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Keep looking for them, then bait it steadily and fish it early and late. And as AP said, use decent gear so when you hook a big fish you land it. Hasn’t the BA produced a 40? I’ve certainly heard of upper 30’s a while back.

I’ve no idea as I’ve only fished mine at 13 and 15. It is fine at 15. I also have a 14ft XS and the Triaxial is hugely more powerful.

I take your point - most club officials are well meaning but stupid ! However most people would agree that tiger nuts are likely to be included in that statement. I didn’t know tigers weren’t actually nuts. It’s a bit like the definition of lead core - does it include lead free ledcore, safe...

Tricast did a spliced tip power float rod called a Triaxial. Comes with 2 butts and a 2ft extension. 13ft/15ft/17ft. Hence the name. I own 2 of them; great powerful (chub) trotting rods but I’ve never tried to catch a barbel on one (yet).

Rules are (usually) there for a reason. It really annoys me (not just because I run a fishery) that people seek to circumvent rules that were imposed for good reason. If I was the bailiff and found you using tigers I would Chuck you off; regardless of your semantic excuse. Of course if you...

If you find well known roach angler Mark Wintle’s videos; he uses an Allerton and loves it. But he (like Chris Jones) hates the reel seat - so he reworks it. Again video available. If you can’t find him on YouTube, he uploads all his stuff on ‘maggotdrowning’.

That is fab. Really well done .

Well done Graham; superb fish.

Yes. It is about 2 miles from my front door. But I haven’t fished it for carp for over a decade. Unfortunately after my mate and I worked out how to catch the fish quickly; we became targets to certain other anglers. So we both stopped fishing there and I actually gave up UK coarse fishing...

I run a fishery and yes fisheries have to be licensed. However; the EA Fishery service is woefully under-funded and there aren’t nearly enough Fishery officers to do the job properly. Basically the system is broken and to put it bluntly the EA let fishery owners do what they like -...

It’s perfectly legal - so what you or I might think is largely irrelevant. The EA basically washed its hands of land locked stillwaters decades ago. I would suggest that very heavily stocked commercial fisheries (2000 lb plus per acre) are a much bigger fish welfare issue than somebody...

Westlake 36” triangular. Very cheap and remarkably good. I bought mine just for the deep mesh net but ended up using the whole thing.

I’ve advertised (on several Forums) several decent rods recently at sensible prices and had almost zero interest. The issue has probably been ‘collection only’ - for the reasons given above. I shifted 4 rods at the recent RDAA open day; but they were old very cheap stuff rather than more modern...

FWIW I fished there many years ago and just like Bill we caught nearly all our fish in daylight; mostly in the breakfast - lunchtime slot. We had several over 9, best 9.13 (not caught by me!). Ano Essex based friend fished there for years after us and caught significantly bigger fish.

If you buy expensive breathables, some manufacturers do a myriad of different shapes eg Simms. Last resort; contact ‘diverdave’ and he can change the size of the stocking foot or even boot. He also sells reconditioned waders that are a very good buy IF he has something your size. I got a pair...

As I said earlier I think the C3 is a pretty average tench rod. The Torrix is much better.

They are on eBay too (no connection to me).

‘Bitetimes to lifetimes’ the last part of Tom Bankes’ trilogy of books has just been published. Highly recommended to any carp anglers and/or fishery managers, all 400 pages of it. It is the most ‘recent’ of the three and I’m unashamedly biased as I have fished some of the waters Tom writes...

Early morning.

I have used second hand 12ft Chimera 3, 2.25 rods most of the time on the Thames and they do the job very well. They cope with big fish, big leads and heavy lines just fine. They bend so they tend not to pull hooks out, but they are powerful rods and punch above their weight. What they don’t do...