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When I brought mine I brought 2 sizes bigger. I wanted just one size bigger so I’d have room to wiggle my toes as I think tight boots make your feet cold but that size was £35 more. I can wear a good pair of Marino wool socks and a pair of boot liners and still have wiggle room in the size 12 I...

Not sure about the roach but had my first bite of the season down there last night and missed it cause I was having a piss lol

1:30 this morning. Bright and misty on the lower Severn

Yeah I still get cold feet in mine but they’re better than walking boots. I brought a box of toe warmers a year or so back that help a bit but I have to stick them directly on my toes not on the outside of my socks

Brought a pair of 11 foot the start of last season. Unfortunately Iv not really got anything to compare them with as had been using my John Wilson rod for 16 years before hand. I always used to use barbless hooks and one problem I did have with them was I was losing a ridiculous amount of fish...

The horizon x4 are you on about?

They must all vary or we’d have tropical fish in the north sea

Plus I don’t know the Wye particularly so no idea where about on the river those measuring stations are so no idea of depths of water. In saying that though also don’t know at what depths these measurements are taken. I don’t know if they measure in the river or remove a bit of water to analyse

It probably makes perfect sense but it’s all too technical for me. I was always under the impression that higher temps meant less oxygen but them graphs threw me. That’s why I wasn’t sure I was even reading them right as it didn’t make sense

Did you see the link Paul put on the wye thread? There’s graphs on there that as far as we can make out show there is more oxygen in the water the higher the temp got.

I used mine for about 14 years. Landed barbel to 12lb 8 and carp to 20lb 15. Only problem I had was after about 10 years the varnish started coming away around some of the rings but I just picked off the loose stuff and bodged a bit of varnish on myself. Edit; only just noticed you had the...

I thought it was eels that don’t like scopex

If my bivvy gets packed away wet I’ll get it out at home to dry out. If my brolly is soaking as I normally leave it in my car I’ll get it out when I get back to stop my car getting soaked. As for rods and reels I tend not to let my reel get covered in mud and not that bothered bout my rods...

50+ is some collection. I like to keep my old gear with the intention of using it again some day but never do.

Probably pushing 20 rods ranging from a pen rod through to 5 1/2lb tc spod rod. Still got a the first rod I ever had which is basically a 6 foot or so plastic telescopic thing. Was sweet for float fishing for tidlers but would be interesting to see how it would hold up to a fish of more than a...

Probably my John Wilson barbel quiver. Not a particularly expensive rod or even a great rod but it’s landed my pb barbel, carp, roach, bream and eel so I got a soft spot for it even though I don’t use it anymore.

I never suggested it as an excuse. It was an idea for something to be used all season. I’m pretty sure we’ve all caught barbel at some point that have taken a worrying amount of time to recover. My thinking was if there was something on the market that could help it would something worth...

i was thinking of something to use all season long to help speed up the recovery time not something to give people an excuse to head out in dangerous conditions

I can assure you my idea certainly didn’t involve keeping fish in a cradle.

Yeah I like your thinking. We got any engineering whizz kids on here that can design something? Obviously I’ll want 50% of the business for coming up with the idea.