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Hmm... How about this for 45. Terminalization is a Genetics term, coined along with Diakinesis, by a bloke called Hacker (umlaut over the a) Jim Hacker, of Yes Minister and Yes Prime Minister, was the honourable member for Birmingham East... Birmingham has 10 letters... is it a "go-er" ? Cheers,

Provided the fish are large enough and the prawns small enough... do they need to be peeled?

Now there's a thought... I'm aiming to stock my own pond with perch, which will obviously need a food source, sticklebacks and their fry sound like a perfect answer ;-) Cheers for the idea BA, want to 'lend' me some of your stickles, if you've got any left of course, later in the summer? More to the point... anyone know where I can buy some perch? Cheers,

This is my project for February... sort out th garden, get rid of the lawn and put a half decent sized pond in (if I'd got more garden it would be a decent sized pond!) In the mean time, I want to set up a small aquarium to keep perch in. I really need some advice on things like temperature and keeping the water fresh and suitable for the fish as it will be my first go. Perch are my first choice simply because they're probably my favourite fish, but if I'm advised that they're not well suited to a tank I can always rethink it. Lastly... anyone got a source for buying them? I'd rather not go and catch some and remove them from the wild, I'm only looking for around 5 fish between 2 and 4 inches long. Cheers,

Anglers Mail, Angling Times, Coarse Fishing, Coarse Fisherman, Improve your... ALL of them ;-) Cheers,

Here's a useful contact: Dawn Carr - 757-622-7382 Dawn is, apparently, the "Fishing campaign coordinator" for PETA. I'm sure there are more than the, quoted 700,000, PETA members in terms of Anglers the world over - what say we all give her a call and ask, very politely, what her qualifications are for rubbishing the work of a fish biologist? I must stress the words "very politely" in the comment above - we do ourselves no favours whatsoever by being as abusive, rude or disruptive as PETA has proven itself in the past. As to whether fish feel pain - first define pain. It's obvious they feel "injurious stimuli" and that they can learn to avoid the causes of such stimuli - however, do they "suffer" because of it? Surely that is the real question - they're frequently observed to continue feeding and often be recaptured by the same anglers after being released - from this we can easily draw the conclusion that they "suffer no harm from the experience, given correct handling and care". All the best to you and yours,

Waterlog is definitely the favourite... But the list that I buy regularly looks something like this: Waterlog - subscription Trout and Salmon - subscription Fly Fishing and Fly Tying - subscription Trout Fisherman - subscription Angler's Mail - bought weekly Angling Times - bought almost weekly Bruno... change the R on your favourite for an H and I'm right with you mate ;-) Cheers all,

It matters not one iota whether something is a fact/true or not, when it comes to libel, slander or anything else in a court of law. The only thing that matters is what you can PROVE to be a factual or true statement. Interestingly, offering an opinion isn't considered libel in either the USA or UK - providing you are prepared to testify that it is your genuinely held opinion ;-) Cheers all,

Sometimes I despair... Talk about knee-jerk! Didn't anyone think to either: a.) Read the website... b.) Check out any of the urban legend websites... ...just to see if this was a hoax before sounding off? I guess not: http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/outrage/bonsai.htm You realise, of course, that this is exactly the same way that those morons at PETA garner support? Tsk tsk... consider your legs slapped ;-)

Adult signals get to about 30cms or 12 inches long - more often they're about half this length. Native white claw crays only get to about half the maximum size for a signal. It's well worth being able to tell the difference though, the EA produce a free, waterproof leaflet that details all six species found in the UK and how to tell them apart - the number to request one is: 0845 933 3111 More info from: http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/subje...lang=_e&region= Cheers,

Hehehe... I saw this and thought of you... "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines!" Cheers,

Just a bit mate... they taste superb and it's one of the few species seriously thriving, where it exists, and as such can support a bit of a harvest. Cheers,

40 gallons of tinned custard... One extra strong paddling pool... Both of them... NOW do you get the picture? Muahahaha!

