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So regardless of what damage otters have done to barbel stocks in the Oxfordshire Thames region I would say the most urgent problem that needs addressing is pollution and abstraction. But Loz and Dez just want you to join there tub thumping crew and forget about all that, they just want a cull...

Mark....worth looking at this about the windrush, don't think you will be able to sight fish it anymore https://www.windrushwasp.org/

Cherwell's just f**ked full stop and it has nothing to do with otters Alex, Thames tributaries around Oxford are some of the worst polluted in the uk with abstraction sucking the life out of them...give me otters any day over that lot.

I like that Mark, you've simplified it further by making the same as a bait dropper...might have a go at one myself.

I reckon if you spent a bit of time contacting tackle shops you would find what you needed and they would gladly get rid of at low price

I think you have to mention otters when it comes to barbel on smaller rivers, but I feel if you mention that alone for declining barbel numbers it sounds a bit like sour grapes and plays into the hands of pro otter people. So I think you would have to add that over abstraction leading to low...

Does it ever get that cold nowadays to wear a full on winter suit?

humour?

If you can afford it Halkon Hunt is about as good as it gets, made to measure and choose your own colours and fully repairable if you have any problems. http://www.halkonhunt.com/

yes I'm a member but I mainly match fish now, yes thyeres normally cattle in the fields...its along stretch with about 90 swims

Hello Jim.... Clanfield Angling Club on the upper Thames have a stretch where you can park behind every swim, you do have to climb over a style though. It's not prolific but does hold a few fish. https://www.clanfieldangling.co.uk/ Jason

it is unbelievable but not surprising...which is really sad that we are letting are country be run like this.

I never thought it would happen but most of the rivers in oxford have very few signal crayfish in them now, why that is we don't know. the only obvious conclusion is otters. just hope it stays that way.

why do they say 10 +1 BB...? and not 11 BB...?

on ebay...lots of pics https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/173905564066

Same on Thames...3 lure anglers thought they were fishing the canal

I have the above for sale, willing to split or sell as job lot at sensible prices. they are in vgc..I can supply single drennan hard or soft cases to go with them. I very much prefer collection or I can deliver within reasonable distance. oxford area

That’s just it... he can’t you ain’t sent him it yet :p

It does change though Chris so I wouldn't give up hope just yet, living in oxford our rivers were pretty much the first to be hit hard by otters and crayfish. Very few barbel being caught or ever seen, but the last few years on the Cherwell and the Thames i've seen barbel spawning for the first...

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