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I had a Speedia rachet spring, which I struggled to reshape, so I heated it up, reshaped slightly and it was fine thereafter 👍🏼

If the rachet spring is easy to remove, remove it and if it’s bent/out of alignment, heat it up and straighten.

Yep no longer on their website 👎🏻

Have a look at the 2.5lb TC Torrix rods, which Andy Bell is selling in the classified section. I met him to collect a pair of Insight SU Barbel rods last weekend. He brought the Torrix to show me too, I had a waggle and they are very nice Barbel rods. Mint condition too 👍🏻

I too am in the NW and I have previously had rods from Kev Baines at Anglers Workshop in Newcastle-under-Lyme. He did retire, but I then heard he started up again and in the same premises. Tel: 01782 561515 He builds on Harrison blanks and is cheaper than other rod builders in my experience.

I so wish that Mainline Baits still produced the Maple 8 base mix and activator liquid. Never has a bait filled me with so much confidence. Rolled my own and it worked anywhere and year round ☹️

I’ve just collected them from Andy, so I’m sorted now Joe 😎 Mint condition and stunning rods 👍🏻

I too am struggling with the large size, when how to best present them on the hook. Re the size, these pellets will come from the aquaculture industry, so hinders will have zero say on what size is available, they just buy direct and repackage them. They are nothing like the original elips in...

Re 6lb line, personally I really like the Drennan Camo XT. Use it for my winter Perch and Chub fishing in 6lb.

I once caught 44 Barbel, 6 Chub and a Perch from the River Teme, during a single session. I had to empty the keepnet half way through the session. All caught on the pole using hemp and caster. A one off never to be repeated session, with subsequent sessions only producing 20+ fish 🙂 Around the...

I trawled through a few of the Barbel related Facebook pages yesterday, which I normally avoid like the plague. A search on the Guru Barbel rods, claimed the rods are built on Daiwa blanks and a few first hand experiences claimed the rods had snapped low down on the cast. One guy who worked in a...

When Fox first entered the reel market, I bought two FS7000 bait runners. Within weeks the anti reverse failed on one and the free spool leaver snapped on the other. Both sent back for repair under warranty. They sent me two repaired reels back, which were cosmetically totally battered in...

Unfortunately I had such a bad experience with Fox products and relating customer service a number of years ago that I swore never to go near them again. I’ve held true to it too!

Cheers for that and I will order a pair 👍🏻

The majority of my Barbel fishing is done with 11’ 1.5lb TC custom rods and centrepins. Occasionally I also use a couple of 12’ 1.75lb Torrix with fixed spool reels. I want to add a couple 2.25lb 12’ rods to my armoury. I’d love Chimera 3’s or Basias, but for such limited use, I can’t really...

Angler Workshop 11ft Specialist No 1, lovely soft tip and enough power lower down to handle any size Barbel. Built by Kev Baines and cheaper than most rod builders, which I’ve come across. Built on an unstated older Harrison blank (not Torrix, GTI or Chimera). It’s just awesome and my go to rod 👍🏻

It’s as I described in the original post, the majority of high oil pellets come from the aquaculture industry and not from bait companies who simply repackage them. The elliptical shape was supposed to slow the sink rate through the fish farm cages, but for whatever reason that thinking changed.

Does anyone still make/supply elliptical shaped pellets? I’m well aware that the elliptical shaped pellets came from the aquaculture feed industry, with the logic being that they offered a slower sink rate through fish farm cages. This lead to less feed waste and for whatever reason the...

Re comments on Hinders Hemp, I know someone who received a batch earlier this week. His comment was that much of it isn’t splitting and he’s not a happy bunny considering how much he paid for it!

That was a thing many years ago before boillie and pellet mania. I know one guy who used the create what he called a Barbel block. It was basically hemp and corn, frozen in a container with a large stone in the middle. On arrival the frozen block was placed in the swim. Never saw it in action...