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Fred Bear is one of the two " Names" that always comes up with bow hunting. I had no idea what he looked like . Howard Hill is the other one. Well worth a look! And l read that he is the archer who really did "split the arrow " on cue for the camera in the old Errol Flynn Robin Hood film .
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Stir fried pheasant with water chestnuts and quince . And part of my annual batch of mince pies for the freezer . They look a bit "rustic" because despite years of practice l struggle with gluten free pastry ( other half is celiac). Can't be too bad though because no matter how many l make they always dissappear .
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Who recalls when THL really was a hunting site ? When posts on the General section and the Running Dog section weren't just an excuse for the same old cadre of keyboard warriors to engage in boring winky measuring and widdling competitions ? When really interesting opinions were exchanged without childish personal rancour ? A time when serious hunting topics like the following dominated the forums........ Them was the days...?
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There's been a shortage of mushrooms in my area this year but l struck lucky yesterday .
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Not sure the Richmond Park herd goes back to Henry VILL but l could be wrong. Great picture of a moody looking buck?
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An embarrassing number of the animals we hunt in the UK are aliens; descendents of imported animals. Some were exotic curiosities, pets or farmed species that escaped . Things like Chinese water deer, muntjac, grey squirrels ,rabbits, wild boar hybrids and American mink are the ones that come easily to mind . Even blxxdy parakeets! Accidental escapes aside ; for better or worse an awful lot of animals were brought into the country to deliberately increase the diversity of quarry . It's not a recent thing . A starter- pack of breeding fallow deer from the Continent was consid
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Looks like bacterial ulcers . They may indicate a water quality problem . They can also be triggered by injury so an attack can't be ruled out but any illness or abrasion , perhaps from spawning activity, that damages the fish's slime layer can let bacteria in. Donning my Columbo/ Hercule Poirot hat : You say that the other fish are ALL fine . So none missing? That doesn't indicate a regular visit from a heron. Though one looking for passing trade can't be ruled out .As people are saying ; for a bird that happily hunts worms and voles in ploughed fields and f
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I've always wondered if perch figure in many repeat captures. They don't seem to . Not the bigger ones anyway.
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It is virtually impossible for a properly set Fenn to throw it's catch away . Operator error .... not knowing how a Fenn works is the cause .
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I shall console myself with the fact that the gudgeon were quite big . And also that this thread has provided the opportunity for a few ruffe fishy puns . I won't rise to the bait though by adding any more until l think of one that raises the bar(bel) ......?
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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.
