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I'd just like to say thanks for my order that consisted of a couple of bags of Grubber Pellets and a Team Barbel Bucket Combo. Even with the snow on the ground it arrived within a couple of days. I was pretty eager to wet a line as the snow had made it pretty pointless fishing for the last few weeks so as soon as the snow melted I was off on the Sunday morning armed with my bucket of Team Barbel bait. I fished for a few hours sprinkling half a dozen nuggets or so in each swim fished but no bites were forthcoming. So not to be dis-spirited I set off again on Tuesday morning for a few hours and despite repeating the same process as Sunday still no bites. Dispite 2 days fishing and no bites as yet I was determined to persevere with the Team Barbel nuggets so off I set again on Saturday afternoon deciding to fish into dark this time to see if anything happened.
Upon getting to the river it was rising slowly and I quickly set up and settled into a swim I had fished previously during Sunday and Tuesday - no bites. I moved swims and settling in another swim previously fished I repeated the same process and still no bites. An hour or so later I found myself back in the 1st swim and as I always do each cast I attached a small PVA bag with 4 crushed nuggets in. Previously I'd been using whole nuggets as hookbaits but this time I broke a small piece off and gently hair rigged about a quarter of a nugget and wrapped a small piece of shelf life paste around it. With a small flick the bait landed in a nice little slack in the middle of a chocolate brown river, and as the Great Ouse rose ever higher I sat for 10 mins questioning my sanity when my rod gave a very small tremble. As I stared at the isotope it trembled again, so gently I picked up the rod and as it slowly bounced I struck, not sure if I'd hit a snag at first as the rod bent over but nothing moved. Then I felt the tell tale thump of a fish on the end.
Giving the fish as much stick as I dared I soon had it circling under my rod top and it wasnt until I tried to get it in my landing net that I realised just how big a fish it was. First try to land fish and I failed as it dived down into the depths again but after a few minutes I managed to ease my prize into the landing net. After sorting the scales etc out I picked up the landing net to see the fish and a pristine 14lb 5oz barbel lay there looking at me. I was chuffed to bits with this capture in extremely hard conditions and I'd just like to say thanks for the bait. I will certainly be ordering more as I think it would be rude of me not to.
Just to put things in perspective, I've fished this stetch of river all season and only had 1 barbel of just over 9lb for my efforts so to get a 14lb-er on just my 3rd trip with the Team Barbel nuggets says it all for me. A very big thank you and I hope to catch plenty more barbel on the Team Barbel baits in the future.
ONE VERY HAPPY CUSTOMER STEVE WOODLEY
The Titan Is Back
Written by jon
Back by popular demand the new Nash Titan Bivvy will be available in early April and will without doubt be the most popular shelter on the bank for 2010. If you're looking for a bivvy with ultimate strength, rapid setup, tough waterproof material and a sylish look on the bank, then the Titan is for you.
So what do you get for your money?
The Titan can be converted into all types of shelter, from a complete open front, to mesh infil or for severe weather and comfort a zip on, all weather in-fill panel.
Without doubt this is the only bivvy that can compete against the pram hood style bivvy for ease and time of setting up. The pre formed aluminium frame simply folds out from the main centre block, then the material is pulled over the two front ribs. Once the storm poles and pegs have been added the bivvy becomes rigid and stable creating the ultimate waterproof shelter for any weather conditions.
The bivvy comes complete with a Clip-in heavy-duty groundsheet, Nash heavy-duty T Pegs, Two 36” bivvy sticks with storm stick adapters and carry bag.
