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Whiplash Pro or Spiderwire Stealth for me.  Much thinner than Spectra.  The 34lb I use on the boat smashes 50lb rigs with ease

Whiplash Pro or Spiderwire Stealth for me.  Much thinner than Spectra.  The 34lb I use on the boat smashes 50lb rigs with ease

Whiplash Pro or Spiderwire Stealth for me.  Much thinner than Spectra.  The 34lb I use on the boat smashes 50lb rigs with ease

All my beach rods have grippy shrink tube added above the spigot to give a good grip, as Century do now.  Nothing worse than being stuck in a car park in the early hours with a 15ft rod that won't come apart.  A rubber strap wrench like those for old folks to undo jars is good too

All my beach rods have grippy shrink tube added above the spigot to give a good grip, as Century do now.  Nothing worse than being stuck in a car park in the early hours with a 15ft rod that won't come apart.  A rubber strap wrench like those for old folks to undo jars is good too

All my beach rods have grippy shrink tube added above the spigot to give a good grip, as Century do now.  Nothing worse than being stuck in a car park in the early hours with a 15ft rod that won't come apart.  A rubber strap wrench like those for old folks to undo jars is good too

We get quite a few triggers over here.  They seem to eat anything.  In harbours they seem to be very bold, but out on the rocky headlands very shy of people and tackle.  I use a coarse quiver tip rod and small float, with 6lb mono and mackerel belly or raw prawn bait.

We get quite a few triggers over here.  They seem to eat anything.  In harbours they seem to be very bold, but out on the rocky headlands very shy of people and tackle.  I use a coarse quiver tip rod and small float, with 6lb mono and mackerel belly or raw prawn bait.

I must admit, since I stopped drag racing, apart from meeting up with old friends, the draw of the drag strip has gone, and haven't been since..... Same as not going to football matches doesn't bother me.

Hey lads
Don't do doggie bashing such a dis-service, at least you're out in the wild and don't know what's coming next.  Sitting by some muddy hole containing nothing but carp for a month, in a comfy bed and tent, just to catch 'Ivor' can't be fishing to me.  Catching a fish that the lodge has photo's of since its introduction, often loads, is just wrong to me as well.  It's a good job carp are tough, they need to be and many show battle scars.  Where intensive pike fisheries are tried the fish just lose weight and die after repeated capture.  Can't believe all the crap carpies take with them, forget a beach trolley, it's a wheelbarrow of tackle, another for the small town they're putting up, and a third for the x 25kg bags of fish pellet to chuck into the lake to attract fish.  Many of these lakes have aerators to keep the fish alive in the de-oxygenated soup created by all the food input and unnatural algal and zooplankton blooms.  Still I suppose the whole industry of carp fishing is making some wonga for the exchequer, though it somehow leaves a bad taste in the mouth.

Hey lads
Don't do doggie bashing such a dis-service, at least you're out in the wild and don't know what's coming next.  Sitting by some muddy hole containing nothing but carp for a month, in a comfy bed and tent, just to catch 'Ivor' can't be fishing to me.  Catching a fish that the lodge has photo's of since its introduction, often loads, is just wrong to me as well.  It's a good job carp are tough, they need to be and many show battle scars.  Where intensive pike fisheries are tried the fish just lose weight and die after repeated capture.  Can't believe all the crap carpies take with them, forget a beach trolley, it's a wheelbarrow of tackle, another for the small town they're putting up, and a third for the x 25kg bags of fish pellet to chuck into the lake to attract fish.  Many of these lakes have aerators to keep the fish alive in the de-oxygenated soup created by all the food input and unnatural algal and zooplankton blooms.  Still I suppose the whole industry of carp fishing is making some wonga for the exchequer, though it somehow leaves a bad taste in the mouth.

Use a lot of assist hooks and they do corrode quickly.  I reckon it's because the hooks, short shank semi-circle, are designed for C&R game fishing.  A good source for assist hooks is wickedrigs on Ebay.  I tend to keep all jigs/pirks used on a day in a re-usable ziplock bag and at days end give them a squirt of the boats WD40, a shake and leave for next time.  It's easy to make your own using a big swivel, heavy braid, hook and shrink tube.  If there's ling about (their teeth destroy braid) I'll use heavy mono for the line (150lb), with fluoro silicone tube from hook shank to swivel barrel.  Green for ling and orange for pollack/coalie/cod/pout/wrasse.

