Alan Stubbs
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How long before it resurfaces under the guise of The SUNday?
If so, long may Liverpool seek to shun that publication, too.
The Times used to be a decent paper until the Aussie / American (delete as appropriate to the rag he's trying to buy today), got his hands on it.
Like everything he touchs, it sinks to the lowest common Jeremy Kyle in print...or Sky tv.... whose audience for news is rajar-ed at lest than 5% of the viewing audience.
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Nice ar... teeth!
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Does anybody know if Coarse fish exist in the above?
The only reference I can find says 'Salmon, Sea Trout, Trout and Char as well as Coarse Fish' and doesn't mention any species.
Rob, in the last 9 years of visiting Llanberis and the area in general, 4 or 5 times a year, we've never seen anyone fishing it.
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Was it hacking, or was it info bought for cash from the mobile networks? Most companies' security is fairly robust in the UK, but outside?
I've been aware of journo's and 'friends' asking for info in the past. I'm pleased to say I'm aware enough not to deal with them.
When they sense that as far as I'm concerned they have a credibility deficit, they usually drop the call very quickly.
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And giving birth would explain the weight loss!!!
John.
...and you're not recommended to take alcohol during pregnancy.
Now we know why Elton's bent over so often.....
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Budgie, check your inbox.
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Good skills, Chris!
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Sour grapes me thinks.
A five year pay freeze and a further 3.4% loss in your in your monthly salary for public sector workers. The only winners yet again are the MPs, their pensions remain untouched, and who voted for that, ermmm let me enlighten you, yeah your hero Mr U Turn and his henchmen. No 5 year pay freeze for them and a final salary pension. Hurrah for Mr U Turn
The FINAL SALARY pension are being stripped from public sector workers by your hero.
I take it that its ok for Mr U Turn and his henchmen to steal vast sums like KenL's £60k then is it.
Courtesy of Gordon Brown who raped private pensions without a manifesto commitment to do so, I'm in position where, instead of retuiring last year at 55 as planned and budgetted for, I will have to work until I'm 67.
At least the pain isn't all one-sided. We can only blame ourselves for not having voted decisively.... or for having voted Brown in!
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Here you go Chesters. Not as far off topic as aliens and lollipops but thought provoking reading all the same. I remember Mr Thomas's show where he exposed the electro-shock batons (shaped perfectly for anal insertion) being manufactured and sold to the Saudi's and others by UK companies. It seems like the 2007 act put a stop to that but as ever, the Chinese make them cheaper - although whether they're as reliable in a wet enviromment and whether they still work after being smacked into the testicles of a dissident is presumably an open question. Then again, the Chinese get so many more oppertunities to test their kit out than Brittish companies ever did.
Actually, I think it was the same show where he covered the leg irons as handcuffs issue.
Ken, I recall the bumwad that is Peter hain as Minister for Overseas Development being taken to task for licencing the sale of BAe Hawks to Indonesia where they were used to attack the dissidents in East Timor.
He maintained that they were sold as training aircraft, but they still had underwing armament pylons for rocket pods and bombs when they left the UK.... and were using British made ordnance as fitted to British, Saudi and Finnish Hawks. The export licence went through because they were fast jet trainers not light attack aircraft. A look at Jane's All The World's Aircraft will show you just how tenuous a grip on reality hain posessed. Actually, it looks as if Mr Hain was trying to defend the morally indefensible seeing as New Labour were touting their 'Ethical Foreign Policy' at the time.
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Congratualtions to the happy couple - and to an obviously proud dad.
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Another organisational discipline most of us need is to throw away old recharging/feed leads, that don't fit anything anymore..
I have just looked in my Man drawer and they are in there , relating to old mobiles, electric shavers, walky talkies, rechargeable battery lamps, etc.
In the Garage I have more, for every other rechargeable DIY item I have long replaced and thrown away.
Even now, having looked at the evidence, I can't bring myself to bin them.
Man up, Brian! It's one of life's small pleasures!
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The postcodes for the Medway Towns were executed by a gentlman called Arthur Smith (my mother's best friend's husband). They're quite logical, but people took ages to get used to them.
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I love the immediacy of fishing with a pin. There's no other sensation like it.
That said, there's some better than others. My favourite is the Aventa Pro, followed by a Free Spirit Searcher. I hate the Leeds Lewtham as it simple feels heavy, requires inordinate levels of energy to overcome inertia. (In fact I using for fishing 'hit-and-hold' in the margins.)
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Superb piece as ever Budgie.
Reminds me of the weekend when AN effectively were allocated an entire pit at Yately of one of Stoney's Macmillan Nurses fundraising do's.
I went there on a social with my daughter to meet up with Alan Taylor and a whole bunch of his friends, as well as some others - and caught the first fish of the weekend whilst showing a friend of Trogg's how to fish a float in the margins.
