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If you are using small lumps of meat then the drennan super specialists or drennan barbel hooks are fine, for big lumps i use raptors in various sizes depending on the lump of meat i am using.

Carp tech hit n hold margin line, as tough as old boots and very low diameter.

Hi Steve, I have one of chris holleys rover rods and they are a very nice bit of kit! cant fault mine at all.

I myself fish for whatever sized barbel comes along, i am happy to catch 2lbers or 12lbers, i can remember catching my first double at the royalty about 15 years ago at 10.1 and that fish seemed huge at the time, many people came to look at it but now it would barely get a second glance, that...

Absolutely fantastic fish! well done!

In my opinion the close season should be reintroduced on all waters! greed greed greed led to the abolishment on stillwaters and nothing else! whats wrong with giving everything a chance to wind down? why do some people have to have everything at all times? smacks to me of the i'm ok jack...

I had a pair of the amber cormorants along with the grey/brown ones, excellent glasses! the amber ones were indeed the dogs doodahs! lent mine to a friend who proceeded to step on them!!

Oakley canteens for me.

Never hooked myself with any large hooks, but i remember many moons ago at dartford lakes seeing a chap standing behind a pike angler get a treble hook complete with sprat through the centre part of his nose!!! And yes we did laugh, suppose we shouldnt have but seeing that sprat dangling from...

Ah yes mr Boote those old normark rods rods were the dogs doodahs!. I remember the microlites and the early marco medallions lovely float rods!!

Barbel have been caught on light float tackle for years by those who know how, Jack Harrigan was catching barbel from the royalty years ago using light line and float tactics, this spawned a whole copy cat following who even went to the extent of smoking the same cigars!! the problem does not...

They look great Derek, i will be ordering some soon!

Drennan super specialists for me, very strong hook.:)

Still got a tray or so but was on the lookout for you mate!

You keep polishing away jeff! the harder you rub the shinier it gets!!! dont you fall for any of it mate stick to the 2112bs, you know you cant beat em![except for the holley rovers now they are seriously good!}! Always something new and improved to buy, but does it catch you any more fish if...

There are still tins of garlic gold about? i cant find any down here for love or money!!!

Thats a cracking photo! you look well chuffed!

I use basspro excell clear, never had any problems with it very tough line.

Smooth water for me as well, regardless of the pace of flow. The only place in flood i would readilly ignore is back flowing eddies, for some reason i have never had so much as a pull from one of these areas.

Hampshire avon fish for me too, but all superb fish!!