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Category: Observations

Wonky Fish Photees!!

5 June, 2005 by Alistair

You may have noticed recently that I have not been posting pictures of fish very much. That is because trying to take a good photee of a trout whilst holding a rod in one hand, being thigh deep in water is damn hard. Add the fact that the fish rarely smiles and sits still for…

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Quote…..which pretty well sums it up!!

3 June, 2005 by Alistair

A. K. Best: “The Fishing was good, it was the catching that was bad.”

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Squirrel Fishing

29 May, 2005 by Alistair

Squirrel Fishing Dawsholm park has a good head of Squirrels…maybe I should try this on those dog days!!

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THE (ARISING OF THE) KLINKHAMER SPECIAL, by Hans van Klinken

29 May, 2005 by Alistair

THE (ARISING OF THE) KLINKHAMER SPECIAL, by Hans van Klinken Hans van Klinken talking about the arising of the Klinkhamer special.

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Brown Trout Habitat

19 May, 2005 by Alistair

Was browsing a forum when I came across a post about this report . It is all about trout conservation and really emphasises habitat over stocking. It gives and example of the three categories that can cause threats to populations of brown trout: harvest, stocking and Environmental degradation. Essentially the Kelvin has threats from all…

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Voting

5 May, 2005 by Alistair

It seems that noone can make up theire mind about who to vote for. The last google searches that have brought people here have been about who to actually vote for…..”who should i vote for” being the last 20 or so searches. Interesting!?

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Internet TV

4 May, 2005 by Alistair

So I was messing around with Winamp the other day when I noticed that it has a way to view internet tv. Winamp is a piece of software that you can use to stream music and listen to CDs for those of you that do not know, its a bit like media player only better…

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Why Catch and Release ?

28 April, 2005 by Alistair

Lee Wulff: “Game fish are too valuable to be caught only once.”

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Izaac Walton:

24 April, 2005 by Alistair

Izaac Walton: “Rivers and the inhabitants of the watery elements are made for wise men to contemplate and for fools to pass by without consideration.”

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River Test on Ebay

24 April, 2005 by Alistair

Cant decide whether this is a hoax or not! World Reknowned River Test, Fishing Rights for Lease The River Test, an internationally famous fishing river, and the longest of Hampshire’s rivers, enters the borough at Longparish and runs some 20 miles southward, through Stockbridge and Romsey, until it leaves the borough at Redbridge on the…

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