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Yeeesh. Bristol Frome is full of urban excitement, including shopping trolleys but plenty of beer bottles and fair bit of building waste from our friendly neighbourhood flytippers so waiting for the day I get aquatinted with a nice rusty 5” screw.
Got out on a boat on one of the Bristol waters today for the first time, good day but really sporadic despite trying a range of different tactics. Got my first pike on the fly which was cool and partner happy the freezer is now full!
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Ah, fuck. Nope, it's a lever behind the reel foot which allows the reel spool to revolve freely, it engages to normal geared use as soon as you turn the reel handle or flip the lever back.
5 to 15 will just about stop a raging gudgeon, ok, maybe a 2lb trout in a small stream. I use a 30 to 80 for heavy duty stuff, I've had 15lb pollack and 20lb rooster fish on it (look them up, they're awesome!), it will also handle bass, pike and salmon. You're unlikely to be chucking 3+oz lures in a river, so something with an upper limit of about 40g or thereabouts should do you.
And @jupiz, that stream looks lovely, free fishing is the best fishing! On the glass in foot front: I once stood on a 4" nail in a plank up at the Darent, I'm not sure which was worse, seeing the nail emerge through my plimsoll or standing on the plank to yank it back the opposite way. Couldn't walk for 3 days.