Search results

He said he'd caught it twice Terry. Jeff would have caught it at least three times, once even in the depth of midwinter, snow on the ground, frost in the air, and the Himalayan balsam in full bloom. ;)

I wouldn't believe him either Joe.

I had 22 barbel in 4 sessions last December, on the Lower Severn; all on pellets.

Sussex river = Arun I'd guess.

I don't think they were big fish that dad had that day, perhaps 3lb each. He wasn't far down from the mouth of the Stour that day, he was the only angler to have a barbel. The river was at normal level, and he caught them on maggot. I'd guess that any barbel there then, or indeed now, would move...

Yes. I fished it around that time. It was very good, some good chub and roach fishing. We had a match there in '90 on the main river, and I remember my dad having two barbel on the stick float. They were also in the Stour itself, I saw one in very clear water the one day, a good fish at the...

3 in 1 works for me Chris.

I did wonder about that Graham, not sure if it's best to pull, or push your gear really.

Chaps, after suffering a recurrence of my heart problem whilst weighed down with gear on Tuesday, I was wondering what people use in the line of trolleys or barrows for getting gear to swims. I'm mostly lower Severn so it would be a flat walk, nothing heavy duty really, it would just be my korum...

A mate of mine told me about this a while ago. Utter nonsense as far as I'm concerned, Graham - I'd just turn up and fish.

The OC and the "D" models are the best quality Shimano's currently make in my opinion. Proper solid reels.

That's what I voted for Graham, this year, we've been fishing for spawning fish in July, and there's been many a year we've been doing the same on June 16th.

Ade Kiddell on Facebook is the man to ask I'd say Lee. I've got a few mates who went last year.

Lee - they can't mate, Charlton weir is in the way, unless there's a flood.

Lee - if I remember rightly, I think it was Cleeve Prior that John Rourke had that 100lb of fish, and not Marlcliff. I read somewhere a while ago, that barbel were in the Norton Corner area (just up from Twyford), in the late 70's - which wouldn't surprise me. The one I hooked in '87, was a...

I hooked one in 1987 in a match at Twyford Farm, I'd heard of barbel coming from Fladbury a few years before that. Personally, I don't believe barbel colonised the river from the Severn as claimed - stocking occured at some point, either legally or otherwise.

Hi Hurgen, I do the tame carp match puddle thing in the summer, and own a Rive as Rich as mentioned, great box, but very expensive for bits and pieces. If I was in the market for another one, I'd get a Matrix s36. They're similar to my Rive, with a sliding footplate and 36mm legs. A few mates...

It amounts to pretty much the same in my opinion Terry. Each to their own, but circuses aren't my bag.

Mine's a very simple item, a Gardner rig bin, £7 i think. Much better than boards and pegs.

Annoyingly, they can already chug between the two towns via the GU and Stratford canals....