Mr. Crabtree - Barbel This Week

[Steve Burke]

You are getting in to contentious territory be discussing how a stone is attached. I am sure Pallatrax have a patent on stone attachement :-)

 

Pallatrax are too late, Anderoo's already taken out the patent!

[Anderoo]

Oh dear, you'll get me in trouble again!

 

But yes, gluing a swivel into a stone will cost you

[Old geezer]

Pity. I've just drilled and glued 10 of them

 

You'll never take me alive copper

[John S]

You can make them, but you can't sell them. Pity, since I came up with the idea of drilling stones to use as weights back in the late 70's

[lutra]

I was amazed at the size of twig he put in the bend of the hook. Cant be easy stricking that through such a big bait or did it show?

 

Apart from seeing such a nice river i think the only good thing about it was showing kids fishing. So why has it been put on after the watershed?

 

[Guest 1lastcast]

I was amazed at the size of twig he put in the bend of the hook. Cant be easy stricking that through such a big bait or did it show?

 

Apart from seeing such a nice river i think the only good thing about it was showing kids fishing. So why has it been put on after the watershed?

I was amazed at that, I get a bit paranoid over such things, and normally choose dry grass, but the Wye barbel fishing scene is his stock in trade so I guess he knows what's what.

Agree about the scheduling, but don't think it would excite too many kids away from their Play Stations.

[Mat Hillman]

Just maybe, the Wye in full flood was not the best place to take complete novices for thier first barbel!

 

Mat

[Brian Carragher]

Well I watched it and have to say if it was'nt focused on barbel I would have switched off before the first break, I find Bailey patronising, a p*ss poor angler and for a guy who made a living as a teacher, a very very poor communicator

 

He keeps harping on about Crabtree moments and I just don't see the relevance am I the only one turned off with this constant reference to a very old and dated cartoon character with no connections at all to todays young anglers, nostalgia can be a good thing but in this series it stinks

Edited February 23, 2013 by Brian Carragher

[Old geezer]

Well I watched it and have to say if it was'nt focused on barbel I would have switched off before the first break, I find Bailey patronising, a p*ss poor angler and for a guy who made a living as a teacher, a very very poor communicator

 

He keeps harping on about Crabtree moments and I just don't see the relevance am I the only one turned off with this constant reference to a very old and dated cartoon character with no connections at all to todays young anglers, nostalgia can be a good thing but in this series it stinks

 

Yep

[Guest 1lastcast]

Just maybe, the Wye in full flood was not the best place to take complete novices for thier first barbel!

 

Mat

 

Yes especially with some young Scottish lasses that seemed so disinterested it was obvious, would have been better if he could have someone there that appreciated the Wye/

 

Wye...on another matter looks like some Swansea newby barbel angler has had his 15.2 claim for a new Wye record accepted, looks every ounce to be a good 12lb fish too.

 

Oh well he is a Swansea lad and we all know about good old Swansea (ball) boy's don't we?

Edited February 24, 2013 by 1lastcast