Chaff
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Mike Willmot B5s was it mate
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Lovely fish mate, optonics and monkey hangers takes me back. Proper angling mate? Over grown turning points were the hot spots round here along with the odd sunken barge.
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Canals can be good once located and if they don't get hammered they stay about, big barbel to 20lb along that stretch of the Thames so I'm told. Lakes around here are so overfished it's really not an enjoyable place to be. I'm waiting for my wey ticket ?
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Some time last year the Thames record carp was caught not for the first time, except this time it was caught by a high profile sponsored angler and it was made public which turned the banks of that stretch into bivvy city. Completely ruining it for all the locals that had been enjoying catching some cracking Thames carp and keeping quiet. The result of this was a dead 50lb Thames record carp which was probably due to the amount peanuts that went in after being published. So moral of the story .........
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Hmm this thread seems to have gone a bit David Ikey now??
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Cheers mate it's a bit of an upgrade from a couple of ice-cream tubs ? I'm fckn gagging to get behind some rods now I rolled bait last week they are like stones now?
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Made this cut the top off an old rucksack last week, and it has made the perfect tackle bag, old timber lock box a plastic box that was used for business cards jobs a good un.
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Tell me about it had 3 decent landing nets, now they all chewed to fck by rodents. Might try a repair effort
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This one came from a lake/ reservoir called squabmore down near buddleih salterton, was great place not big fish but real beautys we got some strange looks from people explaining that all the trout had been lost and we were wasting our time?
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Some contractors I have subbed work from in the past have been f***ing useless, keep you waiting round for matirals so you not earning. Then when you hit them with an invoice you get " when I get payed you will be paid" which in my book is wrong so they deserve to be stocked up
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Not that one mate, it came from "the army lake" as Chris Ball called it in his book king carp waters, where that exact fish is pictured caught in the 70s. I'm starring into a box here that is full carp pictures going back some 30+ years. Dead right though quality before quantity ?
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Original leney stocking from 1957 just over 30lbs in weight, took 2 years before I got the bite from this one. Over 60 years old at time of capture Proper carp and remains my best fish to date.
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Perhaps stock one or two mate.
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Hope they get well soon mate
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Only thing I could find about zoo life
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Thames the same mate, used to see a few bigguns at the lock gates when working boats. Caught a few, mate had a koi around twenty from teddy lock. The Thames gets stocked most years when in flood lol
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I found you need to spend a lot of time at the water with a pocket or two of bait, rather than a barrow full of gear. Find em feed em then work out the angle of the dangle. I had good results doing this sometimes an hour's fishing would give me a 60 + year old leney of close to 30 pounds. This was a low stocked public lake of just over 50 acres. I recently went to a commercial fishery while waiting for this year's tickets, and cought nothing lol. I watched the end of my rods getting twanged about at morning bite time,and came to the conclusion that I was being done rig
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Donald Leny stocked redmire along with a lot of well known waters back in the 50s. He kept a stocking record book of every transaction he made, including every water. Think he gave to Chris Yates and now I believe Chris Ball has it. Many carp anglers consider this book the holy grail of carp angling.
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Haven't seen or noticed any politician's or officials interviewed outside at all these past few weeks, or is that just me
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Those about to die by Daniel mannix Probably one of my best reads, it's about the Roman games and the collossiem
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Alaskan saw mill time, only takes 2 year to dry ?
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I did seriously think that a letter to every household was really nessasary. Think of the amount of hands that letter will pass through with the odd cough and sneeze along the way. Most old folk listen to radio for the latest info by the time the letter gets through the letter box everyone will know exactly what's written in the letter, such is the media coverage of this covid.
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I hope the rinky dinks get some proper PPE to the NHS asap. Essential that they are fully protected against this covid they are now saying 2 to 4 weeks to peak. Let's hope they get the correct kit to our frontline NHS.
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https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ I take a look at this once a day as it's quite depressing really.
