Moggy

Looks a bit like a Mayland 16 but impossible to tell without looking at it from the stern. Can you take a shot showing the transom, cockpit and inside the cuddy? Moggy

Hi David...yeah...it's a jungle out there! try this link...it's a Fladen rod/reel set...8' #4-6 and costs 50 quid. I have one as a spare for when I have guests and it's a bargain for the price. http://www.tacklebargains.co.uk/acatalog/F...Combo_Kits.html If you need any further help give me a shout.

Thanks for clearing all that up. I want to believe that they could co-exist peacefully, it occurred to me that I' got the theory that these "aggressive interlopers" bullied their way into the good lies from a chap who's made questionable statements regarding trout behavior in the past. By a quirk of fate; I was out for a worm-drowning session with a fishing companion on new years eve afternoon, just to round off the year, and hooked a very fat, pure silver steelhead, about 40 cms long, and with absolutely PERFECT fins! The fish had never spent any time in a fish farm by the looks of it, and I assumed it to be one of the breeding individuals in our river system. There is no closed season on rainbow here in Denmark, but I felt duty bound to return it anyway. Moggy

I am at present writing a piece on why it is important to keep down numbers of rainbow trout in some rivers, especially where scraping a living is difficult for the indigenous brownie. Question: I know that generally rainbows don't breed in European waters, but do cicumstances never occur that are conducive to their breeding? Here in scandinavia we do catch steelheads that are returning from saltier climes, but the belief is that they can't successfully produce offspring. Is this so? If so...why not? Cheers...Moggy