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Chris, I believe that the pollution comes from the Westinghouse Drain, but not too sure at present. I didn't see any dead fish today. There is an Upper Thames League match there on Sunday, so the results in that will be telling of the effects of this.

I have just returned from Chippenham town centre after visiting the tackle shop. This occurred on Tuesday night and was immediately reported to the EA. There are presently booms strung across the river just upstream from Town bridge and some EA? workers near the wooden footbridge outside the...

I looked around for lead coating materials a few years ago and stumbled upon the fake 'grass' powders used by railway modellers. It's available in green and brown. Coat your leads in araldite or similar and then roll the leads in a tub of the powder. It has a nice texture and is not shiny...

Andreas, That was the first time I'd done any serious fishing with bite alarms and boilies, as I have never fished for carp in that way before. I usually stalk them in the margins or use floaters. So, yes it was exciting as each time the alarms sounded and line was ripped off the spools at a...

Andreas, I went with Paul Brown (off this site) in 2008 to be guided by Peter Staggs. We caught comizo up to 30lb in our weeks' stay and also carp between 15lb to 20lb. We fished a few of the smaller lagoons for another species of barbel aswell and caught those up to 8lb or so. It will be...

I remember an article by Dave Ivey from the Chub Study Group in Coarse Fisherman a few years ago where he used lots of natural baits such as crickets, locusts, wax worms, etc. I saw some pickled baby octopus in a supermarket recently but at £3.49 a jar I gave it a miss. They may work quite...

Just like Ray, I have also seen barbel feeding off the surface, taking some errant bread crust that had escaped the attentions of chub. This was in fairly shallow water over a bed of cabbages. I didn't believe it at first and have not seen it since. Kris

I haven't managed to catch pike since 1st October. I'm fishing my usual places where it is possible to catch a few big ones each year but no runs yet. The river has been up and down alot and getting there in the right conditions has been difficult. Usually after Christmas the sport picks...

Andy, Could you change mine to Kristian Price please? Many thanks Kris