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Are we thinking tench?

Where's the problem?

Awesome perch session Graham,top man.

Leviathan,well done.

Yes,their intent all along.

Graham,I have myself witnessed the barbel spawning on a stretch of the Derbyshire derwent,a magnificent site to behold. Maybe a week or so later I returned to find some local teenagers paddling and generally messing about on the very same spawning gravels. Those kids probably do that all the...

Would it be a bivvy session Graham?

Winter has always been my favourite season Jason,but these last two winters has seen my local venues decimated by predation,both by animals and man. To get to a decent bit of river I'm looking at least an eighty mile round trip. Not everyone has the Wye or the Trent on their doorstep. Come and...

The rivers already have had a break. The last two months,and even before Christmas,the conditions have been atrocious,especially for barbel. Only the people who live close to decent rivers,the ones with actual fish in them,have been able to capitalise on brief fishable spells. The hardcore few...

Particularly large mink:eek:

You still have the lower Severn Joe,that fish you had was a nice specimen. It's not completely over just yet.

As natural waters anglers all we can do is adapt to the situation All these governing bodies are crooked and corrupt,trouble is all humans have a price,some are a lot cheaper to buy than others.

The problem with angling is the majority of the population still view it as a very peculiar pastime. My brief conversations with non anglers are as equally peculiar. For instance the amount of people who've never seen a kingfisher,heard a tawny owl,spied mink or cormorant( no bad thing). I...

Too true Graham,if people think they can influence big businesses to change for the sake of angling they're completely deluded. The predation issue is the only thing anglers can maybe have a say in,but not until Tarka reaches the same numbers as foxes,then it will be ok to control them.

Take on the water companies Joe,you'll most likely end up with a horse's head on your pillow

Nice idea Joe,but I think that would be the hardest problem of all to fix. Money talks,and corruption rules the world unfortunately. We live on a small island with an ever growing population,massively compounded by economic migration. All the countries resources have been beaten into...

I'd class the last two months as the close season.

Roll up roll up,come and getcha 'battery barbel'

Perhaps as an endangered species you might not be too far off the mark. We incarcerate other creatures when their natural habitat has become compromised. Another man-made catastrophe.

Sorry Jason,I meant pollution,predation,poaching.