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First thing I noticed was the length of the handle. They were all like that then.

About time you bought some decent reels Mark 🤣

I thought that was an old Mitchel match Mark, my go to reel when I was on the bank, used to love one finger bailarm release. Nice chub to finish on..👍

Lovely upper Stour Chub! I must get back to those stretches I used to fish around Fiddleford. I have caught much bigger Chub but those upper river fish and the stretches represent the essence of Chub fishing in winter. Fished Havelins last Wednesday. Clear and hard going but as I'd bothered to drive up there I hung on and ended with a decent catch of Roach, a few Perch and the tiniest of Pike. All on maggots fished fine. 🙂

Great vid

Fished those swims( and others) ealier this morning mark, very quiet apart from one small chub.

Nice vid mark.....it appears the rivers are a bit out of sorts...maybe need a bit if rain or a bit of wind to get some oxygen back in the water....I know some local lakes are struggling with leaf matter taking up dissolved oxygen and no wind to get it back in the water....will give the upper stour a go after we've had some rain...

Just love te sound of the match!

Please make a vid about your rod handles,ta.

we used to catch them from the staffs worcs canal in the 80s at up to 150 and hour ive wieghed in 9lb 2oz all gudgeon from wombourne and lots of 6lb and 7lb nets thay have all gone from the staffy now

Just found your channel. Great session. New Sub. 😊

In my mind the best reel ever....still using today😊... externally horrid ....internally sound ...smooth and clear....no bait clips so accurate casting essential 😊.... have to use elastic band for clip now.....old age 😖😊

I can tell you a thing or two about local clubs....many are run by a small band of people...but beware if match fishers take over a pond...they tend to take down all the cover, turn natural waters into easy access for trollies etc. And in no time the fish have damaged mouths....nightmare....these days i have tickets for clubs but never get involved with committees and politics...not good for your peace of mind...sadly😢

Still use my one, great.

Cost you several £100s to buy a original swallow centre pin now

Nice video Mark. I bought my Swallow pin (Mk 1) from Dave himself when he lived at Ibsley Bridge. We watched the early pre release copy of Passion for Angling that he'd been sent. He said to me to put the line on backwards so it comes off the top and I've always done that for trotting ever since. I bought one of the new Trudex reels and the first thing I did was take the line guard off. I've been using the Dave Harrell pro match this year and so far pretty good though all lines seem to go curly after a while. Certainly Supplex does! 🙂

I can't do with the line coming off the bottom of the drum, seems totally foreign for me, and most anglers around me that I know. Maybe it's a Northern thing ? We also "Bat In" the line on a no fish retrieve. "Bedding In" usually happens when you've too much line on the drum, I normally just put about 80 yards on which prevents that from happening !

I fished alongside that tree for the Roach. That was on Tuesday. Going there tomorrow. always good to watch. footnote. Match on Sundat Canford was won with 15lb Roach

I fished that awim twice in a week if you let the float trot way down there are some nice chub sitting back. in 3hrs I had 5 chub some around 1lb and a couple,e of orou d 2lb. loads of nice Roach

Do you do all the filming yourself Mark?

Use a landing net young man

I have a local water that contains some big Perch. I plan to fish for them like you with a centrepin and a 12' Graham Phillips trotting rod. A great rod though very old and built on a century blank I think. I have just bought a new Trudex which I will use, the earlier models being like your rapidex. Unfortunately, for some reason, the new trudex don't have the drag adjustment. With you on the F1s. Pointless things imo! 🙂

❤🎣👏 love it

Got 3 506 reels .Great for trout on tbe spinner .Smooth as silk .My favourite reel of all time .Thanks for your video .Very interesting 😊

Hey Mark , great video,as always. Thanks for explaining your set up .Its helped me a lot .

Enjoyed that Mark, proper fishing. 👏 I note your preference for crow quills for bulk style rigs and sticks for on the drop presentations but I’ve seen you using the Drennan wire stem avons in other videos - when/why would you use these be your preferred choice?

Nice to see. Never fished there though have walked it. 👍

Great video Mark like your "warts an all" style of presentation and the absence of overused cliches ie silver fish and chublets ect also that you invariably use natural venues persuing real wild fish.

I was a Edgar Sealy Blue Match man

Always a pleasure watching your videos on our club waters... keep up the good work.

Thanks fo another enjoyable video Mark. As a relative beginner & always looking for tips, I wasn't clear why the 15 foot rod wasn't appropriate for a stick float?

Very good watch, thank you Mark

Bravo.

The best spot I have fished recently for dace on the Avon is Hale Park, on the RDAA book. I had fish to 8 oz there, as well as grayling.

