Who knows. My point in the post, as far as I can remember as it's a long time ago now, was that even with this truck load of gear, there's even more needed before you can sit down. Perhaps it was an Octbox competition: Guess the weight of extruded aluminium and win a hernia support?
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Who knows. My point in the post, as far as I can remember as it's a long time ago now, was that even with this truck load of gear, there's even more needed before you can sit down. Perhaps it was an Octbox competition: Guess the weight of extruded aluminium and win a hernia support?
@Clive
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The ultimate wooden fishing platform is located at Bouziès on the River Lot in the area where Steve Arnold lives. It is at least 4 metres above the normal river level and fully on the bank, with no part overhanging the water.
Also the list of resident species displayed on the notice board omits the only species that I have caught there - barbel!
Hmm. Interesting. I can't help imagining that the crampons could bite and your momentum pitch you forward? I suppose it takes a bit of practice.
Ray Roberts
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My pal bought some and it made me wonder how well you could swim in them. When I was a lad I took a dip in the lake wearing a pair of ex army hobnail boots one winter when I was on my own and that was hard, lol.
I’d imagine they’re more like these (trail running spikes)
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Newthinkin...gid=pla-1999241698687&gad_source=1&th=1&psc=1
rather than these (similar to what I use for winter hillwalking)
Grivel Monte Rosa New Classic Crampon
Suitable crampon for use with most 4 season winter walking boots - ideal for the Lakes Scotland or North Wales.
rockrun.com
Alan Whitty
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I think of my option to banks requiring tampons, oops I mean crampons, f### it, I won't fish there....
One club I've been in, Derbyshire Federation, have steps and platforms on all their steep banks. They put in two platforms to suit different levels. Beautiful stretch of river a few miles above Derby, but sadly doesn't have Wye levels of fish. Two or three decent chub, 6lb of small grayling, a barbel now and then is what you might hope for.
The 4m landing net. I got one a couple of years ago for a couple of sheer high bank barbel swims. I bought a Free Spirit power handle - said to be robust and has a sexy cross-weave in the carbon. What I didn't notice was that the joint between second and top section is short with a fast taper. What brought this, and what it means, to my attention was when, even though I'd made an angle to lift a barbel up the bank, the top section pulled off, leaving me with a tricky situation. Luckily the barbel stayed still, the net stuck on the shelf pointing up and I had the chance to push the sections back together. It's fine if you're netting fish out in front, but a liability the higher the bank gets. Just mentioned it as it's the kind of thing that you can overlook. When I fish these swims again, I think I'll tape up the joints.
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ian g
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Kev the link on my post shows the ones we use , they just stop you slipping on the muddy banks .A lot of Severn anglers swear by them
@Clive
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For what its worth Kev I have a length of parachute cord with a small carabiner on one end a a simple loop on the other. The clip is secured to the net and the loop goes under the leg of my chair or seat box. When I get a fish in the net I put the rod on the rest, gather the cord and lift the net using the cord to support the net and take the weight off the handle.
When wading I use slip on snow chains (actually they are springs, not chains) that go over my boots. They are light, easy to take on and off and cheap. They won't be much good in mud, but nothing will be.
The swims I mentioned are both high-banked and hit and hold up to a snag. I only fish there to save a barbelling blank. It makes sense to have a cord attached to the net. Good idea. But I'll hope I catch one in another swim, so I don't have to fish there.
Steve Arnold
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The ultimate wooden fishing platform is located at Bouziès on the River Lot in the area where Steve Arnold lives. It is at least 4 metres above the normal river level and fully on the bank, with no part overhanging the water.
Also the list of resident species displayed on the notice board omits the only species that I have caught there - barbel!
There are a few more of these fishing platforms in my area, they are also designated as disabled angler stances. Well, I guess you can get your car near them.....even if you cannot get your landing net near the water. Maybe they think those anglers will only be fishing for bleak and small roach!
I’ve got say chaps this talk of scrambling up and down steep banks with crampons and ropes has made me shudder. Thankfully I have a choice of recycled plastic platforms that I can park behind and fish the Trent. This clearly wouldn’t be to everyone’s taste but to those who have no problem getting up and down steep banks or hacking through brambles and nettles whilst carrying fishing tackle, well done to you and enjoy it while you can.
It's not something I'm keen on either (67, rheumatoid arthritis, coronary heart disease, respiratory diseases) but sometimes there's not much option, and I'm not ready for Mallard Pond and the Doughnut Lake yet. The rope is sometimes just what you need for a leg up, and on some pegs, such as where your box is on a slippery perch, I leave it trailing into the water. Never needed it, but it's a bit of insurance. Different clubs' stretches are vastly different, and within a few miles on the local river you will find monumental stone pegs, safe and comfortable steps and stages, death-trap stages with rotten timber and missing planks, and "pegs" that are a 30' mudslide or impenetrable vegetation.
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Can't escape what anglers are actually doing. Metal in mouth tempted by a fundamental need, food. Pulled out of their environment and slowly suffocated. Then either photographed, eaten or kept for weighing.
Keith M
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There’s a name for fish who are regularly caught day after day and sometimes are caught again and again during the same day; and they’re often called ‘Mug Fish’; however maybe they are not really mugs when they get used to being fed and subsequently released without harm time and time again??? (Just a thought)
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