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Recent content by Stewart Kemp

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    Sad news....is this the same Steve from Here?

    Donated. Absolutely shocking. Did think about a life preserver after it being mentioned a few years ago, never got round to it. Rip Steve
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    Hair rigs

    Sounds like a combi rig, I use this for most of my clear water barbelling. Rigz | Korda Stewart
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    Pecticide damage to Aquatic environment

    Could this be one of the issues that have been responsible for the decline in some of our rivers, especially those lowland waters in arable farming areas where these chemicals are used? BBC News - Banned pesticides may be having wider environmental impacts 'Neonicotinoids are systemic...
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    Global Warming

    Alex if you really believe the Daily Mail only reports the news and has no political axe to grind then you are terminally deluded Read the links i posted debunking the Mail's usual misrepresentation of the facts, if you can't be bothered to read another side of an argument whats the point in...
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    Global Warming

    Interesting you bring up the increased tax on vehicles that emit more C02. It is for precisely that reason that Low tax free market economists are the the principal group of climate change deniers. To control carbon emissions the common mechanism Goverments use is to to tax and regulate...
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    Global Warming

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    Global Warming

    Graham. What you are experiencing is 'weather', on the other side 'climate' is much longer term trends that require the analysis of vast amounts of data. Personally I'd rather take the view of those with the ability to understand, model and make reasoned conclusions from that data. Are...
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    harrison torrix 3.25

    Colin pm sent
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    if you could choose 1 boilie???

    John Bakers Milky, works, and personally i find the smell very appealing. Given the variety of answers in this thread it would seem our fishy friends have a well developed palate, clearly not a fussy eater, doubt if they are swayed by the marketing, unlike the bankside dwellers, myself...
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    for sale , top end barbel set up

    Chris I've sent you a PM Stewart
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    monster barbel mystery river

    If that's where i think it is (upstream) then no, been tempted to join your lot so may bump into you in the future
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    monster barbel mystery river

    Just walked the Barcombe stretch of the Sussex Ouse and their not abstracting 75% of the flow at present, I spend much of my summer river carping in this area and things are much as usual. As too the drift that the monster Barbel is from down here, well, i'd hate to say your barking up the...
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    Monster Crayfish takes Goose

    Must have been a cray, you guys on the Lea are always complaining about them! BBC News - 'Goose-killer lurks in River Lea' near Olympic Stadium Stewart
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    Humminbird

    Same experience as everyone else, got through 3 of them in double quick time, a mate who likes to take this sort of stuff apart had a look inside the last one, battery fine, sensor needed reattaching. Hard to seal back up though. Would be interested in the bootleg versions, can't see anything...
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    River Kennet

    Would love to read the article, don't have access though and they want $42 to download it so i'll have to skip it unless you care to give us the highlights. Stewart
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