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Sorry to report the last known Sturgeon has now disappeared from Scotland. Very sad. G.T.

Personally I have never seen a report of any ’named pegs’ on here. Most people simply suggest if a particular river is fishing ‘well ‘ or not. This may also contain comments on the levels and temperature of that river and may save a member a long wasted drive. I think , by and large, we have got...

Impossible to ‘overfeed ‘ the lower Severn ( for example) I would have thought, even in its heyday. I used to fish a stretch in the 90’s that was deserted but plenty of Barbel were there, it did not need our bait to prosper. The fish simply aren’t there in the numbers they were. G.T.

Hi Guys, As I have mentioned so many times before, I witnessed the Teme change from a Barbel aquarium ( fish everywhere) to a Barbel desert. This happened quite quickly over a handful of years. I can’t get out as often as I would like so can’t comment accurately now. People have always been...

I reckon my wife could do this job……she frightens the life out of when I chain her up…..😱🫣

Big appetite? I once saw a heron trying to swallow a fully grown ( dead) Moorhen. It was struggling a bit but seemed hell bent on getting it down.🫣 G.T.

Thanks Mark, feeling fine now and consider myself one of the lucky ones. It only got really exciting when I was going downstairs to the operating theatre and I started to have another heart attack and the lift went past my floor without stopping! As my wife said when I told her ‘ no more green...

Good luck Gerry… Me a few weeks ago……. well doc. I have had a few chest pains, ( he examined me ) ’nothing obvious sir, take these indigestion tablets’ me….4 days later….walking into A & E….’ I am having chest pains’ 2 nurses give me an ECG….they looked confused and gave me another one…..not...

Blimey Anthony, don’t go near any traffic today, you might feel tempted to ‘end it all’! I don’t think that everything is as grim as you seem to think it is. The human race is making progress even if it feels painfully slow sometimes. Unfortunately everything seems to have a price that people...

If any proof was needed about the validity of Scientific ‘facts’ then their response about the Covid crisis blew that out of the water. Experts were queuing up to give an opinion that was modified to suit their agenda on any particular day. At least Professor Van Tam was honest to start his tv...

Hardly an inability to debate Damian, it is covered in the News media on a daily/ hourly fashion. Debate is healthy, but I would agree that some sides of the discussion would rather people who disagreed with them were silenced. Unfortunately this begins in schools and is now prevalent at...

Without getting into political ideology at all Rob…..governments govern…..it’s what we pay them for……if we don’t like it we simply vote the other lot in who we then vote out as they are just as bad. Simple really and hardly worth getting excited about in my humble opinion. G.T.

I thought we were discussing climate change?

You may well be right except that you seem to have forgotten that the climate changed periodIcally before ‘man’ roamed the earth. Not everything is ‘ somebody’s’ fault. I agree that pollution is poisoning the earth though and that can be proved without doubt. And that is all if our’s fault. G.T.

If we can’t even keep our own rivers clean I doubt politicians ( or ‘the average bloke in the street’) really gives a monkey’s about climate change…… G.T.

G.B. News is different, it attempts to give another perspective of what is happening in this country and abroad. News programs have for sometime been more akin to drama shows as they fight for ever more dramatic slants on everyday news items. A cat stuck up a tree story has become a ‘ shock...

I am not a climate change denier. The climate has changed in my lifetime, particularly the winters which are much milder. But if COVID taught us one thing it is that ‘experts’ couldn’t agree on anything and ’decisions’ were often a ’finger in the air’ job. Getting rid of pollution is in...

When I was fishing more regularly I would have described my fishing as ‘ a way of life’ and something that defined ‘me’. I really believe that it can be ‘ all things to all people’ G.T.

And this is why us ‘oldies’ are quite as ‘intrepid’ as we once were…. G.T.

I think it is safe to say they will attract a different audience than A passion for Angling……or even Mortimer and Whitehouse…..each to their own I guess. G.T.