David L Johnson
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Sorry Mods but I have to mention other websites in this thread.
I'm looking for the best free site for barbel river reports as sadly the, previously excellent, Ribble section on this site is now rarely updated. 15-20 years ago I used to use Barbel Fishing World's river reports section to see how the Great Ouse was fishing. I now fish mainly the Ribble and, on returning to barbel fishing after a break, I tried to log in and found they are now charging £5 to post or even read the BFW site. The reason I was given was by having my card details they'd know my real name and that prevented abusive posters. I don't mind paying a fiver but no way am I giving my bank card details to a site that's wide open to be hacked (not specifically BFW, but all these small hobbyist sites are hackers dreams and I was stung that way in the past when my card details were stolen from a hacked hobby site).
I've just tried the Barbel Society but similarly it's paid members only. Back in the day I think there was some kind of falling out between these two sites but I've no interest in fishing politics.
Is there anywhere free left that has regularly updated barbel river reports?
I'm looking for the best free site for barbel river reports as sadly the, previously excellent, Ribble section on this site is now rarely updated. 15-20 years ago I used to use Barbel Fishing World's river reports section to see how the Great Ouse was fishing. I now fish mainly the Ribble and, on returning to barbel fishing after a break, I tried to log in and found they are now charging £5 to post or even read the BFW site. The reason I was given was by having my card details they'd know my real name and that prevented abusive posters. I don't mind paying a fiver but no way am I giving my bank card details to a site that's wide open to be hacked (not specifically BFW, but all these small hobbyist sites are hackers dreams and I was stung that way in the past when my card details were stolen from a hacked hobby site).
I've just tried the Barbel Society but similarly it's paid members only. Back in the day I think there was some kind of falling out between these two sites but I've no interest in fishing politics.
Is there anywhere free left that has regularly updated barbel river reports?