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  1. comanche
    Mr Cronely looks totally bemused, almost in shock ! And well he might. He didn't break the record by a mere few onces (the difference between the fish having a poo or not?); he added 30 lbs to it! Congratulations to the chap. WD, you say this is a State record ;j just how big do those blue catfish grow elsewhere ? All the best to you.
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    Not sure about many ending up in scrap yards with good engines. I think most MOT failures get snapped-up and butchered for off road use. I think Suzuki missed a trick by not offering an option of road going gear ratios . Even coupled with the 4x4 trans it would've been more economical and quite adequate for a lot of driver's needs.
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    Mine is coming up to 140,000 miles and with half an exhaust and a couple of suspension bushes will pass another MOT . Oh and the horn buttons were'nt working . On dismantling them l discovered the contacts were clogged with dog hair? If it had needed anything really expensive though l might've baulked at throwing too much money at it. Hence l was curious how much more life l could expect from the engine. You are right about the boot floors dytkos. Mine luckily isn't too bad but you can sniff the rust in the air waiting to pounce. It's had a plate round one seat belt mounting
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    As above. Has anyone any idea how long a Jimny engine lasts? I've heard of the odd one dying early from transmission and engine failure but in general what sort of milages have people managed befor e the engine breaks ,wears out or fails the emissions test?
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    It doesn't seem all that long ago when anyone letting slip the secrets of mole-catching would've been lucky not to find themselves trussed in rusty barbed wire and dumped naked on the steps of the nearest A&E. Where they they would find themselves trying to explain to staff exactly how they came to have a steel tunnel probe in a rather unfortunate place. Now people run courses. And live!
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    Pike thrive on neglect and remaining uncaught . Once the bigger ones've been caught a time or two they often go down hill. Plus the big fish will often be near the end of their natural life span so a generation of similar sized and aged fish can die out over a short period of time. Big pike thrive on a diet of small pike . The little males and immature females are a favourite food .Its easy to see why; a 4lb carp or bream might represent a nutritious meal for double figure pike but a slender 4lb jack is a whole lot easier to swallow. So somewhere between natural attrition,
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    My first ferret was a big white and very affable hob called Sidney. I'd come home from school and have various little games with him. A favourite involved stuffing bits of meat inside the uniforn of my brother's Action Man . Thus ensued a scene from something like a budget Tarzan film as the ferret mauled the Action Man to death! All good fun, and often in the living room! Which meant that an hour or so later Mum would return from work and sniff the air before declaring accusing " Kevin. You've had that blooming ferret in here again!" Actually she liked the smell of ferr
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    Our January babies are looking like proper little sheep now
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    Those decoy fish have $$$$ signs all over them!
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    I remember seeing them at a boot sale and thinking they were so weird and cheap l'd regret walking past. Asked a few people for opinions but everyone was stumped. So they ended up in the loft. What we need is the ghost of Jack Hargreaves . Remember that bit of his programme where he'd produce a strange thing and ask " Now, cough,l wonder if anyone can tell me what this is? Cough, cough."
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    Again how food tastes have changed. Bream were considered one of the finer fish in mediaeval times and good family food in the the first half of the 20th century. The popularity of imported carp as food was down to the fact that they grew quicker than our native fish and could be fattened on any old sh×t; like guts and offal, mouldy grain, and yes ,literally sh×t!
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    Noo, perch are superior to trout as far as l'm concerned . White ,flaky flesh . Never deliberately killed one to eat but occasionally the odd one doesn't recover from deep hooking.
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    Hm, they are slightly oblong rather than round, not big enough for hames. Unless they were from a goat harness.. ? Those studs sort of rule that out though.
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    I know that feeling: l remember an old Keeper who borrowed my gun on Beaters' Day took a fantastically high pheasant with it and handed it back to me . " That's me done " he said. "I've killed enough." As far as l know he never shot again. For me the obsessive approach and big numbers has faded into something calmer . Far more satifying to take a ferret ,dog and half a dozen nets and spend a morning winkling a single bunny from 100 yards of otherwise barren overgrown hedge. Hunting , with calm tenacity and cunning , rather than simply harvesting l suppose.
