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And you still haven't given sufficient valid, i.e. justified reasons to support why your opinion is the right one. BTW have you read the river reports section? It seems that I am not the only one who feels justified in fishing. Perhaps it is you that is wrong? Just a thought.

The trouble with waterfalls Garry is that in many cases they just skim of the surface layer which in summer is the warmest. The run off can be good areas to fish in winter if there has been some sun, but not in summer. Mill pools that still have the sluice lower down are a better idea.

So, you can't demonstrate any reasoning for the therrmal shock and dissolved oxygen arguments then? Thought not. Yes, we might have seen fish go belly up. But that does not mean that there aren't places where fish are going about their business as if nothing has happened. That is why I choose...

Why not whinge on the social media site that so offends you instead of on here? The 'if I can save one life' argument is soooh tired. Climb down off your soap box and take the debate to where it started. That is my advice.

I see your avatar shows you fising in the snow,. Are you aware that taking a fish out of water in sub zero temperatures can cause irrepairable damage to their eyes and gills? Just saying.

I've fished for barbel since 73/74 season, the last 10 years being in France where temperatures regularly reach mid 30's for several weeks. I also have the oppertunity to spend a lot of time walking the banks of rivers and lakes in a very large area because of the job I do. I have seen fish in...

If you took notice of everybody who has a bee in their bonnet about aspects of fishing we wouldn't be using barbed hooks, large hooks, pellets, boilies, bolt rigs, helicopter rigs and a load if other things. It is up to the individual to make choices within the prevailing laws and rules.

I am still waiting for the evidence to support your opinions.

So, you make a decision based on ignorance. Fair enough. Your choice. As I wrote earlier: my opinion is based on facts. Not theory.

So, if you have no idea of the dol and have no means of testing it, how can you come to the conclusion that it is too low to fish?

I would like to see some evidence to support these 'accepted' statements on thermal shock and dissolved oxygen levels. Sport fishing is carried out in a lot hotter places than the UK. If you don't want to fish - fine. Nobody is making you. But to come on here preaching absolute tripe to gain the...

The fish showed no symptoms of discomfort. It could have chosen the deeper, faster water that is just over 100 metres from a larger weir and has far more weed growth. The confluence was less than 5 to 10 metres away. Instead it was quite happy to browse in what would have been warmer...

I was watching a barbel feeding the other day. The river is about a foot down and normally only two feet deep. It was 35C air temp' and the fish was in sunlit water, not shade. It fed whilst working its way upstream before turning, drifting downstream then resumed feeding whilst working...

If the river is suitable, and parts of the Charente and Vienne are usually suitable even in high summer. By suitable I mean that I can fish where there is flow, depth and oxygentad water. And for my confort; shade. As for your comments about 'small' 9lb barbel being photographed I suggest...

Not all rivers are the same. Here, the Vienne below the barrages at L'Isle-Jourdain are pretty much at normal summer levels and flowing. The Charente below Angouleme where navigation starts is always nearly full and flowing all summer. It will be the same in the UK. There will be rivers that...

A dangerous route that. Different people have different opinions and not all of them are based on solid evidence. But the end of that path is for there to be no fishing at all. And I don't want to go there.

Widow's Might comes to mind. A good fish on one river might be run of the mill on another. And if you are only weighing and photographing the specimens of your own rivers then the numbers you weigh / photograph will be roughly the same whether they are 6lb or 16lb. You can only catch what is...

Mojo still intact I set off this morning to the Vienne in order to redress the balance after breaking off a good fish on the strike last week. The braid line had become snagged in a gap in the bail of an Emcast. So, armed with a more reliable outfit of a 1929 reel and 1944 rod I went for a...

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I have an Emcast 4000 BR and up to today it has been OK. I got the reel along with a barbel rod that lasted 7 outings. Today, was the 8th outing for the reel, but this time with braid loaded and on a new rod. I lost a fish on the strike because the braid had jammed in the gap between the bail...