Ken L

Great fish ! I first heard of them in the mid 80's when Kevin ________s was catching them on the Volga Delta. Now they seem to have spread to and be doing well in much of western Europe including Holland and Sweeden. I'm with Phill, I want them in the Severn !!!!!

Yes I found it funny but it's kinda hard to justify laughing at what amouts to animal crelty though.

Some nasty people lure a poor unsuspecting squirrel along a branch and onto the arm of a clay pigeon launcher - and then set it off along with Mr Tufty.

Do you play songs by that welsh rapper ? . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . LL Cool J

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How about this ? http://www.consumerfreedom.com/downloads/r...17_petakids.pdf

I bet you could generate more energy with less environmental impact by drawing energy off a 100,000 tonne concrete float bobbing up and down in a tide filled chamber acting like a piston. What probability of connecting several like the worlds biggest car engine ?

What do we all think of the provision of government funded services to people who do not or will not speak English ? Welsh has been mentioned but agencies such as the DWP don't just provide free interpreters and translated documents for our cousins in the principality to our west. They provide similar services in Urdu, Gugerati, Hindi, Maratti and Vietnamies amongst many others and such services don't come cheap. Hospitals, job centres etc try to provide interpreters from within there own staff but if none are available, they will pay for them to be externally contracted in at public expence. My own views are simple. With the exception of immigration services, there should only be two languages used for interaction with local and central government agencies. English and BSL (British Sign Language - for the deaf) - with brail and audiotape for the visually impaired. Anyone wishing to use an interpreter should supply there own and dead languages such as Latin, Sanskrit and Welsh should certanly not be provided for. I will happily listen to arguments against this last point if anyone can provide me with evidence that there are more than 50,000 people present in these Islands who speake either Latin, Sanskrit or Welsh and do not also speak fluent English - and thus both need and justify the huge expence of making documents and interpreters available to them at taxpayers expence. Discuss......

Why is it that that the only way of generating tidal power that ever seems to be considered is a barrage with turbines ? At best, this can only generate energy for a third of each tidal cycle and so those coal fired stations need to be kept running to fill the gaps.

My local Lidl still has a pile of £6.99 bite alarms. Did anybody buy one when they first came on sale and if so are they any good or has the fist exposure to rain killed them ?

Ghandi would have just loved the Nazis.....and he must have had a very rose tinted view if India.

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Just the job. Thanks guys. I'll have a propper look/play over the next week.

If you're ripping the CD, when the machine finds the wrong track list from the net, hit the "Find Album details" tab and do a manual search until you get the right information. You might also have to alter the "ignore files smaller than" setting if there are very short tracks on the album. If all else fails, just cut and paste track details. If you're only using the machine as a CD player, sorry, no idea.

Why ? Just go out and buy a Calcutta 151 and put the ABU in a case and look at it.

By this logic, we should be very, very worried because the greater part of the planets landmass is technically FRANCE !!!

I like surreal humour. It always brings a smile to my face when I see a Nike clad chav walking around town proudly displaying the words "Air Max" above his arse.

Lidl

I have searched for a joke from rabbit. I have failed. I searched for an appreciative comment from rabbit about someone elses joke. No joy there either. I did find one point where he said that he has a very good sence of humour. Presumably, it's kept locked up for safety.

Back in the days when I was the youngest member of a fishing club, we had one old boy who would always take a couple of decent perch home for the table. He reckoned they were top nosh. I've fancied trying it myself for a while but they're always either to small to bother with or to big to just knock on the head for the table. Pike are well worth a go though and if you look on the web, there are plenty of US sites with fileting instructions so that you can avoid the bones - not that I very often take one for the pot.

Got Him !!!!

Thanks Dan. I've actually decided to hold off on uprating my kit and continue to use my 9# outfit this season. After a bit more fishing and research, I'll have a better idea of what I really need if I'm going to add a fly rod to my selection of travel kit. I agree that £200 is a silly amout of cash to even thinking about parting with for what amounts to a line store. OK, so in saltwater, you're likely to be playing fish on the reel but it'd be next to impossible to put more than a kilo or so of presure onto the reel with a fly rod so heavy enginering isn't exactly the order of the day.

Having been out of the country, I'd not read this thread until today. I'm saddened to hear that John has taken a significant turn for the worse and can only hope that he is comfortable and that he has the people that he loves close to him. All the best John.

Bumblebees do sting but they have to be really pi55ed off before they do it. Comming in through a car window and smashing into a bear torsoe at 50mph was enough to annoy the one that stung me. Wasps on the other hand will sting you 'cause you loked at them in a funny way.........

There are loads of cheap reels about that'll happily take a #8 or 9 line but the choices suddenly get very limited when you start looking for a reel that'll take a #10 or 11. Most of the prices are just silly when you consider that a fly reel is a very simple and uncomplicated piece of kit. Any suggestions for a saltwater resistent reel that'll hold a WF10 line + backing and which comes with a second spool so that more than one line can be carried ?