What the poachers of old had by way of fieldcraft,stealth,and guile we compensate with modern technology,methods,and equipment,different strokes for different blokes
There was a drunken geezer sitting outside the pub staring at me,he did a double-take,I think he thought his luck was in :kiss: My stubble might have given the game away though,unless he was used to rough-looking birds
Worst ones had to be the addle-brained idiot stories of burning-sulphur for pheasants,crabs&Tortoises for ferreting etc,dumb tales yet still they are perpetuated
Basically all the more sly mostly forgotten methods, not the general snares, moonligh ferreting ect..
just things that have been told down generations and so on. Dont have to be old to know poaching methods of old
Some of the newer methods are much more interesting
Accidental catch mate,wrong time,wrong place,should actually have been 2,one earlier in the evening but some people soften with age That wouldnt surprise me Ooty
"I didnt think you were a northerner" What did I tell you?99% of gays/guys past Brum have the faulty gene and a healthy dose of oestrogen,theres actually a Trannie shop hidden away in the back streets of newcastle
I came out of the water hypothermic,there was a queue of brokeback-anglers fighting over who should rub against me to raise my core-temperature,and they all wanted to stick thermometers in me
Some people might actually take the grass-and-treble seriously Ooty We have a bigger-better trip planned,something in the pipe-line,the seasons just begun,its all a game
The roe was a casualty of BRB's incredible double-handed spey cast,nasty wound from a No32 trout hook We all had a good time Malt,it was a comedy of errors,but it was funny