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Saw a youth running down the banks of the tidal trent , hurtling down the banks of the tidal after his sonar which he did not recover ,was a bit of water on to be fair.

Lockdown baking my other half insists on making numerous high calorie goodies, sponges ,chocolate cakes, flapjacks etc made with mucho , butter eggs ,and often blocks of top quality chocolate. I am still weighing in at 14st 7oz just under 6ft , but for how much longer.

Brrrr , Brrrr, Brrrr , a cold and miserable blank on the humber,10 minutes down the road , missed the one drop back bite , great to be able to go again though, bloody nice coffee , long may it last for everyone .

Just had my dads funeral yesterday Sepsis and covid , no more fishing together, on the day when fishing is once again band , where i live anglers had been coming from all over the country to chase the humber cod ,that social media numpties had been plastering all over the place , its a bastard...

Is it a river or a estuary, or lowe,r lower tidal trent ,the Humber .

Around dusk still offers the best chances in winter if you can get a mild spell without too much cold /snow melt water dumped in the the small river , but make sure you know the banks well , a little bit of loose feed , ie . a few smaller pieces of meat to what you are fishing can pay...

Ditto found the same with large size fixed spool reels for beach-casting , destroyed a good tronix pro within a year ,other much cheaper chinese stuff still going strong,and if it does knacker in still cheap to replace ,and with loads of bearings large long cast spools slow oscillating lay...

Used to sea more mink on the Dearne than otters, the large exspanse of water that is the tidal trent has a fair few otters ,but plenty of other species to eat, wonder what will happen if the Wells catfish population explodes and predate,s the larger barbel.

Simple running rig for me , with just a swivel and bead approach , lighter hook link than the main line for most barbel fishing , and a simple 2 hook pennel rig for winter cod fishing with a similar approach slightly lighter hook length , the american snap swivel that holds the weight or...

Better to fish with Clive they taste like raw sewage , will be trying a black lug and squid cocktail next non sea fishing session .

Cant beat the cheap as chips energizers with the mizer rate and the red light option , have a selection up to 350 lumens a slightly more powerful light hangs from my tripod ,just in-case a bit more light is needed when landing a fish. Even when sea fishing i always turn the bugers off when...

Avid corn/ Maggot stops on the hair rig ,so useful for pellets as well , shorter and longer hooked versions.

Thanks Bill, good tip with the bag of silica, hope we are still allowed on the river bank to weigh something !

Still have a good pair of Avons complete with original black case with press studs and fish motif , try and keep them out of the wet till needed !

Still like my Okuma travertine 65,s came with a load of second hand stuff, and a lot of reels like the Yumoshi that i have owned and bigger versions of makes that i have never heard of are pretty good i destroyed a tronix pro reel after only 1 season beachcasting whilst the cheap Chinese...

Ditto , very nice brekkies the other day , one pudding still in freezer , cant smuggle it out for next weeks trent session either !

Buy the cheap as chips sea fishing beads never break can buy in black if floro is a bit load , or the excellent Gemini pulley beads.

Just replaced my battered second hand jrc brolley with a new jrc stealth 2G , nice piece of kit .

Plenty topping after dusk, hopefully should improve once autumn is on its way provided we don't get locked down again !

The new encyclopedia of course fishing baits Colin Graham , In pursuit of big tench Len Arbury , Fisherman's year John Holden, The river trent Richard Stone [Not strictly a fishing book , but has a great photo of a massive sturgeon caught years ago, and gives a great feel of the history of...