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    Seriously considering getting rid of my ferreting kit. There are barely any rabbits whatsoever, as a kid I could take a ferret out and a few nets and bolt 1 or 2 most days, no dog marking just net up where there is sign and always have the odd one even on a bad day. Fast forward 15 years, I am just working ferrets for the sake of it. Barely a bolt I'm lucky if I get 1 to 5 rabbits in a full season. They are either getting hammered by summer hunters with air rifles or there must be more to it. Barely ever see any and even when you do it's because they're in a place that's well protected f
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    Different place than I fished last year for big perch, this is a giant for the water I am fishing here. Totally surprised me even though it was perch I was fishing for. Weight was 2.25 lb.
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    The dogs digging them out or you? I noticed a good few holes at a river by me in the bank.
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    You still on the 12mm leads Paul when trying to wing them in flight? I'm off to collect a few 20 to 25gram pebbles later for my Stanley with squares.
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    Here's one I made up this week guys traditional gypsy style with light tubes. Who likes old type catties over the new modern ones? Used a. 50 calibre shell casing for the handle and then used gypsy tabs wrapped on leather and whipped, then banded. Core is a steel frame. Will take the heaviest bands you can find.
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    That's the bugger I had.
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    Good skills mate. I just had one this week In the cage trap. Girlfriend said she saw one in the garden behind my kennels where I saw a hole in the stones but thought it was the dogs digging. I pt the trap down on the back fence and he was in there the next morning. No food in my garden next door has a bird feeder though. When you say you used to trap alot of rats when younger was that for fun or necessity? I love it when I know people have rats so I can go and get a few lol. Whether it be shooting, dogs or Traps.
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    Prawns that good are they lol? Will be giving that a go when I get back to the UK what size hook are you using with them? Using alarms or just quiver.
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    I have a very very weed lake with some good fish in it and it never get fishes, because of the weed. If I was to rake a hole in there and bait is it better to fish with the rod tip high like this? Also full of eels this water aswell lol
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    Just curious why you fish with the rod tips up high, is that because of weed or something?
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    The Bristol docks?
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    you after a trade for the stockins? Currently on bills waiting list for one.
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    Im debating ordering some sheshou in off Wayne, unsure weather to go 1mm or the 0.8. I also have a role of the .82 hinting serious, how do you find they compare?
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    There are foxes out here, although rare. Rats are now off the island they had a problem with them from what i read on an infomation and history board. They were introduced to the island, but theres alot of ground nesting birds so my guess is thats why they made an effort to them gone. Uk is the place to hunt though believe me, none of it over here, and cant wait to get out with the dogs when i get home.
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    Berthas beach that one is called not too far from the camp. Would of loved to of seen golum diving for the fish mate haha. If you lay down the penguins come right up. I had a visitor this evening on the estuary, sealion came from know here patrolling up and down. Was lovely to see. Still hooked a few tonight despite the sea lion up and down, and I was trying to fish away from him. Only landed 1 though as my hook was Blunt as hell so they were spitting it as soon as I was hooking up. Here's the one I did land though.
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    You can fly fish out here mate but I only broigh a small tele spinning rod. The fishing stuff out here costs a bomb, your talking 4 times more than than the same stuff back home by the time they get it to the island. But a lovely place for the fly. Plenty of people do fly fish here. But they're big on spinning here also. I've been teaching a lad here to fish, he's come out with me 3 times and not had any luck, but he caught an absolute monster of a brownie this evening so I'm please for him. Photo doesn't do it justice I was just telling him how to play it when yo reel and not to, checki
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    What a session yesterday evening turned into. Went about an hour and half before high tide, which I think is a point to note. Not to get there close to high. Then went around to the bend of the river and over to what I call the barrel, and it was bites all night. I hooked 9 of the bits, and landed 7 fish. Not huge but what a session really enjoyed it. Here's a few of the photos. Oddly my mate didn't have a single fish but I think that's just down to experience and knowing a bite over a rock catching. And how to bring your lure down with the water flow etc. All on
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    Freezing out this evening but had a few hours out and managed a nice little sea trout. Fair play they go til the very end. Took a good rest for him but I made sure he was 100 percent before he shot off back into the depths. Will be looking at fishing for them back in the UK when I'm home.
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    Bit of an update here on the fishing. Weather getting colder and been fishing mostly at the harbour, so not anymore trout, however today we are going to start targeting the rivers again to get a few trout in. It's harder fishing now with the wind coming in, when it's still the mullet are straight on I, when it's Choppy they go to deeper water so we went to a river called the murrel yesterday. A huge expanse of water straight from the sea mouth. We were after trout but funnily enough caught 2 mullet. We kept these 2 for the table, and cooked them up with a few beers and a film later
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    We went down to the bay at port Stanley that's where moody brook flows into where we were told to go for mullet. We stayed the night sat the camp in Stanley so we could fish the late tide and not have to rush, and as its just an adventure training camp the head chef runs the whole place. Soon as I said fishing he said give me 5. Came back with a box rammed full of mutton.. He said the meat fishes way better than lures, so he made us some dinner and we went down to the bay. Started on Toby lures and wasn't long before my mate hit into the first one. Reel screaming like a good un. Sh
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    Lost a mullet tonight, a good one aswell, but now I know the bay the are sitting In. The top of the river goes to a series of 4 tunnels that run under the road and ends on the other side of the road where the 4 tunnels feed into a bay. I'll be hitting that bay now on the High tides as it floods with water, I'm sure there's a few deep gulleys in the water there. But it's also very shallow there in areas. Still gutted I lost it but I still got 2 months here. Work wise I'm here with the army but attached to the infantry so I got my little workshop to sort out the vehicles for the infantry l
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    Thanks arry I got a ticket booked for Thursday evening on the High tide and both days on the weekend so Iill let you know how I get on. You get thunderstorms to boiling sun here all in a day so you have to have a bag packed for all occasions here. There's a place called moody brook that flows into the see by the bay. I've been told that's the place for the mullet.
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    So I'm away for 3 months in the Falklands. Never heard of anyone fishing here and when I mentioned to arry of here about it, he told me about the sea trout fishing here. Sent me a few links and I looked into it. Got my trusty 16 quid ngt telescopic travel rod I've had 10 years, and a box of tobys and spinners. Initially thought I had to pay a fee but the permits are now part of.l my jobs welfare package so no reason not to go. My and my mate popped up to the location of one stretch named the frying pan. We blanked the first 2 trips, and It was looking at the ground I realised the river w
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    Not off the menu it's just if you got any rabbits left in the first place.
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    I will do sean. If you want I do day trips 50 quid per person lol. Cheers arry I'm going again tonight I'll send you some pictures if I get anything.
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