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There was thread many moons ago on a DIY isoblob-style solution. It does involve removing the top ring though. You put a length white shrink tube on the tip, shrunk to fit.. You then put some clear shrink tube over it, with an isotope slotted into it. So you end up with both a white tip and an...

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I have the Daiwa Mission brolly. It leaks!

I have a pair of the Korum reels. On one of them, the baitrunner clutch failed after a couple of years of fairly infrequent use. Forunately I was winding in rather than playing a fish otherwise the fish would have been heading for the sea. I emailed Korum about it but they couldn't be arsed to...

I'm thinking of getting some myself, but I'd like to know whether anyone's tested the accuracy of the readings, especially after a year of two of use. There are plenty of people on the forums who rate the 9000, but no-one seems to have actually tested one. It doesn't matter how quickly it locks...

It might be worth having a look at some of the underwater videos of Barbel feeding on YouTube. This one for example: Barbel - Bait Dropping & Real Time Underwater Swim Build Up - YouTube It's not necessarily the best one, just the first one I came across.

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Interesting to read this post from March last year. The garlic spam is indeed now widely available, but sadly, as Chantelle said, in 200g tins. I can just about get two baits out of a 200g tin, it's just not cost effective :(

I have a question that doesn't involve Britford ;) I'm fishing a stillwater for roach tomorrow. The fish there are a decent stamp of fish, with a fair number over a pound, and the occasional 2 pounder — though I am yet to catch one of those. I will be fishing maggots on the waggler as...

There are some good fish (5s and the odd 6) coming out of the middle at the moment

I'm surprised no-one has mentioned the Dave Mason 9' Barbel Stalker as it seems to have some admirers on here. £150 from Andy Sliwa. Website

I had a hugely enjoyable day's trotting for Grayling on the River Test on Saturday. It was a delightfully sunny day on a sparkling clear river, conditions were perfect and the Grayling were active and hungry. I lost count, but I reckon I had around fifty grayling to about a pound and a quarter...

Perhaps Deano should have the Steely Dan classic, 'Eelin in the Years'. With the season I'm having, I should have the CeCe *****ton song 'Finally'.

Thanks, Brian, that's interesting, but just a slide show from a seminar, I'd be really interested to see the actual report.

Congratulations Graham! Well deserved, but you must have wondered if it would ever happen. I'd fancy a return to Britford but after some expensive and mostly fruitless forages to the south of England, I think I'm going to concentrate on local waters for a while.

I've read that you have to provide ID to sell to cash converters and they take a photo of you, so hopefully they will be able to identify the blighters. It still seems suspicious that CC in Stockport emails a guy 200 miles away in London and sells the gear to him to sell locally in London.

Perhaps he was on to something. Look at the figures you've given: Say there were 100 fish caught during the cycle, then then 75 were caught during the 20 days. That's 3.75 a day. The remaining 10 days would account for 25 fish, that's 2.5 a day. So the catch rates during those 20 days were...

Just noticed the date of the Tame record on the River Records page. If I can find out which stretch it is, I'll go down there on the 14th and watch him catch it :D:D

Wouldn't paste be just as appealing to the eels?

Nick, it's not a good idea to put your email on a public website. It gets crawled by "spambots". A spambot is some automated software that crawls around the web, following links, examining web pages looking for email addresses. You quickly end up on every spam list going and get bombarded with...