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I have some Stems small perch, chub or pike plugs for sale only £1.25 each inc P&P. All are the same pattern so you can be creative and buy a few and repaint them as you want them. Click on the address below to find out more and see picture. cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...7137340651&rd=1

Had nearly the same article written in the Lowestoft Journal this week with the same reasons but including wind farms as a " possible " reason as well, lol. Had similar written in the GT Yarmouth Mercury as well. Do you think they all come from the same ilk? I do.

I would try MFA Winter, because their battery is about £11 and the charger will be the same or less

Hmmm, Fixed spools cut down your distance and i suppose Paul Kerry didnt cast over 250 yrds with an old Daiwa egg wisk over 15 years ago and Rodney Carter from Sea Angling mag only managed to squeeze out over 250 yrds backcasting with a conoflex Red Heat in 1989 in a rod test using an egg-wisk. Maybe one or two people would not aggree with that comment from East Anglia, home of the Gt Yarmouth (back cast)using fixed spool.

Hi. I wouldn't go for the thunderbolt beach lamp because all it does is light up the beach but get one if you use tip lights on your rods.But the MFA headlamps are good for the money and you get 3 bright leds and 1 halogen bulb so you can flick from one to the other depending on what you are doing.Should last up to 14 hours using equal amounts of lighting with halogen and leds, £19.99. Tip for using multi at night is cast and then look at the spool as soon as lead has gone and hit spool with thumb as soon as spool stops turning. Works for me and most tournement casters but dont wait as long as they do before hitting the spool with your thumb, LOL.

Can anybody tell me if the 12 foot 1 1/2 TC rod is any good for barbel or tench fishing and how much did it cost new please? :confused:

Hi Peter, you didnt tell me that. Well, maybe you can help me and a few other broads anglers then. Why is it we love the smell of bream and the lovely slime they leave in our landing nets and carp anglers dont? There, straight to the point and may bag a troll as well. Also i will ask you some more probing questions like this when you come back into my shop next time and maybe talk about using carp as livebait for coypu like they used to do in the old days

Cheers Sandtiger, does he work there then?

Hi. Can anybody give me a email address or contact number for Rodney Carters who used to write for Sea Angler Mag. He did a review for the Conoflex Red Heat Tournament backcaster rod in 1989. I heard that a mate of his was looking for one a while ago and i have got one of the few that were made up for sale.

Hi. I would try smart rig uk as he makes all kinds of sea rigs and they are very good. http://cnb-host1.clickandbuild.com/cnb/sho...categories-null Click on my link and you will go to his home page and im positive you will find what you are looking for.

I have been to Malta 3 times over the last 7 years but not fishing (busmans holiday if i did)but the locals do catch many small fish using poles in the grand harbour and on the rocky outcrops around St Pauls Bay. Didnt see many charter boats though, but they do fish for some type of large mackeral and maybe swordfish because they do serve it up for lunch sometimes.May get a charter boat from selima quay. I have a timeshare apartment in St pauls bay if you want to go in september next year,LOL

I would like to say that we ( Tackle X Change)have sold over 600 packets of fish n strips to sea anglers all over the country and many shops are now stocking them. Also carp seem to like them as well, pole fishing for them anyway. Best carp last week was 14lb.12oz from a Norwich lake.I bet cat fish like them too.Get some carp anglers to try them out i reckon.

Hey Elton, your 10lb Bass has just been matched by someone that bought a pack off me last week. He had a lot of pout,whiting and small bass and ran out of bait so he tried the fish n strip on the hook and had one bass 6lb and another 10lb. Am waiting for his pics to be sent through so he may replace you on the fish n strips poster LOL.

Peter, what are u saying? camou condoms for carp anglers?, not being able to find them when u want them, men sleeping togather in a tent. Why would u want condoms when u are fishing with your mates? Or do u know more about this than we do after your first camp, oops, carp fishing week last summer.

