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Ken L

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  1. I've never been very happy about feeding waterfowl. Whatever they get fed, it's rarely a balanced diet (usually bread and chips) and whilst there might be plenty of free tourist handouts in the summer, they tend to dry up a bit in the winter leaving loads of half starved birds on the river with no skills to find their natural food. I'll even go so far as to tap any swanns that come looking for a free feed with my rod. Sounds cold hearted and cruel but there are plenty of low life kids with airguns arround here and they'll happily let food conditioned swans come to them so that they can shoot them with airguns. If you're going to continue feeding throughout the winter and the place is public enough to prevent idiots, I'd go with corn and wheat.
  2. Lots of trees but no sign of a bush.
  3. When you're tripping, try not to think too hard about the little dayglow green maggots that floated to the top when you were making your "Tea".
  4. I use both and catching chub on a light baitcasting outfit and little 1/4oz spinners always puts a grin on my face. One never ending disapointment with baitcasters though is when a big fish screams off to the sound of............Silence. I do love the sound od of a screaming clutch on a fixed spool reel
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    Nasty !

    A Toby in the groin was my best effort. Now, I use braid and although I will try to shake a lure free with the rod, if I have to pumm for a break, I clamp my hand over the reel, point the rod at the lure and syep backwards - No big springs anywhere to catapult the lure back at me.
  6. This subject has done before. I I recall, Newt posted an incredible image produced using side scanning sonar technology. Peter. You can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink.
  7. Fine, that's why it should be on the cirriculum. But schools are no place for religious indoctrination - especially when that (christian) indoctrination takes the form of condemnation of one of the most important pagan festivals of the year.
  8. No problem with banning halloween from schools. Just ban all the other religious mumbo jumbo as well. If the kids or their families want to celebrate halloween, christmas, nirvatri or eid outside school, thats fine but it doesn't have a place in educational institutions unless it is on the ciriculum.
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    Nasty !

    I'm not sure whether this relates to a sea or a carp fishing accident but it should serve as a timely reminder of the dangers of yanking on a snagged line with a rod. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/north_eas...ast/4315748.stm
  10. Another vote for some US material. There must be tons of musky, striper, bass and walleye fishing material that's been about for a decade or so who's distributors would welcome Discovery opening up the European market for their material. In the UK, it'd be a good idea to try doing all the things that Mr Wilson tries to avoid. How does our angler choose his swim? What features does he see or anticipate from looking at the water and what does he see as being the likely fish content of the peg? How does he decide how to takle the water? How does he set up his tackle - in detail. How does he fish/control the tackle?. What does he end up catching ? No pictures of pretty birdies or flowers. Not that there's anything wrong with Mr Wilson's format, but there's more than 10 years worth on film already and a change would be nice. On the lure issue, no need for transmitters. Just record the video to a chip and upload it after every couple of casts.
  11. Great idea ! What do I do after they heal and she brings a knife to bear on my knackers ?
  12. Big problems in florida with illegally released "pet" snakes. Cobra's, Gabon Vipers etc to ruin peoples day with a little nip. Now it looks as if Pythons are moving in to take over the top spot as apex predator. Unfortunatly, Python's don't dig holes so there'll soon be nowhere for the fish and amphibians in the dry season.
  13. "putting nuts in the fire to see which one jumped out first" Painfull ! Did you do a "weiner roast" at the same time ?
  14. No fish = No Herons. No Kingfishers. No Grebes. No Otters. It what way is it a "Nature Reserve" ?
  15. Ken L

    Fireworks

    Mind you, they do seem to be too stupid to have figured out the "Retire to a safe distance" bit..
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    Fireworks

    Ah the good old days of home made fireworks and pipe bombs..... I used to love making home made bangers with half a teaspoon of weedkiller and sugar mixture, a shotgun primer and a twist of tissue paper. Great fun but not too safe. I've had to dig several bits of metal out of my legs after a night with home made bangers. As for the pipe bombs (and "bangers" made with a small co2 cylinder and the contents of a couple of shotgun cartridges), building these things is now quite likely to result in a one way trip to Guantanamo Bay. My brother was reminising about some of the stupid (but impressive) things we used to blow up a couple of weeks ago. His comment....These days, the terrorists have all the fun".
  17. Yep, a discrace. Everyone knows you need to use a wire leader for sharks. Joking aside, I have grave doubts about the authenticity of these photo's.
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    Fireworks

    Following the ban on decent bangers and airbombs, I wonder how long it will be before there is a serious accident in the tunnel or on a ferry as someone tries to bring a van load of loud fireworks over from France a about a quater of the price of the equivelent firepower if brought over here.
  19. What do we think about this ? Personally, I'm in the "No" camp. Less than 5% of the country is actually in Europe. Their human rights record sucks - especially in the East. The EU would suddenly have land boarders with Syria, Iran and Iraq and the potential for sliding into a future large scale conflict is considerable.
  20. Try http://www.wunderground.com/global/stations/03318.html This has everything you asked for as well as your local weather.
  21. One of Elton's sponsors is currently flogging Fenwick Iron Tread at very reasonable prices. It's been arround for a while (as has Power Pro) but I've never tried it. Does anyone have any experience of this line ? Specifically, is it any good ?
  22. "Pike, being the prehistoric monster that it is, has a relatively poor oxygen exchange system." Hold on, we are talking about a fish with a circum global ditribution in the Northern Hemishpere and a range from Southern Europe to the Arctic Circle. It's so sucessfull that it has barely been changed by evolution in millions of years and it remains the apex predator across it's entire range. If there was anything substandard about it's makeup, it wouldn't be here. I'm inclined to agree that the so called "pike season" is simply a hangover from the days of old when the gamekeeper would be prepared to allow the oinks onto the river to remove pike when the salmon and trout weren't in season. If people want to define their own seasons and choose to target specific species at certain times of the year, that's fine but please don't try to impose rules on the rest of us. If pike welfare was really the driving force behind these suggestions, we'd see a ban on pike fishing during February and March when the fish are spawn-laden an likely to be injured if handled without the water supporting their weight.
  23. 3D interspecies gay animal porn a reality.
  24. I can just see the PETA logic. There's a story that may or may not be true. Get Bardot to condem the practice and hit the press. Hey, this is making the news, we need evidence ! Think... Think... Think... OK, so if we get a dog and insert some big scary hooks under local anathetic, it's not going to feel any pain. There's no pain so there's no cruelty and the dog is one of thousands that we kill (err.. sory, oh, what's the word.... euthanise, that's it) I mean euthanise every year in any case. Stupid animal doesn't even look scared so we'll pull back the scalp for the still shots to make it look as if it's in anony - or at least a little suprised. Great ! Fantastic ! Hey, everyone's a winner - except the dog.
  25. They both laughed at the obvious joke and as the husband coughed, he looked up at his wife and said "You know, there's something I need to tell you. In all the years that we've been married, I've remained faithfull to you until last fall when I fell for the charms of Rodger Murphy's daughter Megan. She took me on a ride of pure erotic delight and I've been wracked with guilt ever since" "I know about that" said his wife. "You do?" said the husband. "Yes, why do you think I poisoned you ?" "Mind you, I didn't expect to have to come in here for 8 weeks and sit with my chair on your Oxygen line to finnish you off"
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