Hmm... if we make an educated guess here (I've been educated by quite a lot of scotch in my time, so I'm at least part qualified to comment) We can remove most of the words from the above post and just leave "I saw a group of ducks... 9 cans of tennents... merry christmas!" Makes a bit more sense now ;-D Cheers,

Hmmm... crayfish... Whereabout Peter and can I come and fish for them please? ;-) Cheers,

If you're going to stun them with a blow to the head, it saves some worry about whether they're alive and kicking when you get them home, if you clean them while you're at it - I do this a fair bit with trout that I catch, it takes surprisingly less time than you think on the bankside and a carrier bag to carry the discarded bits in is more than adequate ;-) Cheers,

I'm going to regret this... I can tell already... But... What are Triops? Cheers,

As a slight aside... did anyone read the quoted e-mail from someone claiming to be called "Richard Fray" sent to the webmaster of http://www.cormorantbusters.co.uk If not, it's a useful insight into the sort of venom and malice that makes the internet such a "lovely" place sometimes. It's quoted inline at the following link: http://www.cormorantbusters.co.uk/why.htm If "Richard" is listening... please feel free to send me as many threatening and abusive e-mails as you like, so I can forward them to the abuse address of your ISP ;-) Cheers,

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Hans Weilenmann's site is about the best I've seen. Plenty of variety and all original stuff. http://www.danica.com/flytier Cheers and enjoy,

I hada cracking day's grayling fishing a couple of months back... Caught my personal best on a dry fly, then caught one better on my own shrimp pattern and then, less than an hour later caught one even bigger on the same fly. Cracking day out. I think my best memory of this season was helping a newcomer to fly fishing, now a very good friend, get started out and thinking for himself, rather than just following magazine articles and blanking on small stillwaters ;-) Cheers,

91. is a good'un : At first I was trying to find a way to fit Scarborough into just 7 letters - dung beetles also being called Scarabs... ...then I found out that European one's are also called Dor beetles, the reigning one obviously would be a King Dor beetle, or the Dorking (Surrey) Cheers,

Hmm... although their name doesn't exactly inspire confidence ;-) Would you use a builder with the name "CowboysRUs Ltd." ? Cheers,

Hear hear to that! I'd add, this is the 'lure of fishing' for me and the reason I, mostly, fly fish these days. However, discussion, conversation and a little dissagreement goes a long way to providing, not neccesarilly answers, but at least more interest and sometimes more success with the lure too. Keep it coming guys, I for one am all ears ;-) Cheers,

Hmm... something tells me pike don't use the avoir dupois scale for judging their prey size ;-) After all, a 3lb bream is about the size and dimensions of a dinner plate, not an easy meal even for a 20+ - a 3lb chub on the other hand, easy pickings by comparison. Perhaps we should be looking more at overall dimensions than at just size ? There must be a reason why brass/copper spoons are so popular with some of the posters to this thread? Do they imitate a small bream/carp well and are these favourite prey? Your example of the river Beult, where some of the pike grew very large compared with the majority - I'd suggest using a long, baby pike style lure would get you some cracking success - the absence of 'middling' pike giving us a good clue about the feeding habits of the big ones. Could it also be true with the big perch in Windermere? Afterall, a smaller, weaker, slower perch is going to be easy fodder for a bigger, stronger, faster one. I've got a good example that certainly suggests this as I used to fish a small (6 acre) lake in Berkshire that had a good head of fairly small perch - a half pounder was a good fish - and up until this one day I was completely oblivious to the possibility of any bigger ones. I was fishing free lined maggots at about 15 feet from the bank, chucking a small handful of feebies around the hookbait. I could see small perch snaffling the freebies and occasionally a stupid one would take the hookbait too. After a short while, with constant activity around the area immediately in front of me the whole swim suddenly went very quiet - not a perch to be seen. I tried a couple more free offerings and went absolutely cold as a huge perch, certainly the biggest I'd ever even heard of hoovered up the maggots, studied my hook bait for a second and then ignored it. Further free offerings had the same effect and for some ten minutes I sat and watched this monster taking maggots about 10 feet away from me. I couldn't get it to take a hookbait though and maggots were the only thing I'd got with me at the time. Two weeks later I caught a big perch on worm from the same swim, it could have been the same fish, depending on how territorial you believe them to be - that fish weighed 3lb 2oz (not allowing for any error in my scales) and had a mouth easily large enough to take one of the 6inch perch I'd been catching earlier. It's still my biggest by a long way, my 'next best' being a shade under 2lbs. Why else would the smaller perch completely dissappear, if not through their instinct for survival and fear of attack from a much bigger predator?