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    A PLEA..... As you run a charity match occassionally, can I ask you to consider some of the funds for a very worthwhile new charity just getting off the ground: HOW - Heroes on the Water. have a look at the heroes on the WaterUKwebsite to find out more. A very worthwhile cause that is entirely voluntary - no money goes to fund salaries with this one! If any clubs you know of are holding a charity match - please, can they consider supporting this program with some of the funds. Thanks - I would love to come if there is info on roughly where it is. Can I fish from the kayak a
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    That is a beaut. Well done fella.
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    A friend has told me the lakeland pike are "blue" and I wanted to see it for myself....... I camped an dit was a noisy night, blowing a hoolley and lashing with rain/hail so I was up at 05.00 and wandered down to the water with Snowbee Raptor outfit (4-12g rod and 2000 reel). Line was some 20lb braid that I can't remember which one I put on! A couple of feet of 15lb fluorcarbon straight to a silver/blue 6g Abu Droppen, I couldn't find my copper one and I lost the black fury a week or two ago! I was hoping for a brown trout for breakfast. I worked my way around a rocky shore, keepinglow and wel
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    Try from the sandy beach inside the harbour - get soe ragworm from the tackle shop and you have a good chance of flounder (sporty little flatfish) watch they dont take the hooks right down, they are greedy blighters - they prefer a bit of movement, so acast out, let it settle for 1 minute, then move the end tackle 6" with a slow retrieve, let it sit 30 seconds and move it again...fish it in to your feet. The pier is a good idea too - corwing wrasse, small pollack. Do you float fish at all - try float fishing, smal slivers of mackerel (2" long 1/4" wide - you have to cut them yourself) hook
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    9' #6 will cover both river, lake and boat fishing - as in I use mine across all th elot and only use the lighter, shorter rod on small streams.If you are in a tight spot, just take the top two sections, tuck the rest of the rod under your arm and fish with a 4'6" rod! Then put it back together to play a fish, or if only a small fish just use the two top sections. You can soon learn to cast 20 yards with just the two top sections, it is exactly the same technique. On the boat a 9' rod will be fine, don't try too hard, just use the amount of line you can pick up and put down again happily YOU W
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    HW77 - been in production now for 28 years, only minor modifictions from the initial design, which was more or less a copy of the Feinwerkbau under lever target rifles. Great gun, and in .20 VERY desirable.
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    Actually, I have been writig the kayak fishing features in all the magazines (except Sea Angler - whose editor said in his editorial, that kayak fishing ould appear in his pages over his dead body and that we were just an accident waiting to happen....have you seen the safety gear and preparation kayak anglers use? Yet Sea Angler are quite happy to publish pictures of people in 16 foot dinghies, out at sea, wearing waders and no lifejacket...ask the RNLI which group they rescue the most often!) Anyway - I started doing kayak fishing features for Boat Fishing Monthly about 9 years ago. Tota
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    I am a qualified kayak fishing coach (instructor) an drun courses up and down the country - and Scotland and Wales - and Italy even! A few ictures of som eof the training and coaching I have done (with the RNLI station closest - they come and play too). Many of these guys this is their FIRST DAY in a kayak. Some are more experienced. i have been kayak fishing, and designing fihsig kayaks, since 1972! It wasn't new then either. THE MOST IMPORTANT BIT - PRACTISING SELF RESCUE, IN WAVES! Because you won't often fal off in calm water. And with the lif
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    If you hold off for a while (I know they are a pest over your side - be nice if they remained a pest and provided a regular harvest!) they will rear a nice brood of next years sport for you! I don't shoot anything other than rats at this time of year. Let everything rear the first brood, ensures a plentiful supply.
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    The Vagabond was more or less another of the Abu lure collection - the Little Wiggly. But those look more detailed and excellent! Great for the lakes I would think.
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    It is interesting to read so many different people having the same problem. This isn't because of nerves, it is because whilst you have hit the head, you have NOT hit the vital part of the brain, if you have hit the brain at all. The head of a pigeon is a small target, not much bigger than a grape. The central cortex of the brain that it is necessary to hit to cause death is only a fraction of that grape, about the size of a pea. If you look at the next pigeon you shoot and pluck the head just so you can see how little of what is visible is vital area. You don't need to pluck the whole hea
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    Copper is a good colour - I still use a spinner that worked for me 40 years ago. A classic that is still made. The Abu Droppen.
