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Spent a day on the river as a guest of a very old friend. He caught two good chub . Unfortunately he had a hook pull out of a real big one just before we packed-up. I shall gloss-over my own performance The view from my swim was nice though
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The bream was still in exactly the same place last time l walked that way . Its head had been pecked about but apart from that, it had been laying undisturbed for about ten days . I'm leaning towards it being nabbed by a cormorant who maybe found the depth of its body too wide to swallow .
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By heavens. Rabbit porn!
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Strolling back from a reconnaissance trip ("reconnaissance trip " sounds better than l didn't get anything ) on my stalking permission l let the dog have a shuffle about . Not sure if the farmer who sold Edith to me suspiciously cheaply had a sense of humour or saw me coming. Whatever ,l am definately the owner of a comedy dog . Today's hilarity involved the surreal discovery of a perfectly formed bream in the middle of a field . The nearest water being a quarter of a mile away one can only wonder at the how it got there . Luckily it was frozen solid because she did the dog
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There's always a little story Seeing the deer in the area , then being too close for a shot when the chance came and finally having his perseverance pay off!
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Did your Dad give you the details ? Like ; did he stalk it , or was he in a seat? There's always a little story worth telling ...
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Luckily Edith knows that the mere production of the rifle means that she has to behave like stalking dog. Likewise there are times when she has to live up to her breed designation of sheepdog; not a particularly stylish one .Think of a canine Lemmy from Motörhead rather than the slick things you see on One Man and His Dog. Off duty she gets to follow interesting scents and rummage through brambles in search of stuff. She's pretty hot on woodmice. Today she finally nailed a real prize!
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I can see your point of view but in your earlier post you said feeding mixed foods was " a complete no no" . When really it's more a question of timing .
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I don't get the idea that it's wrong to feed mixer and meat due to " different times" either . Every item of food is going to have a different digestion time . Probably even greater in so called natural feeding. I've always though that mix is good because the dog's digestive system gets used to coping with variety. Come the day meat is short so a bit more biscuit , an extra egg ,tin of mackerel or weird table scraps go onto the mix the gut fauna won't blink an eye . I'm blessed with what l can feed my dogs now ,and for very little money. In the past
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What's wrong with different digestion times?
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Big fan of the BARF diet apparently
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There are times when my garden becomes a bit like feeding time at the zoo . When l do a hogget or a deer all the trimmings, lights, whatever spare offal ,chunks of fat and decent bones are frozen in convenient portions for the dogs and ferrets. In addition the dogs get a cup of cheap mixer a day and sometimes odd scraps or an egg . I've usually got a can or two of El Cheapo Tex Chunks from the local Indian corner shop if l get short of the real stuff or mistimed the defrosting . The dogs do well on it! Feeding mostly raw stuff though makes it really easy to
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The Beauty Of Nature, "add Yours"
comanche replied to kriti's topic in Wildlife and General Photography
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Turned up to do wasps' nest in a garden about half a mile from home. It was the end of a very long , hot working day; l was stinky, scruffy and covered in dirt from customer's lofts . The door opened and l thought "Wow". A couple of days later l was asked back to check the nest on the pretext that one of her boys was supposedly still nervous about going in the garden. We still joke about her clearly having poor eyesight and no sense of smell
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Totally agree. I saw the The Shining at the pictures when it first came out and came out totally underwhelmed. Nicholson is ,l think , a pretty poor actor, but good at getting noticed . He was annoying in crap biker movies that launched his career and his performances haven't improved.
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Yachting suppliers, possibly but probably not cheap. "Ropes Direct" is possibly a cheaper option
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Get her retrieving little dummies so she knows about grabbing stuff . Or maybe swing a lure on a stick and string till she catches it. When she nails it coax her back to you. Keep at it for a just few minutes a day -maybe for many days . It's so much fun for the dog she won't realise she's even being trained. You'll be on your way to having a dog that chases, catches and even retrieves! All in one combined lesson. Once she's carrying/ retrieving, up the weight of the dummies and lures . That way she won't be shocked by the weight and wrigglyness of the first rabbit s
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I have an unusual Fenn MK 4 that was either a mistake on the production line or ,more likely, an experimental model designed to produce more power .Note the springs( approx 3mm gauge) on the standard MK4 on the left. Then look at the springs on the green MK4 (approx 4mm gauge). They are the same gauge as those used on the MK6 in the backround. The thing is not quite impossible to set but you have to be brave . Wouldn't like to do it with cold hands!
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There are days when it all goes wrong and l'm glad nobody is there to see it . Then there are the ones that you really want to share with a friend. Has to be a good friend though . What a fantastic day's fishing you had . 300 fish! And a long walk to prove you earned them . Far more satisfying than driving up to the river and fishing out of the boot of your car. Proper fishing
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replacement diaphragm for a24 trap
comanche replied to techworm's topic in Snaring, Trapping & Pest Control
Assuming you are not talking about the O ring . I've never taken a Goodnature piston assembly apart . So l have to ask ,where and what is the " diaphragm "? Goodnature are not renowned for their after sales service . Their distributors are well stocked with expensive accessories but not basic service parts . From what l've heard though they don't have the inclination or knowledge to do repairs . Once the unit is out of warranty they don't want to know. -
A very old friend and l manage a few days fishing together every season. He usually out catches me . When l do catch something decent it is almost always by some fluke or in odd circimstances. Not only that , it's a standing joke that l only ever catch disabled fish . One classic example of many was a 5lb tench caught a year or two ago from his club lake . I was marvelling at the perfection of my biggest tench ever when my mate cruelly pointed out that it had two fins missing! Anyway, a week ago he came as a guest on the little farm pond l have permission on, and trounced me on h
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Back to the farm pond with a mate and one of his friends as a guest. Said guest hauled in five small (five!) tench ,some decent rudd and what he described as a few small carp. Small maybe ,but they were the biggest carp ever caught in the pond ,albeit not much more than a pound each. He let slip he was actually an angling coach . It showed too . Far from being disillusioned by the size of the pond and its inhabitants he professed to having a grand time going back to his boyhood fishing roots. My mate caught his second ever tench so was pleased too. He'd just unhooked it
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I'd been a member of my local club on and off for 50 years. Then they brought in a rule that ALL anglers had to carry an unhooking mat the size of a tennis court and a landing net big enough to recover the Titanic even if they weren't fishing for carp. This applied to the club waters that didn't even hold carp! Shit went my usual habit of bait in one pocket tackle in another and sensible sized landing net that didn't snag undergrowth and was more than big enough to cope with the sort of stuff l'm likely to catch. A black bin liner folded in one pocket makes a portable unlhoo
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Years ago l raised a few rabbits supposedly for meat after being given a few old commercial rabbit cages. We were running on the good life , self-sufficiency vibe . Silly really as l could get plenty of wild rabbits for the pot and have a surplus to sell without the bother of cleaning cages , rearing and feeding the tame ones. Another weird thing was killing the white fluffy ones : l just didn't like doing it. Yet l would ping a wild one's neck without a thought. Then the penny dropped , the real money was in selling the baby rabbits to our local pet shop! My daughter got hea
