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Lovely scoots they are, love seeing the old photos. Scooter prices are balancing out now a bit and falling to where they should be. This time last year an SX200 was north of £12k, people are struggling to get £8k for them now. The only ones that demand serious money now are the GT200 and DL...

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I did pretty much the same yesterday afternoon, again on the Warks Avon. Haired-rigged, large piece of meat with a size 6 hook. No loose feed at all and fished a rodlength out in the slack water. I covered x8 swims in just under 2-hours. If I hadn’t caught within 5-mins I moved swims. Great...

@Terry Harman @Nigel Whittingham - I just randomly came across this thread and thought you may like to see my scoots. S1: Complete nut and bolt restoration with 197 engine. S2: Dragged out of a garage in my hometown last summer and back on the road after 54-years. Skelly style with a TV175...

Thanks for the info Mike - I seemed to have missed this reply so apologise for the very late response !!! The rod’s just over 9ft in length with the handle making up 1ft of that. I’m never going to use it as a fly rod so it seams a waste for it to sit in its cloth bag doing nothing.

Nash Scope - Bib and Brace for me, very durable with four large front pockets which suits my style of roving fishing. I always wear them with tracksuit buttons in the winter so I don’t feel the cold. They’re a bit snug around the tummy (I like my Guinness) but the next size up we’re huge on me...

I expect you’d struggle to get anywhere near that water now until next season.

If you want to find out more about feeding stimulants / nutrition / bait science then listen to this Podcast - it's all Carp focused but they do mention Barbel and they have similar ways of feeding e.g. bottom feeders filtering out the gravel and substrate from the food particles. The Dean...

On the rare occasion I use a feeder I like to fill it with smell rather then feed. Namely: -Ground-bait (without any pellets in it) -Natural sponge (that’s been soaked in a liquid) -KNORR stock pot

This isn’t one from me but in August my fishing mate was doing an overnighter at MF it was a full moon so not super dark. He was fishing about 1am (Oak tree peg) and saw something on the opposite bank moving above the river bank which caught his eye. The guy from the next few pegs wandered...

Super - thanks for confirming.

I assume the answer is “yes” but can you download the videos (iPad / iPhone) and watch offline please ? I’ve got a trip to Thailand soon and want some material for the flight.

I think we have a winner !!!

I remember my mate telling me he was walking across a field at night (pitch black) and a pheasant flew from under his feet and he ended up in a heap on the floor half scared to death. He had his rucksack on his back and fell backwards - he said he was like an upside down tortoise that couldn't...

That’s a very good price.

Will be interest to see of it’s the same fish James caught. I’d had a scale missing above its left pelvic fin.

Great video - just got around to watching this tonight. No sponsored bait rammed down your throat, no adverts for clothing and no annoying music. Bliss. For me, the highlight were the short shorts and vest he was wearing. Only bettered by Ray Walton in one of his rolling meat videos where he’s...

I’ll go first. About three years ago I was fishing a stretch of the W.Avon super early in the morning. I arrived at 5am and put some hemp out over a beautiful fog-covered rover. I was sat there tucking into a coffee and heard this almighty crash to the right of me. My immediate thought was...

The hookbait mix will likely produce a harder bait and have a tad more flavour / attractant to it.

JBs book is really good too and well worth a read. I’ve used his Taste F2 and SuperMilk to good effect along with his flavours. I fished the Meuse in France this summer and struggled to catch. I remembered I had some Ala Salar liquid with me and a couple of the squirts of that and I had a...