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Little Roachess

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  1. This has certainly given me food for thought. I wonder also if it is down to the fact that there isn't much sun in the UK to get sufficient numbers of VitD???? For instance, when was the last burst of decent sunshine? mmmm. Can't you get a supplement from some health food store? Will this not help you? GWS.
  2. Hi All! What is the popular opinion? Do you use dead baits or not? I don't use dead baits, and am not keen on this method of catching critters from the deep blue or green or grey wherever you happen to be fishing. I do however, like live baits like maggots, worms, etc, and I do have some artificial baits, too, but I find luncheon meat, salami, corn are just as good at catching a wide variety of fish without the use of deads. I just wondered what the consensus of opinion is on the use of dead baits?
  3. I have saved a copy of the EA's bylaws as I always use it as a good ref point for when i go out with rod and line-I think it is a good idea for all anglers to read through them so that they stay familiar with them to avoid embarrassing and potentially costly confrontation with EA officials, etc.
  4. I will go for turkey, but once was in Prague for carp at Xmas.......different! Go fishing in Prague and experience fresh carp is my alternative suggestion.
  5. Hi Jez! I'm from Cumbria too, where do you do your fishing? And do you get out on Winter days?
  6. TQ, I think if you are fishing for aesthetics, why bother with tips to catch fish? LOL Pumping up the volumn on maggots may allow the fish to dance, and your rod could be singing, but surely the pleasure of being on the Severn will be a great time...let us know. Linda-----------barbless size ten on 8lb line is odd but have known results.
  7. here's a link for something else if you still can't get through www.gumtree.com is always a good idea for a cheap rod pod.
  8. Thanks viney! Midnight at the oasis springs to mind, but it's cold out there and soooo wet!
  9. Hey, I've seen this in angler's mail! Trust the River Ribble to throw something up at us like this hybrid!!!! Back in the 70's some parts of the Ribble were poluted by the factories still running business and flushing effluent, etc, and no doubt this could be a mutation harping back to those days????
  10. I have a bad memory! Can anyone tell me when the exact date is that we can get back on the rivers with our rods? I know fish are spawning but I can't remember the June date. Would appreciate this info pls.
  11. I saw some good Daiwa brollies on ebay going cheap, but I got myself a great bivvy for around the same price. Now I have the advantage of making a brew undercover, it does everything and more in keeping the weather at bay should there be a sudden downpour, and also is open enough to allow me ease of access to my rods. I really would recommend a two man bivvy instead Fishy. That's just my opinion.
  12. Correct me if I am wrong, but if the licence is called officially a Rod Licence, then any rod regardless of hooks, bait, boilies, ground bait, etc, if you have a rod in the water, technically you should also have a licence. The little kid with a stick and a piece of string still had to have a rod licence and got a thick ear on a 70's canal path. My childhood memories are full of happy times! Linda
  13. On this one, I sympathise with the ignorance is bliss family, but really! When I decided to take up fishing the first thing I did was read everything about it, watched fishing programmes on TV and took in as much information as possible. I still have to learn to fish yet, and I've been around on here for about a year-haven't I?-I joined on here because you don't get aweful comments because you ask what you may feel silly asking. No problem is worth a giggle to anyone on here. There's always a sensible answer with helpful advice. To the German Couple with children I'd say, on this occasion, if they had done their research, this incident would never have happened. Research, ask and learn............then angling is a good, enjoyable sport. One last thing I learned from anything I ever read about fishing, anything I ever heard anyone say on here, anything anyone said about angling - GET A LICENCE! Linda
  14. Hi The chub hi-lite chair was not high enough for me, I tried it in a new store just opened up in Penrith, Cumbria. They have lots of fishing chairs, but nothing suitable for supporting those bad backs! It is a lightweight model, though, but still not high enough. I guess unless you have the problem, you aren't really aware of the comfort and need of ease and care that able bodied people take for granted and manufacturers cater to. Linda
  15. Since the RC church is against abortion and we have free speech let them have their say and condone everything that is disgusting in everyone's eyes, it won't do the RC's any good to keep backsliding the way the Bible teaches you should not. However, this article is jumping on the "hate all things papal" bandwagon. If you read what the Pope actually stated about the position of the Catholic Church on this issue you would see a different story. In general RC hates abortion-right or wrong, it's a tetchy issue for the public-but there were no statements given out to the press by the Pope himself or the close papal authorities regarding this individual case. But training must be given to those who are sent to isolated areas throughout the world if the Vatican does not wish egg on its face every time another of its groomed epistles steps further into the Levitical abyss!!! In other words-stories from around the world are going to be printed every time a man with a mantle steps out of line and something should be done about it! The German Pope is an embarrassment! I'm glad I am not Roman Catholic! Think how uptight I would get trying to defend this kind of logic??? The nearest I want to get to RC'ism is buying a great rod for a great price using all things paypal!
  16. yeh, get the fish police out for all those back-garden gnomes doing a spot of illegal carping! They're always out with their little red bonnets, just like their human counterparts! Laugh!
