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  1. comanche
    I often think it would be good to have a licence option -perhaps for a fiver extra- that allows you to take a mate or family member who doesn't go very often as long as they share a swim with the licence holder and you only use one rod each. After-all the licence covers two rods in the same swim anyway. My dad hasn't fished for a couple of years due to health but it would pleasant to get him out on a sunny day without the hassle of arranging a short-term rod licence for a couple of hours on the bank.
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    If the river runs through his land he automatically holds the fishing rights . He can rent or give permission to a club or individual to fish if he likes but as a riperian owner (someone who's land water abuts) he will always hold personal rights which go with the ownership of the land. Riperian Rights are enshrined in Law and cannot be separated form the Land. A person holding the Land abutting water has automatic rights to it whether they like it or not!. If , rather than just rent the fishing rights to a club ,the owner rents a strip of land abutting the river to a club along
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    Bugger, I wish I had read your post iwm before I made mine
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    Well ,laugh if you like ,but I ordered a couple a day or two ago. I'm simply curious. Someone has to take the bullet for the team. Even if the thing has the build-quality of a 99p Action Soldier or the trigger requires a collision with a moose before springing it doesn't mean the idea of a plunger that indicates a possible catch from afar hasn't some potential for development. Oh stop laughing !
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    You can transport livestock short distances without a certificate( I know the abbatoir I take my sheep to is with in the limit.)but you are responsible for their welfare and I don't think tying a fox in a sack would be considered acceptable. Then there are rules about abandoning an animal to consider from a welfare point of view. I know its a fox and would probably find its feet quickly enough but abandoning it where it might be shot or left bewildered or where it might be tempted to try to find its way home over busy roads might not sit right with someone who really got the bit between thei
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    I've sewn pockets onto the legs of a pair of army trousers that reach from well above the knee down to mid-shin. Rectangles cut from a camping/yoga type mat slipped inside provide padding . For me ,its not the kneeling that gets to me its clutch-pedalitis from too much driving from job to job that I think will be the downfall of my left knee.
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    I used to keep a little rabbitry . I think regulations about selling carcases to the public are a lot tighter nowdays and profit would be pretty non-existent for a small commercial outfit . If you just want a few rabbits for the personal pot it would make an interesting hobby though. My favourite breed was the Californian-big white things with black legs and ears. They had a docile temperament and grew to the size of a small cat if you let them live that long. New Zealand Whites were similar in size but seemed less endearing for some reason. Both breeds grow fast and get to 10
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    I can't believe the number of Tv chefs and cookery books that reckon 1 and 1/2 hours is enough time to stew a bunny . Maybe a tender ten week old commercial rabbit would be Ok with such a short cooking time but a muscular wild-caught one in my experience needs a good three or four hours to get the best out of it . People that say they don't like rabbit because its too tough or rubbery have often followed a recipe by Hugh ,Gordon ,Delia or whoever and get a bit defensive when I suggest they try again but tripling the cooking time . Unfortunately a lot of folk have been put of
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    Not only is the dog not stock-steady ,it clearly doesn't retrieve either ... Seriously though; if my three £1.50 ex battery girls were the victims how would I price their replacement? Whatever the answer the outcome would be a lot more civilized, less stressful and cheaper if the dog owner made the first move of reconciliation and offered generous compensation instead of messing about and playing for time trying to find out what breed of chickens had been killed . I'd suggest the owner invest in a couple of ex layers himself in order to steady the dog.
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    I've never had any problems. I'd guess purse-net making is only a small-almost incidental- part of the market for bulk spun-poly for the factories that turn it out by the pallet load. I've had the old bolt that seems more prone to kinking more than most, but nothing that hasn't been reasonably alleviated by loading the needle in alternating directions. Back to the pink twine; like a lot of spun poly it bulks up a bit with use -especially after a few wettings- but I reckon along with lime green it is one of the easiest colours to see during those late afternoon winter pick-
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    I've never subscribed to the trap shy excuse. To a mole its just something in the run they decide to dig round or shift ;might as well be a rock,root ..or ... mothball . Its not like they have an I-Spy book of mole traps to refer to. In fact they can't read very well (glasses don't stay on due to lack of sticky -out ears and contact lenses are too fiddly for their big hands ). Apart from the desire to shift or dig round a foreign body in the run , or coming at the trap from an unsporting angle; I do believe that moles have a little tactic to avoid painful encounters with others of their spec
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    Funnily enough there is a Rumanian guy does a bit there. I've had a couple of good chats with him (his English is better than mine) . The obvious subject came up;eating the catch. He showed me pictures of him fishing in his home country ,and yes,along with pictures of some very lovely looking wildie types being returned, there were a couple showing dead carp ready for the BBQ . Over there he fishes in the dammed sections of clean rivers which requires a day ticket but its accepted the angler will take the odd fish for the table. His view of British carping is less than enthusias
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    They used to swarm in this stream when I was a kid, along with stone loach and bullheads, but -and its only my theory - the nature of the river changed when a load of crap-sorry carp- escaped from the mill-pond in a flood. I'm pretty sure they hoovered up the spawn of these tiddler species as they became pretty scarce for a long time though remained common in some of the feeder streams where there were no carp. The carp have been shifted downstream to the main river over the years and the gudgeon and loach are making a come-back. Only circumstantial evidence but food for thought.
