Gerald Berth-Jones handmade Floats
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Re: Gerald Berth-Jones handmade Floats
Exactly, which is why the committee has decided that fishing will be banned from anywhere other than the designated pegs.
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Re: Gerald Berth-Jones handmade Floats
Just kidding!! But to all anglers, heed sweetcorns experience. Getting stuck in the silt is very dangerous and you also look like a right pillock getting pulled out!St.John wrote:Exactly, which is why the committee has decided that fishing will be banned from anywhere other than the designated pegs.
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I reckon the carp must bury themselves at times in that silt. Otto Overbeck, about 100 years ago, recalled wading out at Croxby and feeling a wiggle in the mud beneath his feet - it was a decent carp, deep under the silt...
Perhaps this is how the big ones evade the net...?
Perhaps this is how the big ones evade the net...?
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Re: Gerald Berth-Jones handmade Floats
that is something that i have heard speculated upon. i recon so-also larger fish can and will push smaller fish out of 'safe zones'. however they do it, there are fish that avoid nettings.FarliesBirthday wrote:I reckon the carp must bury themselves at times in that silt. Otto Overbeck, about 100 years ago, recalled wading out at Croxby and feeling a wiggle in the mud beneath his feet - it was a decent carp, deep under the silt...
Perhaps this is how the big ones evade the net...?
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Indeed, St John, even the ancients marvelled at the carp's ability to evade the net.St.John wrote:that is something that i have heard speculated upon. i recon so-also larger fish can and will push smaller fish out of 'safe zones'. however they do it, there are fish that avoid nettings.FarliesBirthday wrote:I reckon the carp must bury themselves at times in that silt. Otto Overbeck, about 100 years ago, recalled wading out at Croxby and feeling a wiggle in the mud beneath his feet - it was a decent carp, deep under the silt...
Perhaps this is how the big ones evade the net...?
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Re: Gerald Berth-Jones handmade Floats
Andrew Field, having recieved these wonderful floats from May, has created ten replicas of the Carp Catchers Slider Carp Quill....Here are a few pics.....
I think they're wonderful, so I ordered one!!!
I think they're wonderful, so I ordered one!!!
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Re: Gerald Berth-Jones handmade Floats
They do look nice.
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Re: Gerald Berth-Jones handmade Floats
Where did he get 10 Vulture quills ?
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He actually used large swan quills, vultures are a bit thin on the ground over here....
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