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i have also seen eels on the surface right in the middle of a sunny day, in about 10 feet of water, all most cruising the surface like the chub in the swim.

Just got off the phone with mill tackle they will be makeing a batch shotrly. Thanks for the info. cheers

I would need a release lever cap, release lever cap screws and an adjusting screw. If any body can source these please pass on the info, will be much appreciated. Cheers

Can anybody help me with locating some replacement parts for my Trudex center pin? I have seen some companies online but have received no replies from my emails any body here no a reliable source? Cheers

i only use it every now and again and it did the job that i wanted it for. never used another so could not compare but i was able to cast light spinners and big plugs with no problems.

i would second that great reel. very adjustable in terms of casting weights with the ability to change the resistance on the spool.

were can i get my hands on one of them then? looks like a fantastic reel.

eels on sweetcorn is not unheard i no people that have got them on the fly

i try and watch as many fishing programs as i am allowed and never see foreign anglers trotting rivers even when fishing abroad they look at me as if i am doing something wrong. do the rivers in your area have equivalent species to say roach, dace and chub?

i could see myself trotting that strech of river or casting a small bomb with worm or prawn to likly spots. two baits that should catch just about anything.

i think it was called reel wars? good concept i think they could have done a better job.

i would fish a maggot feeder to locate the prey fish and then a small live bait in the same area will target the larger perch. low light conditon are always favorable. what type of river are you fishing? fast, sallow, etc

After catching a few fish on the fly recently that were not what I thought they were, when a trout turned into a very nice perch of just over 2lb it got me thinking of more than a few other occasions when the fish on the end of my rod was not the one I was thinking of. So if you could bread different fighting style in to fish which ones would you cross? I think mine would be a cross between a tench (for stamina) a good river pike(for speed and power) and a chub (for down right dirty) that would give you a hell of a fight. Just a thought kennal club for fish?

I fish the canal regularly through the summer I have had plenty of big bream and in large numbers but I have never seen a bream role. I’ve seen carp jump clean out of the water like a confused salmon but never a bream role. I have also seen massive shoals of bream in the river and rarely see them role either I really only see bream role in lakes. Never really thought about it why do bream role?

I’ve fished quite a few fishery’s like the one you have described before, were you are not allowed to use certain baits and no ground bait. I cheated and used a bait dropper, pole cup and pva bags and sometimes even pre baited areas of the lake furthest away from the car park (seems the French are quite lazy). The French were doing the same thing on the sneak and getting away with it and I was putting back the fish that I got. As far as bait goes maze, chick peas, cheese paste and muscle would catch you fish and hopefully be allowed. Do you get any serious anglers on the lake or just the locals fishing for the pot?

Thanks the more I read the more I learn. I have tried the up stream mend but it did not have as much effect as I would have liked. Is there a preferred type of fly line that will help the mend?

Been out for a couple session on the river recently which has brought up some issues that I need to over come but I am struggling to find answers, can you guys and girls give your thoughts. I have been using ordinary low diameter hook length line for my leaders which has been fine until I try fishing faster water, the problem being the fly line travels a lot faster that the leader and is pulling my fly out of position and making it react very unnaturally, the river is only about 4 feet deep and seems to be a consistence speed and approximately 25 meter across and the fish seem to hug the far bank, I need to use floating line as I can not cast directly were the fish are due to overhanging trees, I have to cast up stream of them and let the line float in to position. I have only been using floating line is it worth trying an intermediate sinking line? Are designed fly leaders denser or a different make up than ordinary mono i.e. less stretch? if I put fullers earth on the line it stands out like a sore thumb compared to standard mono but it sinks faster and seems to make the flies go with the flow rather than drag across the river but its a pain to keep having to reapply, could I use rig putty? Is there such thing as a low diameter fast sink mono? I am using both wet flies and nymphs I put an upstream mend in the line but this does not help at the business end any ideas about how to over come this? I have had some success with the flies that I am using mainly from chub, perch, roach and dace, is there any way to be more specific i.e. trout (I have even caught a few minnows)? I have also used some dry flies (the may fly has been hatching here for around a week) again just getting takes from small fish yet I know there are some very big trout in the river but I can not seem to get through to them can any body help? When stripping some of the flies back I get an almighty tug, some of them have even snapped the leader but I have yet to land any of the fish any ideas? Will a double fly strength leader absorb the take and should I be using it rather than normal mono?

