Ken L

Given the clothing, general swagger and contempt with which the goods were paid for Davey, I'd guess that they've done both. A case of having our cake and eating it.

Why is it that everytime a story like this one appears, one like this http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4981720.stm appears a day or two latter to redress the balance ?

What I object to is so called assylum seekers living the high life whilst old folks are left with no services.

Jan, These particular vouchers were issued by the UK Government.

I was in my local Asda yesterday. Two guys in front of me are dressed in leather coats, Levi jeans and Nike shoes. Both are dripping with gold and sporting the latest 3G type phones. Both are very fit and healthy and obviously have fresh haircuts. Both were speaking in a language that was clearly not English - in the Black Country, it's sometimes hard to tell. The stuff going through the till is top notch - Organic fruit and veg, fresh steak, the works. Once the goods have been skanned, they are told that the bill is a little over £70 and they start to pay for it WITH £2, £1 AND 50p LUNCHEON VOUCHERS ! Scanning these things into the till took 4 or 5 minutes and the girl on the desk appologised to me for the delay. As the two swaggered off, she looked up at me and said "Youve just paid for that". BTW. This is anything but an uncommon occurance. Something similar has happened on three of my last visits to the store. On another occasion, there was another guy between me and the chappie with the vouchers and he got VERY upset.

That's the trouble with PC humour. Once you stop taking the p1ss out of people, it's not funny.

errr. What other thread ?

A few years ago, I saw an alternative to the breachcaster rig using a big controller float with a carbon fiber arm built into the float. When the float sat upright, the arm would be about 35 degrees to the surface and had a length of line and a hook left hanging from the end so that the bait would just rest on the surface. The bait isn't really achored in the same way as in a BC rig but it would seem to let you have some of the advantages of a BC without breaching the ban.

Strange that. Their spinning rods are to long for most spinning aplications and they don't make a decent rod for freashwater bottomfishing. It does make you wander exacly what these highly paid product designers and consultants actually do.

This seems to be the best way of getting up to the minute information. http://news.google.co.uk/nwshp?hl=en&tab=wn&q=Beaconsfield Just hit refresh when the page loads.

"Better not start doing any no-bucks reminiscing" Paul I can see what your thinking but the reality is that these days, the Indians have largely woken up to the potential value of the fishing in their worthwhile inland rivers and sting forigners accordingly. Although we had cheap fishing by European standards, we were still being charged more than 10 times what Indian Nationals were being asked to pay - despite the fact that the only Indian anglers that we met whilst there were owners and directors of multinational companies who were earning several times my salary. Where the Indians fail to maintain the waterways, they are netted, poisoned or dynamited to a degree that renders fishing pointless. This leaves two choices - Poach (something I wasn't prepared to do) or pay. I'm sure that real groundbreaking Mahseer fishing is still possible on a misers budget and in rivers where there are still some decent fish but I suspect that you'd have to go to Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Assam, Manipur or completely out of India to Myanmar (Burma) to do it.

A couple of gems there. I loved the cat one but then again, I thought it was hysterical when Samsung (A Korean company) sponsored Crufts dog show and nobody else seemed to get it.

Don't do it. If you buy a tele, you'll hate it 'cause it's top heavy and it'll inevitably let you down at some point. Go for a multisection rod like one the heavier Shimano Exage or Beastmaster spinning rods. They're actually way to long to be a decent spinning rod but they'd suit you for general heavy float or light lead fishing and will handle big fish with ease. Mate of mine had Mahseer to 25lb on one without to much trouble.

Well, it wasn't exactly Bheemeshwari. We had no power. Washing water was carried up from the river and we had to buy in our own cooking kit, food and water. Oh yes, and the nearest town was almost 20km away. It was fantastic though with wild animals, fabulous birds and (once we figured it out) great fishing. The coastal fishing was easier 'cause it's easy to get a cold beer and a hot meal. India is as expensive as you make it. I paid 150 Rs a night (About £2.00) for my room for the last two weeks but it was definatly BASIC. The only thing that stung my pocket was the unpaid leave that I had to take to get out there for long enough to make the flight worthwhile.

Yuk ! Tastes like peat bogs and creosote dipped railway sleepers ! Glenmorange for me or a nice drop of full strength Wild Turkey.

I agree that it's not about money. My total expendeture for 6 weeks in India including flights and two weeks stay in a lodge to fish for the Mahseer was a little over £1000.00. It's perfectly possible to fly to Barcelona and back for thr price of a train ticket to London and have a long weekend after giant catfish for less than £200. To be honest, I get sick to the back teeth of people looking at TV angling programs and moaning about how the "stars" are always fishing exclusive waters that are out of the reach of mere mortals. The reality of course is that most of these "exclusive" waters can be fished by anyone for the price of a night in the pub and some for a lot less than that - I've seen Mat Hayes fishing on BAA controlled sections of the Severn on his Show and that's only £25 a year for a season ticket that'll let you fish better than 50 miles of rivers.. What does limit people is their lifestyle choices. OK, so you can't travel for long periods because you have kids and a family and can't simply up sticks and leave them. Instead, your holidays consist of 10 days a year in Greace. You made your choices. They arn't all negative, enjoy your kids and don't bemoan others who don't share your situation a bit of wonderlust.

I agree. I thought that that the first serise was pretty crap myself. Five weeks of p1ssing about and when he finally did get a shot at an Arrapyma, he ditched the tackle and used a sodding handline ! Not really a fishing program in my book. I was wondering about the Ghoonch thing though because The blurb was about him searching out a 200lber and I've never heared of or seen a picture of a Ghoonch of anywhere near that size. Of course I was was also thinking about any information about possible fishing locations that might be included in the program.

I missed the entire serise 'cause I was in India. Were they any good and does anybody know when they're going to be repeated ?

Especially given that the article in question is dated 2003 and nothing has been heared of the dumb ass proposal since.

The place to go in the area is Singapore. There's about a dozen top tackle shops in the area arround the junction of Beach Road and Arab Street. Lots of bargains to be had but the place for cheap Shimano reels (Last years models) is Hock Ann Sports (PTE) Ltd.

This was popular a few years ago using a two hook paternoster with a heacy feeder on the end. It dropped out of favour because it was pretty much a death sentence to any fish that picked up the bait following a crackoff or snagging of the feeder. At the end of the day, roach aint carp and any rig with enough resistance to set the hook is going to be very difficult to make "Safe" and prevent fish being tethered in the event of an accident. Go-on, Get the float rod out and enjoy roach for what they are...

The title of the thread says it all really. They don't breath through them. They taste/smell using their mouths and/or barbules. They're a bit like nipples on men. Just what are they for ?

What you want is one of those electric dog training colars. Sorts the rug rats out in double quick time.

Either way but as we were casting we tended to hook one point back into the body of the lure. This kept everything in one place and put the hook as far back as possible.

When I saw the thread title, it was going to be undoctored picks of Kelly Brook'a "wardrobe malfunction".