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Phew! Thought I might annoy a few people with my 'baitrunners not essential stance'. Anyone seen Matt using one of these kits? (I'll start trawling the video selection...)

A bit controversial - but No. Why would a baitrunner (or freespool reel) be a necessity? I think this is a pretty big misconception, and whilst they have their uses, it is possible to catch equally as good carp on a rear drag. I'll probably get shot to bits for that statement!

BTW moral of the story is not to leave hooks baited - never done it since!!

I caught a bream at Hebdon Bridge (canal boating). Scary thing was rod wasn't in the water!! Was fishing for bream with bread flake but needed a break so I put the rod across the front of the barge wedged under the seat (so it wouldn't fall in - BTW the rod was wound in, bait a good six inches up from the water). Went inside for a cuppa (it was raining). Went outside after hearing a banging noise to see a little bream smacking against the side of the boat, perfectly hooked just through the lip. A truly weird catch...

For price, service and quality I'd go for Snapfish (www.snapfish.co.uk). The bigger 8x10's from there are very nice (my cricket piccies!!)

We had some deadbait roach in our bag one day (we headed off near the coast with a bunch of rods, thinking we'd fish the tide and then do a bit of piking in-shore nearby). Gaz used some of the dead roach on a very simple rig - with a good bit of roach on a 2/0 aberdeen. In fact a lump about 2inches big. With a beach full of fisherman no-one was catching - but Gaz had a couple of flatties - which whilst not much fun, proved sea fish will definitely take roach! Now live, and for bass - who knows!

In mind mind tench can be one of the cleverest adverseries anglers are likely to come across. If you are on hooked baits, try hairs. If you are on hairs try different lengths. If you are on corn try small (10mm) boilies, maggots or worm. If you are ledgered try a float - You get the idea....as Chavender says - they've probably seen it all before!

I saw Chubby at the Grimsby Auditourium(sp.) in January. Offensive, yes, rude yes AND yet one of the funniest things you'd ever see. The crowd had lots of different people from lots of different backgrounds, and besides a few drunks from Scunthorpe nothing kicked off... (I suspect the drunks might have been planted!!)

It's definitely not fly fishing but if you want to see how receptive the carp might be to flies, try a bubble float, six foot leader and a floating fly/nymph on a normal fixed-spool and matchrod (a method I tried once successfully when I ran out of floating bait). If the carp seem to go for the flies (works better on some venues than others) then look at fly rods/reels - a fish on a fly rod though is nothing like one on a float or carp rod, and casting/presentation will require a bit of practise - It's probably more fun though!!

0845's like we use though are very handy for a business. We get-no- revenue (neither does anyone else on 0845's as far as I am aware) but it makes your number non-geographic i.e portable. I had a client when I worked as an IT consultant who wanted to move their business 6 MILES across town, but because it fell on another exchange couldn't carry their landline number through....This is potentially very damaging for a business so anyone with a bit of foresight who envisiges that their business might move premises at some point (expansion etc) should consider them. As far as I am aware BT have no solution for this problem yet. 0870's yes I can see the point of getting rid of since they do generate revenue, BUT, unless another system of making numbers portable is introduced 0845's will probably be here for a long time. Lets also not forget BT introduced this (0870's), and have -certainly- made quite a lot of money from it themselves...it's not just the businesses that operate such numbers or the wholesalers who market them to organisations.

Wouldn't one of the various pet safe disinfectants be OK (can't say I use one, I just sun-dry mine at the minute) - We have (at home) a very mild 'rabbit hutch' aerosal spray which is cheap (£2 a can), kills bacteria, but I am guessing does not last that long - I'm not trying it - but it is probably the right 'sort' of product! Cost wise I cannot see any reason for not using one - our 40" beginner mats are less than a tenner, which when you consider a decent starter kit is going to set you back between £50 and £150 (rod, reel, landing net, brolly, tackle) is not really a 'big deal'.

If pitching a bivvy it is sometimes wise to ask the local farmer - they do not always own the fishing rights, but they often own the land that you end up pitching your bivvy on!! Also in rural areas make sure you are -well- clear of wildlife (I have heard of incidents with cows, and one night we got rumbled by a bloody great horse).

All good advice.... He didn't say he was using a router though did he? You'd assume you'd want to given two wireless cards, but it could be for local gaming, file transfer or something... He could just as easy set it up as peer-to-peer with ICS or something like Vsocks or Comtun to split the internet connection from a master PC (which effectively makes the PC a router). Also 60m seems fine around our way, saying that our factory is a huge building with no 'real' internal walls (only studding). At home I can access from anywhere in the house or garden, which is all I need!!

Ahh! Get a pair of these (one for each machine) and the world of wireless networking is open to you (they are fantastic - I use them at home)... 100m range, ideally no more than 60m in my experience though - works through walls, doors etc. http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products/in...oduct_uid=51323

Are you on Tiscali??? I get them periodically - not viruses - but a little bit annoying nevertheless! -Ian-

Did my solution work? I tested it on my phpmyadmin and it looked ok.... Ian

1.6l, SLX, electric windows, sunroof. ABS brakes (fully serviced last December, sensor(s) replaced). CD player, 1996/7 (P Reg'd), 110,000 miles. Petrol. Tax until August. MOT until November. Last MOT I was told ABS needed servicing which I did. It also had a full new exhaust (all sections) last September (speed bump incident). It's been in the family for six years - been a very good car - NO ENGINE TROUBLE EVER. I have it advertised at £1100. I'd be prepared to let it go at £950 but not a penny less (after all it does need tax next month - I'd also think one new tyre (cost less than £40) before the next MOT). It was a £14k car new - so it was no bottom of the pile piece of kit. Garages have them between £1500 and £2000 around the town (often the bog standard model though). It is fairly clean and tidy for it's age, some marks on the paintwork etc, but nothing too harsh - probably T-cut up nicely. I want it gone ASAP - I've already got my new car and it's in the way!!!!

