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I brought a tracker 3 piece set a few weeks back. I had an old Shakespeare set Iv had for years but hardly ever wore. Decided to stick them on the other week when it was windy and I was drenched by the time I got in the car from condensation. Brought the tracker set and first time using them was...

To be fair you can have it mate I only had a bream out of it lol. Bite’s stopped after that

Bright and misty at 11 o’clock last night on lower Severn

Get yourself some crampons. No chance of slipping in them.

One of the reasons I prefer a big chunk to small piece is that if an eel finds it it can’t wolf it down in one bite. Usually takes a while unless they bite right where the hook is. The first time I ever used half a big tin of spam on the hook I ended up catching the smallest eel Iv ever caught...

Saturday evening on the Severn

Big barbel will fit it in easy but you’re right in a way as sometimes they will bite the meat where the hook is and get hooked and occasionally when you land the fish you still have half your meat that has slid up the hooklink.

When I brought mine I brought 2 sizes bigger. I wanted just one size bigger so I’d have room to wiggle my toes as I think tight boots make your feet cold but that size was £35 more. I can wear a good pair of Marino wool socks and a pair of boot liners and still have wiggle room in the size 12 I...

Not sure about the roach but had my first bite of the season down there last night and missed it cause I was having a piss lol

1:30 this morning. Bright and misty on the lower Severn

Yeah I still get cold feet in mine but they’re better than walking boots. I brought a box of toe warmers a year or so back that help a bit but I have to stick them directly on my toes not on the outside of my socks

Brought a pair of 11 foot the start of last season. Unfortunately Iv not really got anything to compare them with as had been using my John Wilson rod for 16 years before hand. I always used to use barbless hooks and one problem I did have with them was I was losing a ridiculous amount of fish...

The horizon x4 are you on about?

They must all vary or we’d have tropical fish in the north sea

Plus I don’t know the Wye particularly so no idea where about on the river those measuring stations are so no idea of depths of water. In saying that though also don’t know at what depths these measurements are taken. I don’t know if they measure in the river or remove a bit of water to analyse

It probably makes perfect sense but it’s all too technical for me. I was always under the impression that higher temps meant less oxygen but them graphs threw me. That’s why I wasn’t sure I was even reading them right as it didn’t make sense

Did you see the link Paul put on the wye thread? There’s graphs on there that as far as we can make out show there is more oxygen in the water the higher the temp got.

I used mine for about 14 years. Landed barbel to 12lb 8 and carp to 20lb 15. Only problem I had was after about 10 years the varnish started coming away around some of the rings but I just picked off the loose stuff and bodged a bit of varnish on myself. Edit; only just noticed you had the...

I thought it was eels that don’t like scopex

If my bivvy gets packed away wet I’ll get it out at home to dry out. If my brolly is soaking as I normally leave it in my car I’ll get it out when I get back to stop my car getting soaked. As for rods and reels I tend not to let my reel get covered in mud and not that bothered bout my rods...