Recent content by Mark Swaby

https://barbel.co.uk/forum/threads/is-it-still-ok-to-just-use-pellets.818/page-3#post-12406

Back in the early 90's I used to fish 3 small black beads on a hair over a tight bed of hemp when fishing the Bristol Avon. Worked very well with shoal sized Barbel when the fishing became hard. Think there is an article on here by Keith Speer about baiting heavily with particle Maples? on the...

Two of my local clubs ban braid all the way through from the reel.

Spot on Graham, they did a 12-16ft lxl match rod that was a fantastic bit of kit, I have two. They then bought out a Superteam range to replace the LXL which was poor in comparison.

One thing I forgot to mention is with even a small amount of line twist your meat can often be spinning round and round as it goes downstream. I caught Pike 3 sessions in a row rolling meat when I first got my MK1 rolling pin on mono. I was sure the spinning meat was the main reason.

Have my rolling pin loaded with 30lb spiderwire and went straight through. You can also weight the hook with non toxic solder which also works to keep the bait down. Though two local clubs have now banned braid straight through so my rolling veunes are limited.

The first version would turn under pressure often whilst playing a fish. Youngs retro fitted a stronger connection if people applied, a lot did. Think Gary mills still does the job but not sure of the price. They fixed the issue on the second version with the same fix. If rolling you do need...

What was more concerning was the fact he said there were unsafe levels from their normal discharge. Its not just when they discharge sewage its all the time.

Did like his Honesty which makes a change when it comes to Thames Water spokesperson. Sixteen hours WOW, two of our local STW'S Chesham and Gerrards cross are over 1000 hours this year. Maple Lodge is also probably over 500 hours.

Sorry Lee, they used to have a warehouse that delivered individual sacks based away from Titmuss in Hatfield. A sort of separate business and websites, not sure how they were connected. Titmuss used to give people the website address and there was a link on their site. Think they must have...

Its a Facebook video showing probably the worst Sewage sludge ever seen on any river in the Country on my local river . It still opens for me so the link is ok ,not sure why it would not open for you though .

Might be worth asking the anglers in the club fishing the stillwater how they go about the ban. Bet they know all the answers. Maybe replace the weight with moulded plasticine ?

This is the place that used to supply Hinders 25kilo £59.99 collected from Wheathamsted they also have a delivery service https://www.gjwtitmussltd.co.uk/search/Hemp?p=1&q=Hemp&v=0&me=p

Maybe not as bad as this one a £300 rod sold today for 99p https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/226081066285

Dave Hall and Dave Gauntlett are still members of our Fishing club and both active on our Facebook pages, though both are not in the best of health. Dave Hall and his wife Carol manage a Fishery for our club and everyone loves them. Yes and really liked Paul Boote's posts, and the Hamster...