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Any ideas what happened here...???
Nicepix replied to Bush Rummager's topic in Fresh & Salt Water Fishing
If it were another pike there would multiple lacerations in two places, one for each jaw. It it were a catfish there would be large areas of scale loss and fin damage. The wound doesn't look like an otter bite either as that has two jaws and there would be another wound below. Herons strike large fish through the back bone to kill it. Then if it is small enough they will swallow it head first. If not, they leave it and look for something else. Pike out here grow to roughly the same size as in the UK. France is on the fringe of their range. Colder countries have the biggest pike. -
Any ideas what happened here...???
Nicepix replied to Bush Rummager's topic in Fresh & Salt Water Fishing
Looks like a heron strike -
Not bad. But for a top job with the BBC you'd need something else like being ginger.
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You can usually tell with the plastic bits. If they are smooth and feel durable, then it should be OK.
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These days, to be a BBC presenter it helps to have a speech impediment; stutter, stammer, lisp or Geordie accent.
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You mean Guy Verhoftwat? Europes answer to John Prescott without the charm ?
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Early mole trap, type, in use
Nicepix replied to earth-thrower's topic in Snaring, Trapping & Pest Control
I dug a couple of traps in the other day that were 10" deep from grass roots to tunnel floor. In clay, so it was more like sculpting than excavating. How the hell would you get one of them side actioned traps in that sort of tunnel? -
But Useless von de Lying is still claiming it as a victory. She makes Dianne Abbott look smart.
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We used to go every year on fishing trips from around 1990 to 2010. It changed a lot especially when the EU money started coming in. The 'real' Ireland got further and further away from Dublin every year. We had many happy memories and I wish I could go back in time to Dingle and Brannah's bay.
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About ten or twelve years ago I had this mad idea to catch one using fly tackle off my kayak. I rigged up a strong mono trace with a lure made from large white feathers, big hook and attached the leader to a downrigger so the fly would be kept near to the bottom while I drifted over the sandbanks off Filey. Never got a touch. ? Then I had another mad idea about trying to catch a halibut like the Yanks do off California by trailing a chain from the downrigger with a leader to a lure clipped to the top end. Another failed effort. I never make it easy for myself ?
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We came across 10 or 12 last week, mostly road kill. They were about 6" long with bright yellow spots on their heads. I reckon they had recently hatched and headed for the road as it would have remained warm as the evening temperatures dropped. Some were stirrring and heading towards the verge.
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Retro hat too Kev ? Nice to see you posting again ?
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Horses are a drain on resources. But looking after other people's horses can be very lucrative.
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Any chance of a bit of rabbiting? ?
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Exactly my prefered way too. ? Google Earth and a notebook. Feet on the ground with binos, polaroids, a plumbing rod / sonar, and the notebook. Check the weather forecast. THEN fish. Sometimes I'll walk more than 2 miles from the car and try three of four places.
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No one is saying that they are doing it wrong. They just don't know how to do anything other than the way they do it. Any idiot can set up a modern carp rig. They just have to assemble the ready-made compoments. Eventually a carp will stumble across their baits given that carp will be smart enough to know the locations where they will regularly find food. But take those anglers to a wild water and see how they get on. Most will set up as near to the car park as possible and fish the same way as before with no thought to how to adapt to suit the conditions.
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Yes, many estate lakes as they are now called started off as fish farms to provide food. Also, if you look at ancient documents virtually all mill pools, weirs and lakes had fishing rights that could be sold or taxed. It is a mystery as to what happened to the monastery carp after the Dissolution of the Monasteries. The earliest English fishing book which is probably a translation from a French book dated around 1400 mentions them, but later books that were printed around 200 years later and 50 years after the Dissolution claim that they were only recently introduced. One author, Leonard
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Carp and tench were kept in stock ponds as a source of food. Catholic monks farmed carp to eat on a Friday when meat couldn't be eaten. Vikings kept tench to eat whilst aboard their boats as tench are very hardy. They introduced them into some countries too including Sardinia. Some French anglers still eat roach and in the large lakes in northern Europe they fish for roach, bream and pike to sell in shops. It is only post WW2 that Brits stopped bringing home their catches to eat. All the old fishing books had sections on fish cookery and every pen knife had a disgorger and fish scaler to
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You know that you can get motorised mowers these days? ? If you ever get around to it you will be more than welcome.
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I've just cut the grass Jamie. You'll be welcome to pitch a tent on it. It's 28c at the mo' ?
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I like Ken Townley's articles on the Haith Bait site. Loads of good info' on there especially for the lesser fished waters whers carp aren't preoccupied with boilies.
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Don't get me going about bushcraft. It seems the chances of you surviving a weekend in the Welsh countryside depends entirely on which brand of £300+ boots you wear and which hand crafted Swedish steel axe you carried. Some of the discussions on their forums make carp anglers seem normal. Some think you need to take a plasma pack for a few days wild camping and others want suggestions on where they can go to get away from it all, but must have 5G coverage. Winkers the lot of them.
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The thing is carp fishing has attracted people who don't really know how to fish. They all set up the same way, all have their gear on display and use whatever bait is in fashion. Then it is just a case of waiting until they get lucky. As someone has said; it is just camping with fishing rods. Fortunately for me there are lots of large carp in the rivers and huge lakes near me that don't get any attention from the 5xB's s I call them (boilies, bite alarm, bedchair & bivvie) brigade and that suits my style of fishing. Find the fish then come back another day and fish for them, four
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They ought to have pulled his toupee off. Macron's merkin they call it over here. ? Laxt Wednesday we were driving down to a campsite in the Lot valley about 2pm. There were dozens of gendarmes stationed all along the last 50km of the route, all with black rucksacks near to them. We booked in and the village was full of police. There were two motorbike cops and an abulance stationed outside the restaurant we ate at. We left around 8:30 and they were still waiting for le petit empereur to depart. The waiter was very disparaging about him. I asked if we should stand up and salute as he pass
