Joe Holdsworth

JRC 3 legged specialist bedchair rated to 22 stone only been used a few times by my 10 year old in excellent condition. £40 Daiwa/Nash Whisker Kevlar 2.5lb TC good condition £40 JRC cocoon holdall takes 4 rods made up 4 unmade as new condition £35 ABU 5501 C3 used condition mechanically very good has a few marks and scratches on it loaded with 50 lb power pro £35 All of the above are plus P+P or you are more than welcome to collect. If you want photo's send me an e-mail address and I will send pic's

As a public venue I imagine that the offenders get away with it as there are no owners/bailiffs regularly checking.Not sure you can stop the mindless idiot brigade doing this to the countryside as they dont seem to give a s**t about anything or anyone. I belong to a club that have no litter problems at all even through one of the venues have public footpaths around them. The club decided a few years ago to implement rules that any litter found in the area of your swim even if it's not yours and you get a two month ban from all club waters and it works without exception

Oh dear. So much barely disguised, political, huff and puff. Some here appear to have forgotten - perhaps it never even crossed their barely glimmering, human(?) consciousnesses? - that with a healthy population of good old, indigenous (that means born here, right to be here, long before us, and definitely no freeloading foreigners), OTTERS, the mink get eaten and pushed out (and then some). Fish have to put up with those otter though - as they always did before before we poisoned etc them out. Meanwhile, in picture-postcard pretty, highly desirable, North Yorkshire, the rivers are raging. Wild, huh? D'oh! [/QB] Enter Stage left the expert poring scorn Just an opinion Paul not political huff and puff. I just beleived that Mink could not be blamed for this loss of fish.I am well aware that a healthy polulation of indigenous otter's will displace the American Mink.In veiw of the EA's position that this is due to Mink/Otter preditation it seems that one of these animals may not be the cause.So perhaps the EA should look again and find the real reason. I do hope the EA do decide to take a closer look in this probelm and find the real cause because all the while it is palced at the door of otters public opinion will alway be on the side of the nice fluffy animal and not the real issue.

I havent used this forum for some time and have read through this post with great interest as I fish the potter area a fair bit in the winter. I have little knowledge of otters but have seen mink preditation first hand. Has there been a decline in the number of young waterfoul in the area as Mink are an oppertunist killer and if there are mink in any numbers there will be very few young waterfoul about. Have you seen patches of feathers as though a bird has been plucked?Also Mink will normally leave skelatal remains of prey. I saw one family of mink kill huge numbers of waterfoul in one lake I fish and the only fish we found was one that had died and been buried which the mink then found.This particular lake had no young waterfoul on it the mink had killed them all we found hundereds of dead birds. In the end we caught them in traps and the problems stopped. I am no expert but have seen the problems first hand and this does not sound like Mink from waht I have seen in the past.I am sure some expert will pour scorn on what I have said but just my opinion.

I think the thing that really get up my nose is that Prof Rose's report stating that fish did not have the nessasary part of the brain to feel pain,PETA disputed this report as biased and incorrect. But this new report is correct in there opinion. As anglers i think we are just going to have to accept that any report that aggree's with there argument will be accepted as fact.They are not prepaired to look at anything that disputes there research,and as far as I'm aware this latest report was funded by an animal rights group,so of course it was going to reach the conclusions that it did.

The only problem with useing PAA coaches is that they want to charge,which is fair enough as there in it as a buisness,and unfortunatly there just is not the money in the school's budget to pay for out of hours learning activities,I am in the process of trying to get on the NFA coaching course.

Anybody Please.

Thanks a lot John.

Hope this Is O.K Mods! I’m after some help from some of you guy’s. I am a governor for a Surrey Primary School, we have a large number of pupils who are from a socially disturbed background some with educational and behavioural difficulties. My aim is to teach small groups of about twelve children aged 9-12 and hopefully give them break from there problems and give them a pastime that they will enjoy as I have maybe even for life. The sessions will be on a Saturday for about six hours in duration about twice a month starting in mid May. The aim is to teach the children the basics of angling including safety issue’s and countryside awareness in a classroom as an after school activity and then progress to a local venue to allow them to put into practice what they have learnt. As far as we are aware this is the first school to teach angling as an out of hours learning activity, The Aim is to extend the project to other local schools within the Surrey area and possibly build up a selection of tackle that can be kept in a central location for all to use. I have approached a couple of large tackle companies to see if any would consider sponsoring a project of this type. So if you would like to get involved and lend a hand with this worth while project as a volunteer to teach or have any old tackle lurking in a garage or shed that is no longer of use to you and you would like to donate it to a very worthy cause please get in touch. Any help you could give would be genuinely appreciated by the school the children and myself. I’m sure most of you can still remember that first tiny roach or gudgeon that you caught as a kid and the magical feeling that gave you, wouldn’t it be nice to help someone experience that and maybe create another life long angler. Thanks for your time in reading this and feel free to get in touch should you wish to help or for more info. Joe Holdsworth

