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  • Birthday 02/16/1950

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    Hertfordshire
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    Fishing, Golf and collecting Fishing Tackle and books.

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  1. We always used to use Pearl Barley in our Turkey leftover stews after Christmas which we cooked in the pressure cooker. I didn’t take very long at all to cook in the pressure cooker and it thickened the Turkey Stew nicely and took on the flavours it was cooked in. Unfortunately we no longer have our pressure cooker, which is a shame as me and our son always looked forward to a good turkey stew after Xmas. Keith
  2. That’s a real clonker of a Pike, well done that man. Keith
  3. They’ve been a fairly common sight in the gardens and countryside around me in Hertfordshire for several years now. Sometimes they become scarce and at other times you see them every few days. Sometimes there’s about eight or ten of them sitting in the tree at the end of my garden. They damaged one of my nut feeders beyond repair and I’ve had to use a squirrel and large bird proof nut feeder to try and prevent them damaging that too. They also occasionally feed from one of my unguarded seed feeders as well. Keith
  4. Martin, why don’t you get involved with making some decent Wagglers (Onions & straight & bodied), sticks, Avon’s etc. good ones are getting harder and harder to Source these days now that the Pole has become so common; and the parts are quite easily obtained from the bankside (wildfowl feathers) and from the web or hobby shops . If I didn’t already have so many floats myself then that is what I might have started doing. You might even become the new Andrew Field Keith
  5. Hi Keith, just to let you know I'm having a break i think from FM for a while, in fact forums in general seem to draw people who are prepared to argue about things they admit they know little about then question explanations you try to give(poorly I know).  All the best Alan

    1. BoldBear

      BoldBear

      I decided to stay out of the argument; he was the type of angler who thinks he always knows best, when you and I know better about why spades are better than eyed on the smaller hooks through our experience.

      You can’t change this type of anglers misguided views as they always seem to know best😕

      But it’s a shame you have been upset enough to need a break. Dont leave it too long as you will be missed.

      Keih

    2. Whitty

      Whitty

      Cheers Keith

  6. I bought myself a Ninja reel off of the Web about a year ago because of the good write ups the Ninja gets; however I returned it when I saw it; as I didn’t realise how small the spool was compared to some other reels I’ve used; and I much prefer a reel with a much wider and shallower spool which makes casting a waggler a lot easier for me, plus a wider spool doesn’t cause as much line twist/coiling on the cast because of its wider spool. I returned the Ninja and bit the bullet and went out and bought myself a Shimano-Aero-4000FA reel instead which has a much wider spool together with a Spare spool and two spool reducers for when I’m using finer lines plus a small reel body. It was more expensive (at twice the price) but in my view was well worth me paying the extra cash; plus unlike the Ninja It comes with a spare spool. I’m not saying that the Ninja is not a good reel; it obviously is a good reel; however it’s just a bit too small for me for the above reasons. The Shimano-Aero-4000FA reel with one of the line reducers fitted. Keith
  7. There’s some very nice quality sized Dace (and Roach) caught on our local Barbel stream in flowing water, although there are plenty of slacks below reed beds along the stretch; they are caught both in these slacks and in the faster flowing gravel runs in front of the reed beds. Keith
  8. This year I haven’t seen many goldfinches or coal tits, chaffinches or greenfinches on my feeders; plus I’ve only seen a few great tits visiting too. However sparrows and thrushes have been out in force and even now (in November) my garden is full of them. I haven’t seen so many Red Kites in the area as this year although I don’t think they are responsible for the lack of tits and finches as they are mainly just scavengers and eating road kill and dead animals mostly; although they might have had a few. I have put stiff wire meshing around my feeders and my bird table to prevent the pidgeons, magpies and the other larger birds from raiding them which may be the reason why I have so many sparrows and thrushes visiting my feeders now; but where the tits and finches have been this year is a bit of a puzzle. Keith
  9. Has the broads recovered from the problems it had in the past with sludgy deposits spreading over its river beds in certain places ? Or is it now back to its former glory ? Keith
  10. Very few posting these days unfortunately. It seems like most of the old regulars have moved over to (the rubbish interface in my view ) Facebook or elsewhere. Keith
  11. Nice to see you posting again Peter Keith
  12. There’s not much protein in our ‘white’ bread which is why it’s banned on many park ponds in the UK nowadays. I’ve caught a few Grey Mullet on bread flake but they can be very finicky at times. Our ships fishing team came third in a forces national sea match after catching a few mullet (and a few wrasse) off of the Plymouth sound breakwater once; using bread flake and small ragworm. Keith
  13. Me neither but I expect someone will give one to me for Xmas. Keith
  14. Had a few hours on Sunday evening on our clubs Estate Lake after Carp; but it was unusually quiet as there are usually a few anglers there on a Sunday evening but there were no other anglers there. Perhaps there hasn’t been many Carp coming out recently I thought; although my son had a mirror of just over 27lb only last week plus we both had Carp between 11lb and 17b last week so it can’t be all that bad. Anyway I set up my two rods in the swim below. Unfortunately I was right and it didn’t seem to be fishing well, however just before I started to pack up as the light started to fade after resigning myself to having a blank (which is fairly rare for this lake) one of my alarms finally sprang into life and a Carp in the very low teens was the result. I will be back on my favourite stream after Barbel next week and onwards so I will be giving the estate lake a miss for a while Keith
  15. I also have separate tackle bags and rod quivers containing rods and tackle items for the different types of fishing that I usually do the most; and each tackle bag has everything I think that I will need; which means having several duplicate items in each of the different bags. However my fishing den had so much other stuff that had accumulated over the years; especially equipment and tackle items and other stuff that I hadn’t used for a long time like my old match tackle and associated bits; and my sea fishing stuff; and my fly fishing stuff; and lots of rods that I hadn’t used for quite a few years but would still get to use them at some time or other; plus all of my older reels that I kept for old times sake etc. and this stuff seemed to be everywhere and getting in the way Now I’ve sorted it all out I have much more space and I now know where everything is and exactly what I have and where to find it. Keith
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