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I have ordered a spare from them this morning after reading that the ratchet spring is a weak point on them, they cost £3 each........... I found an alternative phone number to their 0871 number as I hate being ripped off by companies making money out of me phoning them, its 01874 612600. PS...

And mind your fingers with the bail arm snapping shut on the cast.

Custard powder paste was the secret bait when I was a kid, kept it in my pocket while fishing, it was more black than yellow but still caught fish :)

Picked some chilli cheddar up the other week in Aldi, very strong smell and taste, might be worth a go.

Whatever anyone mixes in as an additive to a bait might not make the bait any more attractive to the fish although there are plenty of examples of where additives have made a difference, what it can do is give an angler more confidence in the bait and that's imo important. Everyone may have...

Much more than an angler he was a gentleman, RIP Tony

Pollution, predation , poaching, fish killing, endocrine disrupters along with other drugs that have been through a person, abstraction, need I go on?

When I was a kid we looked forward to weekly trips with a club to rivers, we learned from the older anglers how to fish them, it doesn't happen now as clubs don't run trips to rivers because of the state they are in, instead its commercials they go to and so kids don't learn the joys a river can...

Hi Stephen, that made me laugh :)

Thank you for that Andrew it was information I was unaware of

IMO the state of our rivers might have something to do with that as it has for the dwindling numbers of older anglers no longer fishing them who would have historically taken youngsters with them. The gain in popularity of commercials has imo been running parallel to the decline in the state...

Always someone ready to tell others they are fishing in the wrong way, wrong rod, wrong............... best of all is being told "you wont catch a lot here" keep things quiet and they continue to think it ;) how anyone should fish is just an opinion and that doesn't make them right.

Each to their own, everyone fishes how they want as far as I am concerned, I have only ever hooked 2 fish at the same time which is considering the years I have fished with 2 rods or more a rare happening and not one that I would worry about happening again.

What makes it worse is that it was the trust that was involved with the EA in deciding this.

While bass stocks are definately struggling for anglers to blame just commercial bass fishers for the situation is somewhat hypocritical. According to figures used by the Angling Trust in 2012 anglers caught and kept between 230 and 440 tonnes of bass not an inconsiderable amount considering...

I wish you had mentioned that earlier John, it would have saved me a lot of reading, I have absolutely no time for the "angler"? involved in that article.

Don't know if this is of any use in explaining water intake and fish. www.angelsplus.com/ArticleOsmosis.htm

Depends on the strength of their clench :eek: