poledark
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sounds like a case for privatisation, getting some motivation going.
i'll get me coat
Best start saving now if that's what you want.
Sportsman seems to be very unfortunate with the NHS experience, the flat battery is a classic!
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There was a Starling at Sutton lakes that imitated a bite alarm.........got many a guy running for his rods
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Dave, as a pensioner like yourself I am relatively untouched by all that goes on outside my little world, so I will very likely give the UKIP a vote............just to wake the others up
Den
PS. I think I have taken out a lot more than I paid in as well
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Sounds like fun to me Dave. A few more jobs like that and you will start to see the pitfalls BEFORE you commit yourself
Keep us posted
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Formalin probably does the trick eventually.
I like that
:)Den
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Well, I for one (76) will continue to have my Flu jabs
haven't even had a cold for years now got everything else going wrong....................is there a jab for old age?Den
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Looks accessable to me Dave
A hacksaw blade held in a bit of cloth will cut thro' the black pipe quite easily, make the cut at least 18" from the pan connector. A couple of offset coupling will get you back, use a bit of the offcut of pipe between the offsets and the rest to meet up with the R/A connector as needed.Den
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As the soil pipe is accessible (boxed in?) can you cut off a section about half way and alter the end where the pan fits? A P pan and R/A bend might then do it?
A pic would help
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Lovely stuff Newt...first bit could do with some Appalachian clog dancers behind
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When I was in my teens (many moons ago) I was investigating a lake in a private estate. It was surrounded with what appeared to be bamboos. I shoved my way in to these (pretty dense) and found the edge of the lake, but could I find my way back? Had I been on my own I may still have been there
but headed in the direction from where my mate was calling out to me.Den
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Cross the river on the top ferry and walk along upriver for a short distance and you will see "the grids" (groynes) fish these at low water up with peeler..............super bass fishing.
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Quite simple really, the bobbin should not grip the line at any time, should not need adjusting, should never fall off and should always release when rod is lifted off the rest. Need not be expensive "My Springloks are
) But a lot of cash was spent designing and developing them in an attempt to offer an all singing, all dancing set of indicators, but if you want the best, then you have to pay for it I make no apologies for promoting them on AN or anywhere else for that matter.Like you, I have a box full of reject designs of all sorts of fishing related objects, but one or two successful ones made it into the mainstream..............flat bottom feeders..........you saw them several years ago..............design freely given to whoever wanted it.
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Still get the same old problem with the line tending to get jammed down between the balls, and if you set them to loose, or use thinner line, they fall off. "Improving" them with a bit of PTFE tape is a bodge, but if they are cheap enough then it can be put up with, but certainly doesn't qualify for the "Ultimate" bobbin
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Probably the fish has been "played" for so long it is totally exhausted....inadequate tackle. A bit like those guys who use light tackle to play Barbel and then have to nurse the fish before release as it is totally exhausted.
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These work really well
add a lightweight extending arm and Richards your uncle!
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That's good to hear Steve
the valley up the road from me is gradually filling up, looks like the river Wye for a couple of miles!Den
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How is the fishery coping with the water levels Steve? Hope all is well down there,
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There is a place in Spain called (I think) little Gibraltar , I had the misfortune to drive a hired car up the track to the radio station at the top. I had two of my sons with me aged about 6 and 8. Single track, sheer drop on one side to the sea, sheer cliff on the other side straight up.
We got near the top and found the gate shut ...............and no room to turn. Surface covered in loose grit, strange car, young kids and a very concerned Dad. I decided it was to risky to try and reverse back down, so got the kids out and VERY VERY carefully made a 20 point turn................at one stage with only a foot of road width to play with. Obviously I made the turn OK, so got the kids back in and then had to inch carefully down the steep loose grit covered slope.
Even 35 years later I still have the occasional nightmare! actually having one now
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Sounded more like hysteria to me.
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The one he usually uses Cory
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R I P Pete, wonderful voice,
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Last week, alternate wet and windy days, I put up a new fence. Had to remove lots of undergrowth to get old fencing away. On the thursday a Peacock butterfly appeared, I assumed I had maybe disturbed it from hibernation.
Today, went for a walk to Crundale, fabulous views, one of our favourite walks, especially coming back down
About midday, sat in conservatory, bright sun, admiring my new fence and spotted this butterfly down the garden on a viburnham bush. Went to get a closer look and it was a large (probably male) Red Admiral. Called wife to come and see while I rushed in for camera. Too late, the RA had flown.Back in conservatory and another butterfly appeared, not the RA, but a pristine Peacock! Got a fine closeup of him sunning himself on the window ledge.
So, off down the garden hoping RA would come back..he didn't, but the viburnham was smothered in at least 4 different kinds of Bees!
Our "early" dafs are well up showing just a tiny bit of yellow on the tips of the buds.
Robin has been singing his little head off right up into dusk, all in all, a very pleasant day
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/MGQaYoucF_mHYVsztXCf2S0T8ic0WphjnLmb3VYQdw=w460-h259-p-no
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One of my favourite haunts in the past was the upper reaches of the little river Eden in Kent. At and above Crowhurst there were a series of tiny weirs, brick built with wooden boards which could be added to or removed as needed to control the flow and levels. Obviously had all been built and managed but quite what for I never found out, most of the local farmers hadn't any idea, but I did think it had been done to maintain a sufficient level of water to be used as a trout fishery?
Now this river floods if you pee in it, always has done since I first fished it in the early 1950's, the water is over the banks and rushing downstream to join the Medway (similarly managed in the past and floods just as quickly)
Almost all the tiny weirs (sluices) on the upper Eden have gone, some removed by EA, most simply collapsed due to neglect and erosion, the weir pools have silted up and so now the silt is steadily washed downstream.
Yalding is always in the news when it gets its regular dose of Eden, Medway, Beult and Teise floodwater. Has done for all my lifetime, certainly for the 64 years I fished that area, and yet still the residents seem surprised and complain that nothing is done. The area is mainly almost flat so the rivers flow slowly.
There is an answer, a series of canals or whatever cut across the area,5 or 6 X 40 foot wide, fed by smaller ones channeling the floodwaters out to sea, the main river maintained by a series of gates to be opened allowing the floods to disperse down these when rain threatens.
Do you think the residents would pay for all that? Plenty of models to be seen throughout the world, I've seen similar in Japan and the USA
By contrast there is the Great Stour, also in Kent but with a much steeper gradient, this rarely floods
I also used to fish the Arun a lot, most winters the fields were flooded for weeks, and at some time(60's?) the river was dredged and straightened and a further channel cut, this certainly reduced the flooding.
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Pleb - is not a swear word:
nouninformal, derogatory
- an ordinary person, especially one from the lower social classes
Probably could be taken as quite an insult then? Especially coming from an MP
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Korda to save fishing
in Coarse Fishing
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If the responses on here are anything to go by, then he will probably succeed and who knows? the idea may spread to include other types of fisheries?
And as for all the PATHETIC name twisting, how many of you would have the balls to say it to his face? Childish, cowardly and down right bloody ignorant the lot of you,
And no, I don't buy Korda gear.
Den
PS, don't start on my name either or you will regret it.