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No idea why the photos are sideways! 🤷🏻‍♂️

Well @Clive Kenyon it was a challenging week! We fished the Gave de Pau at Salles Mongiscard from the garden of a private house there.. and found around 14ft of flowing river pretty much under the rod tip, which is where we fished so we could introduce feed using a large baitdropper (we also...

Thankyou for this, interesting indeed.. the swims we have access to have produced large carp (30lbs plus) in addition to what look like some large (for France anyway) barbel so we’ll be targeting these initially. That said, I’m not one for sitting around waiting for long so I’ll be taking my...

I was there from the late 70’s to the mid 90’s (and have gone back often since).. main venues we fished were the Wharfe, Nidd and Swale - mainly Leeds, Bradford No.1, Knaresborough Piscatorials and Richmond club waters. Never easy, but beautiful places to be and learn.

Ha ha! You’re Collingham in Yorkshire? One of my best friends lives there if so, and I used to live in Leeds which is where my love for barbel and chub fishing on rivers was first kindled - I’ve been back in Essex for many years though.. no barbel here, so after years of carp and then fly...

Well that’s going to give me a sleepless night! 😂 .. the swims we have access to as part of the property we are staying in are, apparently, up to 20ft deep on the near bank with a rocky bottom and shallowing up considerably towards the far bank - so I wasn’t thinking about fishing fine! The...

That’s great Clive, thankyou for confirming regarding the CdP - I’ll crack on with that! I’m not too hung up about the size of the barbel there, just looking forward to a week on a venue in France which isn’t all about carp and catfish, although there are large carp there too (which he’s sent me...

Hi Clive - thankyou so much for such a detailed reply, much appreciated! The river in question is actually at the bottom of the garden of the house I will be staying in, and I think fishing rights for the two swims there are granted to the property (or those staying in it more accurately). I’ll...

Hi - I’ve been offered the opportunity to stay at a friends house which is within very easy reach of this river in southern France. He’s dabbled for a few hours here and there on the river and caught barbel to 15lbs!! Also caught carp, bream and other species typical of French rivers. The...