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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iuy-10Ejck4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGuLZfMqIoc&list=PLaQpxae59J_n_GmUjN3wMbz1r1i4_umKA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukunx21UHCA

These guys played our old bar in the 80's when rockabilly was getting big, and the bass player was a Brit and he was a real clown, once he got drunk after closing he just wanted to fight so we just totally ignored him. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCCYZefQmvs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fw8ZDwdyHJQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhdUAsnkChg#t=221.795396 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyE9vFGKogs

Some of you might see your dads in there. Great song, too bad it was their only good one. And Bonzo Dog Band:

Preheat oven to 325 degrees.

Re: Leicester. I'm watching the news here and they just had an item saying the owner flew in Tibetan monks to bless the team. Credit has been given to Richard III getting a decent burial as well, though the sports analysts lean toward Leicester filling the gap created by other teams' poor performance. The first 5000 - 1 winner ever in 138 years of Ladbroke betting according to their spokesman. Justin Beiber has 5 times more chance of being elected president of the US. Until something more unexpected happens this is being touted as the greatest upset in modern sports history. I didn't realise it was that big.

Swamptrout is the intentional release of invasive species a problem in Oz? We've had a few problems with people chucking their pond or aquarium fish in the local lakes or rivers when they got big, or setting a pet store fish free to symbolically honour a dead relative (still have trouble understanding that one), and they can do some real damage. In Vancouver a few years ago there was a snakehead found in a little park lake prompting calls for a ban on the sale of some live fish.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syB4n6vYBc4 "The meanest dog in Alabam', get 'em Dan."

I'd never seen this before, John Hammond played our bar a year or 2 after this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEq62iQo0eU

I think that jibes with the news, iirrc they said a $5 bet could pay $25,000 at 5000 - 1. Good game to win! [emoji3] My 2 sports channels show 1 Premier League game live and one on delay in 5 minutes, but no mention which games they are and the tv guide app says Sports Centre (a commentary programme) on instead of football. Now I know! They cut the first half to show the Russian Gran Prix on both channels, oh well. Tie game at the half..[emoji12]

Leicester City are in the news even in Canada, shots of pubs with patrons waiting for the match with Man U. They said a $5 bet could pay a huge dividend if history is made and they win.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvwDohEEQ1E

That seems dangerous, I only use 12# mainline and a rig of 7" - 12" so that short piece of braid and a swivel is all that's left on the fish after a break. Perhaps if using a strong leader a weaker rig should be used. When I want to check for rig strength I just rig up as if for fishing, set the hook in the edge of the kitchen cupboard and walk backwards until it breaks. That will show you where your line will part if you get snagged.

When I started carping I always had mono rigs of weaker line than my mainline but switched to braid eventually. I tried fine braid but (fish safety considerations aside) wasn't able to cast them without rigs tangling so after trying a mate's 20# braided rigs started tying my own. As Nick says when things get German the line always seems to part at the knot. I've never had a major mainline break leaving a fish with a long tether but have landed a fish that was tied to a snag overnight and when I got it out found 30' of mono still trailing. Rather than blame this on unsafe angling I class it as a bizarre underwater accident. The man who caught it first explained that by the time he realised he had a fish on it was already tying knots around a submerged tree root. Since the only way I carp fish is with a simple running rig the chances of ever leaving fish and lead connected are remote.

Good time to quit smoking.[emoji3]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yG0oBPtyNb0&ebc=ANyPxKr8RKqzPXa_l4oOWPqFMtwIgZXSMUTQnJ4bf-8N4uKN1kBBp2fZ46DBRwBoa3s-lE5CR0eMwhF7bU2F0eKC9ckzsjxosg&nohtml5=False&nohtml5=False#t=189.860541 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbjyuDYtAtk&nohtml5=False

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqfsxQJY6Ic&list=PLRHNuO2g3rUd2nXtjc4BtyOeQ7vy1Ozx5&index=4

When fly casting with real hooks wear a hat and turn your collar up. [emoji3] Spend some time practicing the roll cast as you'll use that quite a bit to pick your line up off the water.

If you had someone to show you, probably sooner, but you don't necessarily have to master it to catch depending on how wide the streams are. If you only need to get 30 or 40 ft into the river to get to where the fish are then working out a lot of line isn't an issue. You can make up a yarn rod and give it a try to get the 10 o'clock - 2 o'clock idea (I bet there are some sort of youtube tutorials...) and if you can get your hands on an outfit with line, leader, tippet (I use 4lb or 6 lb mono) go out to some open space and practice with some yarn on the end so you can see it. Be advised, small children will make fun of you if they see you fishing where there are obviously no fish, and some of them can be cruel. Whether fly fishing is a good option is best answered by the boss at the holiday camp, but if not you have nothing to lose by chucking something in, that loch is deep enough there could be anything in there, monsters.. Let us know how it goes.