markp

Just a question and im not being ageist but looking at it the vast {not the word vast} magority of you anti pole anglers must be over the age of 40, when you learnt to fish the modern pole wasnt around or in its infancy, i learnt to fishing using the shitteist fibreglass rod in the world for the 1st 5 outings i never caught a fish {bit like now} went to the local tackle shop the recomended a whip and rig, no reel=less tangles as a 9 yr old and 1st cast i caught a gudgeon and that was it i was hooked so i suffered with the dreaded polietis for a fare few seasons. Dont know what the hell this has got to do with rod vs reel debate but im boared {should be cleaning the windows}

They still are made in Nottingham Simon just down the rd from me on the A610 not that has any thing to do with fishing mind. I assume you only come up at weekends to visit the folks then?

Yeah but youve got the little river i like fishing trouble is round here its the Derwent or Dove call me lazy but i just dont seem to have the time to wander and fish spot on them. And simon i assume your live in Nottingham?

It probably looks suspiciously like where you went because it is lol, same here all i took was big baits with me even tried under the wier for an hr with 1/2 a tin of meat on my hook to no avail! You ever fished the bend just down stream of the wier? I keep looking at it thinking one day!

Any one know of a supplier of decent quality stuff that you can buy in bulk bags?

Have to agree with kleinboet on this one what ever helps you catch fish works for me. as it happens i go fishing occasionaly with one of the wifes uncles and hes been so impressed by using the pole {my old one} hes asked me to look out for one for him, hes only been fishing a year and hes 65 but he does listen to what you have to say. While on the subject to the pole anglers out there who bins there rigs once theyve used them once? Am i strange in doing it? One session and its float back in the box and line and shot in the bin.

Got up at 2.00 this morning to go down to my localish wier pool to try and catch a barbel or chub by 7.30 id had enough not one bite { apart from a very angry foul hooked pike } tried all the usual baits such as pellets,boilies and meat i know this spell of warm weather has been affecting the fishing but was i doing anything wrong? Was fishing 2 rods 1 with a bolt rig the other a bog standard running ledger rig {changing to a cage feeder with pellets} any ideas chaps. And just to help heres a piccy of the pool.

Dont know if its to far away for you but the specimen pool at cuttle mill holds some bigges its just near drayton manor park.

Ive had a look budgie but most of the guys on fishing magic tend to be fishing Newark and the tidal reaches

nope no sun drying for me think its more to do with the fact i never have em off my feet but 8 times out of 10 there folded over was thinking about the neoprene variety but do you get the same problems with them?

Right im fed up with buying these poor quality but bargin price things that crack after about 9 months {if im lucky} usage suggestions on the back of a postcard or a stamped addressed envelope please to...................................

take it either no one knows or carp anglers are as secretive as people say

YOu really do know how to sell a venue dont ya ken best have a look for indias left overs and quick im off in half an hr lol

i know theres a head of carp in the river but having recently got a notts aa book was wondering if any of you fellas would be able to help pin point the prouctive stretches {not pegs cause thats just being dam right cheeky} im not a out and out carp fisher as such but just thought it might be worth having a bash at them as well as the chub and barbel.

Dare i say i know where kettlebrook is lol {private joke sorry} and ive been shown the pretty pigs its still there but i dont know if the lakes still there or not.

so ive been told ken but she who must be obeyed says i have to go there with her daddy lol but cheers, been told theres a lot of small pike in it so who knows, but i might usher him the way of the tame if its so much better.

Any 1 ever fished it i believe the area im being dragged to is bloehall any info would be greatfully accepted.

Oops sorry just pike in the 8-15lb bracket and any thing else that swims lure sizes are small 10-20 gms

Ive been using a rather old dodery telescopic for the last yr or so So i was wondering if any 1 can recomend one at a reasonable price its not something that ill be looking to use every week just once a month or so, so i dont want to spend the earth cheers chaps!

All depends what elastic you have in your pole and baits your using? if it were me id use wb clarkes match team {formerly silstar} in 5.5lb 6.6lb or 7.9lb {the diameters escape me at the mo}depending on how snaggy the swim is, meat on corn a size 8 or 10 kamasan animal spade or for hair rigging paster a simlar hook pattern but hair rig it using a korda paste spring. but its different strokes for different folks isnt it

Well yeah the flapping would increase the action wouldnt it and im sneaking out lure fishing thursday the words of ther nurse were no maggotts! Mmmmmmmmmmm

after much demand well 2 of ya here they are

If ita any thing like the authentic g shock watch i bought stear clear it would struggle to get around my 5 yr old nephews wrist as for being authentic.....................................

" the other hand" i bloody wish davy in the space of 1 1/2 months ive cut threw my right thumb with a circular saw doing D.I.Y then last week at work i smashed my finger to bits with a bin so yeah a other hand would be great right now P.s if there enough demand i might post the pics lol {just like fhm}

how do you do it when your either waiting to go fishing {my case} or waiting for the alarm to scream in to life or the tip to bend over??