Search results

Hemp comes from Russia with 57% of the worlds supply!

Thats reminded me, I seem to recall a news story from a few years back, where a UK farmer had to destroy his entire crop, as it wasn’t properly licensed!

Well according to Google, Russia produces 57% of the world‘s Hemp Seed and Ukrainian 11%, so there’s your answer!

At these prices, why aren’t British farmers growing it?

Where are people currently buying hemp seed from? I've normally forked out a bit more and bought from Hinders or CC Moore in the past, as their hemp is always prewashed and doesn't end up crawling with all sorts of bugs after a few months in storage. I've found this a common problem when buying...

I’ll never forget when Nick Fisher said on BBC Radio 5, “The best thing about fishing, is it’s the only time, I can talk about a greased ringed piece, without getting into trouble!”. I nearly crashed the car in hysterics 🤣 RIP ☹️

He’s in most of their recent videos on YouTube….. specimen Tench, Roach, Bream and Rudd 👍🏻

Drennan appear to have been making Daniel Woolcott their main alround specimen guy for the last couple of years.

NRW are both underfunded and useless IMHO. If memory serves (someone please correct me if I’m wrong), for the most recent challenge by Fish Legal, in respect to chicken farming and Wye water quality, NRW replied using data from 2015 and 2009 (?), which just shows how poor they are at monitoring...

Never mind what the rod looks like, if you want to do drop shooting and lure fishing with a single rod, we are talking about a light rod, which will cast dropshot weights and jig heads in the 1 to 7 gram range. I have some high end Gunki, Westin and Major Craft rods, but if your looking for an...

Friday’s episode (River Dee), was one of the very best. The chemistry between these two is amazing 😍

Ive never found the need Lawrence and I generally always wind an untouched piece back in, with the hook still where I placed it. As said I tend to use spam, which is quite tough and a 200 gram size tin, gives me 2 perfect sized hookbaits 👍🏻 Have you ever landed a Barbel, where it’s hooked in...

Its totally addictive, isn’t it, especially when you get a fish which messes about with the bait for 10 minutes, before fully taking it 👍🏻

Pull a size 2 hook through the meat with a stringer needle, then turn 45 degrees. I use a soft supple hook link material, like Drennan Carp Dacron, which doesn’t act like cheese wire. Long shank hooks also help, fortunately I have a stock of the now discontinued Partridge Barbel hooks in size 2...

Half a tin, is half a 200 gram tin, which is good sized bait 👍🏻

You should most definitely try the half tin of meat approach on a resistance free/running rig. 99% of Barbel anglers will shy away from catfish sized baits, but it will catch you the biggest and wariest Barbel for this very reason, as the fish haven't seen it before! I also guarantee you that...

Shimano 4000D

I have the Peregrine version, in a Paul4Barbel centrepin configuration. Only used it several times for close in work, taking Barbel to just over 10lb, which it’s more than capable of dealing with. On previous threads, people have confirmed that they‘ve landed some very big fish on this rod. I...

I caught my first Barbel 33 years ago on the River Severn above Shrewsbury, I always wanted to catch a double from this length and finally did so last night, it was even in the same swim! I haven’t changed a bit 😎

I personally think that the build quality of the Drennan SS Rods is poor and they are not a patch on the original Drennan Duo rods.