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A bit North but there is a basin on Bells Bridge Lane at Ford Green. Look out for the Jumbo Jet on Google earth.

Google Salwick basin.

I have noticed an improvement since buying a hook sharpener off Budgie, it is always in my tackle box. I don't use a trendy 'carp' hook for my carp fishing, but I do use a hand sharpened one that is examined after every cast and fish. A great deal of carpers are under the spell of advertisers and struggle to have any faith in something that Nash / Korda / Gardner etc don't tell them to use or do.

I would use one every time I recast a rod. How often I recast the rods varies greatly depending on moving swims, fish activity, line bites and fish caught. I can use 4 in a session if it is quiet or 40 in a session if I am catching and recasting regularly.

Use Google earth to find a basin and somewhere to park. Bit of raking and prebaiting helps. I have never seen a bailiff on the Lancy canal but you could take some cash to pay for day tickets just in case.

Lowering the speed limits on these roads has very little to do with road safety. National speed limit / 60 / 50mph roads must be maintained by local authorities to a higher standard than a 30 mph or 40 mph road. It is all about cutting corners and saving money, not road safety.

One one water I fish the poachers use devices tied to the wooden legs of the fishing platforms to steal carp ,tench and bream. We now regularly rake the areas in front of the pegs and around marginal trees to remove their lines. Their lines consist of a standard heavy bolt rig / big hook and strong monofilament attached via two 3 way swivels to a couple of lengths of heavy duty pole elastic and then string on a loop to loop round underwater branches and the wooden legs of fishing platforms. These devices only got discovered by chance as a fellow angler raking his swim prior to fishing, be vigilant.

Oh great Jan Harrigan being given time on the TV to spout her incredibly ill informed biased bile again.

Sometimes 55mph is way to fast for the conditions other times 80mph is almost to slow for the conditions.

After the first time using his new pole my friend was packing it away and putting it in his holdall. He took a tube out of the holdall and slid his new pride and joy in to her safe protective case. Only for the pole to hit the red cap on the bottom of the tube and come shooting out of the bottom of the tube. As fate would have it we were fishing a very deep lake and he had been pointing the bottom of the tube out over the water. The pole shot through the water like a torpedo and vanished in to the depths never to be seen again.

Yes they are more harmful and addictive than many 'illigal' drugs. Prohibition in the USA was such a massive success.

It has kept the rivers flowing and nicely coloured.

If it came from one of the couple of waters I have in mind I must say well done that man!!!

People for the Eating of Tasty Animals

Another day and more scandal! http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business...ng-7898946.html

I like mine from the farm down the road. They taste better than any eggs purchased from a shop / supermarket.

Tewitfeild, Borwick, Cockerham Quarry, Lancaster Canal, Wyreside, Little Wyreside, Horns Dam, Langley Lakes, Vernons, Cuerden Valley, Leisure lakes, Four Seasons, Hudsons Farm, Heapy Lodges, Worthington, Leeds Liverpool canal, Wigan Flashes, Pennington Flash, Pendle View, Beacon View, Badshaws, Crane Hall, Farrington Lodges and Cleveley Bridge.

I would be interested in a late summer Ribble trip!!

Probably not the safest of places to sell cannabis after Keith Brown was given four years in jail for the henious crime of possessing 0.003g of cannabis contained in a discarded joint stuck between the tread on the sole of his shoe.

My most memorable sessions both took place in Ireland. The first one was catching Bream, Roach and hybrids on the Shannon. The main river was in flood and an old fella in the pub told us of a backwater in the middle of nowhere some miles away. It took some finding and then some carting of gear as the fields and tracks leading down to the river were too boggy for a car. I ended up fishing in the mouth of the backwater in an area of slack water. We all caught fish after fish after fish, big Roach over a pound a piece, big Bream averaging five or six pounds a piece and hard fighting hybrids of two or three pounds a piece. My dad hooked something that could not be brought up in the water on an avon rod and 6lb mainline. He played it for over half an hour before it snagged him and broke his line. We carried on fishing 'til we all ran out of bait. Many of the fish I hooked made it into the main flow of a flooded Shannon and gave me a right old battle, my arms ached as I packed my feeder rod away. We bought a load more bait the next day and spent the last two days of our holiday covered in Bream slime and groundbait bagging up. On another trip to Ireland the weather was terrible and anglers even blanked on the famous Lanesborough hot water stretch. Towards the end of our trip the weather improved and we decided to fish a lough mentioned in the guesthouse comments book as being excellent for Tench. Floatfished corn, maggot and worm just off the rod tip saw each of us catch thirty to forty five fish each from first light 'til mid morning when it went quiet. We took advantage of the lull to fuel ourselves up and have a rest before the evening session. Come 6pm floats went back in over the top of a generous helping of bait and til darkness we took another fifteen to twenty Tench each, averaging between three and a half to five pounds each.

His radio show on Radio Lancashire is very good!

We had the police preparing to evacuate the street at 2AM Sunday morning as it looked like the tide would push the Ribble over the flood defences.

Money is tight at the moment so day tickets have been scrapped typically £4-£6 a day, for club cards costing £25-£30 for the season.

Thought I would join up, getting in to river fishing on my local river Ribble. Had Dace, Roach, Eels and Chub so far. Can't catch a Barbel to save my life.