tommo666

I've had something of a similar nature. One of my favourite pegs is a wier pool next to a ford. In the summer I can be merrily fishing away when parents drop off little johnny to go swimming. Fishing over. Can't stop them swimming, but I've paid a license fee to fish. they have paid nothing to spoil my sport.

Richard is quite right. the holder of a valid rod licence, has the right by law to see the licence of another angler.

I agree, I think it is down to the quality of the knot. I use the grinner and have never had a knot failure. Remember tenchy says he has used the half blood for years, so I would suggest his half blood is better than his grinner???

Looks a nice river. Why are you fishing it in the closed season?

Spud. I don't post much on here any more. But i do visit at least twice a day. I learn so much from other people's post. so don't stop. Please

Bet it would be different if the boy was two years older than the girl!

Funny world ain't it. went out Sunday with some maggotts and lobs. Lobs, when pack was opened were huge!!! Rigged up with a size 8 for the lobs and bagged up on Chubb, largest just over 5lb. so you never can tell

Just buy a bait box. What's the problem?

Is it my bad eyesight, or do others find isotopes not bright enough? I prefer to use the starlight single use type, you know, the ones you crack to make glow. Bright as a butten and glow all night.

Followed Brian's advice and spooled my reel with 10lb braid. The reel by the way is a small Daiwa Laguna 2500. Now casts a treat. Went out today and caut 3lb chubb on verty first cast but nothing else Thanks Brian

The rod I'm using is a daiwa sensor 8' It has written on it cw 7-35g. Is this the casting weight?

I have recently discovered lure fishing. Caught my resonal best perch on first outing. Problem I am having is casting any distance. My spool is loaded with 30lb braid, a wire trace cos there are small pike present. The lure I am having most sucess with is a little Ondex spinner with the red tail feathers, so it's very light. Can anyone advise a set up which will assist me in casting this tiny lure further. Many thanks.

problem with riggers is the toe caps. the steel will remain cold

fish looks plastic to me.

Why did i feel happier to punch Michael Jackson than Ben Laden?

Den, you deserve a round of applause if you have mastered front page!!I run a couple of sites for my lads footie team. Finding front page hard at times. Nice pictures on your site BTW

Then forget it... it never happened

This has been posted twice already?

What exactly is a circle hook?

I had an idea for a programme. Famous anglers competing at venue and area unknown to them. No tackle but given a budget of money. Say two days to get the biggest catch but you have to find local tackle shop, work out what to buy with your budget, so best deals for optimum catches, maybe even have to feed yourself from that budget too.

This may sound like a thick question. only ever used a multiplier when boat fishing at sea, is the principle the same when used for lure chucking? IE rod upside down in effect with reel on top?

Definately concur with the feeder. i use my old maggots frozen in the feeder so they don't wizz away and bury themselves. Good start is to include a red maggot on the hook, whether double or one white one red

Peter, I don't ledger cos I'm lazy. I ledger cos it's a way i know I can catch! I actually have an amazing selection of floats, but never been taught how to use them. Probably the point of my post, is, are there loads of young ones out there in the same boat? I think I have to perservere with floating and teach myself. Obviously from the replys I am missing out

I started fishing at a young age and had no one to teach me. Also gave up at a young age. Have now taken up fishing again. A question still remains with me, why fish with a float? Fish with a float, plumb the depth, aim to get bait on the botom. A ledger does this automatically. Feed your swim, catapult or bung big balls of ground bait in, feeders do this and do it around your hook bait. Float trots down river, hits a snag, float under false bite. I'm sure I'm missing out here, I can see the advantage of floating a bait mid swim or even on surface, but then I could freeline the bait. As for bite indication, I well trust my quiver tip to give me plenty of indication. Does anyone else just ledger in preference to float fishing? Probably because I had no one to teach me the art of float fishing at a young age, it just seems like a dark art to me

Sounds like you have answered my original question Andy. looks like a cheque heading to Glasgow. Does it need a passport??