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Yes l've decided on an ide . The lateral line scale count was off the register by miles for it to be anything else . Also my mate sent me a notice that lists ide being found in the nearby river Test . Unfortunately my doubts about my 8oz dace have been confirmed too . I really wanted it to be a big dace but wasn't convinced by the anal fin . Sadly, the scale count fits an ide . Bum!
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Ide agree with you?
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Bloody right; especially the uncut version
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I expect you've done it ,but if not it might be worth cleaning the battery terminals before you get the hammer out. Good luck.
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"Half of what he says is lies . The rest ain't true." Burt Lancaster in Ulzana's Raid referring to some information he'd gleaned from an Apache informant. I think of every time a politicians opens their mouth? My Mum had this great one that she used a lot but l didn't understand when l was little . "Butter'll be cheap when grass grows there." Basically referring to someone overweight or with a big bum . As in , if grass grew there it would support a big herd of cows and dairy products would go down in price. It took me years to work out.?
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Thanks for that. I put the picture on another forum and was told the same. It was a great day . One bit was quite surreal as in the middle of a raging thunder storm l latched onto the most beatiful big yellow eel that gave me a real runabout . Unfortunatly the current swept it into some overhanging brambles as l tried to net it. End of story? ?
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I had a memorable day on the bank on Sunday. This included torrential rain ,thunder and really spectacular lightening but it also had me engaged in an impromptu species hunt . No matter how badly l fished l still caught things . The fish were indeed in a charitable mood . The single out of Season trout really shouldn't be included in the legitimate catch list but it brought my total to eleven different sorts of fish . All from the same swim too. Minnows , gudgeon ,perch, small bream, roach and chublings ,a grayling and a really cute baby barbel all came to say hello .
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https://youtu.be/8ClvqM6dj7M
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It was a very mysterious water with dangerously sloping banks ; ripe with tales of being "bottomless" in places , lost army pontoon bridges , a crashed Ww2 plane and an unfortunate swimmer being "sucked down by weeds". Needless to say the banks are now lined with fishing platforms . As for being "bottomless" ; on a quiet day l plumbed it from one end to another and nowhere was it over 13 feet deep . Bits of a crashed plane and some abandoned military ordinance turned out to've been retrieved from another pond further down the chain . What was based on truth was the death of the swimmer.
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That reminds me of a pond l fished when l first joined the local angling club as a junior member. It was originally a forest ghyll in a narrow valley that had been dammed to power iron - working machinery. The water was a beautiful amber colour but so clear that fish passing under the rod tip several feet down were tantalisingly visible . The pond had a reputation for being hard . All the fish species ,even the little perch were incredibly shy of any baited hook though they snaffled free offerings cheerfully enough . Eventually an old chap took pity on me and taught me the wisdom of ba
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A bit of an update. I went back to do a job there ,and had a wander about the garden. Sure enough , there is plenty of deer damage. I had to grin when l saw this though.
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Ken ; ever considered an Eskimo "ulu"? The design is also used for pizza cutters so you could invest in cheap one of them just to see if it feels right.
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No ; Sussex. Is this sort of thing common in wiltshire ? ?
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Yes indeed.
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I have a really good customer with a big house , a garden to match , a couple of fields and a bit of wood that get a bit of trade from fallow deer . He also has a cast iron statue of a stag . It's of some generic ,indeterminate species unknown to any but possibly it's third world fabricators. Though I suppose it might in poor light , at a distance pass for a red deer . Except that it is only about the size of a roe . Last year it was victim of a mysterious assailant and left laying with broken antlers beneath an apple tree . I suggested that rather than a vandal , a
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Yes , the second picture !
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Crikey , e dun arf look like Mountbatten ! I thought it was two Jewish tailors with an eye for business and an inventive sample book that really got the " Family Tartan " thing going . ?
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It's been very busy and still doing the odd nest or three most days. What l have noticed this year is that quite a few nests don't have any queen cells in them . And yesterday l did a nest that was in two sections. Half the nest was normal with egg galleries but hanging from the side was a perfect almost classic shaped football shaped nest . There were plenty of wasps working on the outside but when l broke-in it was just an empty shell .
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I looked in my gardening book. You are right . Pears will also graft onto blackthorn apparently!
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If you bake them like apples they have an almost apricot taste. Or maybe apricots taste a bit like quinces? Ever wondered why the label on marmalade specifies "orange" marmalade? No neither did l.. Until a few years ago l realised that a pub l do the pest control for had several quince trees in a derelict corner . Looking up ways of using up the bags of quinces l came away with l discovered that marmalade was originally made with quinces. The supposed story of how orange Marmalade came to be is that a jam factory bought up a ship load of rotting oranges cheaply . Th
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Stroking him and being firm but friendly with him will make him easier to handle . Stroke him anywhere you like but not the top of his head! Maybe its stimulates competetive hormones but rubbing and tickling a ram's head can too easily lead to a shoving match. Before long the ram sees you as a rival rather than benefactor .....
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Today l will mosly be removing .....
comanche replied to comanche's topic in Snaring, Trapping & Pest Control
Sadly as an univited guest it wasn't given the option of tea and cake. Strolled into the room while the elderly lady was knitting . As a fairly robust lady- albeit in her 90s-she tried explain the error of its way with the aid of a rolled up newspaper and strong words . Being met with vulpine indifference ,she shut the door and phoned me. Though l've no reason to doubt her claim that had l not been available she would've fetched a log from the woodshed and "brained" it. -
A fox from a living room . Talk about "Make yourself at home!"
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I'm absolutely no expert- just an amateur sheep-keeper so hopefully a proper expert will chip in. I was sold , very cheaply, half a dozen young rams after a local farmer had selected the best for breeding. I only kept them for meat . One had a rather nasty temperament so he went first. The others were good natured so grew-on as hoggets. When it was a few years old the farmer then kindly gave me the ram he'd originally kept back . Elderly or not the chap served my few ewes admirably and was a lovely character but was getting heavy on his legs . This and the fact th
