Vagueness and the Aftermath - A sporadic diary

[jizzemm]

This is what I like to see. A woman on her knees.

Cleaning as well by the looks of it.. She is good 

[kinboshi]

It might catch a motor-pike.....     

Maybe it was after a Porsche Turbot?

[booder]

It might catch a motor-pike.....     

Maybe it was after a Porsche Turbot?

motor-pike and side-carp

[Dingdell]

Talking of pikes - a client of mine was telling me that when they bought their house they were told they had a pike in their lake. That was 7 years ago and until now they had never seen it. This week thought it has started to come to the surface and rest near bank - in fact almost on it. They think this may mean it's dying?

Anyone have any insight on this? And is it possible not to have seen it in all that time. Lake/pond is about a third of an acre so quite big I think?

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Talking of pikes - a client of mine was telling me that when they bought their house they were told they had a pike in their lake. That was 7 years ago and until now they had never seen it. This week thought it has started to come to the surface and rest near bank - in fact almost on it. They think this may mean it's dying?

Anyone have any insight on this? And is it possible not to have seen it in all that time. Lake/pond is about a third of an acre so quite big I think?

I've seen pike on the surface many times, they often bask in the sunshine. (I saw one take a duckling once)

Sometimes pollutants with a de-oxygenating effect leech (or are dumped) into the water and fish come to the surface to "Gape" If that were the case though, you would expect to see other species on the surface too

If it reacts quickly when you disturb it, it's probably fine.

[The_duke]

I fished for the same monster pike (big bastard never caught him) for 5 years and their strikes can be awesome-and alarming. A pike may come up from deep and take you by complete surprise as it leaps clear of the water. Most strikes are less spectacular, but still rather startling. Pike will attack from behind or cruise in from one side and their bodies will half emerge the instant they attack the lure.

Sometimes they will be as inert as a log close to the shore, I've been told this but never saw it, maybe thats the situation here Tracey.

Then there are those heart-arresting attacks that start several feet away . . . the water swells up from afar and a water wave races toward your lure. It's hard not to pull the lure away from these aggressive pike.

Somethings are not meant to happen -- I never caught the darling -- maybe better off cos I spent many a nice day on the lake (kept me out of the pub)

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I fished for the same monster pike (big bastard never caught him) for 5 years and their strikes can be awesome-and alarming. A pike may come up from deep and take you by complete surprise as it leaps clear of the water. Most strikes are less spectacular, but still rather startling. Pike will attack from behind or cruise in from one side and their bodies will half emerge the instant they attack the lure.

Sometimes they will be as inert as a log close to the shore, I've been told this but never saw it, maybe thats the situation here Tracey.

Then there are those heart-arresting attacks that start several feet away . . . the water swells up from afar and a water wave races toward your lure. It's hard not to pull the lure away from these aggressive pike.

Somethings are not meant to happen -- I never caught the darling -- maybe better off cos I spent many a nice day on the lake (kept me out of the pub)

I  love spinning for pike Duke, (Mepps were my favorite spinners, I wonder if they still make em?)

I used to go trout fishing on the Lady Bower dam. (Well Technically, I was poaching because 1: it was fly only and I used to ledger it with earthworms, and 2: I didn't have a permit).

While I was ledgering, I always used to set the pike rod with a bung float and a trout head for bait.

Just when I least expected it, a pike would strike and the bung would go shooting across the lake with the line screaming out behind it. That made your heart beat fast I can tell you.

Please keep posting these stories on my diary thread Duke, I love them.

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I'm going to the tip today to empty my dustbins.

When I first came to Chez Red, the council refused to empty my bins on the grounds that doing so would be tantamount to condoning my existence. No biggie, I would empty them myself at the local refuse disposal site. (For which they gave me a permit)

I quite like going to the tip. I love to see all the discarded things that, a few years ago, no doubt influenced by saturation advertising and celebrity endorsement, people thought they could not live without. Only to realise a little further down the line that they had no real use for them at all.

You know the sort of thing I'm talking about, "The new Zit-Buster from Ronco!" "Removes unsightly zits with little or no major scarring" (Fits any 3000 watt hairdryer) Or "Fartomatic" the new fart-catching device from JML. Do you suffer in silence when dad cracks one off at tea time, or cringe with embarrassment when you accidentally drop an sbd while talking to the vicar at the church jumble? well those days are over. Amaze your friends.. etc etc.

At the dump these "Small objects of desire" as I call them, are strewn everywhere, like little monuments to our vanity and gullibility.


I like the people who work at refuse sites too. Quirky, unusual people with interesting stories, enormous muscles, and vast amounts of unkempt facial hair. (and thats only the women)

Although I like going to the tip, I didn't want to be going every 5 minutes, so I bought two big wheelie-bins. At first they used to last a fortnight before I had to empty them, but then I discovered that if you jump up and down on the contents, so that it becomes compressed, you can make them last a lot longer. My wheelie-bins currently need emptying once every five weeks, at which point, they weigh approximately four and a half tons each. 

PS- Jumping about in an unsecured wheelie-bin can seriously damage yout health. Don't try this at home.

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After several minutes research, I now know the difference between a pagoda, a pergola, and a gazebo.

[kinboshi]

After several minutes research, I now know the difference between a pagoda, a pergola, and a gazebo.

Go on then, explain for your readers.

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After several minutes research, I now know the difference between a pagoda, a pergola, and a gazebo.

Go on then, explain for your readers.

A gazebo is what I am going to make my railway carriage into. The other two are not.

[kinboshi]

After several minutes research, I now know the difference between a pagoda, a pergola, and a gazebo.

Go on then, explain for your readers.

A gazebo is what I am going to make my railway carriage into. The other two are not.

Thanks for clearing that up .

[Colchester Kev]

Do you suffer in silence when dad cracks one off at tea time,

I dont think you meant to type that mate ... Made me do a double take LOOOOOOOOOOOOOL

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Do you suffer in silence when dad cracks one off at tea time,

I dont think you meant to type that mate ... Made me do a double take LOOOOOOOOOOOOOL

You haven't met my dad have you.... ?

Still, perhaps I should edit it to "Let's one rip" or something?

[ifm]

Sort of reverse of this?