My beginner mate caught his first ever freshwater fish last night, a nice tench. He now has a full understanding of the function of a reel's clutch. I think in future, if I'm showing someone how to fish, I'll explain how to play a fish *before* the situation arises

Unfortunately, the optical zoom on my digicam has given up the ghost, and the photos are, well, take a look:

Lake 63


Iain's tench (not weighed, somewhere between 4 and 5lb)



My tench (5 3/4lb)



Gutted. They looked OK on the camera.

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Blimey. Have I been drinking already?

That is a shame ... they are some real nice fish. Not even good old photoshop could save these

Joel

I feel as if I have; last night, and heavily. Didn't touch a drop. Banging headache, sweating and shivering. Summer cold, I expect.

I wish they wouldn't put the warning about Weil's disease so prominently in the clubcard, it's giving me hypochondria.

Steve,

it looks more like a focus problem, does the camera have a manual focus switch that might have been hit, one of mine does and its a pain.

I could'nt agreed more with David definite the focus - most will have automatic settings

It's Kodak DX4900. The lens has extruded itself to its full extent, and won't retract, as if you have tried to zoom in on something as far as it will go. When you turn the camera off, it should retract back into the body and a cover should flip over it, but it doesn't even do that. It just makes a quiet whirring noise and gives up.

Kill it!

It may have a bit of grit or something down the site of the lens it happened to my kodak blew it out with airline at work at all was fine after that

My Kodak also packed up recently so I bought a Sony P200 (7 Mega Pixel) £230 from amazon with a free bag. The pictures it takes are superb even in low light good for those late evening catches.

Marzi