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I run a young company called Ebro Enterprise & Leisure (E.E.L.). My partner Derek who lives in England came out for his last trip of the year before the river started to flood, to try and get the elusive 100lb + Catfish that had managed to elude him for the whole of the year. On…
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Being on the inside of a bend, there was little flow where I intended positioning the baits, so I felt I could get away with a relatively short hook-link. Bait on one rod was a micro-waved Hi-Nu-Val boilie which was about as buoyant as a pingpong ball, and which I used because they make good…
Specie: carp Weight: 19lb 2 oz ” I was invited to fish a coporate fishing day at BIRD’S GREEN, ESSEX which involved fishing from 10.00am to 117.00pm. During the match ( I caught eighteen carp smallest being a 6lb 2oz mirror carp upto this fish which weighed in at a clossal ( for me that…
What if I could tell you of a place where it is not unusual to catch at the least half a dozen fish each trip, where it would not be unusual to see several double figure pollack, big ling, maybe a bass or two, occasionally cod, maybe even conger if the skipper decided to anchor…
Naturally with anything new or foreign there was terrific opposition to hemp leading to various bans. Stories of hemp drugging fish were still very common when I first started using the bait in the late 1950’s.When I started trotting the Thames with hempseed, I would buy a shillings worth of mixed cooked hemp with a…