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    i have problems with my dogs feet, they are nice and strong and they arent flat or bad to the eye but he seems to have weak claws, always knocking them up or splitting slightly, he is a heavy dog 70lb and he aint that tall, i watch where i run him only nice soft ground (learnt that lesson last season) but occasionally he'll run through a hedge after quarry across dirt/stoney tracks and always seems to damage them then. is there anything i can do other than keeping them well trimmed to improve the strength of the claws so he doesnt damage them so often?
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    cheers mate
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    good up here too mate south yorks/north notts in terms of wind at least, think im gonna venture south a bit, ill let you know tomorrow how i got on! wont be starting till late though
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    give me your adress mate and ill send you my old dummys if i can dig them out
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    inbox full skycat wont let me send message
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    excuse me if this is stupid but what is ragging work? im interested as i am having the same problem with my lad recently, hes about the same age too, used to be good at retrieving but just seems to hold it there and crush it a bit at minute, very annoying
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    the main difference mate is they shouldnt be there, they come inland as the stocks in the sea are gone and prey on the freshwater fish, they also do nothing for the native water birds, they outcompete them and they destroy bankside habitat with their roosts, its like a dead fish sewage farm beneath, not nice. dont you keepers keep all your birds in pens when theyre young anyway? least thats where my sunday roast comes from!
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    does anyone have the number for george drake? or know of a good one in the sheffield area? although dont mind the journey he sounds worth it, would like to get him to have a look at my lad.
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    i have done it many times but the dos never strikes it, luckily, just comes back lookin at me as if to say 'there nowt there you daft twat!'
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    tripe, beef, rabbit, hare, pasta, veg and markus muhle (maybe wrong spelling) dry food, expensive but i think its worth it when i cant get raw / forget to defrost it. also he gets an egg mixed with boiling water on top probs twice a week, and a few good bones from butchers, hell he eats better than me!
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    FFS keep it to yourself for yours and the pikes sake. dont worry mate, i wont be saying where its from, theres a lot of drains in lincs so take your pic!
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    our area was good till last winter when the freeze seemed to kill most off. out last night for couple of hours had one from three hard runs. not easy but better than stopping in!
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    i can see that being a problem, why would anyone put that many small pike into a river? especially one someone controls so they cant fish it anyway. is there another way the fish could of got in there? floods from reservoirs lochs etc?
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    good going for bright night mate, more than we get local on a good night. ill be trying it tonight even though gonna be clear, its windy as fook so fingers crossed!
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    Not when its a trout river and the fishing clubs are putting time and money for years into bringing up the salmon levels. i can understand the need for control and its silly to add pike to a venue unless it needs some, but a few predators in your river will keep the sick and injured fish down, and keep your stock more healthy, every ecosystem needs predators. its very foolish to remove them all. it works in cycles too, if the predators get too numerous, stocks drop and then they eat each other (more than usual anyway)predator numbers go down, stocks rise again (of prey fish) and predators
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    thanks everyone, certainly a good little venue i dropped on
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    good luck mate, give him all the time n chances he could well be a cracker
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    53 guests. hmm
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    2nd from bottom the beach just round from gorran? cant remember the name. i do love fishing that part of the coast, stunning
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    cheers im made up!
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    2nd thoughts after sstudying photos i think its a different fish, same swim, good little hotspot
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    well i have finally done what i been trying to do every winter for a long time, a 20 pound pike! think it mkight even be the same fish as other week(previous topic) just i had my good scales with me this time not my mates little crap spring jobs. here she is 20.10 of beautiful esox, fell to float fished mackeral just touching bottom. from a lincs drain!
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    pike are an important part of any fishery killing them is very stupid. but i have had enough arguments with peiople locally about this, seems in south yorks all the thick as shit matchmen kill them all, cant stand the cnuts
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    happened to me few weeks back moll, dog was unfit from an injury, not far off fit tho, he had been getting lots of road wor etc but he wasnt fit enough to run what he ended up doing, accidently put something up with my mates saluki x and the rest is history, luckily mine came round too, after about ten mins. i found this thread by sandymere very helpful, and shows that electrolytes arent always the answer, better adressing the problem/ http://www.thehuntin...17#entry2255617 hope it helps
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    could of been an old animal, the old ones get very tough. this recipe is really good and takes away the gameyness and freshens it up a bit! i like jugged hare, royal hare stews good too, but if your not fond of the rich gameyness try this one its great! although it says for hard times but uses saffron! not cheap! http://honest-food.net/2010/02/11/hare-stew-hard-times/ we get a lot, shot n retrieved obviously, mainly retrieved by my mates saluki whippet collie thing, and they taste good and feed a lot of people. there is an awful lot round his way, and the farmers aint too keen on e
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