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  1. perthshire keeper
    well the pups got suck into their first fox,,,,,,and ripped it to bits
  2. perthshire keeper
    i put "principles" in quoatation marks is that they wouldent alow prawn before because it was deemen un sporting ect and that fly was (for the most part) the only way to catch salmon, like i said once catches get too low and no coin is comeing in then they allow prawn fishing again, like you say the mind boggles!
  3. perthshire keeper
    Aye true mate but there's nothing better than going down some streamy pool on the Dee or Tweed...waist deep in the flow...small Silver Stoat swinging nicely through the stream and in a fraction of a second all hell breaks loose as the reel is screaming with a 20lb'er that decides to head back to the North Sea ;-)Each to their own you say...I know how I would rather have them ;-) Never done any fly fishing to be honest! ill have to give it a go one day, cant be any more boring than bait fishing ohh a nice shrimp trotting down the current is about the best/most reliable/effective way to get sal
  4. perthshire keeper
    yep just the kinda think i would have,
  5. perthshire keeper
    last 3 years my poor keepers pay was helped along greatly by selling skins,wings and tails! we shot nearly 1000 crows,rooks and jackdaws in a week once and sold every wing and scalp i could! i remember it was £22 in postage for the boxes to veniards! i used to send them (and this was only last year mind) mole skins ( up to £1.15 each!) scrow,rook,jackdaw,starling,jays wings magpie tails and wings cock pheasant center tail feathers 5p each (i was sending hundreds off a week some weeks!) and the same for hens duck cul de canard jackdoor scalps! and hare masks ive got a price list so
  6. perthshire keeper
    Aye true mate but there's nothing better than going down some streamy pool on the Dee or Tweed...waist deep in the flow...small Silver Stoat swinging nicely through the stream and in a fraction of a second all hell breaks loose as the reel is screaming with a 20lb'er that decides to head back to the North Sea ;-) Each to their own you say...I know how I would rather have them ;-) Never done any fly fishing to be honest! ill have to give it a go one day, cant be any more boring than bait fishing ohh a nice shrimp trotting down the current is about the best/most reliable/effective w
  7. perthshire keeper
    you know salmon airgunguy you can fish a week hard and get sod all!
  8. perthshire keeper
    well said that man its about enjoying it
  9. perthshire keeper
    yeh a wise man told me that foxes are killed in kennels,and its some thing i keep in mind every day, ime halfway thru building my new set up no what i want but as ever money and space have dictated what i can have
  10. perthshire keeper
    question for asking is i saw an old factory getting taken down and they were skipping loads of old railings (like hunt kennel jobbies) they were about 4-5ft high and i thort to myself if i could build a sandstone shad about 18ft long and 12ft wide and have a hunt kennel set up mmm
  11. perthshire keeper
    what model .22 is it?
  12. perthshire keeper
    i have been down south for a few days and as you do seen a few new things that got me thinking... money no object ,space and neighbors no object. what would be your dream kennel set up? space size building materiel's kennel and run, feel free to add pictures and sketches
  13. perthshire keeper
    I just used two rabbit snares stripped down and made into one, with the brass eyelet. tightens up really well, and never been broke. the thiner the wire the better on a good 6ft stick and wheek them out
  14. perthshire keeper
    all the way across the irish sea to get bashed by a lemonade bottle. i saw a 43lb fish from the forth get fed to pigs once! was that the big cock kipper that was caught about 5 years ago? nooo this was taken from the estuary by the village airth it was given to the farmer who hung it in a shed for 4 days then decided he did not want it so cut it in half with a wood axe and fed it to his pigs all £430 worth of it
  15. perthshire keeper
    all the way across the irish sea to get bashed by a lemonade bottle. i saw a 43lb fish from the forth get fed to pigs once!
  16. perthshire keeper
    like he said.........
  17. perthshire keeper
    lots of very good lads out their who work with them full time who would give him a safe good home. or some one who has had birds for 10 years and has now found him self bird less due to his last job commitments but is now looking for a new bird
  18. perthshire keeper
    like apples ripe for the picking best pick em before they turn red.........do you have a fox snare?
  19. perthshire keeper
    had 9 in one earth a vixen and two difrent litters of cubs 4 in each
  20. perthshire keeper
    you have pm...
  21. perthshire keeper
    i know a few guys up scot side who worked them and they recon the biggest danger was the dog drowning when in the holt rather than getting tore up in combat,
  22. perthshire keeper
    same hear i counted 84 on one bank! a bank of about 150m long just itching for the longnets!
  23. perthshire keeper
    i had a pet otter for 2 years whilst in perthshire it was called honey and lived in my caravan with me! it was "house trained" and came to a whistle and would run along behind me chuntering like a ferret! i gave her to a re-homeing center to try and get her back into the wild but she died after 3 months in "their care!"
  24. perthshire keeper
    all if's and but's, all if's and but's longnettings a lot of if's and but's but if he had them he would not need to post.. if you would run em out and send the longnetting dog to walk the field like every other experienced netter seems to do ohhh id love a dog yeh i wouls just run out 400m of net and send my uber dog to send the rabbits running in like a prize collie running in sheep at wigton lol i could do woth a netting partner but by shooting buddy is the noisyest heavy footed fecker in the county
  25. perthshire keeper
    big dog two more question then why is their an irish word for snake when well theirs no snakes in ireland lol and whats the name for a chorus in a trad/folk song made up of words that sound like the muisic? like "rare old mountain Jew" and "jar of porter" ect i know theirs a galic word for it but can find or remember it
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