Ollie2376

Yesterday was my return to fishing, from an absent spell. The last time I had been fishing was in last June. The last time I had been had been a culmination in a months solid poor fishing, falling in the lake twice, my pole being ran over by someone with a kit barrow and finally, ending up in hospital over night with suspected hypothermia. At the time, I decided to take a while out from my beloved sport, to see if a little time away from the bank would produce positive results on a return after a month or so. Well....one month passed...no fishing....two months....three months....christmas....still no fishing..... Then last friday, upon being ordered to clean out the garage, I spotted a dust covered shape in the corner of the garage...I went over and gave it a wipe, only to reveal my old Preston Innovations On-Box X2.... So i dusted it all down, tidied up the garage, then came back in and saw my old boot scraper by the door that was a iron trout. Then it clicked!! All that evening I was thinking about returning to the sport and to once again grace the banks of the local waters, then sunday came...and i decided to do it...go fishing once again (was helped by my mum saying to me seconds after waking up "you said you were going to clean the car out?..") So I got out all my gear packed up my car (was exited, this was the first time I had driven myself fishing!!) and headed off to the local lake. Within 15 minutes I remembered exactly why I had started fishing in the first place! And was appalled with myself that I had left the sport behind! But to finish this story and preaching.....you will be pleased to know it was a shocking session! Poor weather and I only caught a little perch, but still I will be going back next week!

I am also a student (17 years old) Im at college and love the fishing. If anyone has any spare old stuff that would otherwise gather dust in the shed, I would happily take it off your hands, and can even pay for the postage Thanks

I have heard before to boil the kettle, then take the lid off the kettle, lots of steam will come out. Then you hold then two sides and pull, whilst tapping on the joint. The steam makes the carbon expand more than the glass, so the glass part should slip out

GOOD! Start cracking down on these people! They all need what i call.....GUNISHMENT!

I was in your situation of needing a good cheap pole. I did quite a bit of shopping about at the time and ended up with a Preston Innovations Axium 11m. It cost about £150 I think and is very good, i still have it today about 2 years later, it still looks perfect! Im not sure as to wether they still sell them, but im sure you could get a good second hand one from somewer like e-bay

Apology accepted Anyway, do you want me to write this book? hahaha Joke!

To be honest, you are being a pedantic sod! This is an internet forum, I wrote that in about a minute, not checking it for errors or mistakes, obviously if I was goin to write a book (which im not) I would check it several times!

My record is going for 6 sucessive days during the summer last year! I went on the Monday and had a teriffic days fishing, so I went back the next day, and the next, and the next, so on... lol

I would like to think that I have the writing skills, but I dont think my angling knowledge is quite good enough to write a book! Plus, I may be able to cope with the Course Fishing part but my knowledge of Fly Fishing consists of about nothing, and Sea Fishing is just totally unknown to me.

"who may not otherwise have attained any formal qualifications" This does my head in! This will basically mean that those kids who p*ss about at school will get to go out and do fishing for a day while people like me are stuck in a class-room. It was like that for me at school, the kids who 'weren't as intellegent' (cant be arsed and would rather go out for a fag!) got to go and do bricklaying and painting. I would much rather do this than a subject like French, but did I get a choice? I think this just highlights many floors in our society today.

Does any body know the date for it? I have heard its been moved to Browning Cudmore, that should be good. Also, how do and where do you get tickets for it?

I always use powerline! Probably becuase im a mad Prestons fan! But it has always been good for me.

This may seem a bit in appropriate, but i have made my own fishing forum, with a main focus on commercial/pole/match sort of fishing. Here is a link to the webiste so please pop in and start some threads! lol www.AnglingForum.tk If you (admins) dont agree with this thread, then please feel free to delete it, it would be understood seems as im advertising on your site!! Also, i am looking at doing some FREE advertising, so feel free to message me on here to sort that out

haha! no offence taken

Sorry Budgie, this wasnt a reply to your exact post, it was a reply to all those pedantic soles that were having sleepless nights over the fact someone has put lights on a fishery so you cant get 3 hours extra fishing! lol