, so has anyone used a Mach 3 for barbel and was it OK. Like my other rod...

Nice one, not that I doubted Jon, but i wanted to hear from a 'convert' before I ordered some meself.

Anyone used one of these 12 foot Shimano Catana Barbel Power (see pic) ? Thinking of purchasing, but seller isn't a former user and doesn't know much about it, t/c not marked. This is long discontinued, not the more recently discontinued 2-tip version that has a 1.75 and a 2.25, which is all...

Quite often in this sort of thread I've seen folk say stuff like "if it gives you confidence, then fair play, it must work for you" I can see how this applies to so many sports, and so much else in life. But I struggle to see how it applies to barbel fishing. Or maybe they are just being...

Great stuff, Gerry, your threads have been really good to read. Never been too bothered about weight of fish but knowing my luck, even if I wait 55 years to break the p/b I got last year (so I'll be 108 then), it'll be 1 ounce more ... so a 9-15.

Try an oblong piece, say the shape of two and a quarter cubes end-to-end, drill though it lengthways with a thin drinking straw (I get them off the mini juice cartons), pull the drinking straw about 40% out one end, cut it off, so the drinking straw is now down the centre of just about 60% of...

Wow, I'm pretty impressed that 63% so far have been asked in the last 5 years. That's several times higher than I would have expected (I dunno, I might have guessed 12-15 %, ie about 3% of anglers in any given season) and does reassure me that they're doing a fair-ish job, on licence checking at...

The website is brilliant, and does give an indication of a really well run club. I'm always interested in the fishing down there as my elderly parents live in Findon valley near Worthing, and who knows when I might need to join if I ever have to stay down in those parts for a while.

Thanks Dave, much appreciated. I'll give it a go within a few weeks then. And apologies to those who didn't realise that my post yesterday was reviving a year-old thread.

Can't find a thread mentioning Drennan Gravel Braid. Anyone use this? I normally use Drennan Sink braid but just found 2 spools of Drennan Gravel Braid (camo brown shades) that I'd forgotten we got almost by accident 2 years ago (in fact my Mrs ordered one thinking it was sink braid, she was...

Well to be fair my Mrs drives us to a lot of my fishing ... and my local river the R. Aire is a short cycle ride ...but June 16th will be a local bus to the another river. ... Then the R. Nidd & R. Ouse are bike-on-the-train jobs, as will be the Trent for a few trips this summer. The Wye in...

sorry again.

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I honestly had to draw up a table of my 10 favourite stretches on 6 rivers, before I could decide. Ease of getting there & back (I don't drive), cost, fishability with 2 rods and multiple methods, previous catch record at the time of year, etc. The result was ... well let's just say I'll...