John Ellison

A method I use, is to thread a small piece of float rubber onto my line with a fine needle. Use a piece about 1/4" long. Thread it up the line, tie your hook on, then slide it to the eye of the hook. This gives the paste a lot more purchase without the use of ironmongery.

Well done snatcher, I just grow for the table. That means they are crap at the side of yours. With all the cancer treatment I've been having, the veg I've managed to grow this year has been poor by even my low standards. Do you know how to grow exhibition potatoes? You know, get totally unblemished skins! Try growing a row of onions between each row of spuds. That way, they cry their eyes out

I'm pretty sure that the Golden Tench I caught on thursday, was a first for me. It was only small, but I thought it was lovely. I saw Dennis White catch one at Wintersett reservoir, about four pounds it was about 30 years ago. I can still see that fish in my minds eye now. How did you catch it LU?

Ken L, who told you molehills didn't have stones in them. Someone told me that over 30 years ago. Since then, I'm a compulsive molehill examiner. I've developed a serious compulsive disorder about this. If I could remember who told me, I'd bl**dy kill him.

Dace, chub and roach. Without a doubt, you're method should be Stick float and caster. A bit of hemp mixed with the casters won't do any harm, to reduce the bait bill. Set the float at 2/3rds depth for starters, and NEVER stop feeding. You'll catch on maggot ok. My usual way, is to feed nothing but caster, but use maggot on the hook for 1/2 hour, then switch to caster. Those three species just love 'em.

Both Sensas and VDE do roach ground baits which I have absolute faith in. I use either of these mixed 50/50 with River for balling it, and do very well with them. If I am canal fishing for roach, my all time favorite is Sensas Cloud.

Where's Flash Gordon and Ming the merciless?

I saw one of those in a tackle shop in York, many years ago. As best I can remember, it was exactly the same, and was going for £18. Intended for long service momento's I believe. Good luck to 'em I say. Someone's kids will have one in the attic.

Oh yes, Stylish

It's reckoned that bream have specific patrol routes and if you are not catching them ever, it could be that you are fishing in the wrong place.

Skip bridge is on the River Nidd on the York side of Green Hammerton on the A59 Ripon road. When I used to fish it, many years ago, I used to fish the right bank upstream, and it was York water. I'm familiar with Skipton on Swale, but thought they called the bridge something else.

There used to be an advert for coal, a few years ago, 'come home to a real fire' I saw it on a burnt out coal mans wagon .

The first time I flew was to Florida . I was the same, It did not help, that our aircraft, A Boeing 767 was towed into a hanger, and the doors closed behind it . We got off the ground 6 1/2 hours late :mad: . I was supposed to be picking a car up at the other end and driving to our hotel ghost . Not a chance. We got a taxi. I looked as rough as a bear's ? I had flown that plane over the Atlantic. You have to look at things logically. How many aircraft crashed while you were watching the others take off? That pilot fella. He does this every day for a job. The rest of the aircrew look unconcerned, why worry? It's the only chance you'll ever get close to doing 200mph on tarmac. Jet engines are awesome. When I go now, I'm like a jockey riding a Derby winner, ushering the jet off the ground, I love it. I love the 'clonk' that a 757 makes when the front wheel leaves the tarmac. My Mrs. is the opposite. She's always telling me to shut up. "Look, I can see the U bend in the Thames, the Luftwaffes favorite landmark". "Shut up" "Wow, The Liver building". "Shut up". "Look, I can see the rabbits on the runway verges". "Shut up". She's such a bundle of fun. I think you'll be pleasantly suprised. Enjoy!

The Barnsley 'kiss'.

What a romantic way of proposing. I remember coming home from work one day, and there was a note on the television. 'Been to the doctors, pregnant, will you marry me?' I mean, I filled up, it was so, so moving :cool:

Pepper.

