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Good day chaps I use to fish Bath Road Piscatorials about 25+ years ago and was pretty good. Was just wondering if it's still ok. It seems that a flood relief scheme has been dug there in the years since. Any intel would be appreciated. PM if you are a secret squirrel 🐿️ 🙂

Recommendations please. Mainly chub I target in winter on link ledgered cheese paste/lobworm but I want something that will also do just general maggot feeder fishing for any species. My 11ft Drennan Twintip Avon is a great rod but once winter comes I need something about 12 ft. I don't mind...

Hello Barbel Experts I did something today that I've been promising myself I would do for the last couple of seasons and that's walk a stretch of my local Thames with a heavy, knobbly lead and braid and go looking for gravel spots. it was the usual situation in every swim. Patches of gravel...

Anyone had a look at these? Obviously Mr Whiskers loves a worm, but as the barbel I fish for are generally nocturnal feeders, during the day I'm a big fan of dropshotting with worms. I've had double figure pike (lucky to land) and my biggest chub of 6.8lb came to dropshotting lobs. I have no...

I guess that's it really. Though I'm absolutely fine being outdoors in a bit of wind, a bit of a chill and some drizzle (I won't do heavy rain because I travel light as I can and never take a umbrella), and I'm absolutely fine being sat by myself in the dark by the side of a river. As we start...

Evening folks, long time lurker and here's my first post! Genuine question that I have zero idea about so need some help. I've been lucky enough to get invited to fish a weir pool on a big river by the lock keeper. Though he has no interest in fishing he obviously knows the geography of the...