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    Youngs River Specialist Centrepin....

    I'd not used a pin for 25 years but bought a River specialist to go on my 11ft 1.75lb Torrix. I'm not gonna be much use to you as I have nothing to compare it to but would echo what others say about the ratchet, it's extremely stiff but I spoke to Chris about this, it's so stiff I wanted to...
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    Time of day

    Thanks mate, just quickly looked, it's quality.
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    Custom big river rods.

    Thank you mate. Going to see my rod builder on Tuesday to get a pair of the Torrix ordered.
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    Time of day

    Can't beat day break for me. Being up the lake as it starts to get light and everything starts to wake up is what it's all about for me. Problem is my fishing, whilst I get plenty of time to go, is very limited middle of the day at the moment due to work and family commitments.
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    Time of day

    Rich, can you talk me through that whole tri pod set up please?
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    Custom big river rods.

    Cheers mate, I appreciate your advice and respect your opinion, although do t want to get involed in the rights and wrongs of sleeping whilst fishing. Sort of wish I had worded it different, have you ever been able to edit a post on here?. My point was more that I want to use more than one rod...
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    Custom big river rods.

    Thanks everyone that has commented. I should add, and not sure how well this will go down on here so please don't hate me for it, I want to use a pair, up the Thames, doing nights and using bite alarms. I know its not to everyone's taste but hear me out..... I'm a carp angler by nature been...
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    Custom big river rods.

    Thanks everyone, I've got an 11ft 1.75lb Torrix and multiple Torrix carp rods and love them all so pleased to hear the comments about the 12ft 2.25lb Torrix, I must have got it wrong or maybe thinking of a different blank. Will most likely get a pair. Thanks for the feedback.
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    Custom big river rods.

    Looking to get a pair or three custom rods built mainly to use on the Thames for Barbel. Would also be nice if they made lovely tench rods. My initial thoughts were 12ft 2.25lb Torrix but something tells me these aren't that highly regarded, pretty sure I've read that somewhere so any...
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    Trotting for Barbel

    Thanks, in terms of the set up I'll be using a 14ft Acolyte plus with a JW River specialist. I was always pretty decent at getting amongst the chub, quite often putting together a decent amount and some bigger ones too. We're going back a fair old years now but I used to go up with half a...
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    Trotting for Barbel

    Although new to fishing for barbel, being a carp angler for the last 25 years, I learnt to fish trotting a float on my local River Blackwater. Since giving up targeting carp and getting back on the river I've enjoyed my fishing more than I have for a long, long time. I'm on the Loddon and have...
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    Drennan Specialist landing Net 32"

    Thank you both 👍🏻
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    Drennan Specialist landing Net 32"

    I've got the 32 inch TB net, bought it for barbel but it's far too shallow in my opinion, great for other species but not for barbel. Can anyone confirm that the 36 inch is deeper and hopefully by quite a bit? Cheers Martin
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    Jw young RS handles

    Thanks mate, managed to do it in the end
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    Jw young RS handles

    I bought some new handles to change on my new JW young River specialist, assumed you just unscrewed the existing ones but having trouble. Anyone got some advice? Cheers Martin
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    My new custom Torrix and pin

    Fuji's, BSVOG, if I remember rightly.
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    My new custom Torrix and pin

    I haven't used it yet mate.
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    My new custom Torrix and pin

    Just received my new rod , to go with my new pin, for the new season. Custom 11dt 1.75lb Harrison Torrix built by Duncan Smith at Hampshire Tackle, he will be unknown in comparison to some builders but after seeing his work I had my Harrison Aviators built by him last year and so glad I did...
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    Scales

    Won't need more than 20lb mate.
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    Scales

    I did look Tim but only found one recent thread and it was just digital scales, which to be fair I should have said I have no interest in.
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