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    Is that a Jack rabbit? That'll be an even sillier comment if what looks to me like a car jack on my very scratched phone screen is actually something else. Full marks for tenacity!
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    That's a bit serendipitous Phil. Only a couple of days ago l was talking to a woman who has a local gardening business. As a kid her happiest days had been spent pottering on her Grandad's allotment ,growing sunflowers on her own little corner of it and getting wet and muddy. Despite a successful career in international advertising she's now doing what she loved as a child . She considers herself lucky to have finally found her way back to her roots( pun intended?)... Some of us have been luckier ; no bulging bank balance perhaps but life hasn't been wasted lf
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    Tis true. The thought of tipping a boxfull of freds into a burrow would've been considered a recipe for lay ups ,not to mention obscenely decadent ! We usually only put a second ferret down to hopefully stir things up if the first one seemed to have stuck. In fact most of us only had a ferret or two and anyone who actually owned more than a score of nets was considered seriously well armed. Going out with friends and pooling nets ,ferrets and dogs is great and using long nets is a different sort of game but working alone with purse nets is different. For me anyway.
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    That was one of my thoughts. They would have to be threaded on the pole before it went into the ground though . Either that or someone would have to climb the pole in the first place to slide the climbing aids down from the top. Which doesn't seem quite right?
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    I've just come out of my loft where l found things l had forgotten about. Possibly this post should really span the fishing and general talk sections but l reckon the sort of folk attuned to identifying old traps might have an affinity with other bits of mystery metal work. There are some common enough traps ; nothing exciting, though l like the original pin on the gin. Also some eel forks; "Glivs" as they used to call them down Arundel way. But what are these? I guess (and it is a guess) that the hoops slide up and down a pole or mast .
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    Yes l,had my first call yesterday, Queens coming out of the hibernation closet of course . I know the customer well enough to suggest a rolled-up newspaper or better still that he leaves them alone rather than dent my profit margin£££?? I suppose in a couple of weeks it'll be the "roof/wall covered in wasps , must have a huge nest " phone calls . "No Sir/ Madame/non binary person They'll be cute little bees enjoying the sun. "
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    I've seen those I.E.Ds in use in a Sussex garden! The owner had sneaked them back from his second home in France. Me: "What's that thing that looks like a mini submarine sticking out of the ground?" Customer: "Oh sorry, l should've warned you . It's a mole bomb."
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    The great thing about this sort of topic is that it promotes thought. And l've just had one, a rare occurrence for me? Maybe we are being too fixated on the reaction of some moles in some situations to traps . Just suppose that by setting traps in some mole runs in some situations we are on odd occasions actually changing the behaviour of the worms upon which the mole feeds . By altering the characteristics or profile of the run or the air pressure around the trap might we be forcing the worms deeper or to one side? Hence the mole follows the worms rather than the cour
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    To me a trap shy animal is e one with a natural suspicion of anything that looks or smells wrong or perhaps triggers a "sixth sense" of self preservation . Some animals that don't have access to trapping books or expert internet advice and so should'nt even know the difference between a trap and a bit of scrap metal seem to have these qualities even when faced with an enticing tunnel or easy meal . That to me is trap shyness . As is the reaction of an intelligent creature that has had a close call and is capable of having learned by its experiences. However , moles studied for r
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    Plus side is they should be well handled if they are already pets so shouldn't be nervy round the burrow mouths . Minus side is that they may not really know what's expected of them if you wait until Autumn to show them a hole. But you have all Summer to run em through a bit of drainpipe and and feed them on the odd roadkill bunny so they get some enthusiasm for the hunt. A bit of rabbit pulled along on a string should amuse the kids and the ferrets! Having said that ; l often don't work my replacement ferrets until an old favourite has died or been retired. Some a
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    See what happens if you try fixing a skirting board to wall with a bullet and you might learn something. Wear protective goggles of course. Actually don't bother you come across as blind ignorant already.
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