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Best thing I have found for maggots (and all my trotting baits) , is to use a Fox water bucket. I shortened the cord to suit and hook it over my neck and a shoulder. The reason I really like this is that nothing tips out when you bend down; the bucket just swings and always hangs vertical. So...

Thanks Mike. I paid £150 new for mine so hoping for something similar even though it will likely be used.

Hi folks, after some initial reservations about bearing rumble and a not so positive ratchet mechanism I have come to love my Fox BJ-5 pin. I use it on a 15ft Acolyte Ultra, with braid and 2lb links chasing roach and they work well together. So much so, that I recently purchased another Ultra so...

Then you are once bitten, twice shy. 😬 All my regular float rods are Drennan, I have 4 that I regularly use, a 13ft/15ft combo which is around 20 years old, 3 piece and my favourite, 2 Acolytes and a Matchpro. Definitely nothing wrong with any of these rods👍 It’s really how you use them that counts

Nothing wrong with Acolytes and that 17fter you have is a nice tool. But I would say that in the main, people put way too much emphasis on ‘this rod’ and ‘that rod’ when in reality it’s how you use it.

They were in the wrong trade that’s for sure. Always found the ‘Insight’ label stuff ridiculously over-priced too.

I bought a Progress a couple of months back for day trips where I can carp fish and take my work laptop but it’s a real squeeze.

I’ve tried chilli, salt and other things long since forgotten and none of them ever improved results. Fresh is also best.

I had a set of RH flyweights which I weighed a big barbel on at 16lb then discovered that they were sticking by at least a pound, something they had never done before! Still have a pair of 32lb Avons which are just a bit too bulky and not large enough in equal measure to be used everywhere. I...

I love fishing pins and do so at every opportunity and have around a dozen which get used for specific species from dace to carp. They vary in size from a 4” Trudex to a 6” Robo something, or other. Most get used at some point during the year including an Okuma Bowler which sits fixed on my...

It’s really not an issue to fold up and travel with made up 3 piece float rods. I have been doing it for a couple of decades at least but I do use pins on all my float rods except for the 2 piece one which I use for slider fishing…to take apart, remove the tip, let it dangle alongside the...

I had a really good pair of Le Chemeau that did me for about 15 years and bought another pair 2 or 3 years ago but they have a crappy sole which doesn’t grip like the previous pair. Last winter I paid about £24 for a neoprene pair from one of the Laldil shops which looks like many of the types...

Buzzard Colouration can vary quite a lot

Ref Blue Lagoon, that would have been the motorbikes, bonfires, immense amount of rubbish and hordes of topless teenagers of both sexes😂

Something that no one has mentioned yet is that there is no such thing as bad publicity! Mmmm ….🧐

It’s very easy to overcook them, particularly if you intend to use them on yer ook. Soak overnight, bring to the boil and simmer until you can just about squeeze one between thumb and finger. Take off, strain and run under cold water to stop them cooking any more. If you keep some of the water...

An extremely tired format and probably just a vehicle for this silly new company, without any ideas, that’s advertised in the breaks. Nothing Grand about it at all bar the self congratulatory comments. Its just too noisy and I worry that it actually counteracts all the good work done by many...

I think the Hyper Sensor is just more accurately marked in BS. I tested the Sensor when I was doing some hit and hold barbel fishing a few years back and the 12lb brown was breaking at almost 17lb with a Palomar. The clear Sensor is slightly stronger still👍

I have the Aventa Pro and the Bowler which is probably worth around 5 times the Pro. There is very much a difference between the two reels and my Bowler is used for a very specific style of trotting, to which I doubt there is anything better, past or present. I think you need something a bit...

Must say that the jacket is exceptional for the money. 👍