The highlight for me was being out-fished by my partner and her daughter at Lodge Pool, organised by Aandrew burgess. A brilliant day marred only by the disgruntlement of Budgie and Argyll (Gerry Castles) bitching about the absence of black pudding at breakfast - an issue subsequently resolved.
A brilliant time.
As for photographs, I have a few - including Trogg, Dian and Yvonne, his Mum; Alan Taylor and a whole crowd of people as well as some taken from Wingham.
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So do I.
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I have a distinct preference for rear drag, although I am aware of the relative efficiencies of clutches on front drag reels.
In my case, it's a natural clumsiness which makes rear drag much more user-friendly.
Personally speaking, I've found the most reliable rear drag clutches to be Okuma and Shimano. the worst by far have been TFG - simply too small a clutch wheel.
I have a couple of old D.A.M and Shakespeare front drag reels, and they've held up well, I simply can't get comfortable using them when playing a fish.
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The highlight for me was Allan McNish's crash at Le Mans. It was great he was able to walk away, but better still that he managed not to kill any of the spectators - who were showered by pieces of Audi.
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I've just totalled the cost of a four rod setup, indicators, isotopes, spare heads/weights and a posh case to put them in comes in at about 170 quid!!!!! Just for bobbins for heavens sake, all they do is go up and down. I could get a Harrison rod for that (it wouldn't make a very good bobbin though)
It's great having an almost wife and my mother both working for me - on fishing related activity. Scary, really
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This young lady, i had the pleasure of meeting at a work assignment a couple of weeks ago, got my vote.
:blink: Well, she'd make a happy man very old.
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"It is important to note that some people feel upset and intimidated from hearing swearing.Therefore, it has been agreed that those found to be swearing in the town centre will be dealt with appropriately, by either advice or enforcement."
Who defines specifically, what constitutes a swear word? Were people consulted? No, I guess not. Another kiss - your- ar5e- goodbye to democracy.
The day a policeman is qualified to decide what's best for people will be the day the last person turns the lights out as they emigrate. Anyway, the last time I went to Barnsley, the beer was crap.
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{DROOL}
Get behind me in the queue - My need is age related and therefore greater than yours.
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Hey guys,
I am new to fishing (been fishing for roughly 8 weeks now) and I have been fishing my local canal - the leeds to liverpool canal at feniscowles, blackburn. I have been going with my mate, we have been baiting the swim with groundbait, maggots, worms, sweetcorn, bread, dog biscuits and luncheon meat, and we use worm, maggot, sweetcorn, bread and dog biscuit as our choice of hook bait. I regularly pull out small perch maybe half a pound at best, but we are after bigger fish or we want to pull out fish more often. When we fish with maggots, sweetcorn, bread and biscuits we dont get anything, even though we feed the swim little and often, put a worm on and we get bites quite often but hardly catch. My best is 2 small perch in 3 hours.
Over the past 2 weeks alot of bubbles have been occurring on the far bank amongst the weed bed which we have been told will most likely be carp, but we still only pull out the odd perch no matter how we bait up.
Does anyone have any tips on how to bag more fish on this section of the canal?
We usually use waggler floats with size 14 hooks on a 3lb line with one of the baits named above.
We have tried fishing at the far bank in front of the weed bed, just infront of the ledge, in the middle at the bottom, at the near bank amongst the weeds, right next to the barge at the far bank (which has been stationary for months) and I even set up a hair rig and fished above hemp seed with boilies, then I changed to fishing the bottom with boilies to no avail. I have seen some big fish here quite often but we still havent landed a 1lb fish. We have seen a few big pike pass by a few times so we have tried the lures and spinners for them and we managed to bag a small perch.
Any tips would be really helpful on landing more fish, bigger fish or even the carp.
In this section of the canal there is bream, carp, tench, perch, roach and chub with the odd pike as far as we know there may even be different fish here.
Thanks for any help/tips/tactics provided.
Danny
A size 14 hook is huge! (Relatively speaking.) The largest hook I use is an 18 - and a 1.5lb hooklength with 4lb max mainline. Works for me.
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I fish the Brindley in Runcorn and Leeds & Liverpool Canals (around Maghull).
When I started, I had the same issues as you. I soon learned, that prebaiting isn't much use, and if you fish bread-punch and maggot, you'll attract small roach and perch.
The larger stamp of bream (6-8lbs) have all been taken on 4mm halibut or trout pellet or caster.
The Brindley is gin clear at the head, and fishing is really hard as the predators are spooking the fish. Squats and pinkies will draw the smaller bream / skimmers.
I hope it helps....please keep us posted.
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I've got a Grandeslam which cost me £36 and is mor ecomfortable than my own mattress at home.
BTW, I'm not fat, I'm self-basting or oven-ready.