It reminds me of the early morning I saw a rat and an hedgehog knocking hell out of each other. It was a tight scrap but eventually the hedgehog won on points

Have you ever fished pellet? Have you ever had trouble getting expanders to sink? Have you already spent £15 to £20 on a pellet pump? Have you ever thought you could get the hookers right first time, every time for ever for £1.99. I understand these pellet pumps create some kind of a vacuum that pulls the air out of the pellet, quite how is beyond me :confused: As part of my quest to open the out house door and actually get inside, let alone find anything, I embarked on a 'if I don't use it, or think I'm going to, it's in the bin' I can now access my bait fridge I stumbled upon an atomiser, 1 litre size. This has a plunger, so it can be pressurised, and a trigger to squirt the nasty aphids eating my plants. I had lost the plastic nozzle from the end, rendering it useless. Just out of curiosity, I dropped some expander's in, half filled with water, and pressurised. As soon as pressure built up, the expanders were now tight to the bottom, ALL OF THEM. After releasing the pressure, some floated back up. They needed more time. I put some in, and left them overnight. Perfect, all sinkers :cool: I bought it from 'No Frills' £1-99.

I've seen the odd one, up north, up north. I take the Sheffield Angling Star. Like the Sunday Times, is the Sunday papers, as far as I'm concerned, this is the Angling papers. I used to get the other weeklies and some other monthlies, the AS has all the info without the b*ll***t. Just like the Midland Angler, there are some very interesting articles, written by local blokes who know what's what, pertaining to their local waters. What more do you want?

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I have just had 5 days at Makin's in boiling hot weather, all day, every day. Mirror calm surface as well. On Phase 1 the carp were on the surface. Dead! The BW staff filled a dustbin with dead carp at about 09-00 and when we packed up at 18-00 there was as many again . On the other lakes we fished we caught far above my expectations. You did of course, have to fish in the nearside/farside rushes or sedges. If we fished the open water, (we fished pellet or luncheon meat) you could not get your bait 6" down before it was taken by a roach or rudd. The only thing that alarmed me, was, while fishing 'Snake' which is about 2 1/2 ft. deep. We saw a mink. I saw it using a well defined passage through the rushes. I'd have thought it would have been seen to had Billy Makin still been in control. There was also far fewer anglers than I expected. The weather? I don't know. I have a pint of casters I've run off and am supposed to be going today, but the river is clear and stagnant so it will be hard going.

Nice one Ayjay. Guess who's got 40lbs of broad beans in his allotment. Bacon in the fridge, that just leaves the walnuts. I'm off up town!

I was in my having a drink with a couple of friends in my local and a crowd of 'office ladies' were sat in the corner. We were cracking a few jokes and I became aware of them, listening in! So, I started! as one does. I once found something on the net on the 'What am I' theme. They were fresh in my mind, we'd got them listening, so of I went. Telling them to 'Think dirty' More than a thousand went down on me I wasn't virgin for long A big hard thing ripped me open What am I? The Titanic. I go in hard I come out soft You blow me hard What am I? Bubble gum I am a cunning linguist I take down your brief I try to get you off What am I? A lawyer My tip is hard My shaft is long I come......in a quiver What am I? An arrow In and out all day long I discharge loads from my shaft Men and women go down on me What am I? A lift. There was 10 or 12 as I remember, and they got the lot! It's like when I got divorced, the ex said we'd split the house 50/50. I got the outside, she got the inside.

My wife sells insurance. She got a call last week about a bloke wanting cover for his pole. He said "it's worth £3500". The wife said "whats your name Bob Nudd? Is it a daiwa, maver, Preston or what?" Astonished silence! When he found out that she knew a bit more about it than most being married to an angler he then admitted he could get one for £1800. What a small world we sometimes live in.

About time as well mate . What was the delay? were you both hoping to meet someone decent . If you'll pardon my impudence, may I suggest you look Charles and Camilla to me. Dead right for each other and you should have done it years ago. Congratulations.