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I've seen a picture this morning of a wels catfish from The Trent, the second one I've seen this season. Clearly these fish are getting something of a foothold in the Trent. Given the way these fish have colonised The Ebro over the last 30 years, and made pellets a huge part of their diet, does...

As we reach the end of the summer I was looking at my catch reports for The Ribble this year and thought it might be interesting to put them on here to give a rough indication of the current form of the river. If others do the same it might give us an extremely rough indication of the...

I've never been able to draw definitive conclusions on the effect of an influx of cold water on feeding in a warm, low river. As we have had exactly these conditions over the last few days, I'm keen to know what others think. My instincts are that the fish will go off the feed for a week or...

I've used the drennan mini night lights on the ends of my rods without a problem for years. But this season, for some reason, I am having loads of problems. Sometimes they just don't work, other times they are are dull and fade within an hour or so. Sometimes they are fine. I cannot work out...

Has anyone got a recommendation for a tackle box suitable for storing my sundries in my rucksack? The typical box I see in tackle shops tend to be too geared towards fiddly carp items and not suitable for things like bait droppers, leads, spools of flouro etc. Is there anything anyone can...

I suspect like most of you, I have a pot of permanently glugged boilies which I use regularly for hookbait. In flood conditions I tend to use two of these on the hair, and I do catch fish. But I am really unsure as to how effective the scent trail actually is of the oil: on retrieval, even after...

The temperatures have plummetted over the last week and are now well into single figures at night. And yesterday a big flush of colder water has entered the rivers. I've been planning a trip to The Trent tomorrow, but I've got to be honest, I can't muster up much enthusiasm. In my experience...

I had a big row with another angler on Friday night on the River Ribble. The section I was fishing is fished from both banks through different tickets. It is probably about 30 yards wide on average. Now everyone who fishes the Ribble knows that the river has a "channel" of deeper water which is...

I was re-reading Peter Wheat's "The Fighting Barbel" last night and it was very interesting how much emphasis the book placed on livebaiting. A whole chapter, if I remember, mainly focused on using minnows with a float, and emphasising early season as the best time. Some have ethical...

I seem to have spent all season lugging my big old brolly around, this year, for obvious reasons. Last night I sat in the rain on the Ribble with the bloody thing leaking all over me, yet again. I couldn't secure it properly because when it was tilted the cord was at the top. That's it. I'm...