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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.

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

In my experience it's a hassle. If you have a nice quiet dog that won't leave your side go for it, mine was entirely too sociable and the danger of them disturbing someone or eating something nasty is too great. I caught Mrs Berger's little Offenpincher Sam with a #4 baitholder and a piece of cheese when we were ice fishing one evening and he made a terrible noise when his daddy took it out with the pliers.[emoji22]

Congratulations Saskcarp on your team's win!

Out here we use something like this; it's a blade clevis for spinners and this is a small one. It's good to about 1.5 oz but for 3 oz leads we need the large ones or they shed on the cast. A bead goes between this and the rig knot as usual. It provides a nice slide and when the lead's snagged up sometimes the lead pops free saving your rig. After that happens the clevis has to be discarded as it will shed on the cast after. While it won't shed on the take (and I don't want that anyway) I like using them vs just running the line through the swivel on the lead.

All my rigs are running rigs, I never use a bolt.

Win some lose some mate.

Only one of 3 really good shots went in at the end as well, it could have been 3 - 1. Liverpool just spanking AVL now, 4 - 0 with half an hour left.Edit: 5 - 0. I'll abandon this bloodbath and go make kippers.

The main problem with Leicester's game in the final 20 minutes seemed to be that their offence played only in their own end of the pitch.

Turned on Ars vs LC at 75:00 and it's tied 1 - 1, thank goodness I didn't miss anything![emoji28] And then Arsenal just pounds away, almost scoring with a few good chances and in 4 min stoppage time only using half the field... 94:30 Welbeck scores and once again Arsenal proves how great they are. Yayyyy![emoji106]

https://youtu.be/_LBmUwi6mEo

The soundtrack from Bringing Out The Dead.

Your friend and mine, David Wilcox https://youtu.be/GbTS7jS4UHw