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Nice one Bill, great result.

Thanks Bill, last fish was at 13.30 then my mate started catching next door to my left until 18.30. I sure you will catch up with them or them with you.

Eight fish for me today, best at 7:04 and 6:13 females and a male 6:11. All on maggot feeder.

Late reply Joe just got back off the river....one dace. Surfers against Sewage last year claimed that Scottish Water leaked raw Sewage up to 24,000 times into seas ,lochs and rivers. Their live map shows SW are leaking into these waterways as we speak. It is indeed a shit show....

Statistics remind me of that quote Joe "lies, damn lies and statistics" I've read and heard enough statistics from the water companies and the EA to last more than a lifetime.

Let us not forget that Scottish Water is nationalised and has been since 2002 and they have exactly the same problems with sewage discharge,water pollution and service issues as we have. Whatever changes are made to the system of ownership it must be fit for purposes in that we have clean water...

Something along those lines yes......... and some very good lines from Sir James Bevan and Alan Lovell......

And if you want some light bedtime reading Paul then try the minutes from the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee, dated 14th March 2023 HC221.

Current debt at Thames Water around 22 billion (according to the BBC) if the person at the top of Thames was the best candidate for the job what were the other candidates like ? Furthermore which water companies are the the failed candidates now running?

Criminal is the term I will use and I will wager that not a single person will ever go to prison for this young girls death. Is it corporate manslaughter? We need an MP with integrity to take whole disgusting abhorrent scandal within the water companies to its highest level. Justice needs to...

Looks like a brilliant book Nigel, I've tried to get a copy but unfortunately they are now sold out. As you say they are indeed an intriguing fish and I've never spent anytime searching them out which I do now regret.

On a day of bad news this was magnificent to see, well done Rich.

Cracking Pike that Peter, well done. Those local rivers certainly hold a surprise or three.

Hi Rich Yes only two pictures that were taken of the Twenty which didn't come out well with the ET weigh sling folding over the fish and hiding a lot of it. Given the weather on the day was very wet the peg was carnage and all was hectic my priority as normal was to get fish back as safely and...

After a poor season during 24/25 I decided to have a go for Pike instead of Barbel this season from October onwards but after a bout of man flu and a back problem I didn't start until a week ago so here goes the first four sessions. Arrive at a new venue which I was put onto by a mate who had...

Hi Matt, hope you are well, are you still in that lovely village I picked the rods up from ? So yes they are your old rods and I find them superb and as you say power when needed. As for netting the Cat I always have a 42" net made up in case of carp I also have history with Cats so not really a...

Hi Alec, My rod was a Drennan Tench and Bream 2lbtc, main line 8lb which was then upped to 12lb, 6lb hook linked then upped to 10lb and a size 8 Drennan Specimen hook. It took about twenty minutes to land and swam off strongly.

A very brief summary of my Tench fishing this season; Two waters fished, sixteen sessions, five blanks, sixteen fish, best fish 7lb 7oz smallest 4lb. Most fish to maggot feeder. Bonus fish; Catfish 55lb and Eel 4lb 9oz pb

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