yorkio
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There was two websites running, one the club one and the other an unofficial one and I believe its the unofficial one thats gone
Got it – www.deltaflash.co.uk/FDAC.html
From the looks of it, the unofficial one is still there, although now abandoned.
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As far as I'm aware Ferryhill have Tursdale on a very long lease but you can check out their website for more details
Have they still got one? I know they did, but I seem to remember it disappearing a while back.
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Thanks, but this one's probably not for me. I'd be happy to post the pics for you though if you'd like me to.
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Hi Lyn, what's it made of? Glass? Cane? Graphite? etc And what sort of length? Can you make anything out from the label to see what sort of line weight it might be?
Ta
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Models have to be thin, whatever the feminists and health fascists would have us believe.
Why do they have to be thin?
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Now that's the sort of rant I expect on this part of the forum, you just need to focus your hate a bit more and maybe throw a few insults around, pick on a few more ethnic groups. Just mentioning asylum seekers and immigrants is not enough, you need write in a style that means they must all DIE NOW, apart from not enough hate in your words I agree you have constructed the perfect non-fishing forum post
A few more exclamation marks wouldn't have gone amiss either!!! They always give a post a bit of gravitas!!!!
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Google British Budget figures and it is the fourth item down.
Is the BNP website your source for this one? That's the only place I could see that's claiming that overseas aid spending is seven times anything. They're claiming that it's seven times the NHS deficit though, not the NHS budget.
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It seems that you ex RN Oppoe was American then (see spiritually)
And this American has been posting it all over the internet for years, including on Snopes.
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Well there must have been a lot of starving ladybirds when I was living in England, because I have been bitten by them especially when there has been a lot of them about and I am bigger than an aphid. I am sure that I remember seeing a warning to that effect during a recent plague of them in Cornwall(?) I am sure that there will be others here who have felt the very Noticeable nip they can give.
I remember absolute swarms of them coming in off the sea on the Essex coast in about 1975 or 1976 or thereabouts. And they certainly did have a nip on them if they landed on you. I wonder how many there were? I've still got a very strong memory of white caravans turning dark with the sheer numbers of them!
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You can join fish legal without joining the Angling Trust - in fact, if you don't live in England, that's all you can do.
If you do live in England though, I don't think you can just join Fish Legal. It's the Angling Trust or nothing, so far as I can tell. From the website:
"In England, individuals wanting to support Fish Legal should join Angling Trust. In Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, individual supporter members can join Fish Legal direct for just £22 a year."
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It sounds like perfect fly water!
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Whilst in hospital I asked my son inlaw if he would load my mp3 player with 240 of my favourite pieces of music which he did.
Well a couple of days ago I tried to use it on my in car system but it would not reconise the files. I have now checked on the computer and found out that in tranferring them he converted them to VLC files *.oma.
Tried a few converters no good they do not reconise the files, tried VLC but it appears very reluctant to change them unless I am doing some thing wrong.
Any help would be most gratefully received as it took me many days to down load and sort them.
So, they're playing OK on your mp3 player? But it won't work when you connect it up to your car stereo? How are you doing that? I know there are a fair few iPod-compatible car stereos these days, but all the others I've come across have just had an aux in you connected to your mp3 player's headphone output, in which case it doesn't make the slightest bit of difference what format the files are in provided the mp3 player could play them.
.oma is a proprietary Sony format, I believe, so gawd knows what option he checked in whatever software he was using to load your mp3 player to get them like that. What format were the files originally in? Presumably something nice and plain like mp3? If so, then it might well be easiest just to get him to do it again without doing anything silly this time!
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It's not just Premium members...I have invites...
How odd. According to the FAQ, "Getting invites is one of the benefits of being a Premium subscriber in one of the countries where Spotify Free is available. You receive two new invitations each time your Premium account is renewed (yearly or monthly, depending on your payment method)."
In the Share Spotify bit of my profile, it says I've got no more invitations. (I didn't know I even had any but then again, they've only recently gone back to being invite-only so I've never thought to look before.)
Use those invitations wisely!
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Do regular members have invites to give out, or are they just for their premium members?
It's just premium members.
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Mrs Yorkio programmes the Durham Book Festival and I talked her into putting on this event so I'm now doing my bit in trying to promote it! It originally started off with Charles R-W and grew from there. If it works, there's a possibility we might be able to expand it into something bigger next year – if we can just find an audience this time to get the ball rolling. So if you're anywhere near Durham, please stop by for an afternoon of riparian revelry and piscatorial pleasures etc…
Caught By the River: The Afternoon Fishing Party
The most fun you can have without getting your feet wet
Sunday 1 November
The Debating Chamber, Palace Green, Durham, 1pm
Event will last approximately 1 hour 45 mins (though we may still invite some more people!)
