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I brought one of these last year, payed about £30 on market place. Great rod for grayling fishing , handled the trout no problem on a fast flowing river test.
Done. I haven't fished for barbel for a few seasons, but get great information from the site, for grayling and tench , not to mention the classified section. Keep up the great work .
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To be honest it's probably user error, I'm still getting used to trotting rivers , always ledgered before, but there's nothing quite like it when you get it right, and the float goes under.
Yeh, it's just much prefer a shorter float . I find I get a lot more tangles with larger stem floats, when using olivette's for some reason. I end up just fishing chubber floats most of the time.
They look great, Richard. What sort of depth are these mainly used for ? I fish the lower Itchen , a fast river but not very deep in places . What would happen if you was to shorten the wire stem on them ?
I fish the lower itchen, I always used red maggots, until last season, got speaking to someone fishing it and he was using corn. I haven't used maggots since, a lot cheaper too.
Had my first trip of the season on Sunday. Weather was awful but managed 12 Grayling, and a few out of season brownies. Good stamp of fish most of them over a 1lb.
I fish the lower itchen for grayling, and use the 15ft acolyte plus. It's not the grayling I have problems with it's the trout steaming off , doubling the rod over, I'm normally chasing the bloody things along the bank.
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