Bob Nudd on livebaiting in the NoW

Bob Nudd might have had a odd difference of opinion with predator anglers this season, but his response to the PAC's announcement that livebaiting is safe for now will strike a chord with many.

"I never use the method but I understand putting a live fish on the hook is often the only way to tempt pike or zander," he writes in today's News of the World. "And is it any different to putting a worm on the hook..?"

We don't need a pike cull - Barrie

Leave things as they are, we don't need a pike cull. That's the message from PAC founder, former club president, pike expert and author Dr Barrie Rickards.

In his column on the FISHINGmagic website, he has this message for the cull-em brigade: "Nobody likes these upsurges of small pike but the way to get around it is counterintuitive to many anglers; either you must leave things as they are but do not remove any pike, or you put in a few big pike."

To read the whole column - which tackles a couple of other pike-related topics - click here.