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    Thanks for that Dave. I am further north, in the last stronghold for our native whiteclaws, the Peak District. My local river is the Dove and the Trent isn't far away. A couple of estate lakes locally where I have permission might be worth a try - if I catch whites I can always let them go. Now I know why the Perch are so large in Cotswold Water Park. I have a friend who fishes there fairly regularly for the perch and he keeps me updates with his captures...4lb perch twice this year and plenty of 2lbers! I'll leave it until the New Year then get some traps and do some trial soaks on pe
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    Anyone not sure what to do with them, just look up: COACKROACH fly - dead easy to tie and the pattern will work for trout, seatrout and saltwater fish such as bass, pollack and coalfish. Same dressing, different sizes - it is also a good tarpon fly.
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    What kind of water is best for the signals? As in, do they prefer certain depth slow or fast rocky bottom or muddy bottom - or any size of waterway depth of pond - what size outflow does it need for them to have inhabited? Any pointers would be great because I have 3 miles of river I can try and several still waters.
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    Shamus, that is interesting and I can quite belive it. iain is a crofter - 5th generation on this holding - on Skye and bait is collected in summer and salted to last the winter when there is none to be caught. The winter gales means they often can't get out of the bay in the small boats they use (he is making a living from a 16-footer). We used to get crays off the south coast of Cornwall, that one you you caught has crawled a long way - with luck they have followed the water temperature. I have a very good friend in Seahouses, used to fish and was cox of the lifeboat. I get up there a couple
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    With more than 1/2 on each side it is POSSIBLE that some of the litter will come with more greyhound in them. There is a strong possibility they will not all come the same mix. In the same way that if you cross a rough coated bitch with a smooth coated dog you are likely to gte a litter of some rough, some smooth and some with a bit of feathering. In a case like ths it is common for the sire attributes/features to have more influence than the those from dam.
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    What a load of rubbish.
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    There is every point - SPORT. I like to think that the same quality of sport will be available in future years by looking after the stocks and being very selective. The number of anglers you hear about who think a 3lb bass is "A GOOD BASS" - it isn't, it is a small bass. A good bass is 6lbs or above (double the size most people think of as a good bass!) I agree that the odd fish for the table is not doing any harm, but there are plenty of people who say they take "a fish for the table" when in reality they are takng 20, 30 or more at a go. They have done massive damage to shoals and I know
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    Lurcher puppies have a lot of pent up energy to burn off, more than purebred sight hounds due to the hybrid vigour. I bet none of your pups whine when they are asleep! There is one post above from Kabar that says the pup whines when he wants to go out, is hungry or is left......why are you complaining? He/she is telling you that he needs to go out. That is the only wy they can communicate with you. If he/she is hungry, again a legitimate reason to whine and merely communicating with the pack leader that food is required! When left, that is the confidence, insecurity thing. Reassurance over
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    Why? They are far to valuable to only catch once! If I want fish to eat, I would rather eat black bream, red gurnard or a host of othet fish. I have only had to take ONE bass in the last 15 years, a 6lber in Cornwall that I could not revive. I spent over 30 minutes trying to get her to revive and go back though - getting that fish to go back was more important to me than continuing to fish the tide.
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    Thanks PoshPikey - and you too Bootsha. Dead easy actually. Camera (Canon G12 in a waterproof housing, all set to go) is on a starp around my neck. Fish on - rod is in my left hand, camera used with right hand. The quality comes from shooting RAW and processing back on the computer at home. You can get waterproof compacts that a cork on the strap would keep afloat - but it is easier just to have it on a longer strap, so if you drop it it is attached. Other times if you have a frind with you, he can work the camera - like for these pike, also taken on fly: . T
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    Same as Tiny, I have never seen the need for aslip when working a lurcher - they need to be able to react to a situation, not wait for your reaction time to kick in and then the mechanical device activate. A well trained lurcher will stay close at your side and only go when it is worthwhile - that takes experience, but they can only learn by failing and sometimes getting success. A smart dog learns as much from the misses as the successful runs.
