NigelT

Aerial Gem's are sought after reels. Should cost a bit of money. They are very good.

Phil, John has me on that one. I think I might have been an embryo when John first fished for barbel on the Wear. He has a good few years on me having learnt his trade with I Walton

Have a look at David Lumbs website. Good value for money and built on Harrison blanks. Plenty of rods in his range to choose from.

Keith, I've got knowt else to do at the minute. Hope I don't get banned before I join I'm not sure about the swan muscle thing, in fact I'm not even sure how good a bait they are fullstop. It was just a suggestion based on a few decent fish during a couple of seasons.

Phil, I think description of swan mussels was that they worked on one particular water (after pre-baiting, which is probably banned aswell). As for stirring things up - never. [ 08. January 2004, 04:56 PM: Message edited by: NigelT ]

"Over regulated fishery" too true, too true. Lobs it is then Phil, if they don't ban them aswell.

Not quite sure about some of the complaints about Redmire. I am sure some people would have double swims to take the latest seven man Nash/Fox et al bivvies and shower blocks. As Chris Yates said in passion for angling "they are even tidying up Redmire" When I fished Redmire, over ten years ago, it was the best fishing trip ever despite gale force winds, driving rain and a blank for me.

Might well be the secret lake but it ain't Redmire.

Jack Hilton I think (from memory) makes the point that it wasn't the problems that meant he gave up fishing it was that he found something better. Stange I know but I think that is how he saw it.

To be honest Glen there isn't a great deal of info in Carp Season about the exact reasons JH gave up fishing. He does say that alot of things were going wrong in his life and the more he tried to put things right the worse it got. I think he was always into religion but started to 'study' the bible a bit more and eventually found the answers he was looking for. Hope this helps. Nigel.

Issue number 24 July 2003. Price of back copies £6.00.

Stumac, All grayling in Scotland are introduced and non-native. Their introduction is well documented in angling literature. There are no grayling in the Tyne but there are grayling across the Pennines in the Eden, again they are introduced stock.

See what you mean Spindle, however I still tighten mine up with a tool as extra security.

Phil, No I had my sarcastic head on. Nobody wastes any time carrying out studies re; salmonids but is the same money ever spent in studying the decline of coarse fish stocks in certain rivers. Roach in the Tay, roach and dace in the Tweed/Teviot, dace in the Tyne and Eden.

Spindle, Doesn't really make that much difference the spool still comes off the same way whether it is the version with a drag or without (with a ratchet).