  17. This is crazy! Car Tax, Car Insurance, MOT, 1mph over speed limit, then parking fines for those who are parked slightly over the line in bays so small that when you get in them you can't open your car door to get out of your car, and now if you go abroad you actually pay for the police to stop you to breathalise you!!!! Look, I'm all in favour of driving safely and I don't condone drink-driving at all, but to penalise all those safe drivers who have never claimed on their insurance, who have clean licences, is proof that drivers are being hit yet again with another tax just because they are an easy target for revenue! hahahaha! To throw the proverbial in the works..........Buy your own breathaliser and get nicked!!!! that makes me laugh-headlines "Nicked by own Breathaliser" There have been so many stories on the net about breathalisers not working properly, and those were owned by authorities.......???
  18. I haven't been on here in ages, and the first post I read is not good! What you are proposing is touching, appropriate and loving. Even though I did not know Jan, I knew of Newt-he is a great guy and I am sure his wife was lovely. Newt gave me a very warm welcome as soon as I started on here about a year ago, and it was encouraging to me to know that he and his wife were around here for help. I send my condolences, it would be nice to have a little service for Jan with people from this side of the pond able to say goodbye, too. RIP.
  19. If there's a good car boot near you, go! They are a good source for alsorts of fishing stuff! If someone has a bit of line for sale, chances are they may have other bits not on display that the wife put in the back of the car unbeknownst to the hoarder angler chappie-ask the lady if there's a couple-you never know?
  20. I would like to spend a day fishing with Matt Hayes-he's key to the angling world, knows some great venues, has the knowledge and he has a great waggler!
  21. Hi, An old pal of mine used to fish for eels on a regular basis, called it rock salmon, and even took it home for the wife to cook! When he came up north to live he stopped and went sea fishing off the fylde coast, but he always waxed lyrical about his eel fishing days when anyone was near enough his sea fishing gear to listen. I can't see the attraction somehow, but I tell you this-he didn't catch no'but a tiddler up here!!!!! Poor lad! I wonder if it was a tale of the one that got away-like the stickleback grew to 6 foot by the time you got home??? What do you think chaps n chapesses? Tall fish tale, or would he have really caught so many eels down south as opposed to up here? I have no idea, ignorant mebe, because I never fish for eels!
  22. This video footage was distressing to watch. If a jury had seen it they would have entered a guilty plea for the perpetrators for definate! I cannot understand why these women were allowed to go free without lawful arrest???? I have muslim friends who cannot condone this behaviour, and are really shocked! The law should stand for everyone who sets foot in the UK, not just for a select few in line with political directives.
  23. To All, We should remember Lockerbie, the executions for supposed crimes, the tyranny of the man, the madness of his convictions, but under no circumstances should we condone murder for murder. Vengeance is not ours. You should not take a life and try to justify taking that life no matter what the other person has done. I have suffered at the hands of terrorists and God's Grace has allowed me to understand His Word. It only makes you just as much a madman as Gadaffi if you celebrate a person's death. It is only human to think in terms of violation of rights that this man has forsook, but you are only the same animal if you justified your own actions, after all, that is what Gadaffi did. He justified his tyranny. Execution is despicable no matter who pulls the trigger, and if you condone it you are only following your own set of rules and not God's. Through the western media this is a great coup but it suited both America and the UK for Gadaffi to stand in power for so long-he was not just friends with Blair-he was your friend too, once-and only through careful and clever manipulation of power did this man ever come to die. We have all known what a scapegoat is, and though this man should have stood trial, he did not, he died because a frenzied number of people chose to have him murdered. I do not believe that this man Gadaffi was a nice person, he was a madman. His crimes against humanity were evil personified. I would not defend this ugly power-crazed dictator. But murder for any reason is not on. You know what seemed mad to me? The pictures in the streets of tyrannical powerseekers firing their guns in the air in celebration,they are tomorrow's madmen. Give some dignity to the Country now you have chance, and don't idolise the next man who takes up office! That's my advice to anyone in any Country! The End!!!!!!!!!!!!
  24. Newt, It looks like some sort of derivative German watchtower, built skywards for ease of transmittable datad during WW2 days, now defunct. Or similar, though built with such height so as to fool what is hidden Forces Intelligence-wise underground but still in secret use?? Maybe one day we might see the President of the USA alighting from a helicopter and being escorted into the building when the pressure is on through security breach of a UFO kind! ? The mind boggles and quite frankly the building could do with a much needed facelift if anyone is so inclined, or perhaps a much needed bulldozer if anyone is so declined! Newt, it's over to you!
  25. Interesting project-wonder if it will come to fruition? It needs to be a reality pretty quickly for anyone of us to reap the benefits of such a dream chair. Having said this, my opinion is that the chair's weight and height adjustment is as important as individual comfort. The idea of something that operates on the principal of car seat structure is a good basis to start, then to consider lightweight materials for padding and framework. Titaniumlike durability comes to mind, with ease of use, ie: it doesn't take you a moment to erect. My practical advice would be to get out on the banks, get a feel for the sport, a feel for how anglers think, get into their hearts and minds-research is the best tool of an inventor-and then go from there. If you travel up and down the Country and talk to various fishing organisations, especially the disabled contingent, you might come up with a universal chair with individual adaptations for variations. A product with a future! Thanks for reading this. Tight lines, Lindax
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