the lake that i am currently fishing has done a record eel. and the carp anglers said the few that i had were small in comparison to some of the fish that they have had. very few grayling in waters round were i live that i have acsess to i woul;d also like to catch a slamon and a char

Take the same principles that you would use when whip fishing and use them with rod and line. If you were catching using a whip why not just adjust you float set up accordingly. The advantages of using a rod and float set up would be the distance away from the bank that you can cast and fish Just keep things very simple to start and then progress as you get more confident in using rod and line if you can fish with a whip your 90% any how. As far as depth to fish at is concerned fish on the bottom and see how that goes before changing depth. I always ball ground bait in the swim if there are no fish already present before I set up, but only if I already no were I want to fish. You don’t wont to feed a snag.

I would love a five pound river perch and a grayling never had a grayling before. Also to fish a lake that has not be interfered with left to naturally go about its self with a good head of pristine fish.

Went for my second tench session of the year yesterday and turned up some nice surprises. Got to the lake for first light the fish were bubbling up nicely had two good tench on in the first half an hour including another big male at just over six and lost a couple others. My mate who had not had a bite was getting pretty naffed off by now, being the second session we had done and he had nothing to show for it, when out of the blue his float sailed away and before he even lifted the rod the clutch was screaming sweet music, after a heated 10 minute battle an incredibly fat and very strangely proportioned 22 1/2LB mirror carp ended up in the bottom of my net. Landed on 4lb line size 16 hook and a medium match rod. Good result and the begin of a very strange tench session. The sun by now was just peaking over the trees and the rabble of carp anglers were starting to arrive stomping round the lake like a herd of rhinos with wheel barrows full of kit, hammering bank sticks and bivy pegs in to the ground thus killing my margin tench float fishing. So change of tactics was required out goes a waggaler rod and small straight lead. Within a couple of minutes the float sailed away, a firm strike was meet with something pulling back at the other end after a very good fight I got this peculiar feeling that I had a confused eel on the the hook that thought it was a tench, as I got the fish closer to the net my suspicions were confirmed as the fish started swimming backs wards out in to the lake. Eventual I got the fish in the net which was a massive struggle in it self. The eel was about 80cm long and as thick as my wrist very silvery in colour with a massive great big mouth and a huge pair of eyes biggest eel I have had, got the scales out it went 3 lb 4 oz I had to double check, but same weight the second time round, I thought it would have weighed a lot more then it did looking at it, never bothered to weigh an eel before, a few photos it went back nicely. Buy this time it was about eleven o’clock and the sun was now high in the sky and the float disappeared again met with a very similar fight as before with the same result another eel about the same size, this continued to happen through out the day with both me and my mate banking eels to just over 4lb and losing a few that felt even bigger, one of them bit right thorough the braid. They were striping line from the bit runners on some of the takes, and then kiteing across the lake like carp and tench, great fights real arm pullers. Catching eels like that in brilliant sunshine is a first for me, anybody experienced this before? How big are big eels they must look enormous no wonder people miss judge there weight I thought they would weigh a lot more than they did

how did you go about getting that ticket. i live quite close to bowed and would be very interested

Try useing a bigger hook or a differnt pattern until one works with you. Which section of the canal do you fish?

If the rods not up to the task from the description, send it back and let the supplier sort it out it is there responsibility to sell product fit for purpose. I take it this was bought online before you looked at the rod? I recently bought a set of shakespeare expidition xt travel rods and have been very impressed they are light sping rods but prefrom to that discription perfectly. if you are looking for a light travel rod i would recomend them.

I think fish are defiantly aware of the surroundings and position within the lake or river. I have lost count of the amount I time I have been snagged buy fish that apparently have very poor eye site that bolt for the same snag from 15 feet away in very coloured water they no were the snag is and how to get there. In the more pressured waters that I fish you have to be very precise with your bating and position of you bait to have any chance to catch. The fish have very specific patrol routes and if your bait is out of that route by a foot you may as well be sat at home.