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ANNOUNCEMENT: Upcoming Site Testing
Dear Community Members, We would like to make you aware of a brief test we will be running within the community in the coming days. Ideally, you may not notice it at all, outside of a few cosmetic...
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The Percy Felton Trio
Not a post-war jazz or blues band but three Allcock’s Felton Crosswind fishing reels of interest. In a land far away, the Snowdonia National Park, lay a clutch of spinning and thread line reels with my...
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The National Vintage Fishing Tackle Fair – Sunday 13th November
The fair is the largest antique, vintage, and second-hand fair that is dedicated to fishing tackle. It is now in its 18th consecutive year! The stalls feature dealers, collectors, and enthusiasts. The...
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12ft QUIVERTIP ALL-ROUNDER
VERSATILE RODS A 12ft quivertip rod covers lots of water, comfortably dealing with casting distances from 30 to 60 metres. Any shorter and 10ft bomb design takes over, while for further out a longer...
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Conjuring Up Coarse Magic – Barbel -Part One
What a summer and autumn it has been down on the Wye with endless big chub and, of course, barbel. Despite what you read in the media about phosphate issues, the coarse fish are nowhere near as...
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CONJURING COARSE MAGIC – BARBEL PART 2
So, after blog 2, we have the outline of how I go about things. It’s all about travelling light, fishing light and fishing where the fish are. In essence I take a rod, generally now a Thomas Turner...
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ANNOUNCEMENT: New Forum Software Coming to Fishing Magic
Dear Community Members, Over the past few years, updates to the forum software introduced challenges in usability and performance. Efforts to improve the technology, user interface, and site...
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CONJURING COARSE MAGIC – BARBEL PART 3 – FLOAT FISHING
There’s no doubt that to the purist, float fishing is the preferred way to catch these superb fish and indeed the method is effective, challenging and always glamorous. Back a while, I travelled to the...
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Thomas Turner Classic+ 14ft float rod
BIG WATERS Longer float rods are good for tackling larger venues, such as the River Trent in this instance, where a 14-footer provides that vital extra reach to help mend the line when trotting a stick...
View ArticleConjuring Up Coarse Magic. Float Fishing – Trotting
I have been lamenting that the float in general coarse angling is nearly an extinct animal but not necessarily so. This week it is trotting under the microscope and the art is absolutely alive and well...
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The Lost Art Of The Float – Part 3 – The Stillwater Waggler
Can I make it clear that I only write what I know about so you won’t get any advice from me about using a waggler on rivers, for example. Whilst I have had excellent advice on how to do it, notably...
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Conjuring Coarse Magic – Lost Art Of The Float – Part 4 – Laying On In Rivers
He/she who is tired of float fishing is tired of life said some sage, perhaps **** Walker! There are endless aspects to the float I could describe in this, the last part of this mini series. Stret...
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Conjuring Coarse Magic – Re-learning the Bomb rod
To be honest, something I’m always hoping to be, I wasn’t really on board with the Bomb rod, not now, not in 2022/23. I could see that match anglers might well have a use for them but I wasn’t entirely...
View ArticleVR reels of Ukraine, Salar Incomparable 4/0 Classic salmon fly reel
We are pleased to announce we have available a limited number of the stunning VR Salar Incomparable fly reels as part of our TT Classic+ collection. These are very special reels, designed and developed...
View ArticleConjuring Coarse Magic – January is for bombing!
January 4th and I’m picking the Bomb adventure up after a few days working in Scotland but I’m happy to be home, to take the Bomb rods to their limits and back. (A bit OTT I know but I’m really...
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Conjuring Coarse Magic – Bomb rod January
6th January and the omens on the Wye are poor with heavy rain forecast in the Welsh mountains and the word going around that proper flood levels are on their way. It didn’t take much head scratching to...
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Exploring Fenland
STRANGE NAMES I had driven over the North Level Main Drain at Tydd Gote many times, always too busy to stop on the way to visiting family who used to live close by. I eventually arranged to fish the...
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