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Looking really good on phone and pc - well done chaps :)

Thanks Bill - looks good - I'll give them a go :)

I've been using the super 8 for a few years now and as with Graham and Jon have found it excellent. Hunting around to find a good supplier at reasonable prices continues to frustrate me though.

That's very sad news. Great memories of Ray at various BFW fish-ins - real character. Condolences to his family and friends.

Mine too - great service as always - thanks Andy

Great stuff Andy - all the work you put in running this site and raising money for charities as well is very admirable - good man.

I think I've paypaled you payment Andy

Me too

Oh my goodness John. Reading some posts on other threads I'd gathered that you'd caught something special but....that's incredible. What a fantastic fish mate - many congratulations and well deserved.

Good to hear from you Andy - doesn't seem that long ago since the Thames Tsunami all nighter, the two Andys etc etc.. Still a few of us old gits lurking about. What have you missed - don't know about the fishing but Arsenal are even worse than they used to be! Hope you're well.

Yeah that's the one Joe - John Wilson said that was his best ever day's fishing and that's saying something. I remember reading a chapter in Chris Turnbull's excellent 'Big fish from famous waters' book about bream fishing when the record was broken a number of times from Queensford and from...

That is an absolutely stunning fish (and picture). Big bream are completely different to their smaller snotty relations and certainly not nuisance fish. I remember that classic John Wilson Go Fishing episode where he caught a hat-full of double figure bream on the float from a boat and they...

Great to have you back Ian - still on the Loddon? :)

Ok thanks for that John, hope you're well mate.

Thanks for the replies gents - some interesting stuff. It's not that I'm particularly unhappy with my Wye set up - thickish mono and coated braid hooklengths, but was just musing about pros and cons of fluorocarbon mainlines, being more abrasion resistant etc. I would rather use my preferred...

I use braid for most of my barbel fishing (ledgering), but not on rivers like the Wye, where abrasion resistance is important. I've been using mono mainline and need to re-stock and have been considering fluorocarbon (x-line etc.) Any thoughts?

Lovely story - well done Gerry - and 3 doubles too - great stuff. Really good of Jon to do that - can you take me next time please ! ;)

So easy to flavour your own spam - chop up into lumps/sections, put in plastic bag with garlic salt/ curry powder/whatever flavour - blow up bag, shake around, stick in freezer. Or fry with bit of oil and flavours - nice crusty edges ! Probably stating the obvious - just saying ;)

Had mine checked on a remote part of Hants Avon at the end of last season - bit of a suprise - first time since the early 80's.

Pm Clive