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  1. neil cooney
    While on the subject, I was talking to a terrier man this morning who had approached his local politician about the current situation. The answer he got was "I've seen the photos of what you's get up to." Thankfully he talked some sence into him.
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    R.I.P.
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    Through lack of a computer I haven't been on line in a while. Also because of family commitments I couldn't attend the Cork rally, I'm sorry to say. If those that own, work and love the working terrier only knew how hard a few lads are currently working to try and save our way of life. Long journeys and big phone bills are only the tip of the ice berg. EVERYONE that wants to keep the right to own and work our terriers in the future WILL be asked to play some part in the fight. Wether that's attending a rally or writing a letter, they have to do what's needed. None of us have an excuse.
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    I understand that the strains must be conservered carefully and mainly agree with the way they do it. It just makes it impossible to get any further involved with the sport if no one is willing to help bring new fellas in to the sport, by the way, I am definately not after one as I have enough on my plate at the moment. I have just found it almost impossible to meet any dog men in my area revolving around earth and running dogs. If no one new comes in and by that I mean true comitted guys, and breathes life in to these sports then what happens to the dogs in the long term anyway, surely they w
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    That's why it's called hunting. If every fox or any quarry for that matter wasn't a challenge they'd all be extinct. I remember one time asking a lad the other side of a ditch to net up any holes the fox might bolt out of. Next thing you know I seen the fox bolt and get away. I asked "why hadn't the hole been netted ?" He said "it didn't look used."
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    When I started working terriers first tongs were widely used. One thing I always noticed was that it was usually cowardly fools who had them and they can allow for severe cruelty. Thank god they're a thing of the past. While I agree that when quarry is to be dispatched then a firearm should be used as quickly as possible. But not all quarry dug gets dispatched and sometimes it has to be handled before being released. IMO if you wont or can't handle quarry then you are not up to scratch as a terrier man. Handling game is part of the job / sport.
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    I wont disagree with you Pothunter, a very good post. You watch your hounds and dogs closely.
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    If this is the road that the anti's are going down to try and rid terriermen of their terriers then it's time everyone started writting some letters and making some phone calls. The RSPCA and the humane-iacs will be informing the county councils and police that terrier work is wrong and illegal. What's needed is for ALL fieldsports folk to inform their local politicians and councillors that there is a very legal aspect to terrierwork. That to say that anyone who keeps terriers is a badger baiter is like saying that anyone who drives a car is a potential "getaway" driver. Farmers, gamekeeper
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    Your right Francolin, the beagle when used for foxes is more used for driving foxes to guns or lurchers. This IMO is not hunting with hounds proper. It's fox control pure and simple. Foxes will go to ground quickly when their covert is surrounded and hounds put pressure on them. But let a fox break and then see are your beagles good enough to hunt him and put enough pressure on him to mark him ?
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    Any truth telling houndsman will tell you that a good beagle will hunt with the same determination as any hound. They'll also wed to fox as quick as any quarry and I know of beagles going to ground more than once. If you like a dig I'd wonder would a few beagles have the pace to pressure a fox to go to ground.
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    Couple even ?? any wonder no one likes you nc ... brace in my town land If you brought your car to a mechanic and he lifted up the bonnet and pointed at the engine and called it a gearbox what would you think ? You'd say "he doesn't know what he's talking about." Why ? Because he didn't even know the right terms. That's you McCance. Doesn't know what he's talking about. I was only giving you the proper term and you insult me for it. Any hounds men I know up your country know the proper term for 2 hounds. It's common knowledge. sorry about that genius That's OK.
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    Couple even ?? any wonder no one likes you nc ... brace in my town land If you brought your car to a mechanic and he lifted up the bonnet and pointed at the engine and called it a gearbox what would you think ? You'd say "he doesn't know what he's talking about." Why ? Because he didn't even know the right terms. That's you McCance. Doesn't know what he's talking about. I was only giving you the proper term and you insult me for it. Any hounds men I know up your country know the proper term for 2 hounds. It's common knowledge.
