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Angling Trust "Fishing Info" Use the Angling Trust one instead, stick in the postcode and it brings 'em up. You can save favourite venues too. It uses EA data, and gives a 5 day history but no temps. edit the link i have put takes you to find a fishing venue but you need to click on the find...

Tell your mate that his 'white' boilies will be fine. It is something to do with the sugars coming out of the bait (or something) and they will be perfectly fine to use. I have been sweating all my frozen boilies to achieve the whitening effect for my carp fishing, the fish love 'em. In such...

Nick Giles in The Nature of Barbel reckons they do 4 metres/second. I thought he had undercooked that a bit. Otters will of course go for the biggest, easiest, meals they can get.

Well, they have put 20 thousand baby barbel into the Ouse over the last five or six years and apart from one year when the little 'uns showed up with regularity they have disappeared, so hypothetically speaking it would cost a lot of dough.

I had trouble with an order but Darren sorted it very quickly. If you contact him he is very good. By the sounds of it he needs to change his courier.

The issues regarding predation on natural stillwaters and riverine environments, and managed fisheries are very different. Blurring the 2 doesn't help angling move forward or progress these issues. Purchased stock and livelihoods are emotive issues but do they and should they concern rivers...

Rabbits arent indigenous to Australia (same in England, the Romans brought them here too come to think of it) but Otters are to England, however I think certain counties in England which never had otter populations do now. Barbel are a key indicator species indicitive of a healthy river...

There is no such thing as a natural balance! Its an arbitrary observation of perceived levels or numbers of certain species. Balanced is a nice Shimano 4000d and my 11ft Gti. Of which I am hopefully going to get a bend in tonight. 12 pages of groundhog day!

Mark Walsingham puts a good balanced view about otters in Augusts edition of carpworld, Ashmead diaries page 61.

Good stuff Joe, thanks for posting that up.

David Gauntlett, I'm fed up with your inaccurate little rants that you aim at me. Cut them out. I have never said that you cant place any blame on otters, that is a figment of your imagination. I'm in the 'last nail in the coffin' camp, thank you very much. I'm not interested in your style of...

eh? Whatdifferent tale would I have to tell? That is just not funny Dave. I don't know what is more insulting, you saying I love otters or that I would disagree with people who say the Ouse is knackered? You totally have the wrong end of the stick and just goes to show how pig minded people...

I prefer roving in the winter, it seems to work much better when the chub and barbel are likely to be spread out. Im sure a trundled bait would score brillaintly at this time of year but like you say the make up of the river doesnt really lend it self to that approach. Most of my better summer...

I would change the dates of the current closed season, the fact that I could go and target barbel on spawning beds right now and am only not doing so through self constraint/an informed position (whatever) is absolutely daft, especially as it is the closed season that is meant to protect...

Its just info i have picked up from reading into carp baits, trying to sift through alot of the BS that is out there. What carp can and cannot detect, i am presuming, is pretty similar to barbel. Basically, oil is not soluble and cannot therefore be an attractant in water. If you use...

The low oil pellets are just as attractive to fish, barbel will move quite a way for them. One thing to bear in mind about oil is that fish cannot actually detect oil, so it does not form part of the attraction process. Fish may get 'food signals' from the oil when they actually eat it but...

Let clubs police themselves. It would be much easier to shut fishing down when the spawning is actually taking place, much easier for bailiffs and volunteers to police and advise anglers wanting to fish at an inappropriate time. A spawning fish isn't a feeding fish in any event. Fish can linger...

Great post Guy. The act was made at a time when 90% of Sheffield used to fish the river and eat all they caught. Lets move on

Most boilies are inert little balls of nothingness. You could just use paste. I'm pretty sure that constantly breaks down. I find the best way to get the fish of my dreams is to go to sleep....... ahem... I'll get my coat

I dont get the rhetoric about the voters still punishing labour. The torys have succeeded in making everyone believe the economic crash was labours fault. Labour should have rebutted that alot more strongly. Who gave a shyte about the deficit before 2008? No one. Who actually still believes...