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16 hours ago, Double 0 Soul said:

 

...so the river beds will be rich in heavy metals.

Surprised Maynard hasn't made anything out of this yet 😉

Nice catch Neal. Reminds me of when l was a kid (11 or so) when my dad brought a poachers rod back from the States - basically a 1970's extendable rod, something you couldn't get here at the time - and we used to hang above the bridge in the nearby village just hooking brown trout mostly with ease before the old gamekeeper attempted to stop us. After a quick getaway we would get home and mum would roll her eyes at us before cooking them up. Yum.

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Thanks Charlie, That's similar to what i use.. a compact 2x piece 5.5', carp stalker rod, the bottom section extends out of the handle.. i bought it for the boy (as an easy to handle rod) when he was around 5 or 6yrs old but this is the rod i use 90% of the time.. it's perfect for river banks with lots of tree cover, you can fish areas inaccessible with a longer rod.

The offspring hasn't been fishing for 5 or so years now.. he caught some fantastic fish but it was as though.. "i've done that now.. what's next" ..like he'd completed a playstation game :D

There is a bridge in Bakewell over the river Wye, just behind the Bakewell Pudding Shop, folks will buy a pudding and they'll give you a couple of slices of stale bread for feeding the ducks.. massive trout congregate under the bridge, folks stand on the bridge and ball up a piece of bread in their hands and chuck it in the river for the trout.. it's like a feeding frenzy.. i could catch some absolute specimens there but the locals would be outraged!!

When i caught that^ trout, i was fishing for pike using this roach shad

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..i knew it wasn't a pike as soon as i'd hooked it but i had no clue what else it could be.. i didn't think there was anything large enough in there to take that bait.. i was amazed when i landed that trout :)

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It's been and gone Martin but i am off work for a few days.. remember when we had that storm after Christmas? it completely destroyed my mums fence.. the concrete fence post disintegrated, she said it sounded like an explosion.. it set all the car alarms off in the street :rolleyes: .. but she was going on holiday with her mates on the 27th for New Year and her back garden was exposed so she was a bit panicky.

The days after Christmas when i should have been off work with my feet up, i was digging fence posts out of frozen ground so i could build a new fence.. they'd been set in concrete 70cm deep so i had to chip them out with a cold chisel in -10 tempratures.. then when i got home, i noticed the storm had blown the bargeboards off our gable end, they were in nextdoors apple tree so Christmas week for me was just work.. so i've took some time off now the rain has stopped..

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On the way out tonight.. my neighbour was just coming home from yoga and said "you look smart".. i was wearing Brown's Beach Full Count over MF covert cloth mechanic shirt, SC47s and Lofgren pumps.. "i like the jacket (she said).. sort of halfway between a jacket and a cardigan.. it's a bit Val Doonicany"

Wtf!.. We go to all this expense and effort to project Val Doonican :D

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9 hours ago, Maynard Friedman said:

Val Doonican, eh? That would explain your late mid-life style crisis that’s been playing out on here over the last few days! 😆

Now.. Martin, you know me well enough to know that not everything I say in the nonsense thread is entirely legit.. if you look back at a lot of the discourse which plays out.. it usually starts with a gif of me poking a hornets nest :D

I am feeling bored shitless with repros tho.. 

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Double 0,

Wasn't it you who said the beige colored Brown's Beach stuff was reminiscent of Terry Wogan? You may be experiencing some mild karma😉.

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That ramen looks amazing @Geeman, and so cool to walk through and give equal attention to each of the many laborious parts of ramen making as part of the class. Reading your descriptions reminded me of the movie Tampopo, I imagine you’ve seen it perhaps?? If not it would be a perfect follow up!

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4 hours ago, chicote said:

That ramen looks amazing @Geeman, and so cool to walk through and give equal attention to each of the many laborious parts of ramen making as part of the class. Reading your descriptions reminded me of the movie Tampopo, I imagine you’ve seen it perhaps?? If not it would be a perfect follow up!

I haven't but will look it up!

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