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  1. comanche
    I think solid, dark box / tunnel type traps like the ones you are making will always outscore wire traps in the long run. They have lots of advantages; the natural feel and smell, the instict of many animals to check out tunnels and the fact that an animal can't fuss about trying to reach the bait through the mesh. I s'pose wire cages are just easier to lug about . Shrouding them in wooden tunnels definitely helps though.. I'm a bit envious of your enthusiasm for trap making and tool kit . My efforts tend to look like something that belong in a skip or on a bonfire!??
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    A friend had been dropping hints about a fox that was getting a bit too cocky . A run -in with the farm yard cats hadn't been enough to stop it familiarising itself with her chicken run in broad daylight . In an effort to earn some Brownie points l set out in pursuit yersterday evening. Some tracks for horse exercising had just been cut through a hayfield and l hoped the naughty fox would turn up to do a bit of scavenging amongst the the newly mown grass. Settling on a position that gave me a good view along the biggest track l sat down and waited. And waited. I should've bro
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    Somewhere in the shed. I may be sometime?
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    What you are describing is a rig for fishing a deadbait "sink and draw" or "wobbled" rather than static . Some had little vanes or propellers and were known as spinning flights. The ironmongery was designed to keep the valuable bait secure enough to withstand repeated casting and retrieving. As Nicepix says : There was no nipping down the shop to buy convenient frozen bait. Generally you caught your own. Or if you were rich you had a man do it for you. If you were very posh you might've bought little fish preserved in formalin and encased in celluloid .
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    The body grip in a tunnel and the Quell are completely different traps. They can't be considered versions of the same thing. I've a little unbranded ,probably Oriental , copy of Mackem's Quell. It is a very simple one piece unit . It would be easy to make DIY versions in various sizes. It's basically the same principle as most box and cage traps but with a very strong spring and a falling bar instead of a door.
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    A lot of old bamboo rods were finished in thick brown or black laquer that seemed to survive being flexed. I guess if you find the right sort of paint that'll bond with a more modern material it'll work. Fishing should be fun?; go for it!?
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    ??Clearly the customer should've realised that "last man" couldn't make it pay at £4 a mole so stopped coming .
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    Actually yes. I bought a 'spinning rod' at a boot sale for a fiver knowing full well that it wasn't a vintage split cane rod even though the seller insited it was. He was half telling the truth l suppose because though the butt section was cane , the top section was clearly part of an old solid glass rod. The whole thing had been painted black to disguise the discrepancy. I had an old cane fly rod top section in the shed so after a bit of fiddling with ring spacing and a ferrule swap l ended up with a100% split cane spinning rod. Except the butt section was still black and the new t
  10. comanche
    On anything over the size of small garden ;not really. The now unobtainable Reynardine repelled everything, dogs ,cats, deer, friends ,family, neighbours etc. It would take a lot of rags soaked in stinky stuff to secure the perimeter of a bit of land and they would need to be renewed regularly - labour intensive. Animals soon become inured to such things and the lure of some tasty food source will trump a few smelly old socks. And anyway Jeyes Fluid and creosote hardly offer a cheap solution . Anyone rich enough to consider using diesel at todays prices could proba
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    I still have a TSL.
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    Worse? one of the big leg pockets. The one with my car keys and the Skipper's money in it?
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    Lesson number one. Do not trust your best mate to take photos unless you want to look like a total gimp in them? We had a good day out of Littlehampton mainly with bream dogfish and small conger. I also managed a couple of smoothounds, but as l said; never trust a mate to take the photos! Lesson number two is. On a hot day do not forget that you have a Cadbury's Cream egg in your pocket?
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    Ha ,yes ,unused.
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    Its always worth asking in a gun shop what they have "out back". For good commercial reasons they really want to sell you something expensive from the display racks. However they sometimes have stuff that's been part exchanged or handed-in stashed in the back room . Some are only fit for scrap but quite servicable guns that're otherwise destined for auction might be had for reasonable offers.
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    I have done the splitting of cane ,araldite and lashings of whipping thing on a delaminated rod thing ; not pretty but functional . But maybe Cruella better stay with you Clive. If only as a source of spare line guides for The Silver Monarch? Good luck with the ????
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    I have used a hot needle just as an experiment but with 5or 6lb bs line a slim float slides fine without any reaming ?
  18. comanche
    I did offer them back to the health visitor first!
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    Never one to waste anything ; when l inherited a bundle of (unused) catheters on my Dad's passing-away a couple of years ago l immediately started thinking of alternative uses for them. Slicing one up for float rubbers seemed a good idea A bonus is that parallel with the main hole that is the right size to accomodate a float , there runs a narrow channel that is used for inflation of a little bulb that holds the catheter in place when used for its legitimate purpose. Perfect for converting floats into sliders! If need be the hole can be enlarged to take heavier line
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    I just use the cane for feeders as it is, mainly through laziness ? Cruella,delaminating? ? Can she...?...be.?..saved??
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    It was in Winter in mid flow . Not that l know if that really makes a difference as far as crayfish go. I've never seen one but there must be crayfish in the the river though because a big fuss was made because illegal crayfish trappers are said to have salted the river with Signal breeding stock. They didn't know it held native crayfish and was being monitored. Or perhaps didn't care. I am fond of the bamboo feeders. Each section of cane gives you a couple of block ends if you use the nodes and open enders from the rest. Mostly l am fond of them because l caug
  22. comanche
    Did you notice if it had red or yellow ear flashes? I had one as a pet for 15 or 20 years. It became quite tame but was not to trusted with fingers as it grew bigger! I felt a bit guilty as they are said to live a bit longer than that . Maybe because mine was active all year round and didn't go torpid in the winter as a wild terrapin would it wore out quicker?
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    I've some left that l made a couple of years ago. As you say ; easy to make and cheap enough to be lost without tears. Apart from those taken as offerings by the River Gods l had to scrap a few because the mesh had been torn open by fish . I suspect trout or ,less likely chub. Both have the teeth for it. For real economy though l still like my old bamboo cane off cuts for feeders? Note the chunk missing from the front front feeder . Don't the fish realise these things cost money! These don't ?
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    Absolutely welcome.?
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    And why he took to wearing dresses?
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