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mackem

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  1. I think he said he intended to write a trilogy but I didn’t read the sequel as it wasn’t on sale from John the Book in Chungking Hong Kong where I got shantaram.
  2. Did you read the sequel the mountain shadow?
  3. Gregory David roberts goes a bit more in depth on the book in his YT channel. Back then if a book gripped my interest it wasn’t getting put down till I had devoured what was on the pages,I was a voracious reader.
  4. Could have sold litters of pups from it on name alone lol.
  5. I read the book in one sitting,unputdownable,hope the film is even half as good.
  6. At least it lived out a loved life in a caring home.
  7. mackem

    Snow

    Enjoy the trip,might end up there next year.
  8. What happened to your pup juk?
  9. I remember his advert in the 1980’s for a lamping comp in the shooting news,but oftentimes it’s not only the dog but the man holding the lead and the area he runs.£600 back then was a fortune.
  10. I have had a lot of big browns,fished quite a few times on some of the best southern chalk streams in the south-east of England,but as a kid a ferox was the stuff of dreams when I read about them caught deep trolling from an old wooden rowing boat.
  11. That must have been a fantastic fish to see,loch caught,deep?
  12. I want to get a 40 next,the 30’s this year were powerful running downstream into the next pool,no stopping them,a 40 or 50 would be off the scale.
  13. Ice cream,got some pecan ice cream.
  14. I remember when Ian closed the site down due to people arguing,the traffic was fast paced,a few mods were always on but he had to do it to bring the rowdy boys to heel lol.
  15. Some biggies over 10Lb mate,but we were kids getting a £ a Lb even back then and we gutted them on the bank,we weighed the biggest Salmon which was almost 30 but I beat that this season legit on rod and line.
  16. Fried some bananas with brown sauce,drizzle of honey.
  17. That’s terrible that is,I think someone might have been netting them?
  18. Embarrassing,remove Simon Ridley as not fit for purpose,given his position he should have been able to churn out statistics staccato fashion instead of stutter along like a newbie buffoon in public speaking.
  19. Ah,the infamous mesh-marks,heard of them but never actually seen them myself.I one got just over 120 mixed salmon and sea trout over a weekend from a north-east river,I was still at school at the time,used to be great sitting in the dark beside the river listening to decent sized fish jump.
  20. Just put some salmon soup on to bubble away.
  21. mackem

    Snow

    Just west of Ottawa mate,very nice to be honest,but not so when it gets real snow,then it’s sit tight and wait for spring (or head back to UK).
  22. mackem

    Snow

    Just got this and putting the winter tyres on.
  23. Tyne,wear and derwent,had good numbers of fish from them all,oh to turn the clock back eh?
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