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You've spent the last five years telling us there are heaps of fish to be caught. Make up your mind.

Chesters1, I too would post - but in my case it would be if I caught ANYTHING AT ALL Phone

Bugger you must be so sad someone didnt get you a modern reel for christmas lol Hope to see more reports its a shame nfew others do ,i would if i caught anything worth a mention

Imo chub are more likely to take maggots, worm, peice of bread etc before they would take a dead bait, so I can't see the point it it. Also, using dead baits is more likely to attract a pike and chances are you'll be bitten off and leave the hook in the pike.

Tigger, I agree - pictures make the post. I'm going to try your method Phone

Hey Phone, hows it hangin bud :). I've still been going out fishing and unusually I was catching barbel well into december on the float! I say unusually because barbel sedom take a trotted bait during the winter months round these parts and prefer to take a legerd bait. I didn't bother posting as without a picture or two of the fish it didn't seem worth it. Anyhow, instead of using the link for forums I pressed ont the link for websites and the pictures appeared! The bait was live red and white maggots, I use as many as I can fit on a size 14s superspade hook and it does the trick for me :). No flies on you Phone, you are right about the net, I got it in october as a replacement for a trout net i'd got for a days grayling fishing and the mesh came appart, not a bad little net to be honest.

Tigger, I WELCOME with baited breath your "reportable" sessions. A couple observations - - - is that bait artificial (not like you?) - and - for heavens sake a new net which must make you at least a dozen. All the fish look in great shape, last one may be a bit roughed up Phone

I haven't posted for a spell but thought i'd post todays results as it's the first time out this year . I had an hours trotting in the snow today, first bit of fishing of 2021. As I drove to the river the car thermometer showed it was 0.5, so only just above freezing. After arriving at the carpark the skies looked a bit iffy and as I started to walk to the river it began to snow, the snow progressed to heavy snow in the form of large flakes. At the river, it looked awful, it was a dirty brown colour and was still up from the previous days snow melting. I had no luck in the first three spots that I fished and decided to give one last spot a go before giving it up as a bad job. As I got to my last spot the snow ceased which made fishing more comfortable. I fished overdepth and eased the float down through the swim and after several trotts through I started to catch some chub, with some quite decent ones amongst them. I think I had four fish in total which isn't a huge catch, but in the horrible conditions I was satisfied. I shared the pics for website and they came up!