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Their words, not mine, I would say they have failed wouldn't you? https://fishlegal.net/about/about-fish-legal/

Its no mystery as to why the water companies pollute our rivers with raw sewage, effluent or Chemicals ... Its all about profit, returns on investments, shareholder dividends etc., the more they clean up the discharges the more it costs, the less they spend the more their investors capitalise...

Sorry mate, it used to be...

Kempsey AA stretch at Kempsey ....

MS of the AT ?

Meat reacts to water temperature in both ways, a water temp of 20c can make the meat soft ( I use SPAM) whereas a water temp of below 15c hardens the meat off I don't use big meat when water temp falls below 10c, I use smaller pieces i.e. oxo cube size on a hair, the Barbel can suck the meat...

The best thing to stop the hook pulling through it a small piece a pva nugget on the bend of the hook before you pull it back into the meat, within 20 seconds of being in the water it dissolves and the bait is still on the hook and the hook is in the same position...

Drennan Continental boilie hook is the one you want...size 2 or 4...

Big baits 2022, so efficacious in many, many ways…. The efficacy of big baits is there for all to see, from the early 1990’s to the 2020's, from my own personal point of view and from barbel fishing in general. I still use the method, without exclusivity though, boilies are a great barbel...

a bed of Freshwater mussels with the opened shells pointing up and open, they are like the providable Stanley knife blade and give the cleanest of cuts ...

6 out of the 9 water companies are invested in by the EA, I think you you will find the Angling Trust is probably the same Gra, each fine on a water company for pollution incidents would affect the water companies financial performance, thus affecting its profitability, thus affecting the...

Agree 100%

The Irony is Paul is that the EA will tell us the reason for the huge population of otters now is down to the cleanliness of our rivers and waterways and the rebuilding of habitat, on the other hand, talk to the Angling Trust and others and they will tell you the reason for the decline in the...

I remember editing issue 1 and 2....those were the days of the typing up of hand written articles, the laying out and gluing together of draft the copy and then photo copying, I had a budget of 75p per copy in those days, they were hard work, I haven't got an issue number one, which is a little...

Whilst water quality, habitat is very important to fish populations , I will reiterate what John Bailey, John Wilson, Des Taylor and others including myself have said over the last 10 years its predation that has ruined and destroyed the Barbel, Chub and Roach populations on the Wensum and...

RIP Martin... gone now but not forgotten. LB

Drennan Specialists standard grey blank came in 11' and 12ft 1.25 tc, Bob James had his 13 pound barbel on Passion for Angling on a 12ft 1.25 tc and John Serle clearly showed this on his painting of that fish, these rods were made in the mid 90's and on, however into the 2000's, drennan brought...

Things are ok Ray, not such a good barbel year last year due to my aged mother developing advanced dementia and my sister contracting breast cancer, so barbel had to take a back seat, but I still had a few, but this year will be better, give us a heads up when you come up and we can get...

Ray have a word with Steve Pope, he has a penchant for not throwing things away, yer never know mate.