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Hi all A couple of you have messaged me offline - presumably spurred on by my post in the big cats thread - to enquire as to my whereabouts and ask about my wellbeing. It's much appreciated, thank you. I promise I'm fine, and you'll see I still post (very) occasionally, and also browse the...

Appreciate we're coming into spring now, but I'm thinking ahead... I need to get some new winter outer gear (already got a decent base layer for cycling which has also been brill for fishing) and I'm looking at the Prologic thermo suit (jacket and bib/brace). Seems to be reasonably priced for...

(God I wish one of them would change their name...) I was intending to join in 2020, but then a certain little virus happened so I didn't. I know their stretch of the BA from when it was on the Amalgamated ticket (although I've no idea if barbel are still present at all, still tons of chub...

Started off posting this in the social board, but as this leans to the forum's general naturalist outlook (and I know there are a few twitchers on here)... Not long returned from my lunchtime constitutional where today I decided to walk along the greenway cycle path to the next village. On the...

No, this isn't a "who do you like best?" or celebrity death match question. I've just watched a recent-ish vid on YouTube with John Bailey talking to John Stephenson from Thomas Turner Antiques about his favourite centrepin reels, and at one point Bailey says (verbatim) "John and I did have...

I'm not in the market for one, just curious (hence asking here rather than the tackle sub-forum) - during my search for a Rapidex 2 (which our very own Mike Window has sorted me out with - thanks again Mike) the Seldex and Seldex 2 kept popping up (along with the more familiar Trudex, of course)...

Probably a long shot, but anyone got one knocking around they don't want anymore? Seems that only unused museum pieces tend to pop up with any (relative) regularity, which are way out of my price range. As a user rather than a collector I don't mind one that's obviously been used, as long as...

Hi all A friend of mine is probably going to be moving to (just north of) Norfolk for a new job this year, and my thoughts are immediately drawn to fishing opportunities. Obviously lots going on around there for most types of fishing, but can anyone tell me if the Wensum still has ANY barbel...

My trusty old Zojirushi flask has given up the ghost (I say given up the ghost, I actually dropped it and now there's a crack running almost the full length of the internal container). Before I get another of the same make, I thought I'd ask if there are any others I should be looking at. My...

It was my birthday a couple of weeks ago and I thought with my money I'd treat myself to something I've never had before that I've wanted ever since I started fishing in the 90s - an "artisan"/independently made centrepin. My budget didn't extend anywhere near to a Gary Mills, Chris Lythe or...

Apologies if this has been posted before (I couldn't find it), but courtesy of Drennan here's an excellent hour long interview with Hugh Miles, covering his entry into being a cameraman, through wildlife documentaries into A Passion For Angling and beyond. Interviewer is Martin Bowler, who...

Just had a quick sort through my main rods to check if any need a bit of a clean and I noticed that on one of them the varnish is cracking in several places around the eyes where it has evidently gone brittle for some reason. The eyes and whipping seem fine, but is it something that needs...

Intending to fish a local clay pit in the next couple of months when we're firmly into spring, specifically targeting tench. The lake in question has a number of large specimens well into double figures, which are largely ignored due to the lake being mostly popular with carp anglers (most of...

After talking it up for the last two years or so, I've decided to finally sort myself out with a wormery. Gonna do a DIY one with a couple of surplus recycling boxes I know the accepted consensus has always been that lobworms don't do too well in wormeries, but I'm seeing an increasing (but...

Interesting article in this week's AT which offers views from Pete Reading, Mark Everard, Steve Pope and a non-angling scientist. It won't settle the argument either way and is sure to ruffle a few feathers (so be warned), but I thought I'd mention it as there's a little bit of actual...

Did anyone ever get one of these or give it a tryout? Lots of places seem to have been out of stock for ages (although they are still available from Youngs directly). I've been keeping an eye on used ones on eBay, but they seem to go for not-far-off full retail. I don't think it's one I'll...

I've only just found this out (and by sheer accident to boot), but Veals - one of the oldest tackle shops in the country - permanently closed it's doors about five weeks ago. I know it's VERY trying times for all brick and mortar tackle shops, but I honestly thought that Veals would weather all...

Sorting through all my fishing books and mags last night (most of them still boxed up from when we moved 16 years ago) cos there's not much else to do at the mo, and I'm missing a box of mags that I can only assume either got lost during the move or were accidentally taken down the tip prior to...

So new that even the Youngs website doesn't mention it! The River Specialist - https://www.davistackle.co.uk/index.php?page=shop.product_details&flypage=flypage.tpl&product_id=4084&category_id=22&redirected=1&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=1 Looks nice and is geared towards ledgering in rivers...

The Fox Bob James centrepin - there WAS a variant with a solid back wasn't there? I know there's the Youngs BJ reel with the solid back (which I've got), but I'm sure there was a solid backed Fox one as well. Wasn't there? The internet tells me no, but I seem to remember playing about with...