Lumbland

In recent years short 'collapsible' rods have been finding favour as easily transported fishing tools, which have the added benefit of being short enough to store in the boot of a car for opportunistic sessions.

12ft 2.75lb Torrix x 2 - £600 Full duplon handle, American Tackle reel seat and six Delta rings plus tip.

For a few years now I've been using leger stems for my eel fishing.

Over the last dozen or so years of my intermittent eel fishing I've tried all sorts of bite indication set-ups (apart from float fishing).

I thought I'd write a bit of a post partly because I've got a boring evening to pass.

The sun shone and I got motivated to have a few chucks with the heavier of the two 8ft 6in two-piece American Tackle Bushido rods.

The winter break saw me working as usual.

Summer, such as it was, has certainly slipped away now with out me getting much fishing done.

Overconfidence is a terrible thing.

My annual 'what rods shall I build myself' spree went into overdrive this year and in addition to my tench rods I built myself another set of eel rods, which means last year's models are up for sale As the post title says they are three 10ft 3lb Torrix.

Making hooklinks on the bank, in the dark by the light of a headtorch, isn't the easiest thing to do!

The tight finish in the opening Ashes test match left me needing to chill.

I'm expanding the ring options for my rod builds.

Fred says "Always wear sunscreen."

First off I have a pair of one-off rods for sale at a bargain price!

So much for pike fishing.

When I was put on the waiting list to have my gall bladder removed in late 2021 I was told it would be a simple keyhole surgery and I'd be back home after no more than 24 hours, and back in action after a couple of weeks or so.

I got the eel urge again yesterday.

Thursday saw my eel fishing going to the opposite extreme.

A blank was guaranteed for my first eel session of the year.

I've been off the water again, waiting for this month to maybe do some tenching.

Making my foamy drifter got me wondering what other floats I could make from the orange eggs.

It's always the same, I get my fishing head on and 'life' intervenes.

Knowing that the weather was set to turn wet for the weekend and that I'd have no time to fish next week I made sure I got a session in this week.

After my last session I'd been thinking about piking quite a bit, the idea of covering water with an off bottom bait had inspired me to get making prototype drifters (see previous post) and also mess about with some other float ideas that are probably sup…