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  1. Here is an absolute BARGAIN!!!! I am selling my N gague railway set up. It truely is a superb setup. It is 5ftx2ft8inch and has 4 tracks 2 oval's around the edge and a figure of eight that runs under and over the ovals. It has numerous scenes including a beach, a canal with boats, a woodland/picnic area, cottages and farm/grass areas and trees, watertower. Lots of animals. Also there is cosiderable scope to expand or extend it. It is so difficult to put into words how good this setup is and I really would recommend anyone interested in it to come and have a look and see it working.

    It comes with a 4 way controller which in itself is worth £135

     

    I can send photos to email addresses

     

    *****£350ovno*****

     

    There is NO engines or rolling stock with it HOWEVER I have some engines and rolling stock for sale seperately.

     

    For children from 5 to 95

  2. I use exactly the same set up as chuby, but I use an Airflo floater; there has not been a problem with them for about five years but the myth still persists; indeed the ridge tactical ultra supple is the straightest floating line you will ever use. It pains me to say it but their lines are better than my beloved Orvis.

     

    Tony

    Tony,i will bow to your words on Airflo floaters,not used one for yonks i must admit.

  3. I fish a small river 15 to 20' across with a lot of trees. I have been float fishing for roach with a lot of trout by-catch on bread all winter and am loath to give it up during the close season. I reckon I can cover the river 99% with spinner and fly. I've bought some chest waders as all the fly fishing will have to be in the stream. What would be typical fly tackle for this situation? A typical brownie is six ozs; a specimen will be about a pound.

     

    Thanks

     

    Ps: I'm beyond 5 posts but still be moderated

     

    I do most of my trouting on lakes,however i occasionally dable on a small stream.IMHO a 3 weight outfit,8-8.5 ft rod will be plenty.

    Doesn't have to cost the earth either.The 'Fladen Vantage 3 weight(usually plenty on ebay) is a decent little rod for the very reasonable cost, a lightweight reel need not cost a fortune either.If money is an issue,a mill end fly line can be got for £3-£4,try Mullarkeys,they are fine.Just stay away from Airflo floaters :lol: :lol: :o

    good fishing :D

  4. Have not used A/N for some time and heard the sad news via another site.Never met Jan or Newt,however i did converse with her via the other site and by pm's and she very kindly did me a favour some years ago.

    RIP Jan.

  5. Having been driven nearly mad with frustration whilst targeting mullet with float and bread and centrepin, I start to shiver uncontrollably whenever the thought of fly-fishing for them crosses my mind!

     

    :D :D Leon,my mate had a go at them with fly(and dynamite) on the Arun last year,they drove him bonkers :D :D

  6. No need to spend mega bucks on a line.Look at these, http://www.impactflies.com/presta/, at £17 they are really good value,i have a few and recommend them,Chris also does leaders, backing etc and his service is very good.Pitsford Pirate does a good selection,again around same price,find him on CF forums.Mullarkeys as suggested is also ok,the mill ends are fine.As for rods,take a look on ebay at Fladen Vantage rods,4 piece.Can get one for around £20 or so,may be cheaper and they are a decent rod up to 7 weight.I understand the heavier rods are not so good.Many rave about the 3 weight.Reels,plenty out there for not a lot of money,just get a large arbour reel,it will help reduce any memory in your line.Ebay is a good source once again.

    As for what weights to go for depends on what you are going to be fishing,ie small stillwaters,large ,stillwaters,small rivers or large rivers.

    Like others on here i have rods from 3 weight up to 7 weight.Whilst a 3 will do on a river,i do occasionally use it at my local stillwater a better bet would possibly be a 5 or 6 weight,certainly whilst finding one's feet.Personally i would rather buy each item separately,nowt wrong with kits,but i do feel they put some lets say less desirable bits and bobs in,some have poor lines and masses of flies,which on the face of it looks good,but you end up never using three quarters of the things.

    This company is also good to deal with,never had a problem with them and use them a fairish amount when i need smallish items.The Masterline Debut fly line is also ok for £14.

    http://www.firsttackle.co.uk/

    Good luck

  7. Plenty of floating lookalike bread and biscuit flies out there.Look on ebay for starters.Egg flies in various colours treated with floatant can also be used.

    Need to get the carp really competing for freebie offerings of mixers or bread before presenting the fly.

  8. OK Proven! :)

     

    Both that fishing a lure static beneath an indicator works, and that a fish will take when you are trying to eat your sandwiches.