Tickets: £8/£6 (Concessions)
Featuring
Charles Rangeley-Wilson will be reading from his work and talking about the films that he has made, such as Fish! A Japanese Obsession for BBC4. There will also be a screening of short film Rivers on the Edge, which he made for the WWF's project of the same name. Charles is the author of The Accidental Angler, a classic collection of writing about rivers, angling and travel, which is so good that it made the Sunday Telegraph reviewer 'writhe with envy'.
Kathryn Williams reads The Ouse Burn, a magical piece of writing about what happens when rivers flood into your life. Kathryn is a Mercury Prize-nominated singer-songwriter.
Chris Watson presents a unique 55-minute soundscape and spoken word presentation of The River Coquet. Recorded on site and featuring the sounds of the river, this 'nature disco' will surprise and delight. Chris is the UK's leading sound recordist specialising in wildlife. In a previous life, he was a founder member of seminal electronica combo Cabaret Voltaire.
We will also be commissioning a playbill for the day featuring the work of Matt Sewell, who creates the popular 'Bird of the Week' images at www.caughtbytheriver.net.
The event is curated by Caught by the River, a collection of river enthusiasts responsible for the eponymous culture and angling website www.caughtbytheriver.net. They have recently published Caught by the River: A Collection of Words on Water, which features essays by leading musicians and writers. From the River Thames to the Coquet, the essays offer an exceptional new take on nature writing. Jeff Barrett, one of the site and book's editors, will be on hand on the day.
This event is part of the Durham Book Festival, which is bringing more than 60 writers to Durham from 23 October-1 November to take part in a whole host of interesting and entertaining events. A full programme and more information are available at www.bookfestival.org.uk.
SPECIAL OFFER
Quote 'TROUT' when you're booking your tickets and get two tickets for the price of one! Book your tickets on 0191 332 4041 or in person from the box office at the Gala Theatre, Durham.
(Apologies if there's too much fishing content in this post for a forum devoted to Non-Fishing Chat. And thanks to Elton for giving me the opportunity to splash this one about the forum!)
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Event now cancelled. Apologies to anyone who was planning to go.
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come on piccys:)
And a location a little bit more specific than just Finnish Lappland might help too!
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Incidentally, what's the deal with otters killing fish 'for fun', as JB describes? I've heard that said countless times now, and only occasionally challenged, usually by someone who claims that it's actually mink who kill for fun. Is it entirely incorrect, or one of those anthropomorphic things that 'Tarka' does that look a bit like human behaviour, so we attribute human motives to them?
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This would be the same Kingfisher apartments that advertise the Wensum Valley as a "Haven for Wildlife" or who intend to run Otter Watching tours (for a price)
Ah, yes, as advertised in John Bailey's Kingfisher Wildlife Diaries ('Watch this space for further details on our Tarka Tours!') on 3 September…
Bell-end.
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Oh how I love the teachings of "chairman" kleinboet (Soon to be available as his little read book of knowledge
Was that pun intentional? Either way it was a good one…
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What on earth has this got to do with 'PC'? Surely not everything we disapprove has to get called PC? Some things are just stupid ideas in their own right.
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I would have thought it was obvious, that otters would be among the creatures that would try to 'get at' the fish, wouldn't you?
Ha! Don't know how I managed to miss that bit…
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Loch Frisa is quite a way inland, isn't it? So are they implying that it was otters that were the predators responsible for making these large holes?
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Edit: It really doesn't matter
River Wear, Durham
in Coarse Fishing
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I'm pretty sure Brian's right and that it's a syndicate which controls fishing at Kepier Farm. It's been a few years since I've been a member, but so far as I recall, Durham's water ended in town, somewhere round Framwellgate Bridge, and didn't go anything like as far downriver as Kepier. However, John would undoubtedly be the best person to speak to regarding chub fishing on the Wear. If Brian can't find a number for him, you could PM him at Fishing Magic, where he's an active member.
It might also be worth looking at a coarse fishing ticket from Felling Flyfishers. They have two and half miles of fishing from the city down to Frankland Prison and if memory serves, a coarse ticket is very cheap (about £25, I think?). From the sound of it though, their water might be on the other side of the river to your in-laws!