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[Steve Walker]

The best end rig in the world is a hook and line and nothing else. Everything else is a compromise because conditions don't let you use that.

 

If you don't have a good reason for putting something on your rig, take it off. "Because I saw it in a magazine" is not a good reason.

[John S]

Plumb the depth throughout the swim.

 

Feed two or three different areas in the swim you are in, aiming for features such as overhanging trees/bushes, reeds/lily pads and the margins.

 

Really don't forget the margins.

 

Don't overfeed, little and often is the order of the day.

 

Be prepared to move to another swim. If the fish aren't there, they aren't going to bite.

[Ken L]

Take nothing but photographs.

Leave nothing but footprints.

[arbocop]

Don't believe everything you read or hear.

 

Keep it simple

 

Time spent on the bank is never wasted

 

Mike

[Dave H]

If you get a cut think seriously about putting your hand in the water afterwards it could be fatal!

[viney]

Always Carry a small first aid kit with plasters, disinfectant etc.

Always have some alcohol hand cleaning gel with you and make sure you use it before eating/smoking

[Anderoo]

When session fishing, remember that the Angling Times is more absorbant than the Anglers Mail.

[Newt]

If fishing with braided line, DO NOT pull for a break using the line on the reel and DO NOT, DO NOT wrap it around your hand (unless you are tired of that hand and want it replaced). A smooth 6" piece of stick about thumb size is easy to carry and much better for wrapping the line around then holding while you pull.

 

Buy a license.

 

Pay attention to the fishery rules. Then tend to be all over the place and what is OK one place may be strictly forbidden at another.

 

Don't use heavy tackle for small fish. You will catch nothing and become discouraged with fishing.

[chesters1]

Look both ways before crossing a road

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Chesters1

 

One of my all time favorites/

 

All I need to know I learned in kindergarten

 

All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be I learned in kindergarten. Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate-school mountain, but there in the sandpile at Sunday School. These are the things I learned:

Share everything.

Play fair.

Don't hit people.

Put things back where you found them.

Clean up your own mess.

Don't take things that aren't yours.

Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody.

Wash your hands before you eat.

Flush.

Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you.

Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.

Take a nap every afternoon.

When you go out into the world, watch out for traffic, hold hands, and stick together.

Wonder. Remember the little seed in the Styrofoam cup: The roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why, but we are all like that.

Goldfish and hamsters and white mice and even the little seed in the Styrofoam cup - they all die. So do we.

And then remember the Dick-and-Jane books and the first word you learned - the biggest word of all - LOOK.

Everything you need to know is in there somewhere. The Golden Rule and love and basic sanitation. Ecology and politics and equality and sane living.

Take any one of those items and extrapolate it into sophisticated adult terms and apply it to your family life or your work or your government or your world and it holds true and clear and firm. Think what a better world it would be if we all - the whole world - had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down with our blankies for a nap. Or if all governments had as a basic policy to always put things back where they found them and to clean up their own mess.

And it is still true, no matter how old you are - when you go out into the world, it is best to hold hands and stick together.


Copyright: Robert L. Fulghum (by permission with citation)

 

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