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What Graham said. Doesn’t matter if he’s the Queen’s turd, poaching means poaching and it needs to be called out/dealt with. Make sure that’s heavily publicised too.

Yes. Every day when I head out to work and then especially when I actually arrive at work, I realise that I’d forgotten to go fishing. Happens with frightening regularity.

Cracking day yesterday on the Wye up at Builth Wells. I do love how the landscape and Wye changes as you travel from Herefordshire through to Powys. Had around 60 fish in total split pretty evenly between trout and grayling. There is just something really special about wading out into the river...

If I had any general fishing question- like, literally anything, and I had his number and he knew who I was and so didn’t look to report me to the authorities as a freaky stalker, I would always call John. I frequently blanked with pride using his Avon rod and in fact my very first encounter...

I have frequently pondered this Darren, but have found it difficult to move far from the notion that you are predominantly relying on smell/flavour to attract the fish at night. Then I recall a presentation Paul Floyd gave at a BS show a few years back and he talked about his night fishing...

Paul, if my wife got even a hint that I might be looking to acquire a new rod, then I too would be in the market for a new pair.

And isn’t it marvellous that we still have some genuine mystery present in UK angling. Personally I don’t have the mental fortitude or undergarments to launch any kind of campaign in search of a Thames monster. Absolute admiration for those that do and when an extraordinarily special fish as...

That’s an incredible days fishing Graham- you won’t forget that in a hurry.

It’s a far more civilised place than FB Dale, I will say that. Stunning fish that. Congratulations.

Interesting thread Alex. I suppose bream might be another species that has gone a bit porky? Hoovering up carp baits might have helped a bit there. As you say, it is very river dependant. The Trent and the Wye could be a good example of that. A 10lb fish from the Wye is a special fish but...

I might be one of those people. Need to do a stock check but probably around 100 tins. I will get twitchy when it drops below 100. Might need to go on a scavenge.

Not yet Derek. Angling Dreams (who control some day ticket stretches on the Wye) have now suspended fishing.

Nice steady persistent cool (but not too cool) watery stuffed with oxygen rain that dissolves like a rich tea biscuit in a mug of hot tea. That sort of rain. It’s welcome to start in the Welsh Hills and calmly make its way into Herefordshire. For once, fish and fishermen as one in their welcome...

Perhaps for ease and to reach a generalised view, could this all be expresssed in terms of water temperature (as a proxy for likely DO levels)? Barbel anglers can get preoccupied with water temps in colder months, deciding whether or not to bother targeting barbel based on an absolute...

I’m hoping for great spiritual reward given it’s not obligatory to fast during Muharram month although I would need to confess to spending some time walking the banks and I even moved my fishing rod and some feeders from one corner of the shed to the other because it looked tidier. It definitely...

One aspect of all this I find particularly baffling are those organisations clinging to the line “we are continuing to monitor the position daily” like making that statement automatically elevates them to a higher office. Everyone else is running around setting fire to their hair, biting...

Many of you may have already seen this (very little long) post on FB but I will share anyway. I’m not a big fan, but I can’t disagree with a lot of what Bob Roberts has said here: Bob Roberts: LONG POST ALERT (but please try and read it all) I write this piece with a troubled heart, a...

They don’t exist Gwynn. You are either delusional or you are being deliberately provocative. I suspect the latter. I don’t recall ever asking you to name the stretch. I stopped fishing the rivers nearly a month ago. If you want to carry on fishing and are able to do so legitimately, then...

Not sure it’s going to be raining anytime soon Gwyn. Anyway, there is, I think, widespread concern for the welfare of the fish. It’s a pretty unprecedented period with (I believe) matching unprecedented action being taken by clubs. Many chose not to target barbel at all even before clubs took...

Completely agree.