Who is that strange looking person on the front page?? I will not be taking casting lessons from im sure.I also see that on the last photo of his strange cast that it looks like his reel has frapped up as well!!!!! I went out and bought a copy just to see what he looked like and im scared ... lol

LOL Newt

Cheers Pete and he liked the look of your new camou slippers as well, lol

Ive been in situations this winter when we had no bait at all and all i could use was strips or fishbait. One day over xmas, i must of turned away 40+ people wanting bait ( worm ) and there wasnt any bait in the county i know for a fact. If u said try these, they will catch fish if they are there these one trip to the shop customers would rather stay at home with the xmas inlaws than pay all that money to have 2 x 5 hour fishing trips. People think you get worms out of a draw and always want better worms than the last shop they used and i have been paying 17p per worm just to sell them out at 16p each!!!!! So i must really be crazy to hope that they do catch fish!!we have had a very poor season for cod and i hope it fishes its nuts off this season because my customers may have to use these fish n strips because there is no bait, or bait diggers left!!! But one thing is for sure and that is they may catch as well as lug or they may not, does crab catch better than sandeel maybe ,maybe not and does ragworm catch better than black lug? Answers on back of a postcard please. Well Paul, go and fish were u will be guarranteed to catch fish ( if u have a direct contact with God he may be able to help)and try a pack,next time u may laugh when somebody says " i tried them for an hour and caught nowt " but u have some strips and he couldnt get bait for love nor money and u have caught ONE fish and you can stay a few hours more and see if u can catch 1 more. Give it a try. PS do want to know where you will b guarranteed to catch fish then, LOL. Sorry, had a temp of 40 degrees saturday night, LOL

Hi Mark. I have never used them for boat fishing but many people have and have had good catches. I would use one piece per hook if u intend to leave it out there for 30 mins plus or until u get a bite if u are fishing 4 round fish. If u are going for flat fish with small hooks then i would cut them longways from one end to the other. You can cut them in half cross-ways once and use for tipping big baits or cut into very small squares and tip baits using small hooks and tiny baits. I use them without bait now and will get one 5 hour session with 2 rods using half a packet sometimes. Also u can leave one one the hook if it has only been out once and it will stay on again for another cast up to i week later and still catch fish ( 3lb 10 codling 4 weeks ago ) Want any more info, drop me a line Mark. Tight lines

Regarding Tony's posting about price and ripp off Britain and waiting until they cost £4. Well im afraid with that attitude which seems to apply to a lot of sea anglers "we will never run out of natural worm baits, sandeels, harbour rag" and any other bait that can be sold for profit. Lots of digging areas have been over dug, some areas you can no longer dig and if all the seabeds are trawled for crabs and sandeels then much damage will be done to feeding areas for cod ect.As a tackle shop owner i was really excited when the price was dropped by £3.51 and the trade price was dropped by just £1 so people think they get ripped off!! Also customers come in and want fresh lug, not frozen blacks, fresh peeler not frozen and even live sandeels now. Seems to be a mindset in East Anglia that if it doesnt move then it wont catch but i go fishing with Barny Wright evry week or so and he uses worm and i use the strips, score so far 6-4 to me!! The only reason TSF did the article was i took Barny pleasure fishing over Xmas using the latest batch of strips and out fished worm bait 2-1. So if Tony wants to use the US type of strips because they are cheap, then do so because they should do 3 hours per strip so u really get your moneys worth but bugger all fish!! Looking no further than your wallet will only make bait shortages worse and worms more exspensive.I must be mad because i only take strips when i go pleasure fishing now and also crabs dont like them!!!11

Dont forget that you get 5 years free parts and labour warranty from all genuine Okuma stockists and it dont matter if its a cheap one either!!!!!

I would suggest u use your hand to flip bail arm over, i always have and never have to turn the handle unless im feeder fishing.

Elton i would try Pakefield or tramps alley lowestoft on the flood if u can miss the snags or maybe Dunwhich on a evening flood tide if u can miss the snaggs,lol. Try under the cliffs at least 50 yrds to the right.Hopton, minsmere,gt yarmouth, kessingland, benacre and gorlestone are not fishing at this moment in time. Try Scotland if i were u!!!! I still manage to catch more on strips now than lugworm, best was 2 weeks ago at pakefield when my brother pulled out a 3lb 10oz codling at pakefield and only one other was caught that day and over 15 people were fishing there that day!!!!!

Oh, nearly forgot Peter. Had a big double carp on my epix 30 and lots of bream up to 6lb and use braid on it as well, its now 3 seasons old. Have caught bugger all big fish on my sea reel though lol, now 7 months old but has excellent line lay and NO line twist as well!!!!!

Hi Peter,yes we can do mail order and yes we can get u a new centerpin reel and i did see them both in Cardiff a few weeks ago and also one that they will not be selling on the market. What a piece of kit that was!!!!!!!! CHEAP, i think not!!!