corydoras

It would be interesting to know what line of work you are in then. I don't have an over inflated ego, nor do I think I know better. I am just a Jo Soap that thinks the UK will be better off in the Eurozone, that we will have to go in sooner or later and the sooner we join the more influence we will have on the future of the Euro. At the end of the day if the UK does not join it won't bother me. I have bought a flat in France and will be moving there permanently within the next 12-18 months.

So your business exists as an entity on its own, and no matter what else happens to the UK economy it will have no effect on it? I'd love to have a business like that. [ 16. June 2003, 06:55 AM: Message edited by: corydoras ]

I agree. 'Tis different on big water from a boat or a treeless shoreline.

Quite right. Tell naebody whare they are.

Nae bother pal!

Sorry to disagree with yet another fellow Scot, but there is just no way that this little puddle holds steelhead trout. It is FAR to small, and as far as I can see has no major river connecting it to the sea! Steelheads NEED to live for part of their life in the sea. Vagabond, Nightwing please have a look and tell me I am correct.

I know a joke a bit like this, but in the joke it's the WIFE who does'nt want to go fishing. The joke is MUCH to rude for this web site though. The punchline is "Yes I know, the dog didn't want to go fishing either".

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Sorry friend but this is basically just plain wrong. There are NO steelheads in Scotland IMNSHO. Let me explain why. A Steelhead is a diadromous Rainbow Trout i.e. a Rainbow Trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) that migrates between saltwater and freshwater. Genetically your common or garden Rainbow is no different to a Steelhead. There is no gene that makes a rainbow a steelhead so you cannot transplant a steelhead gene into a rainbow, just as you can't take a gene from a Chihuahua and transplant it into a German Shepard. To have steelheads in Scotland you would need the right conditions; large lakes connected to the sea by a fairly large river system. The largest loch in Scotland is Loch Lomond. connected to the sea by the River Leven and the River Clyde. This is just not 'big' enough for steelheads, they really need BIG freswater lakes like the Great Lakes. That at least is my understanding, others may disagree with me (as I disagreed with you). Have a good weekend all, and tight lines in the new season!

head!

I started with 3. using 6 is not unheard of where I learned to fish. (Loch Katrine)

Got it in one pal! Most UK drivers have no concept of lane discipline, although the way we use motorways these days does not help. I do a fair bit of motorway driving and in my experience the left-hand lane is pretty much unuseable for most car drivers most of the time because it is nose-to-tail with lorries so one cannot maintain a steady 65-70 without having to pull into the centre lane to dodge the lorries. This results in those who just want to cruise along at 70 having to 'hog' the middle lane. One thing we could do is take a leaf out of the Dutch system where you are prohibited from changing lanes on a motorway for several hundred meters before and after a junction. Lorries are also confined to the right-hand lane at peak times. One of my pet hates are the 'lorry races' that you get on roads like the A34, especially after the roundabout with the M4, you know the scene, lorry A pulls out to overtake lorry B. Lorry A can't really go any faster than lorry B so after 8 miles or so of blocking the right-hand lane lorry A decides to cut his losses and pull back in behind lorry B. I see this all the time and it is a real PITA. Of course if we had a decent transport system at least 40% of the lorry traffic on the road could go by rail, especially the containerised stuff.

I think that these days all brown trout and sea trout are considered to be Salmo trutta trutta or Salmo trutta fario because DNA testing has shown that they are all the same species despite having different colours, sizes, habitats etc, In a similar way that all domestic dogs, from a Great Dane to a Pekinese are Canis domesticus. Maybe Vagabond can shed some light on this as I see from his profile that he has an interest in ichthyology and is a retired oceanographer?

Yeah! Bonefish on the fly are better fun (or so I have been told)

Neither of which are going to help you much on the big break for freedom. I know this is maybe going to sound cheeky, but it is not meant to be but why don't you go back to school? In some respects I wish I had stayed on at school as I am sure I would have a much better (and better paid) job than I have now, on the otherhand I don't really have any regrets about leaving school at 16 and going to sea. How good is your oral and written French?

Amen to that!

That's the way to do it, and yes your right I guess diesel fumes don't help. Imagine being a first trip engineering cadet, stuck in the engineroom with all sorts of pongs and feeling as rough as a rat!

True, but at least they can't say that 'nobody told them so'. The rescue teams still have to go and pull a dozen or so of them off the mountains every year.

QUOTE nursejudy: Should we have a referendum on this subject? No judy we should'nt, but we SHOULD have on on the euro, ASAP.

Then you are mad. That should be a two day drive IMNSHO

Me too, but I prefer two skis!

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Well fly fishing it aint, and it aint coarse fishing either, but it is MY kinda fishing in MY kinda terrain (God's own true land). Thanks for the post. Most interesting, and that Loch Quoich fish DOES have HUGE tail

I have asked this before and got shouted down but her goes again. Why oh why oh why do we have to have separete clubs and competitions for WOMEN anglers? Surely angling, of all sports is one where men and women can compete against each other on equal grounds. Tell me I'm wrong, even better PROVE it! [ 11. June 2003, 02:02 PM: Message edited by: corydoras ]

Absolutely! I was going to say that, but you beat me to it! I also find that Lucozade can be very good for settling a queasy stomach. Seasickness is all in the mind. I spent 9 years in the Merchant Navy. My first week was sheer hell, crossing the Atlantic in mid-March on a 6,000 ton banana boat is not always fun BUT you learn to think of something else and get on with your job. After a week or so you get used to it and it never bothers you again.