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I remember Dave Chambers telling me he had caught the same Barbel 17 miles apart from the Arun and Rother. He also thought that sometimes on the Arun you could be fishing 17 miles from the nearest Barbel they are very mobile.

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Loads of bits on float fishing for Barbel in the history , have a look through using the Q search area.

Sixty two sounds mad but I was told by a Bailiff about 5 years ago 92 came out of one of the swims in a full day (17 hours) between 2 anglers. One caught 78 and went home, another angler moved in and had 14. I was also told by a very efficient angler they had caught more than 92 in a day. Its a...

Caught lots of Gudgeon sized Barbel last Autumn from a small shallow local stream. Every swim had shoals of baby Barbel, over a mile or so I spotted hundreds. With the weed going last November a large white chested Cormorant appeared most mornings. Not seen one Barbel this Spring the Black...

What sort of size do they go to and how tight are the snags. I use a flood and snag 11ft6 inch Chimera and a Relum pin for hit and hold snag fishing, cannot be beat if the fish are up to mid Doubles. My Torrix 1.75 11ft just would not cope with some of the fights . The pin enables me to wind...

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Around the mid 1980's on the Bristol Avon at Kellaways I arrived at the weir to find the pool full of barbel. The deep water was crystal clear and amongst around 30 Barbel were 3 Doubles. A rare fish back then and probably all the doubles on the stretch. I carefully worked out how I could lower...

Maybe the lads with broken chair legs and good covers could donate or sell the cover to the lads that have covers with stitching coming undone. Its fairly easy to replace covers and at least couple of chairs could be saved. Sounds like the quality of FOX chairs have gone downhill.

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Back in the early 90's I used to fish 3 small black beads on a hair over a tight bed of hemp when fishing the Bristol Avon. Worked very well with shoal sized Barbel when the fishing became hard. Think there is an article on here by Keith Speer about baiting heavily with particle Maples? on the...

Two of my local clubs ban braid all the way through from the reel.

Spot on Graham, they did a 12-16ft lxl match rod that was a fantastic bit of kit, I have two. They then bought out a Superteam range to replace the LXL which was poor in comparison.

One thing I forgot to mention is with even a small amount of line twist your meat can often be spinning round and round as it goes downstream. I caught Pike 3 sessions in a row rolling meat when I first got my MK1 rolling pin on mono. I was sure the spinning meat was the main reason.

Have my rolling pin loaded with 30lb spiderwire and went straight through. You can also weight the hook with non toxic solder which also works to keep the bait down. Though two local clubs have now banned braid straight through so my rolling veunes are limited.

The first version would turn under pressure often whilst playing a fish. Youngs retro fitted a stronger connection if people applied, a lot did. Think Gary mills still does the job but not sure of the price. They fixed the issue on the second version with the same fix. If rolling you do need...

What was more concerning was the fact he said there were unsafe levels from their normal discharge. Its not just when they discharge sewage its all the time.

Did like his Honesty which makes a change when it comes to Thames Water spokesperson. Sixteen hours WOW, two of our local STW'S Chesham and Gerrards cross are over 1000 hours this year. Maple Lodge is also probably over 500 hours.

Sorry Lee, they used to have a warehouse that delivered individual sacks based away from Titmuss in Hatfield. A sort of separate business and websites, not sure how they were connected. Titmuss used to give people the website address and there was a link on their site. Think they must have...

Its a Facebook video showing probably the worst Sewage sludge ever seen on any river in the Country on my local river . It still opens for me so the link is ok ,not sure why it would not open for you though .