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    Couple even ?? Jesus neil do ye have to be such a smart arse we know what he ment why doe's he need picking up on it for simply not useing the correct term is it a crime He might as well learn the correct term Hedz. Next he'll be saying he killed a couple with his 3 and a half brace, LOL.
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    Couple even ??
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    I just made a minnow trap out of 2 2 litre coke bottles. There's plenty of designs on You-Tube. I just put a strip of lead along the bottom of it and punctured plenty of holes in it to sink it quickly. Using bread as bait and putting it in a small stream nearby I can catch a dozen minnows in an hour or so. It's illegal to use a live fish as bait in Ireland but even if it was legal I wouldn't do it. But the minnow does need to be very fresh and if presented well is very effective. And your right, the takes do be good and fast. I plan on targeting a nearby canal this Summer that I know has
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    No Mustard, I've never fished Melvin. I didn't get out this weekend.
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    Well then it's a pity if magazines are printing such pictures. Personally I take a photograph to remember an event or someting similar. Digging a litter of cubs is something I don't like to remember and deffinately not remember with the celebration of a photograph. Especially when the hunters are all sitiing around the dead cubs looking well pleased with themselves. It's anti fodder ,simple as that.
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    A friend has just texted to say he had 8 today on the fly between 4 and 2 lbs. Dabblers and muddlers on a Westmeath lake. Looks like the minnow wont be used much more this year.
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    Tiny if your cooking trout by that method and don't like it then maybe trout is not for you. That's usually a real tasty way to cook trout.Is the river or lake the trout was caught in muddy or maybe recently stocked ? A nice trout usually doesn't need much fuss made of it to be delicious.
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    Mustard ,I hooked them through the spine beside the dorsal fin (minnow dead of course) with the point of the hook facing the head under a bubble float. One lead shot 6 inches from the minnow to get them down. I just let the current bring the bait to the trout. Sometimes in 18 inches of water. The lad who won the competition caught one of his fish freelining a minnow by putting the line through the mouth and the point of the hook sticking out through the vent. He cast into a run and retrieved the minnow slowly back to him. Again in 18 inches of water.
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    This year for the first time I made a little minnow trap and have been using fresh minnow to catch brownies on a trout river that's on my doorstep. I never tried minnow before as bait.I usually fish the fly. All Winter I've been watching a good trout lieing under a Whitethorn and this years first cast was to him. I landed a minnow on his nose and he was 2 ounces short of 2 lbs. That's a big fish for this river. So I've been catching some nice wild fish on the minnow recently and I let it slip to a mate who normally only fishes the fly. Last week he won the competition with 2 good wild fish.
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    Wise words indeed Corkman. Regarding what you say about selecting vouched for and well known terriermen. IMO those who sit on a commitee of any club will be or at least should be nominated and seconded by other chosen commitee members BUT as far as anyone who wants to join a club IMO it should be open to all. What's needed is numbers. The more the better. If the anti's want to try and sneek into a club by paying their membership then so be it. They'll find out what's happening anyway and we've nothing to hide. To fight any legislation in the future that could endanger terrier work we need t
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    Yes, sadly it's something most of us have had to do at some stage. It's the worst job a terrier man has to do. But the other alternatives are no way near as humane. But I've a funny feeling those photos with the dead cubs will come back to haunt us. I can just see them on some anti website in the future. IMO if you have to dig and kill cubs then you get the job done and bury the cubs and not celebrate by sitting around them for a photo. It doesn't matter what part of the world it's in it is all ammunition against terrier work and as usual given to the anti's by terriermen. And they'll ju
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    It's a couple of years old but I think it's funny. http://glossynews.com/society/201001070305/activists-missing-after-declaring-war-on-leather-at-motorcycle-rally/
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    Like any club that fights for fieldsports I will support it. The anti's are already organised and we're only starting. But like I said before a new club has to pack a punch from the word go. Looking for affiliation to the C.A. , letter writting and good public relations are all something that has to be done straight away. Unless we have good speakers, good letter writers and good sportsmen who are to our fore the antis will tear us apart with their lies. Phillpott seems to be a bit quiet of late but that wont last. You can bet your life savings he's planning of parting some terrierman and
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