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Just a true reflection on Britain, We have always had mindless idiots and unfortunaly always will. We as a nation have more than most for some reason. Just Look at any city Center on a weekend night, !!! It seems with the demise of the football Holigan they are spread more evenly around all areas of sociaty at least when they were following football you could predict where they were!!

Hey well done Great Catch, love the photo's I think these are Rudd as well, Hope you and your mate get to go fishing again, soon, were was the girlfriend this time??

I think you will find the driver was doing a few jobs on the side for cash using the company truck, he then had to dump the watse so as not to be found out. I feel sorry for the company, I hope the court throw the book at the driver and just tick of the company to be more vigilant with there staff, they had the tracking device, it seem no one was monitoring it.

You could take up Golf, I hear its cheap to join a golf club, £700 joining fee and around £600 per year membership. Perhaps you could sneek onto the golf corse at night and save a bit of money! You might need a lamp!!!

Hi I also have some old information. In the 80's I used to pike fish at St. James Lake Brackley (Brackley balancing lake) I was a Brackley angling club water but sold day tickets, It had some good pike and was good fishing in the Summer. You could try and enquire with the club, not sure if they have a web site but I am sure Google would give you the Answer. Also had some great pikeing on the river evenlode (Not sure if that how you spell it) It was a small river but full of pike Hope this helps

Im sure this is a salmon, brown trout have spots below the lattrel line, (as do sea trout) I do not see any on the photo

The affects are you get wet! I sat under my Brolly in my water proofs yesterday for 10 hours, the rain came through my brolly and through my water proofs, I was socked to the skin. The rain was unbelivible, never letting up, I had a headache from the rain drumming on the brolly. The fishing got harder and harder as the day went on, when I started it was livley with tench fizzing on my ground bait, the odd carp showing, roach and perch throwing themselves at my hook. But as the rain got harder and harder, the fish switched off. It was hard to get any intrest, smaller baits worked, ( had been fishing worm and magot cocktail, I switched in the end to single magot, I guess the water temp was going down, and the wind picked up making presention difficult. Never the less fishing is what I do and no weater conditions will stop me It was amazing, when I got home I went stright for a bath, I was covered in purple blotches, whitch I have not had since I was a kid. I was frozen to the bone.

I use two methods to defeat heavy tow or wind, Polaris floats are great, especialy in deep water, I have used them in the margins (when its deep) for tench and carp. it can be a bit tricky to set the float in a strong wind but with time you find the method. The polaris is excerlent for distance float dishing in poor conditions. The other method is strett peging, over shot a quill float at over depth, and cast till; the float sinks, wind in till you are fishing at an angle to the bait and the float shows, or cast and feather the line to land at an angle, bites are very positive using this method. this method is best for under tow not so good in heavy wind. I never use a waggler when there is a heavy wind or under tow these days and enjoy my fishing more. I know the feeling of thinking, am I in the weeds, is my bait moving and putting of the fish and all those other niggles. I now fish with confidence. hope this helps Richard

spawning bream have white lumps, the fish are healthy and horny

I was thinking the same, could be cross's Nice fish and a lovely venue, glad you had a good day, nice to see you have got your girlfreind to come along, I hope you both enjoy the fishing and that you both keep going. cheers Richard

pole floats are only good when used with a pole. then they can be as good as you have been told they are, do not try and fish a pole float with a rod and reel.

Be very quite, when you approch your swim, sit well back from the bank edge, make as little noise as posible, feed small amounts of bait into the swim a little and offten, insure your float set up is correctly balanced, so that it casts well without much splash and sits at the correct depth. I.e start at the bottom of the lake after an hour if no fish, come a bit higher in the water. Consantrate on your float , don't be distracted by thngs going on around, learn to read the swim, i.e find ot the most likely fish holding areas, (nest to weeds, deeper bits, sunken objects) you can do this with a plummet. I hope this helps and that you catch, I find being very quite and siting well back and not on the skyline are the two most important points when float fishing.

