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I found pop up foam (cut into the small shape of a maggot) could sink after a while as it absorbed water, which meant that the maggots I thought were popped up were actually sat on the bottom! Squeeze any absorbed water out and everything pops up. Try your hooklink in the edge when you reel in -...

Although barbel have relatively little slime some can remain in the landing net plus we do often catch slimy bream and the Spring anglers among us catch slimy tench so how do you clean your nets and unhooking mats from smell and slime? I use hot water plus laundry powder and a squirt of some...

What I find difficult is that some of my trotting centrepins (eg Okuma Sheffield, Match Aerial) have the line off the top so you wind backwards whereas some of my centrepins (eg caged Purists, Rapidex) have line off the bottom so you wind forwards and I keep on doing it the round way wrong as I...

You might have improved your catch rate by putting trebles on the float and twitching it! Many years ago AT had a report about a pike angler who put trebles on his float when a pike attacked the float but ignored the livebait 3 feet below. He eventually caught the pike - on the float!

Hi Christian, I will have it. See pm.

I banked the heaviest catch ever . A big female weighing over 200 pounds. She fell off a kayak and I reached her with a landing net pole, then pulled her to safety. She said "You have saved my life!" If she had been younger and slimmer I would have insisted on the Kiss of Life. But as it was I...

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One of the problems is the demographics of the members of clubs - not enough young people are joining so the age profile is increasing including OAPs on cheaper rates which means revenues decrease at a time when rents of fishing / maintenance etc. are increasing. One local club proposed a 33%...

J W Young & Sons Purist 4½"x⅝" lightweight caged Centrepin Reel barbel Wye Trent

On FleaBay at the moment. A caged drum tends to prevent nuisance wind wrapping the line around the foot of the reel on the rod, about on budget and the Purist is very free running but adjustable

Anyone wanting to divest themselves of Fox Barbel Duo 12ft rod ARD 006?

I always keep a waterproof seat cover and a change of old clothes under the car seat to save myself driving home soaking. Trouble is first time I used the clothes I had to jump up and down to try to pull the pants over my knees - I had put on over a stone since putting the clothes in the car...

I looked on Ebay for ages until a THREE wheel Powerwalker finally come up a reasonable distance away so keep looking even if its only an investment for the future! Alternatives include cut down on kit and use an ordinary fishing trolley, ask in a local tackle shop, or contact a local Men's Shed...

We all have parts in different worlds whether its the world of work (or retirement), the world of sport, the world of family and friends etc. When one world expands another contracts or disappears altogether. At the moment my wife I married 41 years ago is dying of cancer in a hospice and my...

I have already seen Hot Cross Buns in the shops!

I remember the late great Dick Walker writing last century of two different types of barbel bite touch ledgering. One was a straight forward pull but one he described as feeling like a hacksaw pulled across the line when the rod tip did not even move. Same swim, same spot, same session. One...

I was intrigued recently when Graham Elliot wrote of "holding swims" and "travelling through swims". The first could produce a number of bites but the second much fewer bites. In my experience some "holding swims" can produce barbel all year round although clearly higher water and colder...

I think one of the things that makes fishing fascinating is all the differences and contradictions! And then of course we argue from our experience when someone else's experience is different! I am always amazed when match anglers produce similar weights from adjoining pegs on different tactics...

In a thread entitled "Barbel Behaviour" I observed the tendency of barbel to respond to the splash of a feeder but was not sure if it was the explosion of bait or the splash itself. In order to induce a bite I would sometimes recast a feeder with an untouched bait in a 3 feet swim and almost...