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  1. J

    Imitation baits

    you have now jon, they work as do most artificial baits if mixed with the real stuff or coveredin paste:)
  2. J

    Fixed spool reel sizes. Sizing system

    Paul a 4000 should suffice mate:)
  3. J

    Fraudulent EBay activities

    i always use pay pal and have never failed to get either item or cash back;)
  4. J

    Audi Avant S Line Special 'Black' Edition 170PS

    thats a cracking car andy, :)
  5. J

    can anyone help please

    derek the doc prescibes me 18 tablets a day mate:eek: but at least i aint reliant on oxygen no more:):):):):)
  6. J

    Cigarette smell on cork handle

    a diluted fairy liquid in warm water and a scrubbing brush will bring the cork gleaming clean and no smoke smell but dry it off with a cloth and put in a warm place to dry it properly, dont try to disguise it with flavouring as youll taint your bait every time you touch it;):)
  7. J

    can anyone help please

    thanks derek and guys, its hard to remember the little things that are still in the memory but wont emerge when you need em too :D
  8. J

    can anyone help please

    i cant remember the bsf thread for nuts and bolts to fit standard bank sticks ect, could anybody jog this geriatric mind of mine please.:)
  9. J

    Our John OK? ?

    great news, the doctor have had me lving whout oxgyen for past 11 days and are teling me to let my lungs heal themselves diabetes is still a problm but its maybe the restart of a better quality of life:D:D:D
  10. J

    freezer baits

    as an after thought try putting 6 of each in emty large plastic squash bottles and compare the breakdown times of each bottle;)
  11. J

    freezer baits

    frozen for me every time apart from small preserves as afall back
  12. J

    The next barbel river record

    also honey bees love blue forms of natural wild flowers, i just wish they wouldnt hide and reproduce in the wall next to my boiler flue, still nice to see them and the damsel flies working away in the wild flowers and honey suckle in my garden:)
  13. J

    The next barbel river record

    barbel personally i think that the thames could still produce a real monster barbel butit may well come from well down past teddington and in places where only a few guys have got the madness to fish it because most wont,:)
  14. J

    Our John OK? ?

    Thanks for your kind thoughts Hi guys, got rushed into hospital on the tuesday before xmas, kept there until the thursday after new year, ending up a much lighter trimmer ans feeling great now, Dave, grab a powa walker trolley mate, it,ll solve most of your problem with carrying gear, any way...
  15. J

    Peripheral noise spooking fish.

    sudden movements will effect the fish much more than noise will, slow and slower and keep a bit of cover wherever available
  16. J

    Small rods just a faze?

    well said mike, but remember built cane rods would never become popular unless they did the job, back in the early 60s glass rods were over heavy, ferrules become detatched from the glass rods then low and behold milbro brought out their enterprise ferruless rod around mid 60s and that changed a...
  17. J

    Small rods just a faze?

    Gordon Bennet!. most club anglers back in 50s ,60s and 70s used either a light, medium or heavy caster, 7,ft or so of built cane for their lead and swimfeeder work, majority fishing thames or near london areas definately did so unless they were dedicated specimen hunters where built cane rods...
  18. J

    Brackish Boris?

    i have seen both carp and barbel leaving the harbour i seen and browsing on the sea bed , they seemed unperturbed by the bracksh/ salty water
  19. J

    Tackle box rods, Any good

    really, my old 21/4 tricast ERs took so much hammering and temper filled abuse had to see to beleive but the guy who bought em after at least 12 years of that thought they were terrific:D so did i once i sold em:(
  20. J

    Powerwalker

    good man:):):):)
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