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absolutely!

i doubt it explains it, but i was fishing the thames when the water was running crystal clear and got a good look at the presentation. it was awful . the weight above the trace was travelling below the bait. i'm sure mr pike doesn't care too much about this sort of thing, but it can't help and regardless, the bait simply wasn't fishing at the depth i thought it was. if i was ever to try trotting deads on a river again, i would put the necessary weight right down by the bait on the trace, just above the top hook if using snap tackle.

it's a shame, looking back i wanted the method to work so badly that i just kept plugging away at it to no avail.

i have more faith in wobbled deads mounted on a large single circle and slowly bounced off the bottom when times are hard.

i've spent many hours trotting deads on the thames and had very little succes. wobbled deadbaits yes, lures yes, static deadbaits and livebait certainly, but trotting deads just never worked for me

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Like others, just feeling the warmth of the sun again, but summer tench, trout on the fly and carp off the top would be nice

I doubt anyone will want to spend this kind of money, but I wore my Fourth Element diving undersuit when I went fishing yesterday. Considering that people wear these for ice diving, it's no surprise that I was warm enough! The genius is that they are not bulky. However, this kit is so warm, any physical activity will make you too hot, so not ideal for roving. http://www.fourthelement.com/xerotherm_arctic.php

I'm also returning to AN after an absence. Unlike Richard I didn't have any problems here, but my internet usage tends to follow reality and my other passion, scuba diving has taken me away from angling for sometime. In the interim, I have moved to Exeter, so it's goodbye to the Midlands. Anyway, the cold has finally driven me out of the water and I had my first proper day on the bank yesterday in ages. Piking of course . One dropped run, but a very sprightly 8lb fish caught on wobbled roach made my day

thanks chris. i may well take you up on that. i'll be living in st leonards, exeter, a stone's throw from the exe. would be keen to try coarse fishing from a kayak too richi, thanks, but i'll be in away on holiday then. andrew

thanks for the replies and the offer steve. i assume i'm looking for a sit-on-top. at the moment, can't see myself getting far offshore, maybe even staying within casting range. mainly want to get away from the feather casting hordes. should also say that i'm a scuba diver and have range of wetsuits/drysuits. cheers andrew

As I'm about to move down to Devon, I'm very tempted to get a kayak. I probably know the answer to this, but is there a cheap/easy way of getting started before comitting to a £600 purchase? I was thinking of an inflatable kayak. Failing that, can someone give me a good starter model. I've found loads of threads/websites reviewing kayaks, but no definitive recommendations. As a newbie, I'm thinking the most desirable feature is stability! Thanks very much Andrew

i'd match TC to the distance and weight to be cast, otherwise i'd go as light as possible within reason.

All the baby goldfish i've seen outside of pet shops are brown. Makes me wonder what the ratio of gold:brown offspring are and what happens to the undesirables.

that's terrible, they should kill the bear immediately!

planning on using it with pellets yep

it's a gimmick, but no one seems to have addressed my point.

they use a similar, if larger set-up in india

as i said in my post, i was thinking about getting a couple because it would be cheaper and possibly less hassle than pva, but i take terry's point about having to dry it before setting up.

who cares? they'll just stick some more in.

sorry to resurrect an old thread, but it is easter i was actually considering buying a couple of these contraptions. here's my logic, i spend an awful lot on PVA mesh in the summer months. wouldn't this work out to be a cheaper and less hassle option (if one didn't lose the thing on the first cast).

Many are money rich, time poor

I don't really understand the EA's policy on catfish. I thought they were to be killed on capture. Perhaps someone could explain. It's artificial, but so many things are in angling these days. Fortunately, it keeps the riff-raff off the rivers I don't think £35 a day is that much if it floats your boat. People have been paying £50 a day for trout fishing on small pools with big rainbows for a long time and they're queuing up for it!

well done and nice pics

I always have a license, but I'd happily bet a £1000 that I won't see a baliff.