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Chris My local tackle shop doesn't have any info about it at all other than being aware the club exists (I asked them back at the beginning of 2020), and the next nearest tackle shop is a 30 minute drive away. And, best will in the world, the club secretary will no doubt (and understandably)...

(God I wish one of them would change their name...) I was intending to join in 2020, but then a certain little virus happened so I didn't. I know their stretch of the BA from when it was on the Amalgamated ticket (although I've no idea if barbel are still present at all, still tons of chub...

It was indeed good sh*t.

Andy, please, a short-shorts trigger warning!!!!😋 Alas my first barbel (Bristol Avon, I THINK Freshford, but it may have been Avoncliffe), all 4lbs of it, wasn't photographed. My previous personal best (a mere 7lb) was, but unfortunately got lost/accidentally binned during our last house...

I tried the Stonfo ones and found that they were okay with Spam but didn't work at all with the less firm/crumblier meats.

I use the stay put hair riggers, available on the 'Bay. Someone on here put me onto them several years ago. I've tried all other screws, stops and clips, and the traditional bit of grass (which never worked for me) and none of them come close.

Legs are way too chunky, and it didn't have a 50s throwback rockabilly quiff. Cool looking birds though.

Apologies for bumping an old thread, but as it's semi-relevant... I never did get around to trying out a lobwormery, but I did start one up for dendras and tigers, so I thought I'd tell you all about my wormery journey (wourmey, if you will) and the little pitfalls and tips I found in case...

😆 I did wonder!

Exactly why I started the thread as Bailey is the one "on the offensive" (acknowledging the exaggeration), even if it's amongst more positive messages.

I wouldn't say the body was fat, but definitely had long legs. Now, the colourings on some of those melanistic "mutants" certainly tick some boxes, and it looks like several species can be affected. So maybe whatever I saw had it. Defo not a pheasant though. I'm no twitcher, BUT I'm a huge...

Not sure where you got the tackle tart thing from Neil - the reel is only a very tiny part of it that was merely an observation, it was more the comment in the vid about issues (nothing to do with the reel) and the VERY odd opening to Bailey's written eulogy (nothing to do with the reel). I...

Thanks all for th continuing suggestions - I've been enjoying looking them all up and trying to remember if I've seen any of them at the nearby Chew Valley Lake (10 minutes away from where I live, turned down the first few years of pike trials for a fiver a go for two rods, now can't afford it...

Of all the Purist rods, I know the Light Specialist was by far the most divisive (in fact, from memory, it's one of the most marmite rods released in the last 20 years), but I know Jan Porter (RIP) was mental over it. I heard or read an interview with him where he said except for carp and...

Yar, not a lapwing, nor Derek's nightclub ex. Couldn't see anything that matched on the RSPB guide - either the colours were wrong or the legs were too stubby. I'm thinking maybe an escaped exotic or, possibly, a migrating visitor that made a wrong turn somewhere.

No to both of the above, and Glossy Ibis sounds like it's from Roger Mellie's Profanisaurus😆 I'll give the RSPB thing a go later👍

Definitely not that - breast was a lot greener and the wings and head (the whole head) were dark. Also the legs were much longer.

Started off posting this in the social board, but as this leans to the forum's general naturalist outlook (and I know there are a few twitchers on here)... Not long returned from my lunchtime constitutional where today I decided to walk along the greenway cycle path to the next village. On the...

I have two of the originals (the lighter 1.5lb ones). Absolutely fantastic rods in my opinion. Hopefully they bring back the Purist river feeder as well. I've been desperate to get my hands on one of those for years.

Thanks Terry. Bailey's always been (and still is) VERY outspoken about cormorants (although I don't recall him using the phrase "rivers of blood" 😆), so it would be interesting if that's one of the reasons.