neil r
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How big is Schwarz , I know he’s tall but he didn’t look that big so I had a quick look and the 2 places I looked both said he only weighs 200lb . Surely that’s got to be a wrong because that’s only 14st 4lb ish which can’t be far from being a cruiserweight . I don’t follow boxing like I used to and I’d not heard of him before so has he stepped up from cruiser to heavyweight or is he just a really small heavyweight or is it just a misprint on the pages I looked at . Edited to add I’ve just gone through some more articles and one said he weighs 241lb which makes more sense
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No idea which apps work but its not just yellow ones to look out for anymore , the sneaky cnuts are using ones painted light -mid blue colours to look like utilities vans now around here and I assume around the rest of the country aswell
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??. Just text my mate and it wasn’t one of the lines I thought , it was one these https://www.fishingmegastore.com/fly-lines/cortland-trout-series-ultralight-floating-fly-line~54212.html
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No worries . Them Norris rods get some good reviews and I’m pretty sure the new range are made by guideline for them . You won’t go far wrong with Cortland , they make good lines , I used to use the 444 peach floaters but the sylk is probably the one to go for . I’ve got a scientific anglers #3 but can’t remember which model that’s not bad . I overline a little 6ft #2 with it for small streams and it behaves well . Got one of the older greys heron grey platinums somewhere aswell in #3 but although it’s supple i just didn’t like the line . My mates just bought some new cortlands for the rivers
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I tend to use different set ups for trout and salmon but if I do need to use a single hander for salmon I just use my guideline pike line but if I needed to cover trout aswell I’d have a look at Guideline’s forecast , I use one for seatrout and also on bigger res’s and it’s pretty good line , casts well and is supple . Have a look on John norris’s website , there’s loads on there and if you don’t want to spend a lot on the guidelines then some of norris’s own lines are not too bad . I bought one of their scandi lines just out of curiosity when I was trying to get a line that worked on a Bruce
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Have a look at the snowbee thistledown , ive got a couple of them and it’s the only line I use on the river for brownies and grayling . My mate uses a cortland sylk and that’s a good line aswell
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Dominant performance from spence from start to finish over a 4 weight world champion . 120-107 . 120-108 and 120-108 , I thought he’d win but not as easily as he did
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I use a 450 grain Rio skagit on my switch rod for most of my salmon fishing on the ribble . Keep saying I’m going to try one of the 150 grain opst skagits on one of my #3 but not got round to it yet , think it was angling active in Stirling who were doing them
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Don’t think wilder wants to fight Joshua , one minute he accepts 15m but not the fight because there was no venue , now there’s a venue and date he won’t accept double what he made for the fury fight plus extras from the ppv and says that he won’t fight Joshua . Fury said on his own Twitter account that he wants 60/40 in his favour to fight Joshua so if he’s a man of his word how do you get past that . There’s not much time left to sort a fight for the April Wembley date and I think wilder will do what he normally does and wait till Joshua has no choice but to sign to fight with someone else t
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Just seen a tackle and guns press release saying that fishing republic have now gone into administration
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Be careful with fishing republic , they are on the verge of going under unless they can get emergency funding
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Have a look at John Norris’s website. If you’re not looking to spend loads have a look at the Shakespeare sigma and agility ranges , think they do full set ups aswell but if not they deffo do the rods . You can get budget lines for a fiver but I’d rather spend a bit more on a decent line and a bit less on a reel because for trout fishing the reel will be little more than a line holder but a bad line that’s like a coiled spring will frustrate you and ruin your fishing. Cortland , guideline and Rio are decent lines but can be dear but the snowbee classic is a reasonable line that’s not too exp
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For ultralights I use a 7ft , 0.7-7gram Sakura sportism with a 2500 size shimano aernos with 10lb power pro depth hunter braid . For traces it will be 12lb knot2kinky titanium wire with most lures but if I’m using something really small like the crazy fish whitebaits or ballzy worms or 1 inch kopytos it will be 4lb guru nguage
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If you want to try some really small soft plastics for silvers and perch have a look at crazy fish whitebaits . They are only 3/4 inch long and you’ll need an half gram size 12 jig head or a size 10 big eye hook with a small fly tying bead on the line in front . You can see the roach hitting them as they fall through the shoal . Ballzy worms are another similar type bait that catch silvers aswell
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Bobco do kopytos but according to their website they are out of stock . They do have one colour in Sakura split shads that is worth getting and they have some nice looking gunki lures and I think they stock zman aswell
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Relax kopyto’s in 001(white) and 055(yellow) colours are a must have . I use them in in sizes from 1-2.5 inch , jig heads are agm , ecogear and TT from an 10-1 . Got them in in other colours aswell but I’ve found the white and yellow are the most effective and I can’t be alone because they are always the ones that sell out first . Other soft plastics to look at are crazy fish nano minnows , zman slim shads , Orka mermaids and orka twister tails . You can get everything apart from I think the zman from Agm products and lureworld . Be warned though , you’ll end up spending a fortune once you go
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Not yet , ive been putting it off because I’ve got an hand injury so it will be probably another week or so before I get up there . What it’s like for losing tackle , is it rough or clean ground
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Looks like it’s not happening now . Mayweather is now claiming he hasn’t agreed to fight him and only agreed to a non televised fight for wealthy businessmen against an unspecified opponent and that he’d never heard of the lad till he got to japan . If he was as clueless as he’s trying to make out what were the press conferences for . Probably seen the kids fights now and changed his mind
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Anyone know anything about fishing Whitehaven pier , I’m up that way either at the end of the week or next week and thinking of having a go weather and time permitting . Also is there somewhere to get fresh bait from locally
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I was with Hastings for a couple of years with my car insurance until I got a renewal quote through the post that had pretty much doubled it to over £800 . I went on the comparison sites and Hastings themselves gave the best quote that was near enough what I was already paying so I rang them and told them I was not accepting the 800 quote because they had quoted half that on the comparison site . The bloke on the phone said I’ll see what I can do and came back with £650 and was genuinely surprised when I said no because you’ve already quoted 420 online. I could have just gone through the onlin
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My mate didn’t get home in time so I had a few shots in the yard and just pulling to my ear instead of the corner of my mouth made a big difference. First hit on a soup tin and the 9.5 steel went through one side instead of just dinting it . I’m not keen on the shape of the frame though . Even though I’ve got big hands it just doesn’t feel comfortable. I put some bands on an old natural I had from years ago and it just felt better and I was more accurate with it so I’ll just crack on with that if I can’t get used to the other frame
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I got a tape and held it over the forks and measured the draw then I think it was divided by 5 or 5.5 to get the band length like I’ve seen on videos . I’m off up to my mates for a mess about with it in a few minutes so I’ll see how it compares to his with the same bands .
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I got a frame given a few weeks ago and the lad recommended single gzk bands for it so I ordered some .80 25-20 green and white stuff and trying it out it doesn’t seem that powerful . I used to use double and even triple bands and 12mm lead the last time I messed about with cattys and they did some damage when they hit so I tried a couple of 12mm leads that I had left on an empty soup tin and from about 25 ft the lead put dint in it and a bit of a split in the side but didn’t penetrate it . I also tried 9.5 steel and although it seemed to get there faster they only put a dint in it . It’s a w