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    HOW did you smack the rod on the gunwale? I have never broken a rod in my life - seen others do it though! Shut car doors or the boot on them, run over them - and the classic, catch a fish, lie the rod down to unhook it and step back to the sound of the sickening crunch! NEVER LIE YOUR ROD DOWN. In the boat, pick how you put it down so it cannot get broken too - if the tip sticks out the fornt, it will get rammed into trees or the pontoon!
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    You had a wonderful trip to remember there. I bet it doesn't go like that every time!
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    Craig - if you want to account for more of them, try putting out some dried peas. If that doesn't work, RAISINS. They will come running for raisins (and if you soak the raisins in rum or brandy they go squiffy and you can pick the buggers up)
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    The eyes are encased in Bug Bond. I have tried other epoxies but the BB works the best. You don't really need eyes for the flies to catch well. Those whistlers will work well. Wire trace - for pike ALWAYS. Like you I find knottable wire kinks like mad, so does single strand, but it it doesn't matter - try some of the Eagle Claw Authanic wire - yes it will coil, but it straightens in the water. Check it after every fish though, it works but it does fray. Single strand is totally reliable, cheap and easy to haywire yourself on the water. I make a few up and take some spares with me. For bass
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    Well done! You thought that one out for yourself. zeroing is only a matter of regulating the sight picture to the point of impact - it is easier at slightly longer range, but if you split he difference and called it 13 yards - you would be close enough from 10 - 16.
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    With all the snow I have neglected my bro-in-law's farm and so after a month of being left quiet I knew it would be worth a trip. The night vision had new batteries and I had a pouch full of the RWS H-points that it shoots pretty well. To be honest, with the night vision being so fuzzy it is difficult to see a target to zero. I had to use a dirty great cross for it to show up in the green haze at all. When I got there I could hear the rats already busy, they were squeaking to each other and rattling the black sheeting over the barley, even though it wasn't long after sunset. I loaded both mag
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    I PREFER using an air rifle. having been a pro hunter for 35 years, I have given up firearms and I now enjoy my shooting againn - it is amazing how you become bored with shooting when you HAVE to do it. Shooting hundreds of animals a month soon loses its appeal - no sport, just execution jobs. The air rifle puts the challenge back into shooting - if you are fairly new to shooting, then the additional power and therefor range has its attractions - but once you have satiated the need to come home successful, you then start to appreciate QUALITY of shot over quantity shot. A good day with the air
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    Try these - i can shoot quite happily with them still on, the material is soft enough you can feel the take up of the trigger. They don't cost the earth either! http://www.surplusandoutdoors.com/shop/outdoor-clothing/gloves-accessories/quality-dark-olive-green-thinsulate-428060.html
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    Rats are very quickly educated. Sound, smell and even new items that appear in their habitat - they will treat them with caution for weeks. Give us a bt more information to go on about where you are having to shoot. ALL rats need a certain degree of accuracy, but you don't have to zero every time you go out. I zero my rifle once a year, maybe - but I practise often, in all weathers. There is nothing like getting the feel of the rifle. Some questions for you: what sort of range are you able to shoot at? (My rats are anything from 2 feet to 40 yards) At 2 feet don't aim, just point. At 5 ya
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    Thanks, it was the Nikon D3 - it was grey and lifeless until we introduced the off camera flash and warmed it with a gel filter. My son fired it, after being the dummy for focus and framing!
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    :icon_eek: Don't shoot the pheasants in April chap. Also, don't forget that by end of April the trees will be leafed and you won't see a damn thing - you'll hearthem, and you will know where there are, but you try getting a shot through the leaves! I live in jersey in the Channel Islands mate, we have no game season and phesant is classed as a pest, as long as its on your licence to shoot you can all year Well theres a thing....I have learned something new today!
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    It is blowing too. The roads have lumps of solid snow falling out of the hedges into the lanes the size of a small car, blocking the passage in many places. Nevertheless, I got out because although cold it was a bit brighter today and the snow had stopped falling by lunchtime. I settled in and waited and waited. I saw the sum total of one glimpse of a squirrel, he didn't come out from behind the tree though.....I was more successful with the camera!
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    Don't shoot the pheasants in April :icon_eek: Don't shoot the pheasants in April chap. Also, don't forget that by end of April the trees will be leafed and you won't see a damn thing - you'll hearthem, and you will know where there are, but you try getting a shot through the leaves!
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