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    WANTED: Browning Hybrid barbel 12' 3-piece (from about 10 years ago?)

    Not seen one of these advertised for a few years, so I know it's a long-shot, but it was my favourite 3-piece barbel rod ever and I need a replacement. Or two. Just posting on the off-chance that someone who doesn't really like 3-piece rods has one sitting around, as that's how I got my original...
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    Quiz question - River<River<River<River<River<River ??

    Feel free to move this to the social board of course Admin, but I thought it would get more views here and as I am involved in setting interesting quizzes, I am keen to pick the geographical brains of anglers from all over the country. Anyway here's my unusual question, and it does relate to...
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    Advice on barbel location at this time of year - specifically the last month of the season if it's quite mild and water temps are up.

    On the rivers I fish, I know some good barbel swims to fish between June and October. But in my four seasons so far targeting this supreme species, I have never found where the fish go in the autumn and winter, on any of my rivers, even when it's mild or when the river is up, and have only ever...
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    Shakespeare Mach 3 15 foot float rod - can it handle barbel?

    Looking at getting a 15 foot float rod second hand, mainly for 15 foot deep rivers here in Yorks, but also thinking about casting & long trotting control on shallow gravel stretches of the wye when I go down there, so has anyone used a Mach 3 for barbel and was it OK. Like my other rod...
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    Anyone used Shimano Catana Barbel Power (old version?)

    Anyone used one of these 12 foot Shimano Catana Barbel Power (see pic) ? Thinking of purchasing, but seller isn't a former user and doesn't know much about it, t/c not marked. This is long discontinued, not the more recently discontinued 2-tip version that has a 1.75 and a 2.25, which is all...
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    Day ticket water West Sussex? Arun? Rother?

    My elderly parents have retired to West Sussex. When visiting them later in the summer I'd love to try the Rother or maybe Arun for a barbel. Anyone know of any good day ticket stretches? I see Pulborough have stopped doing day tickets for the Arun, and I notice Worthing Piscatorials do...
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    Some questions about possible closed season fish-finding and feeding

    As a project in the last 3 weeks or so of the closed season, I intend to spend quite a lot of time clearing banks and pegs on a mile or so of river that has not been fished for years and where there is not even any sort of footpath parallel to the overgrown banks - just jungle. Decades ago it...
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