Alan Stubbs
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Balsa N Bust
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I use Sensor and ProGold.
I started out using Sensor and it has served me well for 20 years. However, I was given a reel of ProGold and found it quite supple and less visible - I think it may be a fluoro line, which would explain it.
Either way, I'd recommend either, quite happily.
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I use Facebook to keep in touch with family and friends, but I do keep popping on here as it was my first venture into social media of any sort. It's nice to see people like Newt, Chesters, vagabond, etc still thriving.
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Albert Ross needs a hand. (I'd like to say I'd give him one, but it would be misconstrued).
If these Hookpods work it can only be a good thing.
All I can say is 'I've missed this kind of banter!
I can't believe I laughed out loud rather than groaned at the Godawful pun!
Kudos, Ayjay
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I will be there, come hell or high water. It's been too long. Far too long.
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I found this as a thread started by Robert LLewellyn on Google+ :
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/hookpod/hookpod-saving-the-albatross-from-extinction
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I was talking to Den Darkin (Poledark) as while ago about Danny Fairbrass. Den taught me, without realising it, that keeping things simple as a non-specialist angler is just as successful as complicating things.
It struck me, having watched him do a presentation at the NEC, and some of his Tackle Guru programmes, that his whole schtick revolves around getting as much Korda stuff between you and the fish as possible.
At the risk of sounding like a terminal (pun intended) snob, it's his voice as much as what he says that irritates me.
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Just a thought... this was written over a hundred years ago:
Oh, it's in the evening after dark
That the blackleg miner goes to work
With his moleskin pants and dirty shirt
There goes the blackleg miner
Oh, he takes his pick and down he goes,
To hew the coal that lies below
There's not a woman in this town row
Would look at the blackleg miner
Oh, it's in the evening after dark
That the blackleg miner goes to work
With his moleskin pants and dirty shirt
There goes the blackleg miner
Oh, Delaval is a terrible place
They rub wet clay in the blackleg's face
Around the pit they run a footrace
To catch the blackleg miner
And don't go near the Seghill mine
Across the top they've stretched a line
To catch the throat, and break the spine
Of the dirty blackleg miner
It's in the evening after dark
That the blackleg miner goes to work
With his moleskin pants and dirty shirt
There goes the blackleg miner
They take his picks and duds as well
And hurl them down the pit of Hell
So off you go, and fare thee well
You dirty blackleg miner
So join the Union while you may
Don't wait 'til your dying day
For that may not be far away
You dirty blackleg miner
It's in the evening after dark
That the blackleg miner goes to work
With his moleskin pants and dirty shirt
There goes the blackleg miner
It's in the evening after dark
The blackleg miner goes to work
His moleskin pants and dirty shirt
There goes the blackleg miner -
I'll go anywhere - if I can get the time off from work.
It's be great to see everyone again. My fierst AN fish-in was Stoney's MacMillan Nurses do ay Yateley, and I've been to Wingham twice.
Each one has been brilliant.
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I have a Grandeslam 4 season bag. It's large, vey warm - but I'd still put a shroud over it to prevent damp from condensation. I paid £28 for it 6 years ago, and it has had very heavy use.... When I was recovering from heart surgery, I had to sleep in it for 4 weeks, as I was unable to get upstairs. Totally recommended.
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I don't soak line overnight, but I do spool up with the line in water.
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Cheers Phone.... This is one of the few permissible 'wild camping' places is the UK, and the idea is to catch our meals. There is a good head of brown trout, although I believe they're stockies rather than wildies.
The only lure fishing I've done is in Cambridge, with an occasional poster, with a regular poster and good mate, Adam 247 and one afternoon with Steve Burke and the late and much missed Gerry Castles, (aka Argyll). I lost a decent pike with Steve and Gerry, but that was as near as I got to a catch.
I've asked about crayfish, and it's unlikely they've invaded the reservoir, but I have seen several aerial maps of the place, and a few just shout 'fish'.
I'll keep you posted.
Alan
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I've caught roach on glace cherry, and jack pike on a tutti frutti boilie.
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I've got an opportunity to fish the reservoir during early August and I'd be grateful for a heads-up. I've never fished for brown trout before and fly, lure and bait methods are permitted.
I am tempted to fish worm and breadflake, from when I've read, but know nthing of suitable lure or fly patterns.
Any ideas gratefully received.
Alan
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Good luck everyone...Wingham's a magical place and I only regret that I won't be there because I can't get a weekend off (including holdays!) between now and next March.... queue a job search!)
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Theyr'e certainly members of the gallinule family, but they haven't got the white cere above the bill I'd associate with either European or American coots.
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The thing about linnet is that they are sociable birds - always in flocks - so if you see one, there are others nearby.
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Stunning images.
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I used to have the Hardy's shop in Pall mall as a customer. It was more to do with history and celeb spotting (What????) than quality.
I think they really started to go downhill when Chub joined the stable, but 20 years ago I still recall someone walking into the shop complaining about the quality of whpping on a glass fly rod less than 2 months old.
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I can only imagine the effect it'll have had on the blind person's confidence to go outdoors on his own.
I love the humour of this thread - it's as dark as a dark thing can be, but the substantive point is that some poor sod is now likely to become a prisoner of his own mind.
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Good to see you are fit and well. Take care.
Cheers...house move sorted, now for some fishing!
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http://news.sky.com/story/998967/blind-man...stick-for-sword
Maybe the copper who fired the tazer should have his eyesight tested !
But its all OK the police have sent their apologies to the man !
It seems the difference between a blind person's white stick and a samurai sword is one lesson they don't teach at the police training school.
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Excellent Alan.
"Live long and prosper", as our pointy eared friends say.
Cheers Newt. Must admit I have spent more time fishing as a therapy than I expected.... and loved just being there.
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Hi Alan
Nice to hear from you again.
I have had my problems with the NHS or to be more precise with some of the staff employed by the NHS.
It's good to hear of a hospital meeting the required standards. Shame about the ones that don't.
I fully agree. Liverpool is very lucky to have the A & E at the Royal and the Heart & Chest Hospital. Use of the words 'Please' and 'Thank You' seemed to generate highly positive results, as I have found in most places. These guys took the meaning of the word 'care' to a new level - bearing in mind it's an area I understand extremely well.
More eye surgery..
in Non-Fishing Chat
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Hi Ken,
You have been in the wars and it's scaring me witless.....
I have had a quadruple bypass after stents having been fitted previously, and now face the prospect of aortic valve replacement surgery.
Oh, yeah, I'm not sure which will happen first - the heart surgery or cataract removals.