Ok as you know my daughter bought a new boat which she christened with some nice lobsters Xmas morning but!!!!... Well this is the part I was going to keep quiet but been as it has given my family such a giggle I thought I would share the rest of the day!!!
So after catching the lobsters I hopped up the front of the rib sitting on the tube to film my daughter driving it through the white water on the run home. What could go wrong So we hit a have a bit hard that sent me into the air coming back down on the anchor post right on my tail bone "ouch" but hey that's not enough this was followed by a second wave that capitulated me over the side, all with the GoPro filming as I summersaulted through the air. Lost my prescription polarisers but kept hold of the camera, which the kids are constantly playing and sharing on their social media  First time I've ever gone overboard.
So with my back starting to seize up I headed down the beach with my wife and the dog. The dog tends to play pretty rough with me and it wasn't long before she had split open my thumb with a 1in gash, strike 2.
Later that evening my son wanted to search the bushland next to our house for a lost arrow, what could go wrong. So after walking around in dence bushland only watching the ground I walked into a large cobweb that wrapped around my face!!!.. As I pulled the web off my face a spider bit the finger next to my cut thumb, which is now swollen and sore two days later. 
Im hoping Ive got that little run of three out of the way I can have a safe run for a while!!!!

I love animals and will normally be the first to help in an emergency.  It's just that this cat, swinging over the sea with all its hair stood on end and sounding like a Tasmanian Devil just reduced me to collapsing with laughter.  We did get it released and took it to the vet.

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I have just put up a new thread ........... Dave Allen on religion ..........🤣

Not me, just one that makes me wince 

Love it.  Dave Allen's my all time great comedian.  10/10.  I'll be up half the night bingeing on Dave Allen now

Caught the undersea cable to a small island.  Seagulls, a gannet, and a couple of cormorants (bass livebaits). Bats when flyfishing at night.  A mate caught a cat.  He left his rod on the pier with a conger trace and bait hanging to come and help me net a fish.  We heard a load of angry cat and looked up to see a cat hanging from the pier on his line, like a pendulum, neatly hooked in the scissors.  I was laughing so much that I found it difficult to help unhook the cat.  It was severely p1ssed off.

I love animals and will normally be the first to help in an emergency.  It's just that this cat, swinging over the sea with all its hair stood on end and sounding like a Tasmanian Devil just reduced me to collapsing with laughter.  We did get it released and took it to the vet.

Caught the undersea cable to a small island.  Seagulls, a gannet, and a couple of cormorants (bass livebaits). Bats when flyfishing at night.  A mate caught a cat.  He left his rod on the pier with a conger trace and bait hanging to come and help me net a fish.  We heard a load of angry cat and looked up to see a cat hanging from the pier on his line, like a pendulum, neatly hooked in the scissors.  I was laughing so much that I found it difficult to help unhook the cat.  It was severely p1ssed off.

Was servicing a reel at home one night and prising off a circlip with a sharp screwdriver.   Slipped and the clip went ping.  Went looking around the kitchen for the clip and heard a strange ticking sound, turned around and there's pools of dark stuff everywhere.  The srewdriver had gone clean through the middle joint of my middle finger and blood was p1ssing out.  Didn't hurt atall. Went to wake the missus, saying I needed a lift to casualty.  She replies 'can't it wait till morning', takes a look and throws up.  Off we go to casualty and the nurse says 'can't it wait it's friday night', so I show her the finger when she nearly pukes and retching sounds come from the rest of the waiting room.  So I'm sat waiting with my hand held high and literally covered in blood by now, it's still pumping out.  I get seen in 10min co's it's grossing people out, finger X rayed and NO damage other than blood vessels.  No pain until the screwdriver comes out, then 'bam' agony. Put me on a drip due to blood loss, morphine (yes please) and sent me home a couple of hours later once the bleeding stopped.  It was only when I got home and looked in the mirror that I realised that I looked like a bucket of blood had been poured over me.

Caught the undersea cable to a small island.  Seagulls, a gannet, and a couple of cormorants (bass livebaits). Bats when flyfishing at night.  A mate caught a cat.  He left his rod on the pier with a conger trace and bait hanging to come and help me net a fish.  We heard a load of angry cat and looked up to see a cat hanging from the pier on his line, like a pendulum, neatly hooked in the scissors.  I was laughing so much that I found it difficult to help unhook the cat.  It was severely p1ssed off.

Love it.  Dave Allen's my all time great comedian.  10/10.  I'll be up half the night bingeing on Dave Allen now