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I have a bit of it going on but nothing OTT.

I thought it was illegal to specifically target them in the UK, not that it bothers me👍

They work better in shallower water, I used to use one on a lake near Nuneaton. Bite indication is good. My powermesh avons have the threaded eye but I don't think I'll be using them.

I gave it up as a bad job a few years ago, heard a few horror stories. DRY DRY DRY If I still did it I'd enclose everything in a brick/block frame with a heavy lid.

Have you got a time machine😄

Not sure if any of their products will be suitable or similar to ESP but bank tackle do various hooklink materials in 20m spools for the same price.

Do you really worry about a length of line? So you will change from changing the rig every cast, to changing just the hook every cast? Unnecessary either way IMO!

I can knock up a "rig" in next to no time. These things are a gimmick IMO. Not for me!

RE: blue cheese powder, I just use actual blue cheese in my paste. Richworth was the "one" though!! I give my cheese paste a squirt of THIS[/url]

My flood water gear is now my standard gear for any water, 2.25lb rods and Shimano 10000XTE's All options covered all of the time. Until recently I used 1.75lb and 6000 GTE's for smaller waters but a barbel doesn't know it's in a small or big water, go heavy, get them in quick! They pull just...

Yep, one of my better buys in the last couple of years👍

Would that be the pit a mile or two from us Chris?

I have a pair of them, Dave Lumb builds and a sweeter rod you'll be hard pushed to find.

Silstar match team, incredibly well behaved. 7.9 or 10.1 on the pin

I had my first barbel session of the season yesterday through today. I changed tack on a venue that failed to produce for me last season. I offered no loose feed at all, fished one rod with small pva bags on the hook, the other with nothing but the hookbait. Bare hookbait gave a 4lb chub and...

Fishing halibut pellets is akin to us having a fry up on a weekend for breakfast IMO. Perfectly fine in moderation. It will be a minor part of a fishes diet after they've been gorging on naturals in the absence of anglers. It would take a massive amount of pellet going in and barbel to eat all...

As Alan above, any suitable ground bait mixed with an egg. Meaty marine halibut makes a decent paste. Beat the egg into a bowl first then add the gb until you reach the required consistency.

I reckon just about any cheap fly vest would do the same job.

I think he's used extremes to prove the point. I did a similar test in my back garden using my 1.75 and 1.25 chimeras. The gf said she felt more pull from the 1.25 when I applied equal pressure at the same time to both rods whilst she held the lines.

Hmmm!! I've had fluro fail me once or twice in recent seasons, first 14lb then a step up to 17lb also parted for no apparent reason so I was going back to plain and simple mono when my barbel fishing resumes in a couple of weeks. I use amnesia for my sea snoods and never even thought about it...