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Rhys, I think its down to people questioning the number of tame Otter around with them not being legally released into the Wild since the 1990's, (someone correct me if the date is incorrect). I think they they can release injured and recovered Otter or Cubs found ,raised and returned back...

The code TT15 does not seem to work Derek but TACKLE10 gets you 10% off

Not really sure Chris, the groundwater levels have been higher than for years around this area, which sadly means the STW's dump excess. My emails under the freedom of information act to Thames and the EA will hopefully give us some answers to what is happening. We suspect a lot of illegal...

Just saw a post that said he had passed away on the 16th, RIP Bill.

I was told the 2020 figures should have been out over a month ago. With what I saw locally last year do not be surprised if the 2020 figures are so much worse than 2019. I am seeking information on my local Sewage works ,Maple Lodge from the EA and Thames at the moment. Its been dumping all...

I use the tubes but top and tail them so the bodies and tips are at both ends ,you get more in that way.

Yes I had a Tank Aerial rod as my first rod too. The top section was a screw in piece of solid fibreglass. Great Tip action, actually only tip action, it bent to the ferrule only. I do wonder if the screw in ferrule was original and the original aerial for the tank was two piece metal . Would...

That area of the Thames was alive in those days. I did very well fishing Matches at Radley the next section downstream in the 80's. I won a couple of 120 peg Winter leagues and had a second and two thirds. Vince from Davies tackle used to do the pay out and used to always take the mickey. It was...

Match anglers will be obsessed with Bream because you can build big weights with them easily and big weights mean a big cash pay out. They rarely fight , snag you or come off and they usually travel in big shoals. Back in the 80's Thames matches could be won with Chub or Bream ,maybe the chub...

Never used hemp casters and maggot at the same time but was mostly targeting Chub, Roach and Dace were rare so only used maggot. Also never clipped up and would usually be using Floating maggot on the hook. Do like the three maggot on the hook touch. A real bonus bait and one that really...

I spoke to a friend a couple of days ago, his wife, severely disabled son and himself were amongst the first to get the Pfizer jab. He told me they had very close contact with someone who was a bit rough and the next day had Covid confirmed. Non of them got any symptoms and non of them came...

I was helping to film a small bit about removing Floating Pennywort on a mates stretch of the Colne today with Countryfile. I pulled my first rake full of Pennywort out to find it was saturated with raw sewage and stunk to high heaven. Needless to say the filming was done from a distance...

When all of your Barbel disappear and someone says 'it could not have been Otters because we would have seen the bodies' remember this video. With their swim bladder and organs gone Barbel sink and are never seen again. What a disaster for any stretch of river. I wonder how many other bodies...

I asked an angler for his Permit last week he had travelled 19 miles, most are local. I kept quiet but did warn him we now sometimes get British Transport Police on a bridge over our Fishery checking people. The Bridge is the boundary of Middlesex and Bucks and lots of walkers use it.

Metroweigh 0208 787 7080 was the company that took over Avon but not cheap around £30 plus the postage . Unless its a rare 8lb set you could probably buy a pair cheaper. They are very simple to strip down and it is probably worth taking apart yourself and then spraying with a lubricant or...

This is one of two flooded entrances to an HS2 environmentally friendly protester camp on the West London Fishery I try to look after. Think they should not have built on a flood plane. I keep trying to explain 200 +pallets possibly treated with insecticide is not a good thing in a wet...

Thames Water have a terrible record I thought the Chess was bad but look at what they sent into the Wye in Wcombe in 2019

For years Graham that was what everyone was being told and it may have been so in the past .But I did a fair bit of digging and managed to get the answer. Eden Spring take all the vast amounts of sweet chalk aquifer water from West Hyde they supply those big water coolers to offices all over...

If you were a member of the FB group it went to the link Graham, if not you could join to see it. Thames water dumped sewage over 70 days last year into the Chess at Chesham. The year before Maple Lodge the next STW downstream dumped more than Chesham. All covered up by the EA by manipulating...

A wonderful Spawning side stream on the Colne in West London last Spring. Sadly now HS2 have a compound and access road 50 m on the right and there is a large filthy protester camp on the opposite bank below the small bridge.