Lovely calm video,do you know if this stretch holds and decent chub or barbel?

A rod is a rod , you can catch on a stick ,

i came back to fishing after lockdown.. pleasure fish, but still attack it like my old match fishing days.. i was using loop to loop.. and kept losing the bonus lumps we hook in modern well stocked fisheries... these modern strong low diameter lines i found extremely fragile/finicky... the slightest blemish or shot mark and its lost all its advantages... after watching bob nudd vid on the 3 turn surgeons knot for hooklinks... i switched to that, problem solved.. no more crack offs when carp or big bream hooked.. im not under match pressure anymore so new hook simply tied on and carry on..depth adjusted... also i put a small separate loop through the bottom of float attatchment.. put my bulk shot on that with float stoppers on mainline... and use small no'8 leadshot down the line to avoid line damage... works well i can now give the fish proper abuse wi no worries..

Sadly I can see fishing being banned one day in the not too distant future. The last couple of generations have shown none of the interest and enthusiasm that mine had. So many of them now have probably been indoctrinated to believe that fishing is cruel - especially school age kids with their woke teachers. I was a third generation angler yet my son showed very little interest after his teenage years. Today's parenting doesn't appear to offer kids the freedom I grew up with. Weekends away camping by the river at 13/14 with a mate or two, fishing the Thames at Laleham by the campsite. Spending summer holidays fishing all around the local area. Hardly ever see a kid fishing now. At 80, I've quit - but still have some pretty good quality tackle from the early 2000s/2010. I've been hoping to discover a mad keen young angler to give it all to. It's a pretty fruitless mission

When plumbing the slider, there seems to be 2 methods today. The more modern involves swapping out the actual float for a more buoyant float compared to plumbing up and then removing a swanshot to ensure the float flies up the line. Both methods work on an undershotted float with a 20g plummet on the hook or a big swanky.

Back then we thought that was as far as technology could take us. After a Milbro Enterprise it felt like you had forgotten to pick it up. Fished it with a 506 and thought I'd never find anything better. Until I found a B & W CFR, Shakespeare President Supreme, Mach 2 boron, etc, etc, etc. I don't fish any more. Moved away from the south 20+ years ago. Never found the stickfloat winter roach and chub fishing I wanted after that. The last rod I bought was a Maver Distinction 13ft float. It says heavy action on the rod bag - but they must have been joking. Amazing through action and the sections must have been filled with a lighter than air gas. I wish I still fished but at 80 you need to spend more time with the wife to make up for all those lost weekends spent match fishing for most of married life, so we play golf 5 weekday mornings instead

Glass rod and a Mitchell Match. Takes me back to the 80s when I started. Carbon rods were around then, but too expensive before I left school and started earning my own money! Apologies if you've mentioned it in a previous video, but I was just wondering why you fished with an open bail on stillwater. Force of habit from river fishing?

Have a Leeda Match 13' 2000 Series matched with a Zebco Cool CL 140 RD. Must be all of nearly 40 years old!! Going to be fishing a club pond for Roach, Rudd and Tench(!) Happy days.

Blimey… a blast from the past! I had one of these which I purchased from Kay’s catalogue (remember those) with my paper round earnings. I remember it cost £20.95. I paired this to an Abu 505 for most of my fishing.

Are they Cuckoo's chirping at the beginning 🐦🎣✨️

Searching for a genuine through action specimen rod for small river barbel, I noted that a few glass rods are still made. These are inexpensive, and I'm tempted to give one a try. Most carbon rods are variants of tip action with beefy butt sections.

CHEAT! You should be using a 506M with it. 😄 What amazes me is the length of the handles we once had. That was twice the length of your forearm from where you were holding it. Not forgetting the old two rings to hold the reel on. Good old days?

Nice video Mark. How many old rods have you collected over the years

Lovely stuff Mark. Unfortunately all my gear was stolen back in 2016, so I have had the buy a few things from auction sites to get a chance to fish 'old' style 'again

I've noticed a similar pattern on the Frome. Great 5 or 6 years ago. Poor the last couple of years.

Hi Mark. Do you just tie hooklengths on, loop to loop. Seem to remember some top anglers do their loops quite large(2" to stop spin) or use a diamond eye swivel to reduce line spin ( maggot especially) ps I was trying, on the lake bank to tie some 30cm hooklength in 1.5lb guru , I couldnt tighten the knot without it snapping - tried grinner, tucked half blood were impossible. Even loop tyer tied small fig 8 broke. Odd? Tips? Great channel. Love it.