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Thats on my "Must do" list,have you seen the perspecs cages some dive-boats are using in SA?Theres also an awesome though expensive cage-diving live-aboard in Cali taking divers out to the Farralons ,the holy-grail for great-whites
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We have tokay-geckos running around our holiday-home,I have spent many an evening watching them stalk,catch,and eat the smaller household geckos which hang around the florescent lights,but its almost impossible for visitors to sleep due to their incredible call,scares the wits out of first-timers as they dont know whats making the call
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I might have posted it actually mate Looks like one of those crappy A-4 instructional sheets I have crammed in a drawer somewhere I have never paid a fiver for a few fish,wouldnt pay a fiver for a hundred to be honest,I would rather catch them myself I still have to snare a f***ing pike yet
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Nice shirt
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Beautiful chameleon,never seen one that vivid before,I had some dirty brown ones in my arm years ago,they were selling them in the souk in Marakkesh for two quid each
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Wife used to have a tarsier,worlds smallest primate and purportedly Spielbergs inspiration for "Gremlins"
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Lead-line wouldnt sink it quickly enough Maty,my original one weighs an absolute ton,I wouldnt like to be throwing it all day,I have an old netting book somewhere showing a pattern for cast nets I am surprised most pike-anglers dont have a small 6ft one in their bag,throw in a slice of bread,wait 5,cast out,voila,enough livebait for a days session. This guy has an awesome technique,I might practice this actually,look at the perfect text-book spread,wouldnt you just like to be the one on the front of that skiff on a balmy florida evening,some people live the life mate
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I liked this footage,bait-fish
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It was an accidental rhetorical piss-take,the easiest ones to forgive Thats all those bayers do mate,order in bulk from the manufacturer and add on a massive mark-up because the UK market accepts it,they are handy,certainly worth a tenner,but 65 quid is a bigger piss-take than my accidental rhetorical one
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Every single method has pros and cons Maty,but the ultimate?Only pros as far as I have found Every waded through a trout stream scanning the water?Seen nothing?the stretch is empty right?WRONG!They are still there mate,under the banking,in the weed,in holes,and you KNOW theres only one way to get them out,to get them to come to you like the rats followed the pied-piper,like iron-filings to a magnet (Had to edit this,theres three ways actually,but two are very destructive). Sure the guy had a visual on the school,he is following it down the pier casting over them,like I said though,have you
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You can also target individual fish Malt,which is what we used to do when lamping canals etc,takes 10 maybe 15 minutes to learn how to cast a net,its east to perfect,and you have a useful weapon in your armoury for fish re-location Best thing about this method is a simple shake,2 or 3 seconds and the nets empty and ready top re-cast
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Flog the rod and tackle on silkie-row bank or in the echo,you can get 100 yards gill for less than a one'r We are fishing up there in two weeks,do they still do the fishing reports in the back pages of the echo?Tuesday nights?
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There you are Maty,easy as 1.........2............3,we used to spotlight fish and throw over them,carp are a cinch to take this way,very easy,suckers for a light and net approach,catch and release,same as rod-and-line,its just taking the sport at a different angle the problem with cast-nets in this country is they are way-overpriced,but thats rip off britain for you right? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjAXcvo4CU8...feature=related
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I think snarey-Carey should have pulled the other one,theres bells on it
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Advantages?Carry it around in your jacket,couldnt do that with a 100 yard gill-net I have had fish up to 7lb in the past,if the net envelops it you can get it to the bank I dont need it for rivers Maty,I have the ultimate weapon for those But cast-nets are fun to use,the boy likes it,and its just good to get back to basics sometimes isnt it One would be ideal on your brown-trout water
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Feltham airgun club is situated near the train station I forgot about the cock-pheasant joe but your correct,theres deer,rabbits,countless pigeon,probably more rats than people,massive amounts of mallard,loads of stuff really,you just have to know where to look
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Namaste Ayo gorkhali Plenty of places around feltham to shoot,I know a guy who got two parakeets with an airgun,JOE Feltham was where we fished
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I always had a cast-net or two malt,different materials,various diameters,this ones just got a slightly larger spread than my original model,once upon a time,long,long ago(wake up malt,I am not reading you a bed-time story )I had my induction learning to use them throwing for what I was told were snow-trout high in the himalayas fishing a glacial cold fast-flowing stream,fish are fish the world over,its just the venues that differ The boy enjoyed it,thats all that counts really
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Went over the playing-field earlier to practice my casting,bit rough at first but I soon got back into the swing of things,with the correct hip action and smooth swing I was getting a perfect circular flare,its all to do with the cast Hope no one was mis-led earlier and thought I was actually referring to rod and line casting?Heaven forbid Took the boy to the Thames earlier,tried to kill two birds with one brick,but the rivers heavily coloured and carrying a lot of water,so I never even saw a pike never mind managed to snare one Did have one throw,text-book opening,a perfect circle,I st
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Surprised he hasnt been blast-fishing yet F**k,this area has some of the best big-fish carp lakes in the country,he should have came local for his bowfishing
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I told you not to eat that so called healthy sh*t. Remember last time you had a bannana and a bottle of water, you got a head ache. I had a chicken pasty and a can of redbull and felt great Yeah,cant understand that,my eating regime is top-notch,never scran junk-food or nowt like that yet I am fu**ed after a hard night,I am like a clapped out Fiesta,you eat s**t like its going out of fashion,you glug that redbull crap every single time I see you, yet your the human version of a ferrari I think your doing something wrong
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If I catch anything I will stick pics up,going out in a short while even though theres the most incredible red Thai prawn curry being cooked,I will just take a banana out with me to sate my appetite
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I just looked at my old angle-grinder,it does 11,000 RPM,fried,your lucky the injury wasnt more serious
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Anglers,fishermen and others of that ilk realise the importance of a precise cast,if you cant cast accurately then your not going to get in amongst the fish right?Its like an inaccurate shot with a rifle,if you cant hit the target whats the use.I got a parcel this morning from abroad,going out to practice my cast later,I do hope I get something,its only in the Thames,so its just going to be chub maybe?But I cant look at a new piece of fishing-tackle and not christen it or test it out
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FR,did you try to spin your wires using a disc-cutter Its all a learning-curve mate Besides,chicks dig scars
