Tigger

I hope there's room for us Lancastrians again

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 .

Wouldn't we all

I for one do agree, and anyone with an ounce of common sense will also....IMO of course.

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.

Glad you took it as the joke it was meant to be.

Or a circus escape seal

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.

Yes co's they grow their own in their underpants

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.

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.

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.

at least three, bloody hell if 2 miles of a river can't sustain it's fish population with a resident three birds then the waters pretty void of fish. Three cormorants should not affect a 2 mile stretch of healthy water. Don't forget the service the birds do (along with pike etc).....eating all the weak or diseased fish and preventing the spread of disease.

I can't see any culling of Otters ever taking place, certainly not for the sake of angling. The only trouble is all this talk of culling otters etc by anglers will deffinatley turn alot of people who previuosly had no axe to grind with or about anglers/angling against the whole angling scene. It's not really a good advertisment for the anglers and won't do angling any good whatsoever.

Chav, do you know if Aldi will be selling those small bait/tackle shoulder bags again this year ?

I think my smallest fish on propper fishing gear would be a minnow although I have had some ultra small perch, chub etc and they weren't caught by design either so sometimes the hooks and size of baits they took or impailed them selves on where quite amazing.

Feral cats and immigrants .....

Mmmm..........sounds a bit like a lot of other immigrants .....they shouldn't really be here either but you shouldn't /can't say it ....it's racist you see

I'd never had one and finally got one last year after sleeping on the floor or sat in a chair when fishing for several days finally got to much....aching bones and all that

That really is a lovely reel Worms ! Rusty I have the 1915 copy on order and the long trotter in 4 1/4 in black, exactly like the one in the picture.

Err....last reel... ... who do you think your kiddin

well done Rusty Which one or ones did you fall for m8 ?

Just looks a mess to me, even the screw heads look mashed and the small centre screw looks crap with the slit not being central . If your paying good money out then you should receive decent/good quality finnished off items, not things what look like they've just been thrown together as quick as poss. That picture would put me off buying one of Mr Mill's pins I'm afraid.