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Read the section entitled ‘ updated guidance on managing beaver activities’. It is laughable. My fishery and adjacent properties have already been damaged by illegal beavers. Now NE want me to: Fence my property, put wire round my favourite trees, fill in beaver burrows, remove beaver dams...

The Stuart Morgan/Guy Robb ones were uploaded to YouTube a couple of years ago so that anybody can watch them for free. I think they are titled ‘up close and personal’ and ‘barbel even closer’. I’m afraid I’ve no idea how to provide direct links…..

I use them for roach maggot fishing. Had a 17.12 carp on a size 20; they are great hooks.

PM on way to you.

Very good advice.

If you want a first hand account of the impact of recent beaver introductions; I refer you to a recent thread titled ‘Beaver reintroduction success’. PS. I didn’t write the title !

Excuse my cynical attitude but what is SO great about Dudmaston. I know some of the history through having being a longtime Tenchfishers member and when I walked round there last summer some guy was catching smallish tench on a feeder from one of the few swims that wasn’t choked with weed…...

TA do a similar 3/4 sleeve. I got some with my TA quiver (used). They worked fine but I dont use sleeves - so I flogged them.

I might have one of his early catalogues somewhere. I will try and find it (but it won’t be for a day or two).

I might have access to a lightly used Shakespeare Mach 3 version (a superb rod) in the CWP. If you are interested, let me know and I will check the availability……. PS it will be cheap.

I haven’t fished that area for decades; but both Mark Barrett and Steve Younger mention the sixteen foot (and Ely) in their books on zander.

There’s nothing wrong with my cheap luggage scales - they are more accurate than my Avons and my Reuben Heatons. Furthermore I’ve seen plenty of instances when people have mis-weighed fish on spring scales (both under and over). And don’t get me started on ‘pleasure’ anglers catching a big...

Tacklebox in Kent do.

Every barbel I have caught from the Thames has come from a particular area in a specific swim and that applies to fish caught from several different stretches many miles apart. I’ve fished scores of sessions (in good conditions) in other fairly adjacent (or not) swims and caught nothing but...

We used one (castable Deeper) when we first went on the Severn - you could get a good idea of the depths of a long stretch in a short time. Other ways to do similar include hiring a boat with a decent echo sounder; the modern ones have side scan as well as down scan - so would show a wide...

My comments are in Post 7, based on a year of use.

That squares with my recollection from talking to Terry. I had a pair from him in about 1979. One got nicked, I still have the other one.

Back in the day they also sold a Series 7 rod (power carp waggler) in the same configuration. I sold mine 18 months ago. You might find one of those and you could keep the bag and resell the rod ? BTW the rod was good.

Fighting drags are the best of both worlds - you leave the preset reel drag alone and simply dial in the tension you require for registering a take. Then when you get a bite you simply brake the spool with your fingers and tighten the fighting drag. I find them much more versatile than the...

Like some above; I find Quick drags to be a hindrance. I bought 2 fancy (used) Shimano Ci4 5500 carp reels and sold them on after about 2 trips. They were too sensitive for me. For the same job (and floodwater barbel) I now use basic Okuma 6000 front drag reels and they are great. I bought a...