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A Bad Side To A Good Day

IanBass

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Fished the Lancaster Canal on Saturday 10/8. When we got there, there was a chap already fishing. "Caught anything?" I ask? "No" comes the reply, I set myself up with my pole, first 2 mins a nice roach, next put out nice skimmer, next thing I knew I heard a voice saying "Have a good day lad's" the guy had packed up and off he went. Anyway, caught steadily throughout the day and enjoyed the session. Only downside, I knocked my phone onto the lily pads by my feet and although it didn't sink it got horribly wet and stopped working. Ah well, never mind.

Just one big fish, PLEASE!!!!!!

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I'm always dropping my phone into the water. Try this, strip it down (take the back and battery off) and leave it in a warm dry place for a day or two (perhaps even longer) and it may work again. A good idea is to keep a cheapo phone to take on activities like fishing.

"Some people hear their inner voices with such clarity that they live by what they hear, such people go crazy, but they become legends"
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Better yet, get a phone that's got a reasonable chance of still working if it's you that ends up in the water.

Species caught in 2020: Barbel. European Eel. Bleak. Perch. Pike.

Species caught in 2019: Pike. Bream. Tench. Chub. Common Carp. European Eel. Barbel. Bleak. Dace.

Species caught in 2018: Perch. Bream. Rainbow Trout. Brown Trout. Chub. Roach. Carp. European Eel.

Species caught in 2017: Siamese carp. Striped catfish. Rohu. Mekong catfish. Amazon red tail catfish. Arapaima. Black Minnow Shark. Perch. Chub. Brown Trout. Pike. Bream. Roach. Rudd. Bleak. Common Carp.

Species caught in 2016: Siamese carp. Jullien's golden carp. Striped catfish. Mekong catfish. Amazon red tail catfish. Arapaima. Alligator gar. Rohu. Black Minnow Shark. Roach, Bream, Perch, Ballan Wrasse. Rudd. Common Carp. Pike. Zander. Chub. Bleak.

Species caught in 2015: Brown Trout. Roach. Bream. Terrapin. Eel. Barbel. Pike. Chub.

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If you get a phone wet as Emma says get the battery out and keep it in a warm place.

 

One further thing, pack it in a box of rice, the rice absorbs the moisture.

 

The missus dropped her fancy smart phone down the loo last week. A week in the airing cupboard dismantled in a box of rice and hey presto good as new!

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I only have a £15 phone on PAYG. I don't see the point of phones that run your life for you on stupid contracts that cost a fortune, and I certainly don't need a internet access on a phone. I'll nip to Asda/Tesco tomorrow and see what they've got. Had a try with it earlier, it wont switch on at all so its now in the bin :cry:

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Just one big fish, PLEASE!!!!!!

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I gave my iPhone a dunk in the Kennet in the winter. Thought a pocket of my wading jacket was waterproof - thought wrong.

 

Few days in a jar of rice on the radiator sorted it, though the flash has never worked since.

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the rice trick is worth trying

Azree

 

“Let us see rather that like Janus—or better, like Yama, the Brahmin god of death—religion has two faces, one very friendly, one very gloomy...” Arthur Schopenhaur


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