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At the other end of the scale, here’s a little thing I sold last year.
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That is me smiling ! Lol ?
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Don’t know mate ?
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Purveyor of mischief and master of the dark arts mate ! Lol ?
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With my older 3 I was dealing with this........ With my youngest I’m dealing with this !........thanks autism, you’re a legend ! Lol
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We don’t have anyone here to watch them, the girls are 18 & 19 and can watch the boys but they don’t drive yet so it’s a worry when you live as remote as me......plus the little lad is a law unto himself and requires fully qualified “parent” eyes 99.9% of the time ! Lol Left his sisters, anything could happen ! Lol
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Barely uttered a word to the wife, was too busy looking for salmon ! Lol ?
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I hear you mate, that will have been out first night away just on our own in 7 years ! Did a mates wedding 3 Years ago but it’s not really the same. Its just constant doing stuff or attending to the kids in some way, shape or form.....still, that’s what you sign up for I suppose.
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Lovely mate, your place looks absolutely fantastic. My wife’s birthday tomorrow so we had a night out in Sligo last night, nice hotel overlooking the river and coffee by the river this morning. Nice few pints of ice cold Peroni and a cocktail or two....all very social ! My first beer in 3 years ! Lol ?
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Thermal imagers are great bits of kit, the amount of stuff it shows up that you just wouldn’t see is unbelievable.
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Paul Forward ?
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I sympathise with you lads, I really do ! Lol
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This is the shop front mate:
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What they fetching over there at the moment ? Used to sell a lot of it early 90s, made decent money too as it was expensive to buy new. I just spent the night in Sligo and I went in a grand old shop yesterday with an amazing shop front. Anyway, by chance I got talking to the loveliest, most interesting bloke who happened to be the owner.....he was ancient and a lovely, softly spoken gentleman. Looking sharp as a pin in his suit. I said how much I liked the shop front and he told me his father and uncle had saved for 10 years to have it built in 1919. All the gold l
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Old repro mate ?
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They have indeed mate ! Lol
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What are they, Blue sharks ? Get yourself over to the Wild West of ireland for some Tuna !
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I personally don’t have anything against people having decent kit, I always use the adage of buy the best kit you can afford and use it. It’s people being a total prick I have a problem with ! Lol
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I see they have free wi-fi at Headley Court !
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That looks absolutely fantastic mate, food looks amazing. Your lad is a ringer for you pal ?
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If I could offer Wolfdog one bit of advice it would be ignore all those carp forums. Fish and read, make mistakes, refer back and learn to try and understand why what’s happening in front of you on the bank is happening. There is excellent reading material out there, but I’d push you in the direction of Hutchy, Maddocks and (best of all in my opinion) Jim Gibbinson, specially “Big Water Carp”.......and excellent book that can be applied to all situations and really got me thinking differently back in the day. Well worth looking for. Maylin, Hearn, Lane are all about too muc
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None.....and rightly so too. These people have nothing to offer youngsters. I was lucky in that carp fishing was really in its infancy when I started and there were some very good lads doing the rounds of lakes, especially in my area which were all the anglers from Essex and Kent. I remember two lads who were up from Tottenham way, they had spent the previous season on Walthamstow and anyway, I was this skinny 12 year old sat there behind my fibreglass rods not doing very well. Id been chatting to these two blokes all day and they said “Here son, let us give you a bit of ad
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Syndicates are just like being a member of a little local shoot really mate. The upside is that people are paying a hefty fee to fish so they tend to be more serious about it, the downside is that it can get used if the owner needs a few quid so he lets in loads of members and you are back to square one except it’s costing a fortune. The bigger old reservoirs tend to be cheaper because they are hard and most of the new breed don’t want to fish them because they don’t have a clue how to approach something 120 acres plus. Thats why it’s a shame there’s no carp here, the lakes are
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I can talk with a little bit of knowledge on this subject mate.....you are right, most of them are total pricks ! I was carp angling from about 1983 and over time the people carp angling changed massively. While there remained some very good, knowledgeable lads....real countrymen who would have been as comfortable out shooting or ferreting or anything, a new breed of all the gear, no idea type anglers came along. Happy to sit packed on a lake 10 yds from each other catching stock fish that were no different from the old “put & take” rainbow trout fisheries......throwing
