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It's the worst sin in academia. Most uni's insist on electronic submissions and mine use an automated system that provide you with a percentage mark of what can be found on other works and also highlights all those instances on your submitted work so you can check them out.

In really cold water oils coagulate and don't spread about much. It might be worth making up a water based attractor for dead-baiting.

Make sure you're using a secured mode (with password) to connect to the wifi, that'll rule out other users sponging on your wifi. Ensure the lap-top is only using wifi or ethernet connection to the hub, not both. Windows can only handle one IP address per device. Two connections can cause problems. Do any of the other users of your wifi use a fixed IP? If they do, you might be getting booted off when a fixed IP joins the network, which clashes with the DHCP one you've been assigned.

The AT can only represent their members. As only about 100K anglers have bothered to join as individuals (out of 2 million?), there's a limit to what they can achieve by lobbying for a group, 9/10th of whom don't seem to care enough to sign up. You can join the AT and lobby them as a member (I do if I disagree with them). If another million anglers joined up with a different view, then things can change. Nothing will change while the majority of anglers sit around saying "I don't like what the AT are doing so I'm not joining or supporting them". That's a self-fulfilling prophecy. There you go.

jaa, Fine post. The word "snecked" or "un-snecked" does not appear in the English language. (Oxford Dictionary). Would your referrence be to "barbed"? Anyone but jaa have a clue?? Phone (p.s. "sheck" is a latch or lock (sheck the door) A snecked hook is one which has the point slightly out of alignment or offset to the shank. http://www.planetseafishing.com/features/read/sea-angling-for-beginners-the-anatomy-of-a-fishing-hook https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=8jl9CgAAQBAJ&pg=PT275&lpg=PT275&dq=snecked+hooks&source=bl&ots=g7DIL26W1C&sig=RoPBTrRNFn_14n3SRYkMmysqUjU&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi23fmsw9jQAhVDKpoKHZcGAacQ6AEIKDAA#v=onepage&q=snecked%20hooks&f=false

Likewise, look forward to the pics. Stick a ruler in them!

Grinner for braid to hook or swivel, some like the Palomar for braid to hook, I've found the grinner usually shades the Palomar on b/s, but not a lot in it. To join mono to braid, use the Albright, amazing knot. I'd be a little circumspect with really heavy braids on a 6 piece rod under load and keep it to 30lb myself, just to make sure the line breaks before the rod. Or use stronger and remember carbon isn't indestructible...

Make sure they are 'un-snecked' hooks. Snecked circles hooks can deep-hook. Un-snecked reduces this possibility and will generally only hook-up as they exit the mouth.

I wonder if light has anything to do with it?. Your lakes are steep sided with steep terrain either side. It might be there's a very narrow window of 'optimum light' in the winter, no more than an hour or two and then only in a few places.

I've got a 15ft GTI, which has a nice progressive action and I often use it for surface fishing for carp with 6/8lb line and had plenty of mid-doubles with it - with the hollow tip section. For finer work, the solid tipped is better (I have both).

Mat, Why not fish it this year and see how big they are?

I've used some of the no-name Chinese briads. Check the b/s as you go down the spool. It's usually bang on the quoted, unlike 'named' brands and it's worth checking the knots you usually use are good in the new braid. You might get the odd duff one, but at the price you can afford to chuck the odd one out.

Economic Left/Right: -3.0 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.67

It might be possible to steal card details, but not easy. However, if you're worried, simply put a pieces of cooking foil in your wallet so that the card is shielded on both sides. Job done.

Ah sorry, didn't realise that.

If you can connect using Ethernet, you might try power-line modules. A couple of them will do the job out of the box. http://www.solwise.co.uk/net-powerline-intro.htm Solwise would advise you as well.

That's the thing with (episodic) memories, that if you share them with someone, you can end up incorporating what other people saw or recall, that you didn't and then you come to believe it's your own memory. For someone to be you they'd have to have all of your memories from exactly your point of view and all of your DNA as well, so however much shared memory you have no-one will ever be exactly you. It's certainly true that you can't trust your memory as much as you think (and I include myself). If you keep a long term diary or record of anything, and re-read it years later, you'll often find what you wrote about something on the day isn't how you recall it years later.

That depends. I once had a shipmate that had total recall of the KGV version of the Bible. He could recite it from Genesis to Revelations, front to back, back to front or just pick a random verse. He could not do it with any other book though. I also sailed with another guy who had the strange talent of being able to tell you what day a date in the past fell on. He could not explain how he could do it though. There's a difference, 'technically' between 'semantic memory' e.g. a word perfect recall of something like the bible, and the 'episodic' memory which is 'events in time' which you were a part of. Having said that, whatever you have in you memory and in whatever form is part of who you are.

You might try looking up 'Social Identity Theory' and 'Self Identity Theory' and then 'self-categorization theory' but once past wiki, you'll need access to an academic library to get any further in, and like most social psychology it's often turgid reading. One's own sense of self is tied to how you see yourself in relation to those who you identify with, that is, shared values and meanings and equally those who's values you reject. Unless you live up a pole, it's nigh on impossible to have any sense of identity that isn't to some extent dependent on those you chose to identify with and to a lesser extent those who you rub shoulder with every day, like colleagues or close family. You're also a product of your experiences and those in turn become part of episodic memory which does affect your values and behaviour. You may well have a different memory today of something you did twenty years ago and as a result you may think differently now than you did then. How that memory is remembered can be altered by the situation you recall it in, so in fact, every time you recall an event, something you may even consider life defining, it will be modified according to the social representation you are currently in. You're still you though. You can't remember everything you did, but as someone (smarter than me) once said, you cannot recall everything you've ever eaten any more than everything you've ever read (or heard), but they still have made you what you are today.

Thank you most kind.

Hi, just joined and a few might know me from other places! TL JAA

Don't worry about what others think and if you can't find a tackle shop, browse for gear on-line and find what you like. There are 'non-carp' anglers about the place and so is tackle for them!

Anchor, but I don't trust it fully. Like the gent above, I go back to "lead" days and nothing lead-free seems as good, but still.

Why not use two float stops and a mini link swivel?

Another vote for the GTI - I've a fifteen footer with hollow and solid tips and with the hollow I've had carp to 18lb and even used it for floater fishing with 6lb line. With the solid tip it's great for lighter lines. It is a rod which will benefit from titanium rings through, any extra on the top section makes a big difference if you're trotting and holding it all day.