Ken L

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 ?

What. You bl00dy idiot ! I almost soiled my armer I was so scared.

Nah, it's a Kangeroo. What worries me is the 17 year old "marksman" with orders to shoot to kill.

Have a look here http://www.anglersnet.co.uk/forums/index.p...hl=india+update PM me with any specific queries. I also have contact details for a charter boat working out of a port just to the south of Panjim if you want them.

No sooner do I post this than I turn to the BBC site and find this http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4880022.stm

I have the same problem. The number of companies and service providers that refuse point blank to rewrite all of there products for my BBC micro and supply them on 7" floppies is a damed disgrace !!!! Surely, you knew that loosing all of the compatability that PC users take for granted was the trade off you were taking when you brought an Apple in the same way that you must have known that upgrading of an existing machine instead of wholesale replacement every three years wasn't for you.. Come to think of it, exactly why would any right minded person buy a Macc ?

I finally got through this morning. They are still trading but have apparently been having "Major problems" with e-mail. If anyone has a problem with their orders, use the phone and ring during normal office hours.

The game nets are all a bit small but that's the kind of thing I'm after. Newt's suggestion is very similar to the one that I took to India on the last trip (only with better mesh) and I supose I might well end up with something similar next time arround. Not the easiest thing to carry though and easy to get bent buy baggage handlers.

Yep, white stuff was falling from the sky in Birmingham this afternoon ! That's not suposed to happen. I'm a tropical species and I'm sure I felt my leaves wilting when I went out in it.

A landing net is as useful abroad as it is in the UK and in the past, I've taken sea style nets travelling with me on my travels and simply left them there when I move on. As my next trip is likely to cover several different locations, it'd be useful to have a net that I can readily fold up and take with me to the next destination. Ideally, it'll be about 80cn diameter and have a lure resistant mesh and fold up to fit in a tube of some description. Carp nets arn't really an option because the mesh makes then to hard to handle in any sort of swell or current. Any suggestions

I've e-mailed Harris Sportsmail four times without a reply and every time I try to ring them, the phone just rings out. There isn't even an answerphone or recorded message. Are they still trading or has customer service just taken a nosedive since the business was sold ?

Oops, wrong forum. This should have gone on the Coarse board.

Just a quick note to make people aware that whilst in India, we came accross what appeared to be fake Shimano reels on sale. They had a Shimano Logo on the reel but were sold with no spare spool and on looking at the parts diagram, thee was no mention of it being a Shimano product. I just thought I'd mention it because once they're out in the global market place, it wont be long before they start showing up for sale on the net.

The link shows the price as £99.95. Are you offering a £9.95 discount to AN members ?

Yeh, well, so are whippet racing, pigeon keeping and rambling. On the other hand, Bhangra dancing is far too young and Asian and there are far to many elderly black guys playing dominoes. When will these idiots wake up and realise that we don't live in a homogenous scociety.

Ah, but I do know someone in the US who can post it on to be. Total cost should be about £95.

I have my eye here: http://www.cabelas.com/cabelas/en/template...requestid=25272 and I'm specifically looking at the TF10904P. Cabelas charge 40% to post to the UK though and you might get hit for tax and handleing charges as well. All that gets a bit steep but can be avoided it you know someone in the US that you can have it delivered to and who is prepared to repackage it and send it on.

I have a 2 piece 9 weight outfit that I use for pike fishing in the summer and am thinking about buying a 10 weight 4 piece rod for saltwater and mahseer fishing when I go travelling. If I use my existing 9 weight lines, how will this affect the rod's ability to turn the flies over and will underloading the rod make it more difficult for a relative novice at fluff chucking ? If it's going to be hard work, any recomendations for cheap #10 lines ?

That last one was NASTY....

Helium is notorious for leaking out of containers because the gas simply sqeezes through the gaps between the molecules of whatever you store it in. If the system is of good quality, it will have a valve to allow you to top up the Helium syly - the best ones are compatable with the tanks ued at McDonalds so that you can refil for free.