Grasshoppers, Slugs, Cadis fly nymph, cherries, bannana, small live or dead fish, cheese paste, boiled wheat, cat food, dog biscuits, chickpeas, kidney beans,rice just a few i have tried in the past

Hi i AM A WARWICKSHIRE LAD BUT DID LIVE IN ESSEX FOR SOME YEARS If you can get to Chelmsford on the Bus, there is some good fishing in the park next to the cricket ground, you have the park lake, it has some good, carp, bream crusian, tench and roach fishing, the Carp are a good size and I caught my biggest ever Crusian at 2lb there. you also have a bit of the river chelmer running through the park, this has good tench fishing as well as some good perch. (no barbel) but most other river fish. (there are some very big carp lurking as well in the River) as I recall its about £3.00 to fish the lake and I think the same for the river (if anyone comes to collect the Money) I enjoyed the fishing in the park lake with my then young son, as he was able to cast away with getting hung up and caught a lot of fish. One word of warning, be out of there before night fall as it then goes over to the darkside (Chavs and drunk idiots, drugs, and genral unpleaset feeling), but during the Day its Ok with lots of mums and tots about) I would say well worth the Bus fare. Hope this helps and if you do go let me know how you get on, I would love to know how its fishing.

I was intrested in the bit about fishing for crayfish, is it ileagal? "The HIFE officers were looking for people fishing illegally for coarse fish as well as salmon, sea trout, eels and American Signal crayfish" Surly the more removed the better. I have watched kids on the windrush catching crays and selling them to passers buy and thought good on you. surly they are not protected! anyone know?

Best bit of kit I have brough in the last 5 years, I even have worked out how to use it on the river (Avon) I have had some great fishing with them, I have used really big floats at range, great fun when carp fishing at distence, you can set the float as high out the water as you need. Top bit of Kit

Your talking crap, fisher men should be united. most salmon anglers I know are normal decent people. (me being one of them) and many of them enjoy course fishing. come on guys and girls don't try and divied our great sport. fishing is fishing whatever type of fish pulls your string

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"o' the chub on the tyne are all mine all mine the chub on the tyne are all mine"

A ha ! A trolly full of Socks, that could be worth dragging out and selling on e-bay

I have no problem with canoeists, I have more of a problem with Anglers, have a walk down any river (or any other water side), you will find, meat tins, corn tins, ground bait bags, beer cans, old line, barbaques, tin foil, plastic bags and a ton of other rubish left by Anglers. I think angling has to get its own house in order before we go objecting against other sports who use the rivers. As a sport we are a disgrace and really need to up our own game.

I wonder how the EA get the elvers, if they only breed in the sea, how do they get hold of the elvers, do they net them? if thats the case then they are not stocking them just moving them around. Can you bread eels? not from what I have read.

I fish a lake local to me that tends to be slow in the winter, what I have found is that if I use a hemp based ground bait and feed 3 or four large balls at the start of a session and feed magot over the top a litlle and offten Iget the roach to feed, I use double white magotgs but hook them back to back so the hang parralle to each other, I use a size 18 hook, and 2lb line. The water is deep about 11 foot, so I use a polarise float. I catch steady afer aboout half an hour and have caught good roach avraging 10z. I also have picked up roach over 1lb. I also catch pearch and the odd bream. the best fishing isin the first hour of darkness when the biger roach move in and also the odd carp. I have had a great winter fishing this lake. I also normally fish rivers but with all the floods I had to move on to the lake. I have really enjoyed working it out. My sugestion is find the deeper water and fish hard o the bottom. Cheers Richard

WOOPS!!! I have just seen my post from last night, I had just got in from the pub, my spelling and grammar was all over the place!!

http://www.bigwood.uk.com/fineart.asp I was surfing around and found this auction. Is it me or do the estimates for the vintage tackle seem low? I might leave a few bids and hope i get lucky. Ivebeen buying a few bitrs on ebay and have paid higer prices than shown in the estimates. I ebay getting expensive as there more compertition?