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I've mentioned on here before I have a friend who tests river water quality for several suppliers in the South West and Midlands regions (so your Wessex, Thames, Southern etc), and between early-mid 00s up until very recently (say 2016/17) water quality in all of those areas was, for the...

Apparently a few people saw the 50 floating (dead) down the river before it came to a stop and was removed, and none of them reported any marks, bites or chunks taken out of it, so the likelihood is that the state it was in when the carcass was finally retrieved was caused by post-mortem...

Best have a read through the epic thread from last summer that covered this topic, rather than start world war 3. Again.

Quite so Richard and Luke - a river 50 is an exceptional and extreme rarity in the UK, and it must have been VERY old to get to that size in a river. Most likely to have been "natural causes".

I'm not able to get out on the 16th or 17th due to family and work commitments (respectively), so it's a Tuesday 18th start on the Bristol Avon for me and the father in law. Forecast for round here is muggy and overcast with a light breeze, so the combo of that and the extra water pushing...

I have a small general one I use exclusively for lure fishing (loaded with braid) and a medium sized baitrunner for carp. Both still performing admirably after a few years' use. They're both the same make (Kastking) from eBay, but most of those Chinese reels are exactly the same underneath the...

Bob - a swim I'm VERY familiar with and one which has made me pull lots of hair out! Amazing that it looks exactly the same 17 years on.

Agreed but, let's face it, Chris and Bob is a reunion that's NEVER going to happen.

Nice. One of the other videos in the same series is even better - Chris Yates and Martin Bowler drinking tea, eating cake, playing frisbee and sleeping. Plus Bowler getting more and more frustrated as Yates looks on in bewilderment.

I think I'm conflating it with the aforementioned Kingpin.

No worries Paul - if I'm going to be cropped in half by anyone on here....etc.

Partially namechecked in a post by the Great Whiteing - I've arrived.

That, plus it's only comfortably well-off collectors who buy these top-end pins brand new isn't it? Don't us "users" typically get them second hand? That's what I've always done. The only pins I've ever bought brand new are the Ikonix (which I got for a less-than-half-price steal - £19 -...

So new that even the Youngs website doesn't mention it! The River Specialist - https://www.davistackle.co.uk/index.php?page=shop.product_details&flypage=flypage.tpl&product_id=4084&category_id=22&redirected=1&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=1 Looks nice and is geared towards ledgering in rivers...

The open backed one no doubt, AKA the "Stratos" with Bob's name on the (partial) back plate. Notorious for collecting every bit of dust and dirt within a ten mile radius to the point of becoming unusable, ergo it pops up on eBay on a fairly regular basis. Perhaps it is the Arnold Kingpin I'm...

With Alien 4K just out and Apocalypse Now 4K mere months away, I really can't mate. I've been waiting and saving for my 4K upgrade for the last couple of years. At that price I honestly still would I think. My car's pretty economical. Make a day of it and that. It would have to be a day...

The Fox Bob James centrepin - there WAS a variant with a solid back wasn't there? I know there's the Youngs BJ reel with the solid back (which I've got), but I'm sure there was a solid backed Fox one as well. Wasn't there? The internet tells me no, but I seem to remember playing about with...

Two reasonably priced excellent condition Seer rods - a float and barbel - on eBay https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/TWO-CLASSIC-SEER-FISHING-RODS-BUILT-BY-ANDY-AND-JILL-ORME-MINT-CONDITION/183791307074?hash=item2acad0c942:g:6uYAAOSwbjNcxdh2&frcectupt=true If they'd have gone on 6 weeks ago I'd have...

Anyone got one knocking around they don't want or use?

Agree with Ash Gould - they look and feel cheap and the action is...weird. I also got one of the 0.75lb 11ft specialists for tench and bream on my local Kings Sedgmoor drain and quickly wished I took my mid-range Shimano feeder instead. You're better off scouring the 'Bay for used higher spec...