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I've got to agree with Peter, the fish don't move.
My experience on the Thames and middle Severn is, add more lead and fish the same swims. A bit crude, but very effective.
Ray, I know Keith, and if he says he was fishing for Chub then he was. That was the point I was making.
I fished you're beloved Hant's Avon in the middle reaches a few years back, for Barbel and Chub and Roach and Dace. If I targeted the Barbel and had them in the swim and I couldn't tempt them...
If you had read Keith Speers account of the capture of his 17+lb Barbel, you will have read that he changed down to 3lb 6oz line to fish for Chub. To suggest otherwise is just plain wrong.
Oh....I fish 10lb line on the lead Summer and Winter, and on the float between 5lb and 6lb, If I'm...
I bought a set a few years ago because they were lighter than my Avons. Junked them after a short time as you couldn't get the same weight twice with the same fish.
Bought a new set of Avon's............Magic.
I know I'm a boring old fart, but why do we build houses on flood plains, then ruin our beautiful rivers to protect greedy developers?
Dredging has never stopped flooding. It just takes longer to overflow the banks.
Leave our rivers alone, go build your houses elsewhere.
To be totally honest, Otters are just the icing on the cake to the demise of our rivers. The rivers had enough problems before the introduction of Otters, they have just made matters worse.
Just fed up with people who have never seen an Otter or the countryside supporting there re-introduction.
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