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Before you cast the fly, make sure you can handle the fish! Vuoi imbrogliare? Poi Non competere! (If you want to cheat, then dont compete)

Aye Martin,

Looked like a 6 weight to me. tut tut

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YOU DONT NEED EYES TO SEE YOU NEED VISION

looked like 4wt Brook rod to me

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Before you cast the fly, make sure you can handle the fish! Vuoi imbrogliare? Poi Non competere! (If you want to cheat, then dont compete)

A good old English 10 foot 9-weight reservoir rod would have seen him all right there.

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JH based near Southampton

Mart,




He really should of hung those flies much deeper .

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Hardy/Greys. Fulling Mill.

Wahey!.....one down 67 to go!!!

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an interesting mix of apathy and panic

Clive M

Wise old eskimo say NEVER EVER use a red bung when fishing for orca!

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Hi', I don't know whether that video is genuine or faked; but orcas are nasty beggars at times, it seems.
A good while back, engineers were testing out a system for keeping the St. Lawrence seaway open to traffic by using huge impellers sitting on the bed and pushing water up to the surface. Apparently, while conducting experiments on the Arctic ice floes, one of the lads who was out boring test holes in the ice was recalled in a hurry. Someone had seen an orca sidling along the edge of the floes, spotting seals, and tipping the ice to slide them into the water. Maybe the orca in the video was seal hunting?? TerryC

Yep, cheeky beggers them orcas:

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Hi', Jeff, and thanks for the link/vid.
I had a jack pike take a perch one day, pulled it to the net, then it dropped off.
While serving in the RAF in Aden, fishing off the rocks with a hand-line, I had several heavy tugs while playing in a sea perch, finally pulled a big garfish up to the surface, and it let go. The wildest tale I heard was one concerning one of our pilot officers, who used to spearfish for parrot fish. They couldn't be caught using bait as they nibbled coral. He was snorkelling in the open sea -- strictly against regulations -- when a shark took a big parrot fish off his spear, only a few yards from him. A few months later, in the same area, the wife of our Wing Discipline Officer was attacked by a shark while only in a few feet of water. She had a toddler in her arms, and was lifting it up and down in time with the incoming waves. The shark just rolled up with a wave and bit her several times. The kiddy was unharmed, an old Arab fisherman was mending his nets nearby, he ran into the water and hacked at the shark with a knife until it let go.
My wife and I were returning from a picnic further along the coast, when we saw a RAF ambulance leaving the beach. Sadly, the lady died from massive haemorrhaging. The sad irony of that story was that the lady's husband was the officer responsible for posting a notice that stated that anyone caught swimming from an unguarded beach would be disciplined -- 'Ten days over the wall.' There was only one safe beach in the Protectorate, in front of the big NAAFI in Steamer Point; and out at the seaward side, there was submerged netting with a hole in it big enough to permit entry of a decent sized shark. Luckily, we never had a problem with a shark getting in, but I saw one or two barracudas in there, numerous stingrays up to about 2/3 feet across, and plenty cuttlefish and puffer fish. No orcas!!! TC