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To clarify on the prediction front, my concern is that normally Otters only pick off the Barbel during cold water temps when the fish are quite dormant. During drought conditions, if the Barbel effectively get trapped in small pools/holes, they become an easy target. Similar to the Chris...

At what point do we need to start seriously worrying about the current low river levels and with no significant rain in sight? Comparisons are already being made with the summer drought of 1976; however 2025 is very different and in relation to our smaller rivers: Significant larger human...

12lb Gardner Hydro-Tuff

Of interest, I’ve been after another Daiwa Ballistic reel for light lure work and couldn’t source one in the UK. I therefore recently ordered one from ProTackle Shop, who are based in Poland and appear to ship from NL. I’ve used them for low value orders previously, so took the plunge and...

Do as Huanzhou says 👍🏻

If we are talking on the reel, I change it after every few sessions, as I’m paranoid of it getting damaged on snags, rocks etc. I always use cheap backing line on the spool, so I never add more than 100 ME max of my main line. When you consider a bulk spool contains 1200 ME, its not a big...

I’ve been following a few Korum product FB posts this week and noticed that any negative feedback is immediately taken down. This latest feedback caught my eye, so I took a screenshot and sure enough it didn’t last long. Most companies seem to take negative feedback on the chin.

Knepp is incredible, 92% decline in Nightingales nationally and they went from zero pairs to 40+ pairs on the estate!

You could make a comparison re anglers who want to control Otters and Pigeon Fanciers who want to control Peregrines and Sparrowhawks. Personally I’m 100% against Otter control as like urban Peregrines its a protected species and a conservation success story. Any attempt to change the law for...

That’s one of my biggest frustrations, if we properly taught environmental studies in schools, covering human impacts, land use, food production, energy, nature……. we’d live in a far better country, where people actually cared about and considered their own impact on the environment. You could...

In 2013 there wasn’t a single breeding Hen Harrier in England. By 2016 the RSPB in partnership with UU had 3 successful nests on UU’s Bowland Estate. The RSPB started to ask questions of DEFRA and NE, specifically asking why they were strangely absent from all the pristine Hen Harrier habitat...

Apparently when it was covered on the local news Facebook page, the local pigeon fanciers were all over it, saying how pleased they were! In my experience, they have a real deep hatred of both urban Peregrines and Sparrowhawks, which constantly spook and occasionally take their prized pigeons...

Joking aside, Korum could work with the likes of the BFW forum community to test out new product ideas and improvements.

Just watched the latest Korum product release on YouTube, is was going well until they included the tupperware type sandwich box, with a picture of a Tench on it…….The “Tench Lunch Box” 😂😂😂 There’s also the Tench hip flask, if you fancy getting pissed on the bank 👍🏻

Its dead simple, contact the Forestry Comission, give them the grid reference/what3words ref and ask if a felling license was issued? If no felling license issued, they should be all over it and they can issue a legally enforceable tree restocking order. Be under no illusion, there are plenty...

If you Google “EU lead ban fishing” it brings up some recent stuff pre April 1st

I can see it coming to be, we stopped using lead shot in the 80’s as it poisoned swans and other waterfowl which ingested it. Also lead removed from petrol years ago. Lead is bad in the environment. It never ceases to amaze me how many cracks offs I see when anglers are carp fishing. Some lakes...

These rods on launch were bigged up, big time by Korum “Best of the Best”, yet you struggle to find any angler recommendations for them. A quick search through the various Barbel Facebook page groups also reveals very little. When I was looking for some 2.25lb rods for occasional use, I...

I’ve been blowing the fishflix trumpet for a while now. The quality of filming in some of the videos is the new bench mark for me. I’d also recommend watching the videos, which initially you may think wont be of interest to you. As an example I don't personally pike fish, but the pike video...

I too have caught Barbel on bread whilst chub fishing. A few years ago, I recall watching an amateurish fishing video on YouTube. In the video, the guy was moulding flake around the hook and then dipping it, in tinned steak and gravey, acting as a glug. He actually caught a few Barbel, but I...