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Can't beat day break for me. Being up the lake as it starts to get light and everything starts to wake up is what it's all about for me. Problem is my fishing, whilst I get plenty of time to go, is very limited middle of the day at the moment due to work and family commitments.

Rich, can you talk me through that whole tri pod set up please?

Cheers mate, I appreciate your advice and respect your opinion, although do t want to get involed in the rights and wrongs of sleeping whilst fishing. Sort of wish I had worded it different, have you ever been able to edit a post on here?. My point was more that I want to use more than one rod...

Thanks everyone that has commented. I should add, and not sure how well this will go down on here so please don't hate me for it, I want to use a pair, up the Thames, doing nights and using bite alarms. I know its not to everyone's taste but hear me out..... I'm a carp angler by nature been...

Thanks everyone, I've got an 11ft 1.75lb Torrix and multiple Torrix carp rods and love them all so pleased to hear the comments about the 12ft 2.25lb Torrix, I must have got it wrong or maybe thinking of a different blank. Will most likely get a pair. Thanks for the feedback.

Looking to get a pair or three custom rods built mainly to use on the Thames for Barbel. Would also be nice if they made lovely tench rods. My initial thoughts were 12ft 2.25lb Torrix but something tells me these aren't that highly regarded, pretty sure I've read that somewhere so any...

Thanks, in terms of the set up I'll be using a 14ft Acolyte plus with a JW River specialist. I was always pretty decent at getting amongst the chub, quite often putting together a decent amount and some bigger ones too. We're going back a fair old years now but I used to go up with half a...

Although new to fishing for barbel, being a carp angler for the last 25 years, I learnt to fish trotting a float on my local River Blackwater. Since giving up targeting carp and getting back on the river I've enjoyed my fishing more than I have for a long, long time. I'm on the Loddon and have...

Thank you both 👍🏻

I've got the 32 inch TB net, bought it for barbel but it's far too shallow in my opinion, great for other species but not for barbel. Can anyone confirm that the 36 inch is deeper and hopefully by quite a bit? Cheers Martin

Thanks mate, managed to do it in the end

I bought some new handles to change on my new JW young River specialist, assumed you just unscrewed the existing ones but having trouble. Anyone got some advice? Cheers Martin

Fuji's, BSVOG, if I remember rightly.

I haven't used it yet mate.

Just received my new rod , to go with my new pin, for the new season. Custom 11dt 1.75lb Harrison Torrix built by Duncan Smith at Hampshire Tackle, he will be unknown in comparison to some builders but after seeing his work I had my Harrison Aviators built by him last year and so glad I did...

Won't need more than 20lb mate.

I did look Tim but only found one recent thread and it was just digital scales, which to be fair I should have said I have no interest in.

Looking to purchase a new set of scales ad my 60lb RH specimen hunters are just too big, any suggestions? Cheers Martin

Vic Gibson is a master rod builder, I've had rods built by all the main builders over the years and he is right at the very top.

Evening, So I bought myself a J W Young Triton to go on my Acolyte for trotting. Now looking for a couple of cheaper options, one for trotting and one for ledgering but not wanting to spend nearly £500 each on these as they are going to be a bit more abused due to the nature of some of the...