Salar

Best preventative for seasickness is two things: 1. Be in good nick, i.e. not tired, stressy, hungover or recently eaten unfamiliar food. 2. Use SeaBands on your wrists. The above work for me, first trip out after a long spell ashore usually has me feeling a bit wobbly but if I watch those two I'm fine after a trip or two to get back into it. I find Stugeron good but they can knock you out so you feel so tired you end up napping and missing the fishing

Bait catapault and pea shingle. It doesn't hurt them much but it sure makes them scarper

You can buy cat scoot in the garden centres. It keeps cats off my vegetable patch anyway. There is an even better device, which sprays a jet of water when triggered by a motion detector but its a bit dear

One of Woody Allan's many funny lines, when dropped of at side of the road by a female driver, he says "That's OK, I can walk to the kerb from here..."

Wow. That truck was pretty strong though, all that energy and only the cab disintegrated. (Excellent Server Elton :cool: )

You can waterproof a paper chart by painting it with the water sealant stuff you paint on brickwork. A small can of it bought from Homebase or B&Q would be good for abot 500 charts

I'd love to have a conversation with Miss Alabama (in the morning)

Try www.aboutbritain.com We have used it to find a load of fun things to do when visiting my parents in Derby and brother in Nottingham. You can search by type of attraction or by region, then if you find something interesting there are quick links to what is nearby.

The main bait fish used here are sandeel (lesser and greater), pouting and joey mackeral. Lesser sandeel are caught with a seine net in sandy areas. Launce and joeys are caught with small hokkai lure. Pouting are caught with light sea tackle on bait. In fact the most popular baits are worm (much cheaper here than in the USA), frozen suid and what you would call cut bait - mainly mackeral - and peeler crab. The most popular live baits by far are sandeel, but I would guess anglers using worm and cut bait outnumber live bait users 50:1 in the UK. Lures are gaining popularity, but still used far less than in the USA.

Were you dropping straight down? If so, get a snap link and attach it to the drop net line and fix it about a couple of feet higher up the line from the net than than the trace is long. When you have a fish on, clip the drop net link into the reel line and let it slide down the reel line, letting the drop net line out with it. It will come to rest at your weight, and the drop net will dangle directly under the fish. Then you can haul right up with the drop net line.

Noticably faster - I'm on BB at home.

At least they were old cars and not brand new ones. :cool:

This is the $3 one from Wal-Mart (it might have been as much as $4) . Steel mesh, coated. Splits in half for baiting, two funnel entrances. Ideal for prawns and blennies I reckon.

Very addictive! I wish I could play with mine more but I need to go out on consecutive days and that is rarely possible I used them earlier this year but all I got was about 50 whelks, not very appetising

I think sea anglers use them more, but usually for crabs and prawns. No reason why we couldn't try for bait fish though.

Jeff S - Maine Coone? We had one, came second in a tangle with a car. We still miss him, a great dog - I mean cat.

Tried both, both worked but the bait had to be close to the bottom. I prefer watching a float but as the tide rose I had to be careful to adjust the depth. Float fishing mid water was catching mackeral and garfish for some other folk off piers, they were using tiny fish as bait.

Mussel. By the way this is not a private conversation, anyone else can join in

I used to do very well swapping my by-catch of pouting with a local tackle shop who would bag them up and freeze them to sell for pike bait. I never knew it was illegal to sell my catch, or maybe it wasn't back then. Every now and then I'd cash in my pouting credits for tackle. Apprently some very good pike were caught on my pouting.

At risk of upsetting beach anglers - the only way I would fish a beach is to fish a lure in the breakers early or late in the day. That's because I don't think its fun to watch a rod tip doing not much for hours on end - to me, fishing should be a lot more active than that. But that's just a personal opinion, plenty would disagree

Elton, I never knew you were a gnat!

You might be lucky with a small one but I wouldn't put a lot of money on a bet. Lots of small fish like smelt in the harbours and estuaries, and the good thing is you can catch them with coarse gear ( tiny hooks using a flake of prawn for bait) and eat them like sprats if you fancy. I've seen rows of little old French ladies on the harbour wall catching hubbies tea that way.

Look at the appalling cruelty man carries out on man, the popularity of movies involving some form of human pain, and the carnage that goes on in the animal food chain - yet we seem to be worrying about putting a hook through a pouting. And we hope that same hook will go through a bigger fish at some point, whatever the bait. All a bit bizzare when you think about it. Perhaps I shouldn't use logic to try and understand people (myself included)

Same bass as we get. Same methods should do it, but if you want to cover plenty of ground try lure fishing in early morning or evening when they are more likely to be close inshore.

Here's the best mate you could ever have on a long walk - my dog Scout. I must be feeling sentimental or something, just wanted to share the moment. Any other four legged friends out there?