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Always a difficult one. Anglers are often trying to get round various rules, hence the increasingly complicated wording in some regions. Usually common sense would be applied. If you are fishing with a worm and 8lb + you are going to be after salmon or sea trout rather than brown trout for...

As has been said, rules vary across regions and rivers. Bait fishing is usually banned before June 16 on any rivers with a run of salmon. There are exceptions, but in this case it was the Wye and it most certainly is. Add to this that many owners? clubs also ban various methods. Breeching these...

He would have been in even more trouble as the worm is banned until 16 June and in places banned until October.

They leave flowers?

When balsam dies back in winter it leaves the earth completely bare, this makes erosion a real problem. Balsam completely shades the ground when growing preventing any other species taking root. It has a very high nectar content, far higher than native plants, making it irresistible to...

I always give left and right looking upstream, as used to be the tradition....maybe I shall start to use North and South if people are going to get confused:confused: Left bank is South(ish), Right bank North(ish) more or less for most of the Teme.:)

That's what I thought. Usually the case when a private sign goes up on the Teme and fair enough. I am afraid us Brummie townies have a bad reputation amongst many locals and in some cases well deserved:(. And too a real local anyone from further East than Worcester counts as a "Brummie".

I only said it was private. I fish the other bank. Never seen anybody fishing it (during the week) from the private stretch. The WSP and PAAS stretches above Ham Bridge have lots of grayling in the winter. Tough going getting to the river from the WSP side during summer and not that much better...

The nearest to Ham Bridge on a day ticket would be Stanford Bridge on the BAA ticket. Above Ham Bridge is White Swan on left bank, PAAS right bank. Below is PAAS on left bank and private on right bank no day tickets from either club. The BAA bit above Stanford Bridge used to be pretty decent...

The warranty doesn't cover rips, but rips can be repaired. It does cover leaks from seams. I prefer waist waders for most fishing but also have a pair of chesties for when I need to go deeper. Breathable is the way to go for all year fishing. Get a largish size and you can comfortably wear...

Wouldn't mind a session or two on his bit of the Gaula:) Talks a lot of sense in this interview.

The thing with the McLean net is that it is so strong and rigid that you can actually make full use of the handle length. You won't be able to do that with a large fish on the snowbee. You will have to get into the water now and again with any salmon net, and you can't use it from high up a...

If it is the one with a round frame I wouldn't bother. I use a McLean salmon weigh net for barbel, salmon and sea trout. Better shape, a lot lighter. Built so strong it should last forever and you can weigh the fish in the net. If you roam about and wade this is the net for you.

I agree to a point with you on cormorants, although I would say they rather more than decimate fisheries, closer to devastation in some case, although it seems that decimate and devastate are used interchangeably these days. The point you make about buzzards having no negative impact on their...

Well maybe they are sea birds although they have been feeding along rivers and lakes as long as I have been fishing, which is now 50 + years), however back before the Wildlife and Countryside act, when the Lentwerdine angling club on the Teme paid double what the council paid for every shot one...

So how about cormorants then? Buzzards are no more threatened as a species than cormorants. Cormorants are shot to protect stocked fish for sporting purposes. Both buzzard and cormorant populations have dramatically increased in recent times. The co ordinated response of the RSPB anti hunting...

I think that is pretty insulting to the many club organised work parties that do stuff at the appropriate time and in the appropriate ways (including during the coarse fish close season) that improves not only the quality of the fishing but also the wildlife along many of our rivers. This sort...

The difference between the two is explained less than clearly on the site . The cost is the same and you can order either version on the site with the same frames in most cases.

As far as I can see there are hundreds of different lenses on Optilabs, you can have the drivewear lenses in any of their frames, not just the ones they recommend for fishing. I certainly won't be going for an obvious "sports" frame as on a man of more mature years they look as stupid as a...

Can we all start advertising our stuff now?;)