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Thanks Mark - above and beyond, much appreciated. I'll defo give it a go before making any rash decisions (like buying it almost blind, cough-cough). Neil - strong ratchet, tell me about it. I'm so used to the Youngs BJ one engaging just by looking in its general direction, I thought the Relum...

I've had more of a "play" with it and a closer inspection today and I have to say I'm quite disappointed with it - apart from weighing an absolute ton, there is just no finesse in the reel at all. Even to look at it looks like someone just got a big solid chunk of steel and drilled a few holes...

Tell me about it. Relum was/is a Czech company but, if all of what I've read about them is correct, the BJ ones were at least made in the UK and had direct involvement from Bob. But that only makes it slightly easier to swallow. No doubt someone with a lot more knowledge will come into this...

Yar, you are right Mark. I was just in the market for a little decent treat for myself, and I don't really think I've got that to be honest, or at least not actually what I set out for/wanted. My own fault and a lesson learnt, though.

It was my birthday a couple of weeks ago and I thought with my money I'd treat myself to something I've never had before that I've wanted ever since I started fishing in the 90s - an "artisan"/independently made centrepin. My budget didn't extend anywhere near to a Gary Mills, Chris Lythe or...

Apologies if this has been posted before (I couldn't find it), but courtesy of Drennan here's an excellent hour long interview with Hugh Miles, covering his entry into being a cameraman, through wildlife documentaries into A Passion For Angling and beyond. Interviewer is Martin Bowler, who...

Whilst I do agree with you in general Alex, one only has to think back to the video nasties scare in the 80s to see how something fairly innocuous can very quickly be blown up and become a national outrage once a few members of Average Joe Public contact the media and their local MPs, despite it...

Brill, thanks Richard. It doesn't need to be factory fresh or anything, so that looks bang on.

Just had a quick sort through my main rods to check if any need a bit of a clean and I noticed that on one of them the varnish is cracking in several places around the eyes where it has evidently gone brittle for some reason. The eyes and whipping seem fine, but is it something that needs...

I've said on here before how quiet it is on the anti-angling front compared to the 90s - I think it shifted when the RSPCA changed their view from angling being a cruel sport to being okay with responsible and respectful angling. Literally the only "hardline" campaign I can remember that caught...

There is a beaver project near to me somewhere in Somerset - it's a "top secret" location as it's partially isolated from the surrounding wilds whilst the team running the project analyse what effects and affects the beavers have on the flora and fauna in the vicinity before they properly...

Used to work with two people who were part of the hunts. Both of them were total pr*cks (and I'm convinced one of them was embezzling the company we worked for, although I never found hard evidence of it). Jacob Rees-Mogg (my local MP [spits]) is also a big hunt fan (although I'm not actually...

Thanks Mike - I'll give it a go.

Fox do a few recliners as well - there's the deluxe range which is quite pricy (and a tad heavy), and Eos 2 and 3. I can vouch for the comfort of all three, and the Eos 2 is easily carried on your back, and from memory the Eos can be put to 90degrees or near as dammit. Alternatively there are...

Intending to fish a local clay pit in the next couple of months when we're firmly into spring, specifically targeting tench. The lake in question has a number of large specimens well into double figures, which are largely ignored due to the lake being mostly popular with carp anglers (most of...

Playing devil's for a moment - can we be so sure that they ever weren't? Pre internet, social media, camera phones etc...

I really could do with thinning out mine - I've got in the region of 35 rods and 20 reels (I won't bother posting pics as they're all just in a jumble in the loft), but I probs only use half of those, if that. But I know for a fact the minute I sell any of them I'd either regret it, or need to...

I'm not sure I buy into huge numbers of illegal releases. Statistically there MUST have been at least a few released on the quiet over the years - I don't think anyone can suggest it's impossible for that to have happened - but I can't believe that hundreds or thousands of them were released...

Thanks Paul👍

After talking it up for the last two years or so, I've decided to finally sort myself out with a wormery. Gonna do a DIY one with a couple of surplus recycling boxes I know the accepted consensus has always been that lobworms don't do too well in wormeries, but I'm seeing an increasing (but...