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    Hemp prices!!!!

    It's £1.99 a tin in my local
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    Harrison Chimera question

    Fair enough Luke,where's Bob?
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    Guiding

    Smiley face like a crocodile?
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    Harrison Chimera question

    Luke,why not attach it to your scales and pull the rod to 90degrees and check the reading ? alternatively hang on for our our master rod builder Bob to come back to you
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    Reasons for Barbel population decline

    I don't agree with the Wye either,sorry please don't feel you're being attacked!Im certainly not catching the numbers I used to ie 6 years ago ie 19 barbel in a days fishing was the most I've had but now it's much more like half a dozen and blanking for me was almost unheard of,not so now.To...
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    Need fishing club in Oxfordshire area

    You are not a million miles away from the Warwickshire Avon
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    T&DFC open day

    Rain stopped play would be good for barbelling Neil!!
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    T&DFC open day

    John,I'll carry your gear if you like.....don't forget to bring some trotting tackle if you fancy a bit of roach fishing,we've got a number of comfortable pegs on the Thames which are producing quality fish to 1lb or so,best on punched bread in the summer or seed baits
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    Leslie's insight rod question

    Are you sure it isn't a type of pencil?
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    Reasons for Barbel population decline

    I hadn't really thought about the bream but now you mention it I would absolutely agree,the areas I fish you get the occasional one which is actually quite welcome where as years back they made barbel fishing almost impossible unless you took the Guy Rob approach and used "donkey chokers"
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    Reasons for Barbel population decline

    A question,why are some species effected by high oil content of pellets and not others?They surely get into the food chain and all fish would be effected,my example would be the current Roach population of the Thames which are doing very well around my area ie Reading upstream to Oxford where we...
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    Planning for the glorious 16th

    On the Wye for opening week,as usual and hoping they finish spawning before 16th,dog by my side and test match cricket on the radio followed by a few pints of Stowford Press in the evenings,lovely!!
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    Useful Items

    Also good for slashing your wrists and far too many blanks
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    Vote Tory?

    Oh well Howard at least you will be spared of the ghastly prospect of paying mansion tax!!!!
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    Vote Tory?

    If you are struggling on bennies then an extra 10er would have no difference you are still poor in an ideal world we would all have enough to be comfortable but that is fantasy island which no party would be able to achieve
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    Vote Tory?

    Ed Silly Milli wants to ban centre pins reels for barbel fishing as he thinks they are prehistoric and only really have a place in running through a stick float
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    Vote Tory?

    My wife once put a "horny devil" outfit on for hallowe'en and she did look too bad,trouble is I wish it was someone else's wife!!!
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    Vote Tory?

    God help us if "looks weird,sounds weird and is weird" gets in!!!
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    Re-Stocking our rivers

    Agreed Mark,you only have to watch them in the flow and they hold station with no noticeable movement as you say it's down to their shape and outsized pectoral fins which I believe must act like a wing with the current pressure pushing them down
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    Re-Stocking our rivers

    Hi Garry,suspect it's compleat rot after all the carp that get into the Thames from local puddles during flood seem to do ok!!
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