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I would like to echo what Simon has posted. I came back to angling after a 4 year break, and it had been some time since I had targeted Barbel. I knew virtually nothing about a lot of the new stuff. I think I have managed to combine the new with the old, and I have gone from not catching, to...

Where else can I get lamprey pellets from? Shaun of the gutted.

Last March caught a chub from the Sussex Ouse with a very similar wound. However this wound was close to the gills, and it bled badly. There are lampreys in this part of the Ouse, so I reckon a lamprey wound is a good bet. Shaun of the dead

If I remember correctly it was 1 point for each species and a bonus point for the biggest of each species. Gibbinson and Gillespie chartered a boat, I think it was fishing the Thames estuary, and caught eel after eel. Clive Gammon had a huge paddy. He was feeding a school of Chub, Balcombe area...

Sadly for me it has been a NHS prescription prepayment certificate,£104. Had an operation on a fistula in September and have had daily cleaning, packing and dressing of the wound since then. You have to pay for all your own dressings these days, via a prescription, have saved hundreds already...

I would just like to Brian's post. Each ball should be placed in at least 3 plastic bags. I know this to my own cost. Shaun of the 'Every thing in the freezer smells like a tramps socks'

Hi Howard I fish a small river and in all but the coldest conditions. I tend to use the same hook baits, but change the way I feed. Whatever I feed will have liquadised bread and mashed tuna, which produces a scent trail for Barbel to follow, and is very cheap. Have done well with...

I just despair of stuff like this. Making sweeping and derogatory generalisations about folk based on their social and geographical origins is really no different from doing the same thing to folk from the Asian, Afro-carribean, and Jewish communities. I don't like it when I find that anglers...

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on a small river be prepared to fish into the dark. Patches of bait in 2 or 3 swims to which you can cast into in the dark without putting light into the water. If you can not fish after dark, standard stuff, deeper bits with cover near the shallow gravel runs. Any bait you have confidence in...

You've had to climb down a 300 ft incline, you are fishing, and you look smarter than I do when I go out to dinner. Not sure this is in any way natural. Methinks photo Bucket!. I have no idea what photo bucket is, but it came up in a thread last year and seemed to cause a lot of offence. Shaun...

Hi Graham Loved the pic. especially the seat with attached ruck sack. I use one of those, and love the the fact it looks like something a grand parent buys a 13 yearold for xmas. I think I suffer from inverted snobbery. But look at your left leg man. You are fishing in strides...

Bought the same myself in 12lb, been on the spool a while. If I have to pull for a break the mainline never goes. The braid hook length in the same line strength is where it breaks for me. Always get the weight back, sometimes a bit quicker than I want. Shaun of the nearly at times.

I fear the bickering has ''Spooked the shoal''.

Don't shuffle your feet Paul, you will scare the fish!

I am sure Patsey is looking forward to once more cooking some really tasty big Perch from the Great Ouse. Shaun of the 'Priest' Where did I leave my Pike gag?

The old adadge that you can put more in, but you can't take out what you have put in is very true. Like you I am not fishing for 'masses of fish' Last winter did well with a new tactic. I baited sparcely with odds and bobs, meat chopped small, corn, and other left over baits. However I added...

Hi Stewart Would I have met you at 'The Pool', back in the Summer. Shaun

Love the petition Pete. It would be so fitting if some French company could give her a cheap and shody funaral, whilst making a quick buck from the British Tax payer. Thatcherism at its finest. Shaun of the dead.

Did we ever decide which river this was, and if it was my beloved Sussex Ouse? The reason I ask this is because South East water have obtained a drought order allowing them to lower the flow by 75%, yes leaving just 25% of the water in the river. The water will be abstracted from the Barcombe...