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    Wrossy and Brand

    in Non-Fishing Chat

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    he said that they should pay the fine and not the bbc as it would be coming from our money(tv licence)

    They should both be banished to Siberia, or better still Slough, jumped up pair of no-marks are too far up their own ego`s :spiteful:

    Ever thought of living with extnded family/friends?

    in Non-Fishing Chat

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    "Mummy, Mummy, Mummy, can I go play with Grandma". "No. You've dug her up three times this week already."

    About six years ago my wife persuaded me to let her grandmother come live with us, she`d lived on her own since her husband died a couple of years before, feeling sorry for the old bird i agreed to the idea. Now i can`t wait till she moves to the great granny annexe in the sky :bones: DONT DO IT FOR YOUR OWN SAKE! :wallbash:

    What a surprise

    in Non-Fishing Chat

    Posted

    That is a big kill for a Sparrow Hawk, usually small birds and insects beetles and the like.

     

    Saw some thing the other day I had not seen before four or possibly five jays in the same small tree fighting like hell among them selves very much like magpies. Always thought of them as solitary birds.

    Often see Sparrowhawks take Stock Doves & in particular Collared Doves in my back garden, never seen one take anything smaller than a blackbird though, maybe the :P y should be re-named Pigeonhawks or something

    Rivers In Kent

    in Coarse Fishing

    Posted

    Hi Willie, I`ve fished the Stour alot over the years, most of it is controlled by local clubs in particular the Canterbury & District AA.There are however day ticket stretches, the stretch at Plucks Gutter is quite good. The C.D.A.A is a good club to join because you get alot of water for your money,and they have stocked both the Stour & its tributary the Little Stour with a good head of barbel & chub. If you dont wnt to pay anything you can fish the stretch that runs through Canterbury city centre, real chalk stream fishing! As for the Wantsum, i used to fish it years ago, this used to be the channel that seperated the Isle of Thanet from the mainland (long time ago!), its pretty small now & not very fast running, lots of small rudd & roach some decent pike & the odd big tench as i seem to remember :)

    More Hurricanes - now Hanna is looming

    in Non-Fishing Chat

    Posted

    Download this file, load it into GE and you should see some new layers in your GE Sidebar. Make sure you drag them into your "My Places" folder before you exit Google Earth. Don't expect instant results, it can take 20 or 30 minutes for GE to build up all the overlays.

    It worked! I Clicked on the link & went straight to GE then saved it, shut down GE then went back on it & IT WORKED! BRILLIANT! I`m de-moting myself from megatechnophobe to technophobe thanks to you, cheers mate

    More Hurricanes - now Hanna is looming

    in Non-Fishing Chat

    Posted

    It is very technophobe friendly.
    I`ve tried it, i think i must be a megatechnophobe `cause i just cant seem to work out how you get the link from the blog moved into google earth & where to put it, i totally understand if you can`t run me through it though guys but if you do can you make sure its in megatechnophobe english

    Pike attacks

    in Coarse Fishing

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    Whilst float fishing for roach on the middle Dorset Stour this weekend, I was repeatedly hit by pike as I reeled in fish. It happened about six or seven times, in three different swims, with four to six pound jacks taking dace and roach and breaking my line. There were as many misses that I saw, and goodness knows how many I didn’t. In two of the swims, the splashy pike attacks signalled the end of the fishing, with previously frequent bites drying up completely. On the other swim, the pike attack seemed to make no difference to the feeding shoal, and I continued to catch roach (which the pike continued to attack).

     

    What’s the best thing to do when your swim becomes attacked by aggressive pike? Should you just pack up and find another swim? Should you switch to targeting the pike themselves? Is there any point taking pike and releasing them away from your swim (I couldn’t kill one, as my Association rules implicitly suggest, however troublesome it may be to me)? Or would the whole pike-fishing kafuffle only kill the swim anyway? Is the best thing to do to ignore the pike and carry on fishing regardless? I’m not sure about that, because it means turning innocent roach into easy targets.

     

    I understand about the need for top predators in the food chain, and that a good head of pike indicates an excellent head of prey fish. I love pike as much as roach, but they can ruin the fishing and I wonder what the best solution may be.

    Well done MikeT, it`s good to see someone interested in the welfare of the fish (pike and roach/dace) rather than just the bulge in their keepnet, well done mate :)

    what makes a good hook

    in Coarse Fishing

    Posted

    dont know why im asking questions like this at 2.42 am, guess im hooked. my birds uncle (keen matchman fisherman) swears on a large gape, short shank. i have had my good fishies on long shank small gape (barbed, micro mostly). all the experts out their give us your opinion so i dont have to spend at least 30 mins looking at all the hooks in the fish shop lol.

    You can`t beat a large gape ;)

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