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    With our local mill-stream settled after the recent rain and the end of the season looming it seemed an ideal excuse to spend a few hours on the bank with middle grandchild. I took my wonky old cane rod and centre pin to add a touch of "Mr Crabtree" to proceedings while Den stuck to his Poundland gear. What was planned as a quick dabble turned into a marathon session as just about every spot we tried yielded fish . Some were tiddlers-little perch and gudgeon- but bearing in mind the stream is barely ten feet across in most places and consists of long shallow stretches of gravel
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    As long as its got a nose and is obedient sensible around ferrets almost any breed is fine for marking. In fact my first experience of a marking dog was a mongrel spaniel owned by a colourful chap that I sold a ferret to when I was quite new to ferreting . He came back a few months later and asked my dad if it would be Ok for me to join him and his lad on their rabbiting ground as my extra nets and ferrets would boost the team. Bob -the dog- inspired my urge to own a marking dog of my own. Although I went on to work one of my mum's whippets to ferrets the first dog that I could call my
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    Its true that a lot of dogs who get to know the ferreting of foxing game will start to mark inhabited burrows with little encouragement ,others will show a natural interest in inhabited burrows by catching an interesting scent from a subterranean animal. Its up to the owner to read the signs and work on the partnership from that point. But ,it is possible to teach a dog to mark, and very reliably. If you doubt this ask yourself how sniffer dogs are trained to mark the most unnatural of items.
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    I know some people place moth-balls( You surely need a steady hand to castrate a moth!) as a repellent in the runs, only to find them kicked out the next day and the mole as active as ever. . Thinking outside the box(or having a daft turn) ;I wonder if placing a trap either side of a moth ball might work. If nothing else I might just have started a new Old Wives' Tale I often wonder if a mole's feeding instinct and the urge to patrol its tunnel overcome some of the arguments about strange scent . I had a job where I caught several moles from an area of soil that was stained by, an
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    Dexterity is good enough to feel the indent of a Talpex trigger -rod set humble of the hole in the plate. They last Ok. To be hones,t they seem to be the same gloves that retail for £3.99-£4.99 anywhere else.
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    Watch out for flies in the summer. the wet round bales hold water all year round and become a perfect breeding ground for all manner of flying sh#t. I made that mistake myself! I bought a load of old 3'x2' flags of the council etc and laid a hard standing 10 yards square for over wintering pigs. saves the paddocks for the rest of the year. Chuck your wood chippings on the flags and when done, spread on the paddocks. I can well imagine you are right. The really mucky outside of the bales go on the dung-heap . We only use the next layer -the stuff that looks ok but is apparently not up to "
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    Our first pigs are pretty much due to go. Luckily we have tame tree surgeons who are more than happy to drop the odd load of chippings off . In fact they are desperate to be rid of them a lot of the time. The chippings are great for drying up the ground , which along with the outside of the round bales from the stable-yard, have helped stop the piggy-paddock from becoming a buffalo wallow.
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    Poundland gardening gloves;rubber fingers and palms ,fabric back and they only cost a pound !
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    Ooh no ,he's welcome to take the micky ... his permission is better than mine.
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    I invited an old friend ,Stu, who used to do a bit of ferreting to join me and my usual partners in crime Martin and his son James on visit to bit of my local permission. Its been hit pretty hard over the last couple of years so we decided to split into two teams to cover more ground . Martin and James set off with their two proper lurchers in one direction, while Stu and I accompanied by my "semi-lurcher" went the other . Trusting the dog's nose we skipped over a lot of dead burrows until we settled upon one the dog showed an interest in . We set a lot of nets for four rabbits but h
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    What about the painful five year apprenticeship as a "Prospect" mole-catcher to a satanic master, the obligatory all-night skinning sessions and dark rituals dedicated to the spade -handed God refered to, in hushed tones, as Talpus the Magnificent ? Worse: the degradation of Lady's Night at the Mole-catcher's Lodge; when the tyro is forced to writhe to the point of exhaustion while wearing a velvet boiler-suit and rubber hands for the entertainment of absinthe-crazed women. There are books as well. For me one from the 70's by a well known Shooting and horror story author tru
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