neil r
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Everything posted by neil r
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Dont know about altbergs but my lowa combats were sound straight from the box . I take an 11 and the size was spot on and they didnt need breaking in . I got them online from polimil and ive not had any regrets about them
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I know garstang is , ive not got any land at st michaels or pilling but its not a surpise , Me and a mate had a drive round by st michaels on our way to a job in blackpool last week and didnt see anything about , didnt even see any dead ones on the road . Bleasdale , barton and claughton got hit earlier in the year aswell
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Padiham mate, rest I caught were healthy I'll try and knock em over but time will tell I supposethe thing is it was only a couple of weeks ago I was telling my cousin 'I've not seen mixy local to me'! put my foot in it there didn't I Thanks all for the input Mick It was round hapton not long back , looks like its reached your way now . Its a shame , the rabbit population has never been that big round here and everytime it looks to be getting better it goes bad again . The land i have over harwood had a fair few a couple of years back but in the space of 2 weeks you were lucky to see one
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Where abouts in east lancs are you , im in accy and mixy has wiped my permissions from garstang to great harwood over the last couple of years. Dont know how fast it spreads but its a sickener when you see your permissions being wiped out , even my bankers in harrogate have been done in with it . Id just leave it and get out looking for new land
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No , I won't even let the Mrs take mine for a walk never mind letting someone else take them out no matter how well I knew them
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6/7 got 5 wrong
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Did some anapolon years ago , put a couple of stone on but it didn't last that long
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That didn't last long , just watched it and posted it and it's been took down already
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http://youtu.be/W7Yl9yOtuh0 Didn't realise the fight was last night but found it on YouTube if anyone's interested and not seen it
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Cuba I think
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Im 6,2 . Most of my cousins and nephews are 6 - 6,5 and only a couple i can think of are under 6
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Theres a fair few black and ginger ones near me and a couple of seasons back i found a place not too far away with loads of them with white patches round their necks .
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I caught a lot of trout and grayling on iron blue duns and blue duns earlier in the season but f flies are my most consistent catcher on the Calder
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If I'm fly fishing I use forceps but if I get one on the stick float and maggot I use a disgorger
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Thanks for that , ill give it a go during the week weather permitting
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What is is like safety wise . The lad who I'll be going with is in his 60's and not in the best of health and he's a bit worried about getting cut off
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Thanks for the replies . Called in at bispham angling earlier and the woman serving said the same about it not fishing well . If the weathers not too bad , ill have a look at 5bar gate monday or tuesday and just see how things go
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Can anyone give any tips for fishing round the blackpool , bispham , clevelys areas . Ive just bought some beach casting gear but im a total novice when it comes to sea fishing and im not sure what kind of rigs to use for different fish or even which fish are going to be around .
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I have that as well it's very limited chrome casts are brilliant if you know how too use them there great there is not a show I can't find and put on my TV with the Internet and a iPadCan you recommend any good ones for films and TV now movietube has gone . I tried movietube.ws but it's only got films and half of them won't work with my iPhone . Also are there any places for sports that can be cast from my phone , I found one for football that played on my phone but wouldn't allow me to cast it .
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Emailing them to myself and reducing them with the options that come up is working for me on my iphone
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The stream kit will be ok for it , just watch for striking too fast though or the rod will act like a spring with the really small fish and catapult them out the water towards you . I sometimes go on a little overgrown stream near haslingden that goes in to the irwell . Never had anything over about half a lb out of it but it's decent fishing , you get some funny looks from the dog walkers though when they see you wading in a stream you could jump across in most places
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The rod was an old 7ft 3wt Shakespeare oddysey xt , the reel a small 3wt one and the line a snowbee thistledown with a silk furled leader and an 0.10 reflo line tippet , the flys that got most interest were size 22 f-flies . I started with a little nymph on a dropper aswell but never had a touch on it so just cut it off and carried on with the dry . I should of used one of my longer 3 or 4 wt rods because the 7ft struggled with hitting fast bites with a longish line out and also struggled with the wind aswell . Be warned though it's not that easy . I've had loads of dace on the river on flies
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Had a go with the fly and only managed 2 little roach on a size 22 black f-fly . I thought dace were quick but I must of missed about 40 rises . The head on wind was making it hard to present the fly properly which didn't help though . Can't see me giving it many more goes , it's very frustrating .
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Funny you mention that , ive been thinking of trying that for a while now , ive had chub , dace and minnows on the river on dries and pike on the canal on flies but never got round to having a go for roach . Ive got a little 7ft 3wt and a load of 20&22 dries to give it a go . If its not raining tomorrow night ill have a look on and see if i can get some .
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I used to be obsessed with big pike and used to travel all over chasing them but it got to the stage that i was just going through the motions and if they didnt look over 20 i wouldnt even bother weighing or photographing them , now i prefer ultra lighting on the canal for anything that takes the lure . Last year i had countless perch to about 2lb and at least 300 pike from the canal and none of them came broke double figures but like you said , when you get one on the ul gear its good sport
