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  1. Except in a river or stream Regarding the information about the wind i have come to realise Millenials dont have a sense of consequence, you see them on youtube falling foul of obvious pitfalls any 'normal' adult will predict so everything has to be explained and most likely every time it's published because when you live on a phone there is no need to remember anything, its a wonder some remember to breathe !
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  2. I actually bought AT today, AM had sold out, miserly thin offering for £2.30, tempted by 'roach' on the front cover, well over a year since I last bought AT. I really don't know why I bothered. This afternoon I also picked up a hardly read copy of John Watson's A Pikers Progress for a mere fiver, now that is value, especially when compared with AT! Was a time that a daily visit to WH Smith was a must, now it's the book shelves in my local charity shops!
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  3. Thanks BB for a good summary of how wind affects carp Also see my comments on venue 2 in the earlier thread "Winding Down" As Dick Walker once said "How much intelligence, for the love of Mike, does an angler need to realise that floating food will go where the wind blows it ?"
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  4. As long as I can position myself out of sight then I would be fishing close in under my feet anyway if the wind was in my face; as any food on the surface would naturally end up there anyway when the wind was coming towards me. Some of my best days fishing on the surface have been with me either laying flat on my stomach or sitting well back from the edge behind cover and fishing with the wind coming towards me. On occasion I have even fished with my line coming directly upwards off the bait below my rod tip with no line laying on the surface at all (dapping). Keith
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  5. Bob, we've had some ! Fishing the Top End in a tinny, we were free lining blueys into likely barra spots and slowly retrieviing them as we drifted uo a tidal creek. One spot seemed pretty good, several barras around the 10 lb mark. So we put the hook down. After a bit I got snagged - pulled for a break, and the "snag" went away across the bottom. then climbed up the creek bank and revealed itself as a 4 ft saltie. Then Norma hooked another "snag" - a 6-footer this time . We had a few more. "Al" I said to the guide, "is it my imagination, or is each croc we see bigger than the one before ?" "Too right" said Al " and as the last one was 10 ft the next might be trouble" He drew my attention to the gashes on the side of the boat from past attempts by salties to get aboard. He reckoned that the bigger the croc, the more likely it was to work out where all these blueys were coming from. "Time to move" he said, and I wasn't gonna argue.... Iv'e fished a few mangrove swamps on foot,and the possibility of crocs really sharpens up your awareness and fieldcraft. Fished a few jungle streams in big cat country too, and that keeps one on alert also.
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