Depends on the version of PhpmyAdmin, presumably your host is on a modernish version (or if you installed it yourself you are on the latest one). If so, simply go to the table, hit browse, click the red cross to delete the record from the table... *You can do it using SQL directly in the command box.... delete from tablename where fieldname=`value` i.e. delete from customers where refno=`5` DO NOT RUN SQL COMMANDS UNLESS YOU ARE BACKED UP THOUGH!!! [ 07. July 2005, 07:36 PM: Message edited by: UK-Fishing-Tackle.co.uk ]

What are the IPCONFIG results for the laptop?? Seems odd your name resolution isn't working...

History is also important in learning about the true workings of politics (especially from WWI onwards). It is very relevant to the way we lead our lives, even if it has already happened....

I go with two parts white to one part brown. Food processor, sharp blade, and it turns it into powder in about 20 seconds (very light, fluffly). Throw into a huge mixing bowl, add the freebies (I like corn, luncheon meat - luncheon meat EVER so finely chopped). mix it all up and you get a fine power with lumpy bits of corn/meat covered in powder. Not too many freebies - the fish want your bait remember!! Take to the swim dry in an airtight bowl. Add river/pond water slowly and keep mixing thoroughly until it only just forms a good ball (without being over wet) and lob overarm or pult. It should start breaking up as soon as it hits the water. Seems to work for me anyway...

Bah! I am all for ID cards, just to see if the government can actually make something work (besides they'll probably spend the money on the olympics now!!)..

Back to school history lessons. I am 24, so not been out of school that long. Up until (and including) your third year of secondary school you were taught about ROMANS (romulus, remus, a line on the ground, swordfight, seven hills and rome). Pretty much for a year thats all we did. DARK AGES - skipped over - arguably because not much is known or more likely for traditional reasons since you'd learn quite a bit about Pagans (and the true origins of quite of lot of modern religious beliefs in the process). So year two started at 1066, Ethelred the unready, Eward the confessor, William the Conqeror, a big victory in the north, a severe kicking in the south - Magna carta - beginnings of the christian churches. We got to about 1500 odd during this year. Year 3, basically was the rise of the british empire starting from Henry the 8th, rise of Church of England. The peasants revolt (I think), the bringing together of the monarchies of Great Britain. This went up to about the late 1700's I think and stopped. Maybe we got to Crystal Palace and the industrial revolution, but I suspect it might have been a prelude to the war we picked up in year 4. Now at the end of year 3 you make your choices for GCSE's (at this point knowing sweet FA about the two world wars really). Out of our year of say 80 pupils, probably 15 or so took history - the rest took geography. That leaves a lot of people that are blissfully unaware about Archduke Ferdinand, the concept of Blitkreig, Hitlers bizarre rise to power (and how clever a man - even if he was a f****** lunatic - he really must have been). No proper knowledge of important battles, such as those at the Somme (we actually visited Ypres in Belgium), no understanding of why the Americans became involved (such as the sinking of the luisitania in WWI, bombing of pearl harbour in WWII etc). They are also unaware of the fact that the handling of post WWI by the allies was *partially* responsible for the antaganism in German and Austria. No knowledge of the Beer hall push, Kapp Push, the framing of communists at the Reischtag fires. Our lack of action at Germany's clear rearming, even though it contravined the treaty of versailles. Russia's part in both wars is virtually unheard of today(despite losing ten times as many men as Britain), and most probably aren't aware that the communist/capatalist feuds sort of stem from Russias over-reaction to protecting their borders and way of life (from memory Yelta/Potsdam, division of Germany etc). I am no historian and the above is very concise and perhaps wrong - it's all from memory -, but I learnt a lot from history lessons. People who opted for Geography (and do not read) probably don't appreciate all the above. The problem is, when you see how it happened, it could EASILY happen again - perhaps not with superpowers (threat of nuclear war), but potentially a continent like South America, Africa could be ripped to pieces in a very similar way. Sure the Geo people will tell us all about weather fronts and massi warriors and mud slides in malaysia - but I believe MANY people in my generation truly know sod all about WWI or WWII, and I shouldn't have thought a 'great deal' has changed in the last 8 years or so. These days, with schools being able to offer NVQ's etc I wonder what % of people do study history beyond that 3rd year in school.... [ 06. July 2005, 10:08 PM: Message edited by: UK-Fishing-Tackle.co.uk ]

Be interesting to see what two or three sports we introduce as 'demonstration events'.....it's kind of a tradition at the Olympics. I'd suggest pub darts, or killer (those familiar with 8-ball pool will know the rules). Any other suggestions???

Oh the French must be laughing. Billions of sterling wasted away, whilst London becomes the most expensive city in the world to visit, and Paris picks up on balance of the European city tourist trade. Meanwhile southerners (I am not one by the way) will get stung with higher congestion charges and council tax to pay for it, whilst having to put up with the influx of mainly unskilled immigrant workers that we'll need to successfully host the games (who will likely remain around after and unemployed). My controversial two cents!!