neil r

Not much flow but it’s a bite a chuck on the stick and waggler

They are easy to work on if you haven’t already done it . Looks like the piston washer is missing in the picture and I couldn’t see if the piston o ring is still on . I got the tw chambers premium tuning kit with the standard spring when I did mine and layer decided to get a t r robb piston head for it and also made a piston sleeve and it now shoots pretty well with no twang . It would also be worth making or getting a spring compressor off eBay to make it easier to put back together

Savage sandeels and fiish black minnows I did alright with for bass , pollock and wrasse when I used to do that kind of fishing . There’ll be copies on temu and Ali . 9 7 tungsten are doing some lures that are worth a look and rooneys lures seem popular with the sea lads

Trout fishing with light lures is brilliant but the fly lot don’t like the riff raff catching their fish and tend to make access difficult but I’m lucky that it’s the coarse clubs that control most of the rivers round me and I can pick and choose where to go I tend to use 6lb cahira nitinol single strand titanium on the canal these days but mono or flouro for trout . I tend to miss the slower deeper sections and target shallow rapids and never had pike in them before but I’ll try the ti leaders now and see if it makes a difference to the trout because all my hard lures are jdm and I

The canal by me is virtually unfishable at the minute. It’s like a bowling green with floating duckweed . It does get broke up by the wind and heavy rain but you don’t know which bit will be fishable at any given time so unless I already know somewhere is clear I won’t bother with the canal till later in the year and I’ll go on the rivers after trout , chub , perch and grayling instead . Went on Friday and had a few brownies on my little Japanese lures , also had a Jack about 5lb in some really shallow fast water . Went down to the next section of shallow rapids and hooked a double that bit th

Got an 11 week old rare breed vorwerk cockerel here if anyone wants it , don’t want anything for it just ended up with 2 of them and only need 1 . Located in bb6 , Great Harwood area

Had a go on here this morning using just hemp and tares . Had absolutely loads of roach and a couple of skimmers mainly on the pole but also had a few on an old dam quickstick swing tip rod I bought last week

The one on the left is a tricast tribune spliced tip and the other is a dam carboron spliced tip . Ive gone back to older spliced tip rods , it’s not until you use them again you realise just how good they are compared to modern rods . I had drennan acolyte ultras and even though they are always mentioned as top rods they simply aren’t as good as the older ones . The reels are Abu 503’s

Just had a look at them , quite like the cuckoo coloured ones .

There still doesn’t seem to be many keeping flower hens over here but luckily the bloke I got them off didn’t charge that much for them , I got them for £24 each which I didn’t think was too bad . The guy in Warrington with the marsh daises had some Norfolk greys up for sale recently but I think he was getting rid of his stock of them because they were 3 yrs old . I did like the look of them though and I’d be tempted if I came across some . Funny you mention salmon faverolles , my mate was offered some over keighley way a couple of months back but knocked them back because they didn’t look rig

Marsh daisies are one that I keep thinking about. There’s a bloke in Warrington who was doing them and I think I saw some in Nelson aswell . Some of the breeders ask silly money for eggs and young birds , I was looking at silver deathlayer eggs and the guy was asking a fair bit more than I think was fair for them . I’ve been offered some 8 week old houdans for free off the bloke on the next pen but I’m not overly keen on the crested birds

Anyone keep rare breed chickens . I’ve got a mixed lot of light Sussex and sussex/silkie hybrids with a few cream legbars and vorwerks in with them just for eggs but I’m going to start doing rare breeds in some new runs for hatching eggs and young birds for next year . The first lot I’ve bought are these Swedish flower hens from maryport . Still need a cockerel to go with them but there’s no immediate rush for that . I’m looking for suggestions for a couple more breeds once I get some more runs built in the next few months . I’m not bothered about prolific egg layers , just looking for breed

You’ve not seen the canal near me , there’s less rubbish dumped on the tip