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It's a cracking little river, although admittedly I'm probably somewhat biased as I run the website of the Derwent Angling Association, which controls the river from Lintzford up to the reservoir. There's some excellent fishing for brownies and a few grayling, although sadly not as many as there used to be. The wild brownie fishing can be outstanding though, particularly in the wild trout zone above Allensford.

I wonder where that figure of '100,000' votes for Nuddy came from though? That bit does sound like someone (most likely at the Angling Times) just thinking of a really big number to make their point. And once something like that's in print, it gets quoted in another article, which in turn becomes the source for another article etc, and pretty soon it's impossible to figure out what the truth of the matter really was.

Magic Spikers have kept me on my feet the past couple of years and I wouldn't be without them. My wife has changed her allegiance to Yaktrax though, which she claims are more comfortable and just as effective.

Temporarily out of stock usually means just that though - they'll usually be getting more copies in in the next couple of days. With the post as buggered up as it is right now, you probably wouldn't notice the difference in delivery time anyway! (I hope you've got an Amazon Associates account, Elton!)

www.anglersnet.co.uk/authors/leon11.htm

Even if their own software is Windows only, if it's a bog-standard DVB-T receiver, which is what it looks like, you still might be use it with different software, like this bloke's doing with a Freecom stick, for example. If you already own a laptop and have a spare tenner, it might well be worth a punt. Basically though, if it's what I think it is, if you're using it in the UK, it'll be a Freeview receiver on a USB stick – pretty cool and great for a tenner, but not some magical free gateway to the television and radio stations of the world. If you take your laptop on holiday, I'm pretty sure you'd only see what's available free to air locally, and then only if it's a country using the DVB-T standard (which, to be fair, includes all of Europe). As for their claim of 5,000-plus TV channels and 20,000 radio stations – well, if you add together everything available everywhere, then maybe, but you'd only be able to access to whatever's available locally at any one time. If you're stuck for ideas for things to listen to on Spotify, then you'd be better off subscribing to a few playlist feeds, I'd reckon.

http://dgfishtales.blogspot.com/ I've been reading his blog for a while but I had no idea that was his name – I just recognised him from the picture in the story!

You could ask that question of anyone with a job though, couldn't you?

Indeed it was.

Heh!

Done. Found it yet?

That was exactly what put me off too. They were rock solid, but a bit too rock solid once you'd got a bit of gubbins in the joint! I ended up chucking mine.

Have you tried the disc in any other computers? If it's not mounting, then I'd have thought it was much more likely to be a problem with the disc (or your PC's CD drive) than anything wrong with the contents. Have you ever been able to open it?

Clearly they never learnt much about them in the writer's time either – Shaw was Irish.

David Wolsoncroft-Dodds might well be able to help – I know he does lots of guided trips, home and abroad. His website is at www.flyfishforpike.co.uk (where he says that "2010 will also feature trips to Manitoba and the Swedish Baltic")

“Big pit” reels. So “big” reels then…

There's something so horribly dismissive about referring to anything that isn't a carp as silver fish/silvers that really narks me.

What sort of fishing? Sea fishing? Coarse fishing? Fly fishing? You've got all three pretty much on your doorstep.

Couldn't agree more. Hugh Miles is clearly a hugely talented cameraman, but a pretty rotten director, I'd say.

Last time I was over at Arnside, it was fascinating to watch that old bloke doing this with his golden retriever. Mind you, the retriever wasn't so golden after half an hour of plodging through the mud!

Ha! I've not seen a slow worm in years!

Yep, I just had the same problem too – couldn't make the text box active to type in to reply. I toggled back to the standard text editor from the rich text one and everything seems to be OK now.

I don't know what it's like now, but the lakes in Clissold Park in Stoke Newington used to be absolutely full of them.

Interesting, thanks.

So is it always the state that prosecutes, or are there private prosecutions as well?