How typical is this? Sad but is it usual?

[awaaar]

IMO nowt better than watching a starlight go under..love it when you get a bite, and just before the float goes under, it seems to merge with it's reflection on the water, and disappear - MAGIC!

 

tight lines - andy

 

[ 12. March 2004, 10:27 AM: Message edited by: awaaar ]

[JMCLincoln]

He could buy one of these.

http://www.summerlands.co.uk/shakespeare/9433.jpg

 

When I was a kid we had a peg with a bell on it.

[rob.i]

peter we know you can spell or was it a freudian slip

[Scott]

Peter Waller:

In some respects it was a sad day for angling when the battery was invented.

Wasnt Richard Walker using electric alarms long before most people here were born?

For anyone under 40, night fishing with 2 rods and electric alarms is the traditional way to catch big carp, as pioneered at Redmire in the 1950's.

 

Scott.

[Peter Waller]

I'm over 50 Scott!! What's a freudian slip Rob ?

Scott, there are other ways of catching carp, honest!

Just think, no batteries, no bankside T.V's!

 

I just knew we would end up going down this path, sorry Den!

 

[ 12. March 2004, 01:02 PM: Message edited by: Peter Waller ]

[Wordbender]

Peter Waller:

 

Just think, no batteries, no bankside T.V's!

Well, that's the end of proper fishing, then!

 

(Shudder) :eek:eek:

 

Fishing without a telly is like a picnic without a ghetto-blaster - utterly pointless.

 

Almost as pointless, in fact, as...Norwich getting into the Premiership!!!!!

 

(Ruuuunnn awaaaayyyyy!!!)

 

Terry

 

[ 12. March 2004, 02:44 PM: Message edited by: Wordbender ]

[Leon Roskilly]

As the light goes, on a river, when I can longer see my rod top, I take the line form my top ring, and with the rod laying next to me, hold the line between my thumb and fore-finger.

 

I'ts the tap-tapping of minnows and even smaller water-life, as they nibble on the cube of luncheon meat, that keeps you fascinated until the line is aggresively yanked by the take of a chub, or the less aggressively hammering of a river eel.

 

Electronic alarms?

 

Missing more than half the fun!

 

Tight Lines - leon

[Peter Waller]

Lets be honest here, catching carp becomes so easy, people even do it in their sleep!

 

Terry, even I've got to laugh! But they will stay there this time!

 

[ 12. March 2004, 01:48 PM: Message edited by: Peter Waller ]

[Wordbender]

Peter Waller:

Lets be honest here, catching carp becomes so easy, people even do it in their sleep!

 

Terry, even I've got to laugh! But they will stay there this time!

Peter, as you well know, a carper's sleep is nought but an essential recharging of a brain wot's been run-down by the massive output required to catch the cleverest fish of them all. And at least we do it ourselves, rather than sub-contracting the job to another fish!

 

As for Norwich staying in the Premiership, mate...oh dear. Even Delia can't afford Beckham...and Figo...and Henry...and...

 

Terry

[awaaar]

here we go!!!