Recent content by Philip Howes

I would soak the pellets for about 2minutes in water then drain all the excess water off. This should leave the pellets still intact but with a softer outside. These can be packed into the feeder without the needs for any groundbait.I sometimes do this with a 50/50mix of pellet and hemp aswell...

I wonder if anyone has approached this problem by making their rig totally visable. If the Barbel dont mind line being there when they can see it and avoid it, then why not go the whole hog and just fish the last 4/6ft to the sinker covered in rig tubing. Fish a 3ft hooklength with 2.5ft of...

Cheers guy, Im wanting to fish single grains of fake hemp and maybe single particles from a pigeon conditioner mix. Would I be better hair rigging on a long hair then or on the hook do you guys recon? I wont be trotting the baits, I want to fish them over small beds of particles. Cheers...

Hey, A lot of Barbel in my usual haunts seem to be getting cuter and cuter with their feeding and shy away from large baits, pellets and any big beds of bait. Im going to try a different approach with much smaller baits and particles. I was wondering if anyone can suggest a suitably...

Depends what Bait your fishing in my opinion. If your fishing small baits, 8mm pellets, hemp, castor, maggot etc on the hook then its most likely chub plucking at the bait. If your using large baits then its probably warey barbel picking up the bait and testing it for resistance.

Was a guy packing up from a days trotting the other day as I got to the river. Said he'd landed 1 barbel and been smashed up by another. After he left I rolled a piece of meat under the likely looking tree he was trottin past and after a short tussle landed a nice barbel along with about 2ft of...

Must have been smoking something good to think thats 24lb

Hey everyone. Ive always fished using eggbeaters and multipliers when i used to go seafishing but Im now after a Centrepin and dont really know where to start :confused: Im after something for touch legering and freelining big baits. To hold 10/12lb line, no line guard, a really light...