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Depends how wet they are!! If you have fallen in the oggin turn them upside down to pour the water out then newspaper then hair dryer. I have two wooden broom poles each with a short piece of wood hammered on the end so like a figure 7 with a short top line. These slide in the boots or waders so...

Maybe I shouldn't, but I have had loads of barbel to over 9lb on my original 13ft Carbonactive and using a 2ft extension to 15ft. This includes loads from the fast waters of the Wye on up to 10lb line straight through! One particular swim is a hook and hold running a float to a tree overhanging...

I went through exactly the same thoughts about a new barbel float rod and eventually settled for a drennan series 7 13ft Power Carp Waggler. Reasons: 2 piece with 1ft detachable handle so easily transported, 13 feet so good float control, recommended up to 8lb line so lot of backbone...

I used one once and never again. I could just not wind the handle against the pressure needed on the rod to play the barbel, even when pumping. Even biggish chub OK but barbel definitely no.

search and see "A fishing chair that isnt really a chair but you can sit on it. And it carries stuff."

Trouble with straight through is you never know where it might break. I use loop to loop or loop over a micro swivel link or eye to attach a hook link to the main line. I was initially dubious about loop to loop but its an unbelieveably strong connection and I have had barbel to double figures...

I agrre about trying to get it to split - next time I will buy the normal size but might use some of the giant for hookbaits

For float fishing for barbel I actually bought a 13ft series 7 drennan power carp waggler which has the detachable handle for packing into a "set up" rod case and is slightly beefier than the tench rod. I have been very pleased with it's performance and ability to pressure large barbel away from...

Let me kick start a thread with a useful item that has improved my fishing. It's a pair of folding secateurs. They are fairly light, cheap (£10 or less) and fit in a pocket like scissors but are really useful to remove the stinging nettle or thorny branch that just happens to be in the wrong...

Interesting about a red light torch filter not spooking fish but is it the colour of the light or the intensity? Most red light filters are a lot dimmer than the white light. If the red light was as bright as the white light would they be spooked? I do a lot of trotting for barbel and prefer...

Many hooks are barbed or micro barbed. What would you use as a barbless hook? And don't say take off the barbs as my club specifies manufactured as barbless! I have tried various ones but can't seem to find one I really like

Please do tell about the chair leg through the punt. I remember the story of one guy who stood up in a punt when he hooked a powerful carp. He leaned back to put more pressure on and the line snapped. He fell backwards into the lake and completely disappeared under the water still holding his...

Years ago Dave Steuart developed a rig where he used say 4 small size 10 trebles along a deadbait as he felt pike were becoming accustom to big trebles and only "lipping" baits. He could then strike straight away. Similarly last winter I was not hooking pike properly so I moved the tail root...

I remember one day on a large pit where you might get a run a session where I had about 12 takes on deadbaits in the day. But each time the indicator just dropped off and about one to three inches of line was taken. Struck straight away - nothing, left it 30 -60 seconds - nothing. I did not want...

Bama sokkets

Try Bama Sokkets - but you might need a bigger boot. You wear them over an ordinary pair of thick socks. Sometimes you can wring sweat out of the outer layer but the inner layer is still dry and warm

In this weeks AT & AM there is an advert for a Matt Hayes Wild Low Chair from Dragon Carp (!). Not the Wild Rover Chair but the Wild Low Chair. It looks like the old Efgeeco Packaseat and could do the job you want. When roving lure fishing in my small rucksack I have one of those low small 12...

Recently I borrowed a mate's scales to weigh a good barbel as the batteries in mine had died. 10:22 the scales read, which puzzled me, but apparently verified that I'd caught a double. It was only after returning the fish and returning the scales to my mate that I realised I'd been looking at...

I find its not so much the travelling there as the travelling back. Not so much the miles as the time. Leaving before dawn can be a trip of 1.25 hours, coming back can be up to 3 hours!

I don't like the idea of a wet slimy net down your back. I sometimes walk the barbel back to the shore with a waiting net, sometimes hand land them. Last year I had a brainwave. I screwed a landing net head onto my long extending bankstick. Then push the bankstick into the river where I am...