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I just pulled a fishing hook out of my finger. The fishing hook was last used a week ago in freshwater. It didn’t go that deep. It bled briefly then stopped bleeding on its own. I applied hand sanitizer, hydrogen peroxide, then washed it with soap and water, and put Vaseline on it.

I’ve been going out a few times a week, mostly after work. Pendennis point and mullion cove a few times and haven’t even had a nibble!

Using spinner mostly

Lately I have been seeing more and more chav types taking up fishing. I find this problematic as there being antisocial: littering, smoking weed, playing music out loud, endangering wildlife. I don't fish myself but have friends that do, but this has been something I have noticed recently in the past few years in the places I visit.

I mainly fish on the method and want to give ye pole a go. However I don’t want to blow a load all over it and find I don’t enjoy it. Are there any decent kits about that’ll give me a good taster of pole fishing? I’ve seen AD have a 6m nytro “whoppa stoopa” on their offers this month but I can’t find any reviews on it. Ty for any help

Recently decided to get back into fishing and I've lost or damaged bits over the years so need a bit of an overhaul. I need a reel or 2 most desperately but I'll be buying second hand and was just wondering if there were brands i need to avoid? Everything i currently have was bought on a budget so want to slowly upgrade as cheaply as possible. Also is it just me or are boilies a fortune these days, where's the best places for bait? Thanks

So I get the theory... Pike should be a no-go in summer (I've not actually targeted them at all in the 7 or so years I've been fishing). Barbel (especially) and Chub struggle to go back in summer if not well rested.

And there's all sorts of infographics out there giving species-by-species breakdowns of water temperature and fish oxygen deprivation.

But for you personally, when do you say "enough is enough" and decide not to head for the banks for inland fishing?

Today it reached 25C here. Wasn't too bad when I first got to the local river (overcast and faintest of drizzle) but eventually warmed up and I'm now sporting a smidge of a sunburn. I planned a mobile day so didn't take a brolly with me, so resorted to finding as much shade as I could (but obviously wasn't enough!). The fish were active, just not interested in eating (I tried luncheon meat, spicy halibut pellet, bread, pickled cockles as an experiment as everyone has been raving about them) but still swam up to investigate loose feed (but again, didn't actually nibble on any freebies). Real shame as amongst the (guesstimated) 3-4 lb chub there were some 6lbers and the odd 8lb+ barbel (which would have been my first).

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I've seen a lot about this - including some posts on here saying don't fish for pike in summer. My feeling is that fishing for perch on light gear (dropshot, ultralight gear etc) is worse because you have to play the fish for ages and tired them out for a longer period of time.

Thoughts?