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Have been holidaying in Hampshire/Dorset for more years than I can remember.Have fished both the Royalty and Throop.Had larger numbers of barbel from the Royalty but bigger barbel and chub from Throop including my barbel PB.Its hard but rewarding.However reading recent posts rain needed! It's...

By hell Tony you dont half get round a bit.You last posted from North Wales.I believe you can buy a day ticket to actually fish the park length.Googled it the other day because Im down there in September.Good luck and let us know how you go on.Regards.Adrian

Sorry Mike,I didnt for one minute think that you were.I was merely making the point that some people choose to fish the rivers even with these alarmingly low levels.Their choice.I last fished the lower Nidd a couple of weeks ago and it could have been crossed in a pair of wellies in some...

Dont really want to be controversial but I wont be fishing untill river levels are somewhere near normal levels if that happens this year.

That is alarming,wow!!!

Just remembered as I was logging off.As I say money was tight for us at the time and wife not happy with me spending that amount on that rod.She hardly ever watched the John Wilson program when it was on but for some reason watched one with me just after I'd bought it.He was fishing a small...

Been there,done that! When I first got into fishing solely for barbel the first rod I bought was the John Wilson Avon Quiver.The second barbel I hooked on it on the Swale broke the solid avon top section.Again this was replaced and I continued to use it for a couple more seasons due to having a...

Mixture of both.Always dry nets,brollies,bivies etc if wet but dont normally bother with rods,reels or banksticks.My one concession to O.C.D however is to make sure my bankstick is vertically aligned at 90 degrees as I look at it and if using 2 rods(very rare),they are also...

Not helping in any way but a funny story,(well I think so).I had not been married for so long when my wife and I holidayed just outside Christchurch but a couple of days before she had to have a wisdom tooth removed.This left her with a very pronounced speech impediment due to still having...

Not relevent to fishing but my wife is in London untill Wednesday.Had meal+few pints in my local.Now having a bottle of red whilst watching replay of cricket.You will get no more sensible suggestions from me this evening.Good look steve,Im sure you'll find the answer and at least you're hooking...

I once had a problem using drennan specimen hooks.Have changed to kamasans and ESPs but see thread which hooks.

Was only joking with that one.I was going to suggest bigger/smaller hooks or hair rigging.Had it happen to me last week.

Dont forget,fishing is a sport and if you landed every fish it would not be a sport.Also the biggest fish you've ever hooked are the ones you've lost.🤨

Sorry everyone.I will get the hang of posting photos on interweb soon.

River Nidd

That sounds a brilliant set up Paul.As I also tend to fish towards features I will definitely give it a go sometime.I used to use a similar rig when feeder fishing maggots which was to all intents and purposes a helicopter rig,but didn't think to apply it to using pellet.Its tips like this that...

brilliant camo gear for night fishing.where can you get it?

Brilliant photos,the Nidd is my favourite river and Im sure I may of fished those swims but the thing about the Nidd is everywhere looks fishy.For the older members every swim is a Mr Crabtree one.Stay safe all.