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Above: floatmaker Andrew Field with a personal best float caught barbel of 13.06 from the mighty River Trent
Apologies for the radio silence over the last few months. I had a load of family stuff to deal with this summer, on top of a big workload, and to be honest I just couldn’t seem to...
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Jack Croxall: Tap, tap, tap…
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I was fishing as a boy, crouching by the water’s edge,...
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