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Morning Gents, I have a Korum River Brolly which is excellent but a tad heavy. I am looking for a lightweight quiver that will take the Brolly plus one or two rodrests. Can anyone advise from experience please. While I am here, a lightweight rucksack is needed as well.
As Kenny Everet would say, "all in the worst possible taste". ....some bad fish-handling skills are portrayed.. but I am no saint, even after 65 years,
Used braid once, the force of the current set up a vibration in my line. A bit like what you can get when sea fishing with 30lb mono when sea fishing in a strong tide.. So, don't like the stuff.
What I am getting at is fish changing sex, which I believe is happening, plus the effect this has on spawning populations. Fish usually spawn with one female accompanied by a number of males. So if a female is accompanied by a number of male fish affected by sex hormones in its environment how...
Some time back there were a few articles in the comics regarding sex hormones that were getting into our rivers and then being taken up by its inhabitants. In this case Barbel. Considering the poor spawning and lack of juvenile fish, is there still a case for screening hormones at the sewage...
So in theory would Barbel be present at Bradford on Avon? Fished Laycock a few years back which was supposed to be a hotspot. Got talked into using maggots. put a lot in but not a sausage. Should have been roaming. Not a local so got it all wrong.
In hindsight , as we are on the coast, just inland fishing. I am sure it was ships at sea. but in the still of a summer night the noise seemed to be everywhere.
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