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Tim Kelly

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  1. They're all prone to failure. Get a decent set of spring scales and they're virtually indestructable and virtually as accurate. Avons, weighmaster or ruben heatons are all good and reliable.
  2. I think you must have posted the wrong picture by mistake. That one might make 4lb with a following wind!
  3. Obviously not Nige in the swim next to you then!
  4. One other though. Do you tie you baits onto the trace or just use the hooks to keep the bait on? I have heard of people blaming lost fish on the deadbait being used to lever the hooks out, which is why people like to hook the bait on as lightly as possible so it comes off when it's been taken. Other wise, get a shorter rod or chop back some of the branches!
  5. I bet you're using hooks which are too small for the baits. 4s and 6s are a good general size for most baits in the 4-8" size. As has been said, don't strike but wind down to the weight of the fish then bend the rod firmly into them and keep the pressure on. Many people seem to be afraid of putting a bend in their rod. I always think that the longer the fish is in the water and not my net the more chance there is of it getting off, so give it the butt and get it in!
  6. Go for one which will suit the tackle you use weight wise. They are all similar, though there are differences which make a difference depending on how deep you want them to run and whether you need them to be easy to fish on the drop. Generally, colorado blades (the very rounded type) fish the shallowest/slowest as they have the most lift and the willow blades (long and thin) fish the deepest or fastest. If you use heavyish tackle I really like raddogs, grinders and Ace tandems - which are all American musky lures, but I mostly use home made ones.
  7. Any wellies can be slipped on quickly and generally have good grip. Probably even available in realtree, so you can pretend to be a proper carper.
  8. Nige Williams has a big 4X4, a massive new boat and is clearly not that strapped for money. £1300 would, I imagine, not seem like a fortune to him, and possibly even a business write off! I don't know, but I would think it was not unlikely that he organised the trip to Ireland, possibly as a guide. If so, he should bear considerably more responsibility for what happened. I agree with Budgie, there is a big difference between moving a few roach round locally and taking an invasive species into another country. I'm amazed the fine isn't substantially higher. I expect if he'd been caught in Ireland at Dun Loerie they would have really thrown the book at him.
  9. Dave Lumbs Loch Tamers, which are probably the best boat rods available, have handles about 16-18" long. I think you'd find 12" handles too short as casting, even short distances with the longish rod and heavy bait requires a bit more handle for leverage.
  10. Exactly - a carp angler!
  11. If he did, he'd be a carp angler. Whether that counts or not depends on your point of view!
  12. Probably a good idea to take it as a lesson learned and not to try something like that again. Opening yourself up for further ridicule on a radio program would take a particularly masochistic mindset!
  13. Many thanks, looks like I ought to either dig out my old DAM coffee grinder (I'm sure there was a reason I retired it in the first place 25 or so years ago!?) or search ebay for an abu.
  14. Unless you've got a torpedo you'd be lucky to get on the spot that seems the most productive...
  15. Pretty certain both the anglian waters either have closed or will do at the end of the month for boat fishing. Ringstead is open on days organised through Derek Macdonald if it is being run like the previous few years.
  16. When I was over last I watched a series called somethibg like "Montauk Guides" which was about a group of 4 or 5 striper guides out of Montauk and followed them through a summer. It was pretty good and would appeal to a non fishing audience too, the asppeal was a bit like "American Chopper" as the personalities were as important as what they were doing. I used to quite enjoy the "Walkers Cay Cronicles" too when they were on over here. A right old hippy, but it had some charm about it. Joe Bucher does some good programs about fishing in the northwoods which are a bit more advertisingy but I'd be suprised if they couldn't be edited a bit. I also watched (a bit ) of the coverage for the bassmasters final in 2005. Now that was tear jerkingly awful telly! It wouldn't be hard to pick some good ones to show here. I've spent just a few weeks in the states over the past few years and have seen some suitable programs (and a lot of crap) but if it were my job to find new material for discovery I'm sure it wouldn't be hard to fill the schedule up!
  17. I wonder if anyone can point me in the direction of a reasonably priced and good fixed spool for trotting stick floats? Do they still make reels with shallow "match" spools, like the old mitchell reels had? I have an ancient DAM closed face I might try to resurect but would be interested in ideas for a fixed spool. I was using a 4000 sized cheap shimano the other day and the reel stem seemed a bit too long to be able to control the line off the spool easily.
  18. I thought redfish were a bit further north, the Carolinas being the real redfish country?
  19. You'd really rather watch 80's Matt Hayes over and over and over and over and over and over again?
  20. I think they shoot themselves in the foot by showing old programs over and over again ad nausium. Matt bloody Hayes and the dancing eyebrows should be put out to pasture as those total fishing programs were (being generous) "of their time", and that time has definitely past! Same with the John Wilson programs. There's only so many times anyone's going to watch the same show. The more recent programs are a much better standard and more repeatably watchable, but even then ther is a limit. With the huge volume of fishing programs produced in America I can't believe they can't get some pretty inexpensive shows o put on here, though they may need to do something about the heavy product endorsement in many of the shows, but nothing insurmountable. I quite enjoy "lunkerville" (www.lunkerville.com) and can't believe programs like that would cost much to buy to show here, at least there would be something new on more regularly, and so more people would be likely to tune in.
  21. Whilst fly fishing on Hanningfield a few years ago I saw a sparrowhawk being harrassed by crows as it flew over us. Eventually the SH had enough of them and dropped what it was carrying so it could speed away. I rolled my flies out and snagged what it had dropped. It was a blackbird which had been completely plucked, it looked like a classic cartoon chicken! Why do crows mob herons? Hobbies taking swifts are a pretty cool sight too.
  22. When pike picks up a bait with treble hooks you can realistically strike straight away with a realistic chance of hooking the fish. With a single hook you cannot, as illustrated by Brians excellent post above. He describes how you need the skill and experience to set the hook correctly in order to have a reasonable hook-up rate. As you say, maybe it shouldn't be all about efficiently catching all the fish which pick up your bait, but human nature would inevitably lead to people leaving runs longer and longer if they kept missing fish, something which is less necessary with treble rigged baits. Obviously badly fished tackle is badly fished and a pair of trebles is unlikely to do a pike much good if ingested, but nor would a single hook, especially a large hook which can penetrate a lot further than a smaller sized treble. Musky used to be fished for with "suckers", a type of fish like a small barbel, mounted on a single 14/0 hook. This was allowed to run twice for up to half an hour before the hook was set and the fish played it. Obviously this started when all the musky were killed, but has actually carried on in the modern catch and release era! They are gradually being enlightened and modern sucker rigs for musky are basically a snap tackle, as it allows the fish to be hit immediately with an acceptable amount of success.
  23. Hi Newt Real shame to have missed you. Vidar's got some fantastically tarty gear, but it seems designed for people with smaller hands (or should that be deeper pockets?) than mine! My friend who lived in Philly is moving to San Diego soon, so if I get the chance to go out there to see him again I expect I've got a chance at upping my largermouth PB!!
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