Dave H

The Kennet is a beautiful river chris.

Here in the south i have never seen the rivers so low for mid October. The Rother is bordering on a stream by it's standards. Anyone finding the same especially in the south. Mind you took my first 20lb+ pke last week so can't complain but in general i know the locals are not bagging up like they usually do at this time of year..

I would much rather socialise with friends down my local..

I agree with you i think many more people would upload their photo's on here if there was a much simpler system that did some how not degrade the photo

I see Ferage has officially distanced himself from trump. I bet he is devestated about that !!

I am up for the grumpy old men insults it's all good clean fun but patronising irritates me i am affraid!

I think you need counselling or a class in manners or maybe both

and so the personal attacks continue from you as usual. Stick to the point of the discussion without getting into your high horse frame of mind.

Stunning as usual AJ .

There are definately two times regarding the weather i won't fish for anything and that's when the wind is in the east and night fishing with a full moon.

you can refer me to whatever you like but my opinion stands so i refer you to this http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/06/20/hillary-clintons-policies-created-conditions-for-rise-of-islamic-state/

The fact is she is a war criminal in Bosnia and is responsible also for the rise of ISIS......She has no idea how to be in office in any position but as president lets hope somebody can be the real descision maker and not her!

There is another way. Mercedes really don't care what happens now and who wins as it can only be one of their drivers so it is gloves off with full permission. In fact for entertainment they may be encouraged to battle it out although i don't think anything has to be encouraged. Rosberg has tried many tricks over the last three years including in that screwing up hamiltons qualifying but now the shoe is on the other foot and hamilton will pull out all the little bag of demons he has at his disposal.

I think that big pike if hungry will eat anything including your floats (i have had this) but if they are not to fussed i believe the bigger bait entices them to have it after all it's probably a meal that is not come across to often for them and in such an easy way I fly birds of prey and i apply the same theory and it is definately the case that if she sits up in a tree and has eaten then a small chick will do nothing to get her down but stake out a open dead rabbit and you have 50% more chance as i have used this to rescue others birds on many occasions. So i believe that offcoarse small baits have taken big pike as it was probably quite hungry but a big old girl i believe just would not bother with it unless you plonked it on her snout but she may move a bit further for the bigger bait for sure

It has always fascinated me how fish will just switch on at a specific time to feed and then switch off? We all know that usually dusk and dawn are feeding times but how about 3pm-4pm or 11pm-12pm? I say this as i know of a specific river destination that between the hours of 3pm-4.30pm approx the pike just go into a frenzy but before and after you really are wasting your time.Maybe their feeder fish arrive at the same time but then would they have a time slot? I have had a similar experience with Tench in a morning time span? So what can we deduce from this? If anything?

Just remember how bad the clintons are.....

You have to say with old trumpy screwing up that it's turning out to be quite entertaining Now what has Trumpy got on old Chillary...

Interesting Chris. I thought there was a shortage of them until i fished the waters that i have recently moved to and the area is teaming with them and some quite big ones at that...

I can't be grateful to UKIP for making this country aware or not. ...There is just too much of a dark side to them for feeling grateful in any way or form..

You gotta laugh at em i mean what a bunch of misfits. No wonder Ferage got out....LOL

Never had much luck fishing in the dark for them apart from a hour after and an hour before.....Good luck though

In my limited experience over the years my most successful tactic has been wobbling and twitching a sprat. It works much better for me on rivers as the casting is not to far because we all know a sprat is not the best for casting but it has out fished any lure i have ever used. Mind you my Big S has put a few on the bank but not as many as the wobbler

It's all about the qualifying now between the two of them. The rest is just reliability which is the Mercedes achilles heel

A great bit of roving drop shotting was had over the weekend. Managed to land a 12lb pike on a flimsy 6ft spinning rod which was quite a task i can tell you!!

One thing Trump said i agree with and that is Clinton has experience but it is bad experience and he is right she has really screwed up in the middle east and has caused with some others this bloodbath in the middle east but then Trump has no experience and so what would he have done? The mind boggles? I could not vote for either it really is as phone says....