Tigger
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Looks nice.
Dunn'it just !
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No not really, Ive been going flat out at work the last couple of weeks. Have you?
I had a couple of blanks at the spot we went to then, third time lucky got a 3lb+ chub and a small trout of all things. I had another go Saturday just gone and got three chub all around 2 1/2 lb.
Went down the severn last week and appart from a very large pike that took a likeing to my cheese paste which after 4 to 5 mins it grated the line and parted company nothing was up for it.
All in all pretty fishless Brian....and horribly cold !
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Is that a copy or a restoration?
Can't say I've seen a double ventilated 12 spoke (with 12 holes). 1917-20 ish if not a copy?
It's a Witcher copy. Quite a sought after reel and the last one on ebay went for £900, I think chris Plumb has one.
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I guess it wouldn't be so different fishing for carp on a commercial type fishery. None of the size 18 hooks I have look strong enough to give me confidence after one was bent partly straight by a chub a couple of weeks ago. Do most people use hooks to nylon or tie your own? And what hook type can you recommend?
I use a kamasan animal hook or a drennan super spade. In the size 14's I cram 10 maggots on and have no prob's whatsoever with hook up........just make sure you strike like a panther !
Never had either straighten or cause me to loose a fish.
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Some of my other float rods (which I like nearly as much as the normarks) are the drennan im8 and im9 range.
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i mean theeeee past 20 to 30 years ago,price has never been indication of quality
they were in the same region as those dire DAM rodsI agree that a high price doesn't always get you the best or anywhere near it but in the case of the normark float rods I think it does. I like them anyway so they'll do for me
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strange they always were a budget rod in the past as far as i can remember and a fair few at boot fairs never sold ,they go to the dump then end up with a traders lot the next week
Well 10/15 yrs back they where £399 so not exactly budget.
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All that money and i would probably still have to go shopping on ebay for a new float rod. It would have to be a Normark for me.
I'm another one of the Normark gang, cut above the rest
Hey Brian, have you wet a line recently ?
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Hello I have decided that once it warms up a bit I fancy adding 2 or 3 fish to my list of captures. Instead of my usually Chub and Perch I would like to try some local streams for 3 spined Sticklebacks, Bullheads and possibly Stone Loaches. My question is what size hooks do you suggests? I thought I might use squats, pieces of redworm and bloodworm so would i need hooks around the 24 size? I fancy getting a pen fishing rod for messing about with little fish and would fill the reel with 1lb line and simply freeline the baits past rocks were the bullheads will be lying up and through the shoals of sticklebacks. If anyone has any tips then they will be gratefully received. Thank you.
For sticklebacks you don't need a hook. If you just tie a worm onto a length of cotton and watch the fish latch onto it, wait till it gets one end into it's mouth then just lift it out. I used to do it all the time when I was a kid.
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No I didn't, not even sure if ballraces hide behind the badge. I saw a similar reel (I think) being sold without the badge and it was fitted with cup and cone bearings. Can't see way to unscrew anything so I'm reluctant to start levering bits out.
I wouldn't go prising at the badge either but I've been told that's the way to get to the bearings. I think you get to the Arnold kingpin the same way as I think there made exactly the same(without a pin and locking nut on the backplate). Maybe it would be worth you asking Gary mills if he knows how you get to the bearings ?
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Ok then,
This looks quite nice, a highly regarded reel I understand.
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...e=STRK:MEWAX:IT
I'm now sitting on my hands.
What about this one then.....better colour than your's http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/The-Barbel-Catcher-c...=item27af944efa
Rusty, did you ever find out how to change the bearings in your swallow?
I think you go behind the centre badge on the front of the spool ( I been told that's how but I'm not sure)).
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I hope there's room for us Lancastrians again
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Anyone would think you have a Scotton Trotter to pay for.....
Mmm...did cross my mind n'all. Only trouble is it'll be over two, most likely nearer to three or more years before the trotters ready
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I would go for breeding females
Wouldn't we all
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A small sacrifice to make to restore the natural wildlife of our over-populated little island don't you agree?
I for one do agree, and anyone with an ounce of common sense will also....IMO of course.
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Worms, you are at it again, "in your expert opinion" they would "prefer to eat the small fish"....Wingham is full of large fish....eight pound tench galore.....Big Macs for Otters.
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Wingham must also be full of smaller fish if not then there's something amiss, maybe the fish are on contraseptives ....doubtfull
. On the last fish in there was a hatch and the top of the water was bubbling with roach...surley they're smallish fish Den. -
Worms & Tigger,
You made me laugh out loud tonight.
Thanks guys
Glad you took it as the joke it was meant to be.
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You didn't get bitten by an otter did you
Or a circus escape seal
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we have hoards of magpies and jackdaws around here (same everywhere i suppose) i watched a buzzard being blitzed by a mixed vigilante pack of them it didnt stay around for long
big big birds but a bit like bombers and fighters of ww2 .The magpies are a bit hard around here we watched a rabbit being killed by a flock last year
Only way magpies would kill a bunny is if it was already on it's way out through injury or mixied.
I used to have a very large tree in our paddock and one day witnessed a fight over an old nest in it. It was two pairs of magpies a pair of ravens a pair of buzzards and a pair of carrion crows all after the nest, the noise was pretty raucous to say the least. The winning pair was the carrion crows.
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£2.40 in keighley,west yorkshire,unless I keep my underpants on for a month without changing them.
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Are they cheaper still in Yorkshire ?
Yes co's they grow their own in their underpants
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Well I would'nt mind moving to lancs at those prices, just a bit tooo far to commute for a coupla pintsa maggots.
Next question
Whats the longest anyones managed to keep them going before they turn to nasty almost black
casters. about 2 and half weeks I had some, a few were light brown casters and mostly sweaty ammonia smelling maggots but still caught with them.Klaus
I've had them stay in decent useable nick for 8wks in a frigo. I have some in the frigo at the minuite from just after crimbo and there's only a few changed to casters ( it's good to have tha casters mixed in though, even the black floaters). I suppose it depends on how fresh they are when you get em. A guide to their freshness is the size of the black blob behind the pointy end of the maggot, the bigger the blob the fresher they are. I think the blob is food by the way.
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Round this area "Lancashire" all the shops I frequent charge between £2 and £2.20 per pint which I thought was pretty expensive but looking at other posts it isn't at all.
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It's weird how people are targeting otters and cormorants when there are so many other creatures that consume fish including fish themselves yet don't get targeted, at one time it was the Heron that was the scorn of the bird life by anglers but it's now turned tide and there are other things to point the finger at. Pretty pathetic, ignorant and selfish of anglers. I would say the biggest consumers of fish (after man) is fish themselves so maybe all predatory fish should be thrown up the bank, thing is which one's as there nearly all predatory even if only upon the eggs of other species. Personally I'm all for Britains natural wildlife and if it means catching less fish then so be it.
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I thought the handles where quite smart. Thery look like timber of some kind. Your right TT it does have a look of a lythe.....a bit better even !