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Just use a flipping centrepin! Total control and fantastically dynamic with the ultra sensitive thumb. If only I could cast a decent distance I would use one on the Wye all the time. And any notion that it takes longer to land a fish with a pin is, I have found, baseless.
I'm continually baffled by people that make this sort of complaint. I've just checked but it does seem, as I suspected, there is no law requiring any member on this forum to read every thread or post. There isn't actually a law requiring any person to be a member, or indeed visit.
I hope...
I certainly haven't fished the Kennet as long as you Robert but even over the past 5 years, my experience matches that you have described. It has been the last two years where I have noted a quite dramatic increase in sightings- almost always at night.
I have wondered, however, if this isn't...
I was thinking the same Dave. Also, if the EA have acknowledged that there is an issue that requires some level of risk management (have we witnessed any?) I wonder if the actual impact is even greater than that suggested. Its one of those things that could be easy to dismiss and laugh off...
Thanks chaps. It was certainly a reminder of how fishing can sometimes surprise you. Normally I use the word "surprise" in sentences like "well the conditions were perfect for barbel. I'm so surprised I didn't get a touch in 20 hours of fishing".
Photo attached- I wasn't the most compliant...
New PB!!
Only takes one bite to transform a season. That's the beauty and wonder of fishing. A tricky days fishing on a southern chalk stream with a very cold biting wind making trotting difficult and uncomfortable.
But none of that mattered when a 3.9 grayling arrived! Many thanks to Tim...
Rather like Baywatch, BFW certainly has its knockers and many predicted its swift demise because Facebook would make it utterly redundant and pointless. That hasn't happened and that's because there is a place for both.
There is one relatively frequent thread on FB that makes me chuckle...
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