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This date would work better for me.

Tentative interest from me. The 24th is my birthday and I don’t think I could blag a full weekend off parenting at the moment.

If you’re using a combi with the flouro as a boom you can go pretty thick and that should avoid the problems as said. Personally though I’d try the coated braid as it’s convenient and very abrasion resistant.

I know one day my fishing will be limited to places that don't require climbing, or pushing through vegetation to places with platforms and toilet facilities but for now I will enjoy things. Growing up scaling cliffs and rocks to shore fish with my Dad, getting there was all part of the experience.

Kind of reminds me of the elasticated inline feeder rig.

As Jon shows above his arm is there. There is a patch behind the pelvic fin which could be a shaded hand. It doesn’t effect me either way so I’m not going to invest much time thinking about it.

Personally I think it’s just a naff picture, the fish isn’t in focus either. I doesn’t set off my photoshop alarm bells but it also doesn’t provide me with confidence of the claimed weight. All said and done though, I’m not fussed. If the chap is exaggerating then he’s only fooling himself. If...

Some people would call me sad but I’m hyper organised with this kind of thing, same with work. I’m the guy who has screwdrivers in size order. I have everything in its place and don’t carry dead weight in my bag. I often fish short sessions in the dark, and I can go through long blank spells...

8 minutes! I have a feeling the fish is out the water the whole time? Sorry but I’d be intervening here if that’s the case.

Get the point you’re making. There’s two photos there that could have been taken within the same burst shot. Also (whilst I don’t) I can appreciate some people might want photos of both sides for identification and if done competently multiple shots could be achieved in half the time someone...

Agreed. Although my thought is when the latte mums start talking about it. When you start getting “informed” by someone who until recently didn’t know the difference between a river and lake about this “latest issue” you know it’s getting traction. I just smile and say, yeah I know.

Also a fair comment. I won’t share my opinions on parties but it often appears to me that so many have short memories and think a tie change will solve the problems that are in reality far more complex and difficult to resolve than the finger pointing brigades will ever admit. Governance is...

The answer has to depend on the life it’s had.

Isn’t the slight hole in the argument for renationalising pretty much anything, they got sold for a reason (well many) and why giving direct control to government who have failed for decades to control the situation via legislation makes little sense. It’s like handing the controls back to a bad...

15th of May what year… I can’t remember the last time I saw the German flag!

I don’t know if it’s psychological or not but I feel like I get a faster/stronger response from a fresh bag of pellet. The longer it’s been sat at the back of the garage the less pulling power it seems to have.

Trouble is it’s all a bit previous now in terms of tests. Yes you’ll have ammonia because there’s decomposing fish everywhere producing it, similarly Nitrite and Nitrate as it will be there from the excess ammonia. Nitrate isn’t harmful to fish unless it’s in very high concentrations. You’d...

Isn’t this to do with value. We’re programmed to seek out sweet things for example because sugar would be a scarce high value commodity, you even get an endorphin hit from these foods. They aren’t nutritional as such but they are high energy, junk foods appeal to us because the hunter gatherer...

I received a spinning rod all the way from China entirely unharmed.

I can’t get my head round these people, like Graham says it’s a social issue. I don’t know anyone personally that would litter and I’m confident that almost every parent at my kids school would brain their kids for doing it. There’s a minority of people out there that just don’t care about...