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Try St Patricks Stream or the Lower Loddon on a summers day in the holidays or at weekends - these are "rivers" that you can almost jump over in places and there are canoes going through every few minutes. Canoeists only seem to be able to count to one as when I shout I have two lines out they...

It seems to me that the pessimists now prefer to use climate change, which is more ambiguous than global warming, but that aside ... There is incontestable proof that mankind evolved faster when the earth was warmer, which, incidentally, was caused by natural global and stellar cycles. Maybe we...

I have been outside a few times in the last week and can report that global warming hasn't reached the south of England :D.

Do you have any photos and details of condition, age use etc. ?

Daniel I have also left you a PM but it probably repeats what Crooky said. He is a great guy and wouldn't put you wrong. Tight Lines David

Random thoughts on bait colour for barbel. I have always been under the impression that barbel rely more on scent and feel (hence the barbules) than they do on colour. That said, I would think that they would quickly become wary of bright or fluorescent colours and would associate then with...

Hi Graham no I am not Ron Chant's lad, he must be in a different branch of the family. It could be that there are different, or a combination, of reasons for the babel and chub decline on different stretches of different rivers? If they are not the main reason for the decline, say on the...

Darryl, thanks for the link, but, unfortunately the link does not give the full report, which I believe from other posts may not have been produced yet anyway. It seems that there is further information in the Anglers Mail but I no longer subscribe as I found it a bit facile. As for the...

Has anyone got a link to Karen's study so we can all look at the scientific evidence she has? Maybe a link to the new methods of catching barbel now they have learnt to avoid the old ones would help as well ;)

If you have a line of 0.12 mm diameter and it breaks at a quarter pound what good is knowing the diameter. Similarly if you have a line that breaks at 2lb and it is an inch thick that is no good either! To make a comparison you need BOTH breaking strain and diameter. Even with that though you...