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The keep Barbel out of keep nets campaign took another blow with those pictures of the blokes on the Trent in the Mail this week. Great nights fishing by two obviously good anglers totally wrecked by...
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Mark you have to remember lots of new posters on here now? Reminds of a musical by Lionel Bart, now which one was it? Ah yes! OLIVER and one of the prime characters. Mike Never test the depth of the...
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I am now! Mike Never test the depth of the water with both feet. barbules web site
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Dear Keith...and Mike Being a dim witted sort of guy who doesn't know or understand about musicals, can either of you enlighten me as to the 'message' in Oliver. The main character I seem to remember...
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Eelfisher, Im not much into musicals either but wasnt Fagin the one that rounded up unsuspecting children and corrupted them? He ran away and abandoned them all when he was rumbled at the end, dropped...
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Good to see the coverage in AT today regarding barbel and keepnets, even Keith Arthur says good things, and one club (Notts AA) says it may ban barbel from nets on its waters. Its a start.....
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Steve Tony Mike Never test the depth of the water with both feet. barbules web site
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Seems like the NFA are interested in talking too about the issue, which is more than can be said of some on here Best Regards Dave
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Dear 'Bamboo'..... Thanks for that brief explanation re the musical.......even better the coverage and potential responses in the AT. Think you might have hit a nail with your last quote Tony. I see...
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It was good to see the coverage in AT and some of the positive responses. I was dissapointed with the comments from the Milton Keynes and Oxford guys though.. "barely an angler uses keepnets in this...
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Dear Steve Nice to see you posting again. I think that you are right within your last paragraph.......and I thought that the AT had a little too much 'banning' as the word to use, rather than 'in...
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Steve, Spot on about the condition of many of the fish on the middle reaches of the Severn. The biggest barbel I've ever had from that area could be called 'keepnet' due to the fact that the front...
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Steve (Waymore), the tradition of using keepnest is a regional one. Up here in South Yorkshire there is a huge match scene and keepnets are the 'norm'. It was the same when I lived in Warrington,...
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We must not make the assumption that matchmen are the one and only problem. These were not matchmen, these were pleasure anglers. A ban on keepnets outside matches would be a start. To try and run...
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Dave, You are spot on with that. I match fished from the late 70's and through the 80's and during this time i saw some dreadful treatment of fish, especially barbel in the old fashioned type...
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I noticed in Anglers Mail this week that Andy Little, Roy Westwood and Chris Holley kept up the good work of promoting keepnets with multiple big fish captures spread on the bank in hot weather on the...
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As I have been away on the annual family nervous breakdown also known as a holiday I have only just caught up on this thread and just wanted to say in a very freindly way to Mr Richardson/Eelfisher...
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