Huegh Angler

What makes me a smart arse when the other smart arse was saying American were stupid when the dam was in Canada? Seems to me that if anyone is a samrt arse is the guy with the stupid fishj lists.

Yeah, butterfish, used to catch heaps of them in rock pools at Hartlepool when I was a kid.

Many years ago I used to fish for cod during November nights on Walton Pier, I used to get a few too. I haven't been there for years, are they still caught there?

I think I would be The Phantom not only does he strike fear into the hearts of baddies, but I quite like Diana Palmer too!

What do the Americans have to do with it, I understood that the dam was in Alberta which is in Canada.

Click on the first in the list. http://www.google.com.au/search?q=french+m...lient=firefox-a

Can't help you with grass carp I am afraid, but if you don't want to catch carp, come carp fishing with me!

Strange that Caster Semenya is an anagram of "Yes Secret Man"

Well you got that right!

What Vagabond says about keeping line is true. Kept out of sunlight it will keep for years. I put the spools in those metallic packets that so many snacks come in these days. If the top is sealed with a clamp or rubber band, it is kept in the dark and dry and will last for ever. My favourite line for spinning or deadbaiting in heavily weeded waters is one that is UV reflective. It glows like a bit of purple cart rope in the sunshine and you can see just where your line is in relation to the reeds etc. For normal ledgering or float fishing any good neutral coloured line is good, though if I am going to fish at long distances I prefer a low stretch line. For bottom bumping at sea, there is nothing better than braided line, though I always use a neutral coloured mono leader of 15 - 20 feet. For lure fishing in the sea, I use some line I was given many years ago. It is a yellow Stren line. I look after it and it has served me well but again I use a neutral coloured leader.

How right you are Elton. At times I think that the government is trying to score brownie points with the terrorists. Not only do they give them time off their sentences, they welcome them into the country and swamp them with benefits! :angry:

All out for 332! I would have hoped for at least 350 on that pitch. Still, those damned colonials have been known to fail on the best of pitches - perhaps today, what?

Thanks for that interesting article.

Aggh! Anderson has gone with only one more run on the board! Less than 6 minutes into play!

First ball is just going to be bowled. Let's hope the tail can give us something that can be defended! The time of my postings are not accurate because each of my posts are still being checked by the moderators at the moment.

What really gets up my nose is seeing him welcomed home a hero.

I have been watching the start of our innings at the Oval and I have to wonder why the gas works is still there? It isn't used and it must be on prime land so why is it still there? Any ideas?

I guess that some of us have a sense of humour and others don't.

Well said pal, I can see that we are kindred spirits!

If there is another storm like the 1953 one someone might be taken to task over it being allowed to go to rack and ruin. I watched the sea destroy part of it in that storm and it was frightening.

Well I thought it was funny!

OK, so those cheering the deaths of our soldiers are not dispicable? Seems that there are some strange views on this site. Still, I suppose you are every bit as entitled to your opinions as I am to mine.

Did we fight it to get this? http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/121286...cheer-body-bags

Always the same isn't it mate. Its only when we can be accused that anything is reported.

During the 1950s there was the storm of the century which badly damaged the Heugh Breakwater. It was repaired and we were able to fish from the end of it again. We caught cod, whiting, billet and in the summer lots of mackerel. These days fishing is not allowed at the end because it is in such bad repair. I wonder what will happen to Hartlepool if there is another storm like that one in 1953. I wish that they would restore it, because I loved fishing at the end of it, and have a lot of happy memories.