There is a few of us who never fish puddles and fish rivers only. We are lucky here in N Ireland that there are very few puddles and even our lakes are Virgin territories,the river fishing on the Bann and the blackwater is very good Roach up to two pound is always possible with the odd three knocking about. Bream and their hybrids are also plenty full as is our perch. pike well we have so many good pike waters its fantastic. my only regret we don't have Barbell or Chub so if you are thinking of coming over for the fishing do so we can give you small, medium and large river fishing and plenty of good lake fishing as well.