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I have said many times that big meat baits is not a silver bullet method, Barbel in the natural world live and thrive off tiny food stuffs like bloodworms, midge pupae, shrimps, fry, and on certain rivers soft back peeler crab and crayfish the size of your thumb nail. but be in no doubt single...

Is the handle screw winch or sliding? Only just noticed your response sorry for the delay in answering...

https://www.stevepopebarbelfishing.co.uk/big-baits-the-early-days/#:~:text=Richard%20Walker%20once%20headed%20an,sort%20out%20the%20bigger%20pike.

All good stuff, i am honoured and humbled to be mentioned in such positive ways on such a prestigious platform , i dont want stifle this thread, but i will say that using extra large meat baits i.e a quarter of tin, isnt just about casting out a large bait, its a strategy, its a mindset, its a...

Thank you for those kind words mate...

Still for sale Paul?

I empathise 100% Paul, barbel fishing can be a tough game especially on a spate river with their steep slippery banks, I have fished the Severn and its tributaries for nearly 50 years for its barbel, I was once described, 30 years ago, as a mountain goat as I slipped and edged my way down a...

Sold!!

These pair of Bewick centre pins are in immaculate condition, the MK1's are considered to be of a higher quality than the later Korean made MK2's, story goes that they cost more to make than the original selling price, the UK engineering process was very costly Garry Mills of Mill Tackle...

Well we have to take into account that the EA have stocked over the last 10 years about 400,000 (or maybe more) Calverton mini barbel into the Trent catchment, this includes rivers like the Dove, the Derwent, the Anchor, The Mease, the Tame, the Soar and the Trent its self, the river at high...

It now all seems a bit strained and false to me, even their relationship appears to be a caricature of what it really is perhaps... Fishing to me is a far more a serious subject, I would never fish with their characters as they are always messing about and that becomes tiresome after a while...

I can go back further when Jill and Andy Orme ran the stretch, But I generally fished the opposite bank on the BAA side on their Brokamin stretch I had numerous doubles from there back in the 1990's, up to 13.10, with a few 11's 12's thrown in with some lovely back up Teme Tigers thrown in, it...

We have to accept barbel numbers on the river Teme are no where near what they were, I truly believe that there is little natrual recruitment in the Teme as Cattie Guttman Roberts proved, the barbel in the Teme now are just tourists from the lower Severn and ultimately get eaten by predators...

I checked out the Sausage Sizzle Lone Angler mystery with Des Taylor over the weekend and yes, Sausage Sizzle was in fact SBS Frankfurter, re labelled by Lone Angler as Sausage Sizzle...

Yes but Trev called it sausage sizzle....

I think Tref West bought his original Sausage Sizzle from SBS i.e. Des Taylor, however Des sold the business so my advice is to try SBS...?

Angling Trust Letter to The Prime Minister: https://anglingtrust.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/210308-Conseravtive-Animal-Welfare_Fish-Report_PM-Ltr.pdf?fbclid=IwAR2hYbBVo6txkkLD0DEOFM-WdUz1NWR3JzznyeOVsEMFect-JX5s4abBLIc A rare occasion when I and the Angling Trust agree on someting and they...

A reply from the Angling Trust on this very matter that a fellow angler received today : "The Angling Trust has worked hard to maintain strong cross-party support for angling in Parliament and we are working with ministers on promoting all the benefits that angling has to offer. We will be...