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Hi, irregular visitor to the forum here. I use an army assault pack. Cheap as chips off ebay. Plenty of pockets, elasticated loops on outside for bank sticks plus side strap for unhooking mat and unlike many angling rucksacks, it is very comfortable on long hikes. Think I paid £25 for mine.

Praise be! The problem is that it is not black or white. Understandably some people want yes or no answers and I'm not sure there will ever be with this topic . In the scheme of things it's as black and white as the best bait, most productive time or even the flow of a river. The variance is...

You may well be right, but not on the section I angled. It was just a thought but one of the anglers on this section had a hell of alot of fish from it and he use to fish with bobbins on a very long drop, food for thought. When I finally had success on this section it was on a big lead 4 inch...

Easy Mike, you might get banded into the yogurt knitting druid type camp.

This sounds alot like a section I use to fish, a very hard featureless section with virtually no flow. Do you ever get any slow suspicious pulls of the rod tip?

Hmmm...I must be following a different match then. Anyway, I only fish for Barbel when I need an easy bend in the rod :p

I'll be honest with you Neil, I found your initial comment slightly abbrassive. Shouting I am wrong and running off is a bit churlish, I felt sure that you had come to that conclusion out of noted experience and not just deciding from the off that it was all "BS". There also seems to be some...

I was hoping you might detail how you came to the conclusion that there is nothing in moon phases worth pursuing in relation to angling?

Thankyou Anthony, I did see this. Would be ideal if this were available. Fish don't respond to moon phases Neil, do tell.

Thanks for the replies gents. Wanted to get hold of the moon strike one if I could. Looks like it may not still be going but would be glad to be corrected.

Hello all. I seem to remember a guy doing moon phase calenders, I think it may have been called moon strike by a barbel angler called Chris.....? Does anyone know if he still does them and direct in the right place to look. Ta

Bizarrely I didn't meet Steve through fishing but by being recommended by his daughter to do some decorating work for him and his wife.It didn't take long to find out he was also an angler, a mad keen angler like myself and spent long periods talking fishing when I should have been working...

Free spirit Barbel tamer 11 ft well worth seeking out,although only 1.5lb test have lots of reserve power in the butt.

Never had a problem when using knotless knotted Maxima hooklinks catching Barbel.Although this has been when angling for river carp and not what I'd choose for Barbel.An added bonus of a stiff hair combined with the stiff line exiting the eye at an aggressive angle is that it has excellent hook...

I do feel like I'd be clogging up the board if I reported everytime I went fishing.Any way I off dangling in a bit,I might report back,I may not :)

So in conclusion from posting every single detail to not posting at all,I will have peed somebody off.And on the internet aswell,who'd of thunk it.

Has anyone else ever noticed teflon coated hooks never feel as sharp as uncoated hooks?I always take the coating of the point and they feel so much sharper.

Best hooks for staying sharp that I've used are the Atomic range.I've never used anything like them before,the abuse they can take over harsh ground and still remain sharp is untrue.Although not sticky sharp out of the packet they're not far off.What is noticeable when I sharpen them when...

Have never found critical sharpness essential for barbel as it is for carp.If the point turns over it gets replaced.As for hook files the black handled Jag file reigns supreme for me.

I think you have to accept that there is never going to be an angling show on TV that is going to be quite to the palette of the angling enthusiast.What I think it did do was show a good face of angling to a non fishing audience.Angling is not exactly the top of the bill when it comes to TV...