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The Fishing Thread
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Jon Dough
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Are you being facetious jeffers old chap?
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Jon Dough
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You would be in your element, the firearms section is huge, the ice fishing area is massive, ice fishing season is coming up.
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No jeffers, Mad Max is the future, aren't you taking the dogs out today for some bracing seafront air?
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Jon Dough
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Jeffers
That's an art piece, like Tracy emins unmade bed 
(glad you prioritised the dogs, top man).
Swindon On Tour
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You would be in your element, the firearms section is huge, the ice fishing area is massive, ice fishing season is coming up.Logon or register to see this image
Need to get myself a new Barbel rod next season.
Mind you the Shimano Nexave Barbel rods I would highly recommend.
Landed doubles on these and excellent for Tench and Chub.
It's on the outskirts of Ottawa Jeff, it's a bit bigger than the average Tesco extra, I went in to get some bits of archery equipment
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Have you every been in a BevMo? It's the alcohol equivalent, a huge store with every kind of well-priced alcohol you could imagine. Those two stores side-by-side would cover a weekly shop.
Jon Dough
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The odds of me entering a store that sells alcohol is exceedingly slim, I am 110% teetotal, but I did pass a large alcohol store yesterday, I can't remember the name though, I will keep my eye out for one though
Jon Dough
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I got an external view when I passed a few days ago so you can see the size of the store.
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wisemensaysteve
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Yes, that photo was taken from Cam Loch, a good day will result in 60 to 80 fish to the boat, typical wild Brownies up to 1lb, also has Char and I'm told some really big Trout.
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Jon Dough
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Ferox?
wisemensaysteve
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Well I've never heard of them being caught but it has Char and parts of the loch are deep enough.
Cabela's often have some great offers, I bought a Fly rod Blank from them a few years ago and it's my favourite River rod, also a really nice fly reel that I lost one day after we came off Cam Loch, went back when I discovered I had left it but it was gone.
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Jon Dough
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Not such a big fly section in this one, massive ice fishing section at the moment as the season isn't far away.
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wisemensaysteve
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I have a selection of Flies from a BC fly swap I organised a few years ago, the flies are totally different from UK flies
Jon Dough
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It's black friday in a couple of days, I will be in there for the sale, I will grab a pic of the fly selection
wisemensaysteve
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Davie Mcphail's videos are brilliant, whenever I want a new pattern his youtube page is now my first point of call, the things I've learnt from him have helped me over the years, I saw a video of his fly tying room yesterday and I thought I had a lot of materials until I saw what he has.
I have a pal who is a pro-tier for Partridge and Semperfli, he showed me all sorts of tricks.
Jon Dough
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If your an ardent fly tier may I recommend a book called The Feather Thief, a book on the length some tiers go to for the perfect fly, fantastically written, just an incredible book in general.
wisemensaysteve
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I will have a look and maybe add it to my Christmas list, I have a couple of hundred fishing and tying books I'm going through George Barron's book "At the end of the line" right now, Stan Headley's books are good too.
It won't be anywhere near as tidy come the end of Winter
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