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I really do not think there is a right or wrong way to “Wallis Cast “. I taught myself via the University of Youtube and reading a few books on the subject. I basically fumbled around until I found the most comfortable way of doing it for myself. As Ben says,the holding the lead method , I find...

I used to fish the upper Ribble a lot, got to know the swims and caught fairly consistently. The key in my case at least was putting in the hours , keeping diaries and eventually being confident in where I was putting the bait. Sounds easy , well it is not rocket science , but I can say that...

On another thread on here I read something that rung so true with me. I rarely ever buy new gear . What I have works for me , and so long as it does why should I replace it ? Some gear is very old, cane and pin mosty, some vintage fixed spools as well.I like using vintage gear , no doubt it has...

A bit difficult with a vintage Mitchell 300, but if I have to I manage to trip the bail by manually releasing the bail arm ”catch” . TBH the Mitchell Bail arm is a really good design imo and works as an auto closing system as well or better than many modern ones . My Beach fixed spools all...

Pellets and Spam , I do not see the need , or want to be bothered with boilies. For me they offer nothing in the way of being a bait , altogether too artificial for me . I do not dispute that they work , but I am a bit old fashioned, I even feel a bit of a fraud using Hali pellets tbh . In...

Ewe nuts, there used to be a chap fished the Ribble who only ever used them , he had a smallholding , kept sheep . When setting out for a day on the river he just grabbed a couple of handfulls on the way to the car ( handfulls of nuts , not sheep ) He always seemed to catch well enough . I have...

Good point Richard. I was not aware of this, and probably a good percentage of everybody using them arent either. Are trout pellets the same ? I could also ask what is the percentage of undesireable content in in the hundreds of bags of other processed baits sold to anglers . Nobody mentions...

Failing the above, take a quantity of Halibut Pellets and put them into a bowl, fill the bowl just below the level of the pellets with hot water and leave overnight as Steve says above re trout pellets . In the morning the pellets will have absorbed the water and with a bit of kneading you will...

Still cannot make it , the two dates fall smack in the middle of us travelling and visiting friends so “buggeration” again. Wherevere / whenever it happens tight lines to everybody. David

Bugger ,just a week too early , I am in Cornwall that week and near to your venue the week after .😕 David

Right and wrong is in the eye of the user. There are no fixed rules unless applied by the fishery owner/ licencing authority . We all have our own ideas as to what is acceptable practice, but is it right to be pedantic ? For instance I would never use braid in freshwater having seen the...

Fishing the Wharfe recently on a stretch I had not visited last year .I walked the banks to check out the swims I knew the layout of,only to find that they had become overgrown and thick with HB. Nobody had so much as set foot in them and other anglers had seemingly just stuck to two easily...

A very peaceful River Wensum. David.

Old reels, Okuma Multis are nowhere near the quality of their freshwater fixed spools, made of monkey metal mostly. I have had some in for service and really they are poor . I would not want to put a value on it as who knows what it is like inside . The Shimano ,if it has been serviced and...

I have spent quite a few years now wading in estuaries when bass fishing, using frozen sandeel, I wear chesties and just use a nylon belt with a couple of carabiners looped over them to clip on my bait flasks. The sea sometimes washes up to my arrmpits if a rogue wave decides to chase me, or...

I have the Okuma Longbow baitrunners, they came I think before the Epix pros. They are fairly large reels , robust, solid, with a fantastic front drag , they get used every time I dig out the Fox Barbel Duo Flood rods, a bulletproof pairing . Old , No, just reliable ! David

Read the above to my wife, she is interested in the Hoover, some scrubbing brushes, Fabric softener, and the laundry detergent. I take it you will deliver to West Yorkshire ? Glad to help you in your time of need. David.

Nice tidy reel Bill, if I did not have a dozen ‘pins I would be tempted at that price. david

I made myself a couple of line winders years ago, 1 x rotation equals 1 yard. Every reel spool has backing which is loaded to leave room for 100 yards of line of whatever bs the reel is used for . It is an easy job to either load the spool with new line or measure out 100 yards on the line...

Dog spikes are fine. I have used mine of some very steep River Wye banks for a good numberbof years , and never ever had a problem. So long as you screw them in far enough. Sometimes when you are using them to actually pull yourself up instead of just to steady yourself they will bend a bit...