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Never spent more that 2k on a car so have had all sorts of heaps in the past but most have been reliable and could accommodate fishing gear with the back seats down . I have a van [ Toyota Hiace SWB] ultra reliable but useless for fishing as rear wheel drive and gets stuck on a wet dock leaf ...

Go second hand , get a Speedia , you should get a good un for £50 , great little reels , plenty on the market , or perhaps an Okuma Aventa , not strictly a centre pin as they run on a bearing but nice well made reels

Claimed breaking strain of braid is utterly unreliable , i.e. it usually breaks way under it 's claimed BS , hence people using braid lines with very high breaking strains to compensate as it were . Given this , its poor knot strength ,and woeful resistance to abrasion I see very little point...

I would be very interested to learn how anyone has posted a rod with Parcelforce / Royal mail with a length greater than 1.5 ms for £13.95 . Did you book online , or take in to the post office ? If you took it direct to the PO and paid there , did they measure it ? I am not wishing to labour...

Pa Parcelforce may carry parcels of this length but not for £13.95 as was quoted earlier

basically your local PO are not sticking to their own rules regarding length , I wouldn't enlighten them as you are on to a good thing there !

UPS are very good . I remember sending a rod to Italy during the pandemic . At the time the Italians put exclusion zones round certain towns / cities and UPS could never get the rod to its destination , they tried and returned it to me x4 times but persisted and it arrived unscathed after months...

I have posted scores of rodsin UK and all over the world only experiencing the occasional problem BUT , the cost of posting long rods is very expensive [ over 1.5 metres ] . also if you read the very small print , most couriers don't insure rods for damage in transit .I have found UPS and...

Not sure Nick , but I don't think that is a drag knob . Clive Shipman, who I think is a BFW member is the man to ask about all things centre pins , he's on F Book

You blanked even on a juicy lob ? Maybe the Barbel were already stuffed Terry ,like Mr Creosote !

I never used fixed leads , can't see the point . Yes you will sometimes get a pull on the upstreaming method but if you leave it they will dislodge the lead and you get the big drop back the fish hooking itself against the lead and the pressure on the line . In these conditions I don' think the...

If your swim allows it cast straight downstream close in and point your rod where the bait is , with only the shallowest angle possible on the rod for bite indication , this method allows you to use light leads and reduces amount of debris hanging up on your main line . Works best if you are...

I reckon a worm or worms take some beating for the Barbel in a flooded river . When you think about it loads of worms must get washed in by the flood water ,Barbel must stuff themselves on worms in such conditions

I feel that the greater the distance between your hook and your lead reduces the occurence of line 'bites' and fish spooking when they hit the tight line above the lead . Wherever possible I also fish with my rod as low as possible to minimise this problem . This said many anglers fish their...

Some great advice here . I would add that in extreme floods fish in a spot that you are familiar with at normal levels . On more than one occasion I was flood fishing and on returning later when the flood subsided , discovered I hadn't even been fishing in the river proper but on what would...

My comment above was not directed at you Haydn , but at all contributors to this thread

Yep , still got it David ,Suzuki GSX 1425 cc , it's for drag racing , my son rides it now , it's a money pit but we have fun . I am too old ,fat and creaky for such stuff now and after 35 years of competing in drag racing I have hung up my leathers ,probably ......

Alex, I have a Redmire evening pitch weird tale but I will leave that one for another time . Here's a little one that has always mystified ,and, if I was honest troubled me . I do most of my fishing on the Yorkshire Ouse being only 5 minutes drive away . When I was working full time a lot of my...

Hello David . I empathise with your experience to a great degree . I have learn't , and I am a slow learner, that it pays to take your Barbel goggles off so to speak, and look at the greater fishing picture . I was on the Yorkshire Ouse a few weeks a go , at night , in the throwing rain , in a...

I am nothing like as obsessive about my Barbel fishing now as I was a few years a go when I would be on the bank as often as possible in all conditions . In winter I did a lot of blanking but I kept going trying to tick the boxes of a Barbel in the snow, or a Barbel in a winter flood . Looking...