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As a ps, i have just found the peacock quill float that i used in that match. In deeper water, i prefer to use the layon method with some 18-20 inches between shot and hook. Roll on summer!

@ +1 for the lift method especially on shallow swims. I like to rake the swim, put in lots of groundbait and sit waiting for the telltale bubbkes to appear. Red maggot is good as is sweet corn and bread flake. The only time that i have ever entered a coarse fishing match, i drew one of the...

Meant to add that Wye and Usk foundation has a superb website where you can book your fishing and get info on all the beats with catch return info available. Also have monthly reports on coarse fishing (as well as salmon,l trout and sea trout) whivh are helpful.

Wye and Usk foundation is excellent and staff always helpful. I will admit that i use them for fly fishing especially on the small streams. Probably a bit up the air at the moment as both Wye and Usk badly hit by the floods. Would have thought that lower down than Builth would be better for...

Back in the early 1980s while trout fishing at Grafham in early September, i saw 4 enormous trout well into double figures. We had been dapping with daddy long legs earlier in the day and had some success. Unfortunately, the wind had died completely and there was a flat calm. We tried casting...

Far better things such as pollution control, poaching and FEBs that the money should be spent on. Let the commrrcial angling industry finance these teams.