     

    Having landed a couple of rainbows after a couple of hours of casting, I felt that it was time to sit down in a nice sheltered but sunny, almost-warm spot, and enjoy my sandwiches (I'd been fishing with a cold cutting blustery easterly wind, and my back was starting to complain at so much standing up).

     

    Out went the indicator rig with a black-feathered, green-bodied, beaded cats-whisker at the point, and a smaller salmon-pink feathery glittery thing above.

     

    A couple of munches on my sandwich as I enjoyed the scenery, then I became alert as the indicator didn't seem to be behaving quite right out there in the wind ripples. It gently went below a little and came up again.

     

    Was it just the wind drift on the line?

     

    Down it went again, so I put down the half-eaten sandwich, picked up the rod and lifted into something (the salmon-coloured feather, glittery thing was the tempter).

     

    With a third fish in the bag, I finished the sandwich without re-casting and then it was time to head home. :)

    Two lures under an indicator :o

    tha'ts not cricket old boy :lol::o :o :o :o

  9. Chuby

    My wife Sue was on the Kimbridge retreat last year if you do a search I believe she posted some pictures on an earlier thread.

     

    Tony

    I will see if i can find it Tony :thumbs: I do recall you speaking of it i think.

    Duncton Mill were involved a few years back and it was always well supported.Trust your wife is /has recovered

  10. Chuby

    We have not done Brick Farm yet, I was thinking about going this weekend but given the weather I will probably go Piking.

    My first fly fishing trip will be down to Tavistock on the 12th Feb.

     

    Tony

     

    Ok Tony.\if you decide to try Brick Farm out ,let me know or anywhere else for that matter,work permitting i would be happy

    to meet.

  11. Chuby

    Chris (Five Bellies), still pops in for a look and makes the odd post, I am waiting for him to confirm our charter trips for 2011, fancy coming along to one?

     

    Tony

    Hi Tony,

    have spoken on here to him a few times re a trout fishery down near Godstone which alas in now no more :angry:

    Thanks for the invite,well yes,depending when obviously, as i do work some weekends in the better weather and would need to re adjust working week accordingly.No gear these days however,got shot of it yonks ago.

    If you guys do a fly fishing trip i would be more than happy to meet up somewhere,again dates permitting.

    Thanks

    Chris(chuby)

     

    Out of interest did you do Brick Farm? as i see you were intending to from your earlier post

  12. Anderoo

    You and me both I might investigate Chuby's suggestion of Brick Farm.

     

    Just a word of warning,Brick Farm will be busy at weekends,it can be hectic midweek.That's down to the stocking levels and reasonable charges.

     

    Think you mentioned Five Bellies,does he still use the forum?

  13. Go and wash thy mouth out NOW :D

    Leon,if you have 'favourite ' unweighted flies,why not try and get them with added bead heads.

    Nothing to stop you putting a dust of even a number eight near the eye of the hook,it will/should act just the same as a bead head.Anything bigger and heavier might prove troublesome casting.Some of the available leadheads are a bitch to cast.

  14. Chuby

    I have not fished Springhill since Rob Spiller left, but I seem to remember that the mainlake was a couple of acres and could easily accommodate 8 anglers or more; but things have obviously changed.

    I used to fish Lakedown regularly, but have not been back since it reopened a couple of years back, but it is a fair old poke from Chatham, if push comes to shove i would just pop down to Chequertree, Chris Drew's place at Bethersden, handy for a short session.

     

    Tony

     

    Never done Chequertree.

    Lakedown has now abandoned its big fish lake(N01 lake)so all are on offer on the one ticket so to speak.

    Have you tried Brick Farm down near Battle?,don't know how much of a hike it is for you.Again,not 'pretty',but if Leon was going with you and you wanted 'string pulling' :thumbs: its heavily stocked and fairly hard NOT to catch and again reasonably priced for catch and kill.

    Springhill is one mass of impenetrable reedbeds at one end and he is supposed to restrict it to eight anglers.Trouble is,if there are eight it means you can't move pegs unless someone else wants to!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.I guess that had we not been tucked up,then we would have returned,the guy was just plain greedy though.

    I must get down to Parkwood and give it a crack.

     

    Just found this,another worth some investigation i feel-

    http://www.hastingfordshoot.co.uk/

  15. I was thinking of the following weekend for the Pike trip as the weather does not look too wet next week.

    Sue and I are off to Devon to fish Tavistock on the 11-12th Feb so any time before that would be good subject to the weather of course. Fancy somewehere new likr Springhill TF?