Your feeding should depend a lot on the main species and also the time of year,Is it a known big fish water or mainly sliver's,how many lines are you feeding,are you useing the right type of groundbait for the fish your after.If you can give us some info on the canal in question I'll try and help you out.

Someone must want a bargin.I'll take £150 for the pole if anyone is interested.

All of the above is now sold.

1 x ABU 1044 closed faced reel in as new condition compleat with spare spool £25 1 x ABU 506 Gold closed faced reel in good condition compleat with spare spool £25 1 x 3m carp mesh keepnet brand new still in bag £15 1 x Shakespere Quo 12 ft heavy feeder rod,ideal method rod, vgc with two tips £25 All of the above is surplus to my needs and the wife has insisted on a clear out. All plus postage.

Hi Guys,I have a 13m Garbolino neutron,2x power top two's 16 elastic,1x match top two and 1x match top three,cupping kit compleat with drennan cups spare no 4 and spare no 5.Has only beeen used about five times since it was purchased in August last year,superb condition only selling due to getting a 16m pole. £180 ono.

powermesh x 2 3/4 long distance,This rod is in mint condition been used twice,ideal marker or stalking rod £50 incl postage.

I seem to recall reading an artical by gary bayes,in that he said amber attract use to produce more than it's fair share of commons.

Yeah I do quite a bit of winter fishing you tend to find that your chossen venue will be quiter. Do bear in mind that location does tend to be far more critical in winter than summer.But i have found that once you find the fish they do tend not to move around as much in the winter. Make sure you are comfortable,make sure you can keep warm,plenty of hot drinks and food,and a good sleeping bag. Always try and pick a venue with a good head of fish,somewhere you are going to have a chance of a regular bend in the rod. As one of the other guys has said try fining down your presentation,smaller hooks,smaller baitand lighter hooklinks if conditions allow.

Snake bite certainly is a versatille hooklink material,It can be used to create a number of different types of presentation from hinged stiff rigs,combi links.One of my favorite uses is to have a 6-8 inch link with about4-5 inches striped back which gives you the finnese of braid but also does not tangle badly.

Carp company Icelandic red,Superb base,seems to catch wherever it is used.Flavoured with cranberry and caviar it is the best bait i have used in a while.I use various rigs depending on the venue but the two i use most are the hinged stiff rig for popups and a snakebite combi link. These combinations have caught me plenty of fish in the past two or three years up to 36lb. [ 23. August 2002, 01:50 PM: Message edited by: Joe Holdsworth ]

The rucksack and the stalker bucket are now sold. If any body is interested in the coccon carryall you can have it for twenty quid and the sleeping bag is now £15,this is a very good bag in excellent condition.

I have the following items for sale: Nash pursuit speedload rucksack including stiff rig pouch,buzzerbar pouch and accessory pouch.£40 JRC Coocoon medium carryall.£25 Fox stalking bucket.£15 Army sleeping bag.£20 All the above are in excellent condition.All the above prices are subject to postage a cost. Cheers joe

I have the following items for sale: Nash pursuit speedload rucksack including stiff rig pouch,buzzerbar pouch and accessory pouch.£40 JRC Coocoon medium carryall.£25 Fox stalking bucket.£15 Army sleeping bag.£20 All the above are in excellent condition.All the above prices are subject to postage a cost. Cheers joe

What lake are you on Paul. I have got a place on the split lake for the weekend. Maybe see you there m8.

Chesters,i think your taklking about the old army type sleeping bag.The new ones are superb mate they are rated at 4 season and you can get a linner which makes them extremly warm.I have been on Dartmoor in the middle of January in minus 10 and still been warm in my army bag.

I use a titan viper for long sessions and mid winter,superb,quick to put up rock solid just replaced my old one that i bought in 96 got the new tt the new fabric is much better than the old one for lack of condensation. For overnighters i use a nash oval profile brolly not as stable as the viper but o.k for one or two nights.