Recent content by Gwyn Jeffs

Ouch, hitting below the belt ;-) Yes, those ' magic ' swims/stretches do exist Howard, I was on one last week and I'm back there Monday. Fast flow, some depth in places and not an angler on either bank for a little over half a mile, nor has there been since the season opened the owner was kind...

HDAA have some decent flows at Holme Lacy and Luckshall. Belmont I can understand. Ah well, it's Britain. It'll rain soon and it won't take long before we all start whining about it ;-)

No. I will not. If people can post here telling us we shouldn't fish, I will continue to post saying you can. IF, you have a suitable venue and stretch. I've already stated elsewhere I will not fish the stretch I pay through the nose for due to conditions. I refuse to accept a lecture from...

Lol. I only feel the need to justify due to the warriors. The ones who care so much they won't fish despite only wanting to stick a lump of steel into a fish. But...but...they care! Just not enough to never fish for barbel again ;-) Got me a new stretch with superb flow, but I am praying for...

I was faced with this dilemma last year. Hooks are certainly not what they used to be. The carp hooks you can discount immediately - not only did the carp companies convince everyone to lose the lead every fish, they convinced the blinkered masses to bun the rig after every fish. And it shows...

Time to fire up the old spout again. A lot of you are acting like this is the first hot, dry summer we've ever had. Do you think barbel never had to deal with them before? They are, after all, native to Eastern flowing rivers. I can only imagine what some rivers are like right now. I have...

Do Fox still do their barbel net? I've had mine so long that I can't even remember the year I bought it. Not a lot you can say about a net really, but it's the one I've had the longest that doesn't have any holes in it apart from those meant to be there. Snagged it, ripped it through brambles...

Well, we've decided on a day on a stretch much higher up that we know to have a fast flow this week. If we have a single issue or the fish don't look right or behave strangely we're hanging the barbel rods up and switching to mudsuckers for a while. Neil, I meant no offence by naming this...

Arrived at one of my stretches on the Wye today to find it heaving - 6 anglers on a mile and a half, busiest I've ever seen it - and both sections with aerated water were sewn up. Crap, left permit for alternate stretch at home, as did my old man. Rest of stretch is slower than walking pace...

Looks like a butt plug for midgets tbh.

One thing I like about these things is that when my old man said " so you're float legering? ", I said no. I only had a #4 and #6 shot on the bottom, yet my presentation was static and far more sensitive than lead/feeder setups. These things are superb. I now own 4 and it's the float rod that...

Good luck fella. The swims in the meadow place you well above the water, given the conditions that is far from ideal. I refused to fish them as I need hands-on contact with a fish about to be released. Those swims are very sluggish and you are 4 or 5 feet above the water meaning your only option...

Seems a suitable place to post this. I found the Enterprise holders to be a pain, anyone tried the Korum? I reverted to electricians tape which was ok for a few hours but fiddly and sticks to everything but the blank. My best isotope option ever was using Bug Bond and encapsulating the isotope...

Give us your money! We won't let you use 2 rods as fish thrive best on neglect. But we are happy to have our beats booked solid for every single day June to October without the fish having a break. ;-)

Phil, I know nothing about that. I just go on the numbers on the gauge in relation to the flow and conditions of each swim. And it's now down from .95 to .89 since that post of mine. So it's still dropping. Rather quickly. But I've seen it far lower.