     

    Tony

    forgive me jumping in,been following the thread and contributing.

    Springhill!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!,have you been there?.Its small and supposedly limited to eight on the main lake.We booked it a couple of New Year's ago for four of us and assumed that there would be plenty of room,huh.The guy overbooked plus he allowed regulars on which made it impossible to move around until many had gone.Also he wouldn't give us the opportunity to fish the other lakes without more money.Needless to say we have never returned.Fish tend to be on the smaller size as well.

    It can colour up as well due to run off from the very steep hill behind it.Shame as it basically isn't too bad a place.

    Down your neck of the woods,Lakedown is far far nicer for pretty well much the same cost and way bigger lakes.

    Coming my way a little more is Hazelcopse.Cheap as chips,not 'Pretty' but he puts lots in and some good fish as well.A little further afield for you are MY most local waters, Albury, all easy to fish and quite prolific,not as cheap though.Coltsford Mill is another nice place.Not over easy,but some very good fish go in,blues and some tigers as well as rainbows and a few browns,that's near Godstone.

  16. I'm trying to remember what the mandatory minimum tippet strength is at Farmoor - 6lb, I think. Some big, hard fighting rainbows in there, though I think none as big as Sportsman's pb. I'm just wondering what strength line I would choose for 5-10lb barbel or carp.

    A few waters insist on minimum B/S.

    Duncton Mill insist on 6lb minimum B/S.

    I have had fish to 12-13 from there on 6lb and not had a problem.There again i have fished Halliford Mere in Shepperton and had the occasional smash take on buzzers and been broken!!!!!!!!!!!! as have others and the fish don't have to be THAT big to do it.

    I really think that tethering buzzers to line of 8/10lb,unless its ultra low diameter is going to seriously affect the interest rate as they have too much time to inspect the flies.

    Guess you have to weigh up possible size of fish expected,method used etc.

  17. Thanks for your replies guys.

     

    There's some interesting things to think about and to try there.

     

    I've ordered some of the Grauval line (9lbs, I was going to go higher as well, but I will wait and see what I think of it first).

     

    And I've got a whole box of boobies (part of an ebay purchase) to decorate the trees around the lakes I fish, and the grass behind me :)

     

    So, I'm thinking of starting with a booby on the point and a couple of buzzers on droppers.

     

    Which leads me to another question, is it better to fish identical buzzers, or two different ones to see which the trout prefer?

     

    Thats heavy line for buzzers me thinks,ok for pulling lures though.

    Already been answered i know but the method is as stated,the washing line and again as stated its really more for the warmer months.Thats not to say buzzers won't work now because they will but just deeper.

    Fish three, heaviest on the point and lightest/smallest on top dropper,or try a dawl bach for instance on the top dropper.

    If you want to try an indicator,fine.Don't let people put you off with-oh thats not fly fishing.Its no different from using buzzers or whatever under a bushy dry fly or indeed the washing line method.It works,makes it easy to fish the flies at the correct depth and will help to sight those very very slight takes that you might otherwise miss,use it as required rather than the rule.

    I'm not the greatest caster in the world and quite often restrict myself to one dropper only as they can be a nightmare at times.Also its worth noting that quite a few fisheries will not allow the use of droppers,can't really understand why but rules are rules i guess.

  18. I like my buzzer fishing and do at times stick on an indicator.Very useful for fishing the flies at the right depth,rather than greasing up the leader.I do like a touch of breeze,the buzzers can swing around in the wind then.I still give them a tweak and a pull however,just to add some movement and quite often a slight dip of the indicator followed by a pull or tweak results in a heavy take.Ok there is the visual indication,but more often than not i loose sight of them if there is any chop on the water plus the takes are quite often that savage that the rod almost leaves ones hands :lol:

    Can't see the point in sticking a lure under one however,but they do fish them this way.

     

    For what its worth i use Fulling Mill flouro in 5 and 6lb test and don't usually have a problem with it,also use at times Drennan double strength(the coarse version not the green fly version) and again don't seem to have too many problems.However there is always that 'smash 'take which is going to catch the angler out!!!.Even on 6lb a smash take can result in a break.Pretty sure that using 8/10lb B/S is fine when pulling lures but not so sure about fishing buzzers when the fish have more time to inspect their grub.

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