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A few years ago I was at Rutland for a trout match. It was September, the weather was very moody with dark grey skies above as we all stood around drinking coffee and having a bacon roll before firing up the boats. The head ghillie, sorry I cannot remember his name, had more than one person ask...
Great excuse for me to dig out a snap of my biggest beard!
I doubt I will get anywhere near catching one of this size again but the memory remains strong.
2011, Ivel, 18lb 12oz, double maggot.
I used to scald pellets with water from a boiled kettle but found the consistency, well, too inconsistent!
With 4.5mm trout pellets i add cold water so that it’s not quite covering them, leave for 20mins and then turn over the airtight box and give it a good shake. They are perfect for moulding...
My first Gt Ouse barbel would be good! But I won’t be chasing a new PB as I think that ship has sailed and the Ivel with it...
A 30 plus carp on the float ‘n pin..
Dream fish is a 3lb river roach..
I still have to break my grayling duck..
When the season starts I will be chucking fluff hoping...
I see the Ivel talked about a little here, it’s the only river I have barbel fished and spoiled me to be honest back around 2010. I couldn’t really hope to have travelled anywhere else in the country at the time and expect to catch a
In trying to answer Paul’s original question, I have a reply.
When I target river roach by trotting, I never take an unhooking mat. If the roach is of a size that I want a picture, I look around for the most suitable place. Last year I was lucky enough to land a 13lb barbel on my roach gear...
Best mag by a good old fashioned country mile!
It’s been a few issues since I last purchased and I have now done the right thing and subscribed again for 19,20 & 21.
I have an old Tricast 12ft 1.25tc carp rod that I use for most of any close range barbelling that I do. I cut about 10” off the end of the butt section at the reel end and this made a long handled carp style rod much more manoeuvrable.
Don’t worry Lee, if your short on leads down my way I will happily lend you a couple......providing you post them straight back afterwards! 😂 I sure wouldn’t give any stranger my address either.....may want to borrow the rest of my tackle when I am not at home too! Not that the wasted years carp...
Just a thought..how do you know this chap had a couple of leads to give you, or was not going fishing somewhere else in an hour, or had even already given a couple of leads to someone else? Maybe he too was having a bad day.
I’m a tight wad miserable sod then as I would have also declined your...
Hello all, I hope the start of the river season has been fruitful so far!
I have been sidetracked by carp for a bit so will wait until later in the year for a river dabble.
Anyway, as per the title, I know it’s bit of a long shot but if anyone has a spare or unused fully working order Micron...
I got a 140l tank for my birthday last year. I have 2 fairground goldfish, a sarasa comet, a shubunkin, a lemon goldfish, a ranchu and 2 koi. The koi I got suckered into buying last autumn, they were 99p each and about an inch long. To be honest I didn’t think they would survive. The guy in the...
I have caught carp on goose shit! Used freeline when I ran out of Wotsits while guesting a garden centre many moons ago.
Carrot also caught me 5 doubles one day.
Nothing really unusual for me as a barbel bait except I seem to catch more barbel recently when roach fishing!
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