cheers guys. reason i ask is that i am trade mates with a guy who says he can do me a decent price on one as a return favour. thing is id have to travel best part of a day to try one. sounds like they're well worth a looksie, though i do worry that it may be a little fast for me. hope to film my do...

skeg wrote:andy,
welcome.

ooooh, you mother!

ive just got into work too, im surrounded by fishing rods and cant do any fishing!

might give the g-tec 9' 5# a thrashing on my lunch break....

ta everyone !

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where from the east mids do you hail? im near burton on trent, in a village called barton. Originally from Glenfield nr Leicester. The Burton area holds many great memories fishing the R. Soar and the mighty Trent. Most of my 3 decades of fishing have been freshwater course. Wondered if you have he...

Could do with only 3 dry flies for Trout, Char and Salmon; The Usual, Streaking Caddis and Griffits Gnat with Snowshoe hare as hackle. Thats the iedal, but in fact my 7-8 boxes holds a bit more patterns :???: alf, amazing how that works isnt it ?! i once went to the dove with a friend, and we took ...

Buy a Snowbee XS-ED and you'll get consistent 100's, I'm getting further with that, not just a few feet. I'm aware that I said it was cheating in another thread, don't care, changed my mind now :D Hope to get a new MED soon as this is the standard kit for now, Never had the line hit the rod on the ...

there seems to be a huge amount of respect on here for both sage and scott rods. i know sage rods fairly well, but have been told by my parents that swapping a kidney for a z-axis isnt great value in the long term... scott, i am embarassed to say, are a company i know little about. checked the web ...

Hi Eric, I'm sceptical about this stuff - I had a sample of Fireline Crystal - very weak @ knots - compared to normal mono and much more visible under water. And the advertised 0.04 mm looked to me rather like 0.18mm. But perhaps you have some success with it, good luck. I'm fishing such small nymp...

i mullered the dove on a mix of size 18 f-flies tied mega skinny (i may as well just paint the hook), and something so crazy and secret as to almost be indescribable, a, wait for it..... blue winged olive.. dont tell anyone about that one though eh? hush hush and all that ! got a proper fly dresser...

Hi andy_with_a_rod That's a great username... You mention the R. Dove, I assume that's in Derbyshire. I am an ex-pat of the E. Midlands now based on the North coast of Ireland. As a family in the 70's, we travelled to Derbyshire 6-8 times a year and only last week, I was sent a postcard of Dovedale...

Kristian wrote:Funny you mentioned it, Victor, his style reminded me of this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sbqIyeed4g

Cheers

Kristian

absolutely spot on, glad im not the only person who thought of the beastie boys while watching that!

jo and will, thankyou both! i usually fish nymphs under a big old bright pink klinkhamer, so am not averse to using some kind of indicator. the uni knot seems to be a dead cert by the looks of it, and really easy to tie which i appreciate! the only issue i do have is that i would like to vary the d...