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I use about 4' of Pro Logic fluorocarbon with an inch combo of soft braid by the hook. It's rare I cast as most of my fishing is lowering it off the edge of the marginal reeds and hiding out of the way.

You've pretty much nailed it there Joe. I work in the industry and we are already ramping up to cater for larger agri businesses. How it will all work with phasing out subsidies remains to be seen. We the public effectively buy food from the supermarkets at round about cost price. The subsidies...

I fished it, it makes the tidal trent look like a backwater! The levels were relatively low so I fished with my regular 1.75 rods. It's a rocky old bottom so I fished 5ft of lead core with big feeders helicopter style. If it's pushing a bit then 2lb-2.25 rods would be better, especially if...

To slightly play devil's advocate, that's 4000 more mouths to feed. What is below them in the food chain to sustain the influx? Should the EA also be tipping in twenty tons of crustaceans and larvae? Offloading hundreds of tonnes of biological matter into the river for the smaller creatures to...

Not living at Brampton any more mate, marriage broke down and all that jazz! Stroke pulling isn't an issue in my eyes, blatant urine taking fair enough.... But a cheeky extra rod or sneaking out at night on a no night venue for example really isn't hurting anyone.... Mindless conformity is a...

I'm good thanks mate, loving my carp fishing nowadays but had a good few trips on the Nene in the autumn. The syndicate I'm on has basically said that we can crack on as long as social distance is maintained and all that good stuff... Not sure I'd want to risk a two hundred quid fine for...

I was fishing my local lake last week and got chatting to a guy... Travelled from Manchester, 2 1/2 hours to fish for the weekend. It's happening everywhere.

I like to crush up a load of boilies in a food processor, tip them in a bowl add a small amount of small pellets to the processor, whizz them up and add them to the bowl, add a few micro pellets to the bowl, some half boilies and then plenty of pva friendly liquids of your choice. Depending on...

Who said I was arguing and who said I was fishing? I don't disagree with your opinion, or anyone else's really. I forge my own and tend to keep them to myself. I'd never dare to preach to another angler when or how they should fish. I'll throw thoughts out there all day long though and enjoy...

I'm fully aware of all of that Neil, I'm merely offering up some thoughts as to where the line should be drawn. If anglers really cared that much then they wouldn't stick hooks in them and drag them out of the water, regardless of the weather.

Barbel are often in any given location for a reason. When does one draw the line and leave them in peace, say, under an overhanging willow on a fresh September morning? Or in a streamer channel on a late August night? Interesting and thought provoking topic. Should we leave them in peace in a...

That seems to be the consensus of the locals that I've asked at work. Will have a dabble in the new season, see what turns up.

Took a look after work today at the Little Ouse at Brandon and at Santon Downham. What a gorgeous bit of water it is and only a few minutes from work! Gravel runs, deep pools, loads of streamer weed and overhangs.... A barbel paradise! It has got to be worth a cast or two in the new season. I've...

I only work a few minutes away from Brandon... The Little Ouse is interesting, I might have to have a look. Any controlling clubs to aim for? It's a really tiresome drive from Lakenheath to Bedford on a Friday afternoon after work, a quick session while I'm out there would be much more...

I think you might struggle to find anything small enough that's comfortable enough to fit in a 50": I had a small prologic bedchair to go in my brolly and it was awful, went and got me a Rod Hutchinson (made in the Trakker factory) big kipper that I can squeeze in my 60" system and it's much...

Doing a midnight start this year for the first time in about 10 years, mind you I'm working on Thursday so will probably fall asleep by ten past...

Be wary of the British MTP goretex stuff: the early batches were originally produced by a Chinese manufacturer and leaked, ripped and were generally awful. The MOD sold these off fairly quickly and had them replaced so a lot of the surplus MTP pattern are a bit dicey. The Dutch army goretex and...

As mentioned there's too many factors: if their spawning ground is 100 yards below a weir but there's 5 miles of river downstream for instance that could get the old grey matter going. On my local rivers it doesn't seem to make any difference, upstream or down they still cover miles of water in...

Comes with 2 spare spools, great condition. £45 collect from Huntingdon or can post at cost.

It's the part I read in chapter 8 about the concerns of stocking fish that could eradicate ecological diversity that worries me, I've been saying for a while that filling rivers up with the same strain of fish, some of which are known to be triploids, can't be good for the future. It's...