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The jacks were widespread, mainly coming to the bank anglers, a few of whom suffered bite-offs too. It appeared the pike were never far from shoals of little roach and other fry, in turn these were around weed beds and bankside rushes, and the Grebes were never far away either!

A few jacks to 5lbs obliged yesterday, but the word is they are some up to twenty pounds. I got my PB fly caught Roach: a one pounder took a black Muskins!

double groan!!!

groan!!!

Also refer to other Panorama Sewage dumping thread

The FDG Spring Bank Competition is being held at the wonderful Elinor Fishery this coming Sunday the 18th of April, for teams of three. FDG members not booked in as teams can turn up as individuals, and will make up scratch teams. Last year's numbers were hit by all things pandemic, so it would...

Signed too. Watched Panorama after seeing this thread. Still don't understand how wet wipes, pant liners, tampons, condoms ,et al, are being discharged without any screening?, even in the sixties all sewage went through screens, so are these discharges flows which have been diverted away from...

I didn't actually write it out in zeros, but your comment caused me to look it up, thus: one thousand million was known as the short scale [10 to the power of 9] and was what American English used, while us English used one million million [ten to the twelfth power] BUT in 1974 the UK switched...

Not wishing to be clever, but a UK billion is supposed to be one million-million, i.e. the mathematical value used in astrophysics, whereas in the US and common parlance a billion is one-hundred thousand million, there is a massive difference! I wonder which was used in the forecast you saw?

I believe that the EA licences the abstraction by the water authorities (and by agriculture). Furthermore, when the business I worked for put a proposal to Southern Water for capture of their discharged, treated water to be de-salinated before pumping back inland for release above the...

My fishing buddy and I have been RMI volunteers for a few years, checking two sites on the River Meon in Hampshire. We've had ranunculus die back due to a combination of low flows and hot weather, but have also experienced young cattle eating several huge ranunculus beds, coincidentally when...

I’m undertaking a partial rebuild of a 7’ #4 2pce. and a 9’ #5/6 4pce. The former has a damaged stripper guide and is a horrible, flashy olive finish, while the latter is a ‘Black’ finish but I don’t get on with the casting action, and if I can make it lighter it might end up as an improved #5...

Sound advice, yet again! About to start a new thread as you suggest, it'll be called 'Earwig-o : Noob rebuilds!', please look out for it P.P.S. Yes, it's just you

Crikey! This is a world away from re-ringing a coarse rod or fitting an integral quiver tip! (And they were over thirty years distant!) So far, then, I think I should measure and record each existing guide's position, next strip the sections back to the blanks, but not ferrule/joint whippings...

Sorry to be such a noob, but what does "spine each section" mean, please?