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    Think of how you would feel if you were taken from your mother at the age of, say, 3 years old, taken to a strange country where they didn't speak English and left to your own devices. THAT is how a young pup (not just lurchers) feels. He has been taken from the only surroundings he has known since birth, lost his playmates, his mother, familiar smells and sights. You are now his entire universe and he depends on you for his comfort. You cannot expect him to just switch on and off like you do. If you want to get the best out of him in the future, he needs a familiar smell - so one of y
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    Oh, that dates you! Thanks for the compliment. Yes. I did the coursing stuff in the original SHOOTING NEWS as well, and a weekly column on rifles and rifle shooting under the pen name CENTREFIRE. I also did the hunting and coursing stuff for The Field, Countryweek (which then became "Countryweek Hunting" and finally just "Hunting") and a load of stuff for The Shooting Times, Shooting Gazette, Sporting Gun and a load of overseas magazines in Germany, Italy, France, Norway, Sweden and the USA. I am still doing some. Still one of these chaps left - after three people have had me put him
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    Here is a video clip of the pups that are left playing. We are keeping 2 back for ourselves, because my lad wants one for himself - the start of his life with lurchers. No idea how to use U-tube, so they are off photo bucket. I hope it works - if not, could a mod help me out please? !
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    Bullet seating depth with also alter the group accuracy. YOUR chamber will be within factory tolerance, but every one is different. You can make yourself a custom bullet seating depth very easily, take a resized case and DO NOT PRIME IT. leave it purely as a case (a bullet holder only). Seat a bullet LONG. It doesn't matter how long at this stage. You need your rifle close at hand, with the bolt. Seat the bullet, say half way down to the cannelure ring as a guess, especially with the 100gn Hornady (I used the Hornady 100gn SP NOT BOAT TAIL - they were great, even on big reds (24 point biggest
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    Take a tripout with Paul on Sea Otter II, from Whitby. he can provide all the gear and bait you'll need - cod off the wrecks and you'll be fishing within 3 miles of theport, not a 2 hour steam before you start fishing. WRAP UP WARM and be prepared to get wet, whether you go from the shore or boat - getting caught in the rain is likely!
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    Just a few pictures of one of the other activities I get up to. Fly fishing for bass off the kayak, or wading or rock hopping. I now use the fly rod almost exclusively. I have fly fihsed for bass for over 20 years, but I used to use plugs and livebaits too, now I would rather just use the fly rod. Same for pike. Getting rigged up, not quite as early as I had wanted. Too much hospitality the night before! It was flat calm, not exactly the best conditions for bass fishing, I prefer a bit of wave. But I found this reef break, so I targetted it. I had to sit the kayak right on the buildi
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    Those smelts look as though they would make great pike baits!
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    Thieving scumbags. I hope he comes home soon. Good luck.
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    I heard a report of 93 BRACE being shot in th eouter Hebrides last week. Only heresay at the moment - but I don't doubt it. Not heard anything from my Skye spies yet. Round here in Staffordshire, not many on the ground. I went out with the dogs to see if I could lift any - saw one on a good flight line!
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    Good luck - my baits would be: black lug rag tipped with squid straight mackerel strip Fish Beesands rather than the main beach. Close to Hallsands end. Put one rod close to the base of the rocks, you'll often pick a flattie up hunting along the "edge". It has been warm enough for other stuff to still be about - cod coming aplenty from Cornwall, close in.
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    £15 per week , take home pay in the mines of Lancashire, out weekends we a greyxwhippet. i can see the look on my mothers face now, when i came home with the bunnies good days. poaching tales, you wouldnt believe em Aye; and we lived in't middle of road in cardboard box ! Hand full of cold gravel for breakfast, then down pit for shilling a day !! Luxury !! Try telling kids that today, and they won't believe you !! LOL !! Cheers. You were lucky. What we'de have given for a cardboard box........we used to walk 25 mile t'pit, work 20 hours a day and have to pay pit owne
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    Have a look at the thread entitled "Fly and her pups" I have some video clips to put up too. Not worked out how to do that yet!
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    If you are fishinng off Slapton, then try one hook on each rod with very thin mackerel strip, just of a size suitable for your hook - 1" long and 1/4" wide is enough. ragworm tipped with squid (again, just a tiny sliver of squid hanging off the hook) would be another bait I would try. I haven't caught dabs for years,but used to go for the big ones off Beesands each winter - January-February was the big dab time, and they got close to 2lbs some of them - really BIG dabs, most in the 12oz - 1lb size, but always some whoppers. Turbot off the beach too - not Devon though!
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    D Dave, why did some nets catch and some not do you think? What was the difference between the catching spots and the empty nets spots - if we can work out the more productive kind of water it might help people be able to site their traps more effectively. I don't expect you to tell us which river you were on - but it would be interesting to know which county you are in. I know we have white claws a plenty in our rivers, but not sure how far the reds have crawled yet...I do know they are coming.
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