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My answer to the first points ! ... 11ft or 12ft rods ..... 12 ft I only own 12ft Barbel rods Centrepin or fixed spool ..... Fixed Arsenal or Spuds (well obvious really :) ) ... Pops ... What are you on about ??? 🤔 Chairs with arms or not, ... I've got both, i never hold my rods, so it dosn't...

Don't know how i missed this thread ! 🤔 Because i would have commented before 😁 ' QUOTE' ......Ok, before I duck for cover, wi' my tin hat firmly buckled on tight, can anyone give a single reason NOT to use one? Well no I can't, or not a reasonable one anyway ! And I always do..... Always ...

So before I start, I never actually saw anything of a Feline nature ! Just what you might say is circumstantial evidence ! So this was on St Patricks stream, I can't remember the exact year, but it was long before the dedicated car park, when we used to park along the field fence along Loddon...

Ok 😁

Now i could tell you about an experience i once had ... Maybe later ;)

A lovely Thames Sunset

Ideal for poachers looking to catch for the pot 😡

My guess is spooky Barbel ! … for whatever reason ! Had you changed your rig were you experimenting with something ? Different rig or bait ? I guess not or you would have said, it may have been the swim, in fact I think it’s most likely with that many takes others probably know of it and fish it...

Watching the video again, I think Mark is not suggesting that you necessarily use a poker stiff rod, merely stating the physics of one extreme to the other, he says.... ' No ! You need to apply pressure on the fish to get it in the net ' Which is true ! .... suggesting a softer type rod to...

I get the thinking, but just don’t agree ! Think of it this way, at one end you have the fishes lip the other you you have the reels clutch, and in between the line, maybe mono, maybe braid, depending on breaking strain of tge line, and the stretch or lack of it, the setting of the clutch, and...

Going against the grain here, but sorry doesn’t make sense to me at all !

Photos can be very misleading, but I do agree it looks suspiciously small for 22lb ! 😲 for comparison the fish I'm holding in my Avatar is 16lb 8oz, if it's a genuine mistake then he hasn't caught many Barbel , if his claim of weight is deliberately false then as has been said, he's only fooling...

Welcome Lee, you'll like it on here I'm sure

Moth Chrysalis, if you keep it it will hatch .... Great bait by the way ;)

Then that's the one I'd be after ;)

Got to have one !👍

I didn’t realise that Richard ! I have 5, 4 & ah batteries I use for ky Milwaukee tools, two of the 4ah’s are 8 years old used and charged every day, and still going strong, but I never realised I could use an adaptor to charge my phone, I have got a few power packs that I charge from when...

And on the hair

May not have been different fish, Could’ve been one very wary Barbel snatching at the bait, try back leading if possible to avoid potential liners, if your hair is long try shortening it, and use a different meat, it doesn’t have to be luncheon hair rigged beefburger works well

8lb 0oz on pineapple flavoured pop up cut to sweetcorn shape, 3 on a hair, so remember they don't have to be little round things, buy a tub of pop ups, and cut them into sweetcorn shapes, for hook baits, then take a tin of Sweetcorn, pour the juice out, and pour pineapple flavouring in, leave...