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Tell me about it. My car died the week before Christmas so Iv got to get a new one and unless it’s got loads of miles on it it’s crazy money

I brought the korum folding spoon at the start of the season. Used it for a bit but found the mesh at the bottom was smaller than the mesh at the sides and the barbel would sometimes get their barbules stuck in the mesh to the point where I had to stop using it and brought the folding triangle...

Brought the recliner at the start of the season. Light weight for a recliner but down side is when it’s attached to the bag cause of its thickness when folded even with the straps as long as they go it’s a snug fit on your back. I wouldn’t say it’s the most comfortable chair Iv ever sat on but...

I don’t think the badly cracked windscreen helped him out either

You could do what my mate did and take all the work stuff out and just have your fishing gear in there ready to go straight from work and end up with the gaffers coming out to do van checks lol. They weren’t best pleased

Was out Friday and yesterday. Not a touch. Finished work early so thinking of popping up today but also tempted to go back to bed for a bit lol

This pretty much is my thinking as well

I remember taking a friend for his first few goes on the river. First time he managed a 7 1/2lber so wanted to go again. Next time out the river was full to the brim so we ended up on a little section that was normally more of a run off for the water but it was more fishable and pretty much as...

I’m interested to know what the guys who fish the lower Severn do regarding moving or staying put. Other than the odd occasion I only started fishing down there last season when the fishing was dire anyway and this season I started doing afternoon into night sessions and probably done about 30...

I’m more likely to move in the summer than winter when in my experience you’re fishing for one bite unless conditions are great. It took me a long time to find a couple of pegs that throw up nice fish this time of year so I’m quite happy to sit and wait for that one bite. Plus I’m normally...

Sometimes I move sometimes I don’t. It’s a double edged sword though at times cause I really hate when you move and still blank when you’ve started in a peg that you feel will do a bite at some point. On the other hand if you stay put and blank you kick yourself for not moving

Even poor quality boillies will catch barbel if they are intrigued enough. As long as it smells nice enough for them to to try it they won’t know if it was £5 a kilo or £15 a kilo

It’s been years since I brought any boillies. I did like the meateor. I was on a carp syndicate for a bit and a guy on there used to do big bait orders so stopped using them and moved onto maple8 which I loved the smell of then mk1’s which Iv still got a couple of kilo in the freezer that I use...

Do ccmoore still do the meat ones. Think they were called meateor or something?

I’d say probably. They are probably like humans where some of us are shy and timid and others are bold and brave.

Hair rigs have been used for ages and still probably catch more fish than any other method. I think it’s less the rigs that they would wise up to and more the danger of being caught in a certain area by feeding on certain baits all the time. If you kept getting ill from eating pizza from a...

I think if they wised up to rigs we’d never catch them. The oldest rigs still work after decades. I’d say they probably wise up to certain baits in the same swims if they keep getting caught but pretty sure they forget before too long as they’ll get caught again sooner or later. If they are...

That’s all well and good when the water is warm. Cold water will shock you into a panic. A chap I knew from a carp syndicate died in France a couple of years back after falling overboard from the boat he was out in the lake on

I think that comes down to the ease of other baits. It’s a lot easier to just grab a tin of meat or some boilies or pellets from home than it is to go to the tackle shop and get some maggots

Scary stuff. Crampons are a must on wet banks. Absolutely no chance of slipping