In Trout Fisherman, this month.

"Rather than trying to drag fish over weedbeds and loosing them................. it's far better to take a rake (yes a garden rake with a length of rope to allow you to throw it and pull all the weed out) and make a clearing exactly the same as coarse anglers clear a swim. You can then rest the area for 30 minutes and return to it.............. you may get some strange looks but it is very effective."

Can't wait to try that one out on my local

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"Take not out your 'ounds on a werry windy day" Surtees.

I would check with the owner of the said fishery first or you might be on the end of the said rope

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It is in truth not glory,nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting,but for freedom - for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with his life.(Declaration of Arbroath, 1320)

Is this true? You're really not being a naughty boy?

I remember when the magazine called "Trout Fisherman" first appeared - it was cutting edge and the people who wrote the articles knew what the 'game' was about.

Taking a 'rake', perhaps an unhooking mat, a quiver to carry your rods, maybe a chair and a bivvy? Who do you think Trout Fisherman's target market is ... and do you think they are doing prospective game fishers a service?

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Correct, that's the fishery owners job, and one you should never mess with on a wild fishery.

The magazines write any old shoyt to sell units. Some of the new ideas they come up with, just to print something different, is just unreal.

I'm waiting to read about fishing flooded fields with woolly bugrs for the two or three (guaranteed.. they're experts so you have to believe it) huge trout which always come out of the main river to cruise the shallow mucky field waters to gobble up drowning field mice.

Sure as hell there will be a pic of a flooded field next to the river with a man dressed in immaculate attire with forty seven adverts hanging from his waistcoat as he proudly holds aloft a 4 punner with a large, furry lure hanging out its mouth, coupled with a small (inset) pic of a wet dead mouse for comparison.

There was a photo from a magazine published here a few nights ago and I commented that the guy was a complete muppet for holding the fish aloft (on the fly) with almost it's whole body dangling (from the fly) out of the water, just for a pic.

That's shameful sales tactics.

may aswell take a Chain saw to cut down the Trees that are in the way .


Spencer

What about taking a leaf blower
Put a nice ripple on when it's flat calm!!!
Cheers craig

and the lawn mower to cut the embankment

Brilliant idea Craig but where do I get the electricity from. I know I'll drag a generator along and petrol and extension leads, and a 4wd vehicle to get all this gear to where I fish.

National Grid Bk ,
may aswell go the whole way , and lets have some heaters on each swim and power point and a Sky dish


Stockie Bashing



Cheers
Spencer

At the very least both of the items will be indespensible for the well equiped game angler .....

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[I]"I still don't know why I fish or why other men fish, except that we like it and it makes us think and feel."[/I] Roderick L Haig-Brown

[url]www.wildfly.net[/url]

[url]http://www.gameanglinginstructors.co.uk/[/url]