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In my opinion nothing looks more depressing than a bloke covered in green cam coloured waterproofs with a little tent and bits and bobs next to a canal on a rainy day.
Their little hexi burners flickering away heating a cup of measly tea that in no way compensates for the depressing scenario that they find themselves part of. :w00t:
I haven't fished for years. I think the "nothing looks more depressing..." is a bit OTT but I do think canal fishing is pretty boring and I've always found it strange how someone can get excited by a 12oz roach.
Now a Nile perch, that's something else!!
I would perhaps say nothing is more depressing that someone sat at home on a Saturday afternoon, starting a thread on the fell runners forum about canal fishing :w00t:
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Originally Posted by Witton Park
The look on their faces as i ran past them last night was despair personified. :confused:
Probably they were using fishing poles and they took one look at you Danbert and decided you wouldn't be nimble enough to hurdle them ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Danbert Nocurry
It would be like http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Su1ozG3WPUM
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Originally Posted by Witton Park
I've been well and truely knocked off my 'Perch' there :)
There's a pun fight brewing.Quote:
Originally Posted by Danbert Nocurry
Cry Haddock and let slip the Cods of war.
and Danbert's a Dab hand at that but he's been floundering of late :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Vegan Runner
Maybe it's Snoek over from the Bob thread.
Unless it comes from a nine foot spliff.Quote:
Originally Posted by Witton Park
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Originally Posted by Tussockface
:w00t:
Are you trying to 'reel' people in with that comment?
What is Danbert carping on about now?
Nah, just thought we might have found something for the Guinness Book of Records.
Then I realised it was a load of carp.
Damn. Just beaten to that fish.
Never thought I'd post that....
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Originally Posted by sbrt
As the thread has now gone onto two pages it would have been easy for that comment to have 'slipped through the net' sbrt :w00t:
Danbert, on this particular issue I agree with you, and it doesn't need adding to the "Anything else Danbert?" thread.
Fishing in canals really is a load of pollocks!
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Originally Posted by dominion
That is a shame Dom, when I first conceived the idea for the thread, whilst running along the Rochdale canal last night, i was secretly hoping that i was 'stitching myself up like a kipper' by providing you with more ammunition for the Anything else Danbert thread.
Just been listening to an old classic.
River Deep, Pouting High by Pike and Tina Tuna
Cod you guys just stop with this childishness, please. We're trying to have a serious discussion here. Honestly, this plaiceQuote:
Originally Posted by Witton Park
Now you're just trawling.....Quote:
Originally Posted by Danbert Nocurry
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Originally Posted by dominion
I'm having a whale of a time. :p
Whats a fell runner doing on a canal bank???????????
A-Tench-tion seeking?Quote:
Originally Posted by Stagger
Looking for a different Pike to bag?
Or the Roaches race:rolleyes:
Footwear choice: Salmon's................on?
............or Inov sk8's?
Oh for gods hake!
My footwear preference is for Pike Triax or AdiBass Kanadia although occasionally I'll dig out my Newt Balance.
Ah! a sensible post at last!Quote:
Originally Posted by Stagger
A Ray of light in the darkness.
:DQuote:
Originally Posted by zephr
The run involves picking up the Rochdale canal in Middleton coming off at Slattocks and going off road using public bridleways up to Tandle Hill monument. Tandle Hill is about the nearest thing i've got to a hill in my part of North Manchester that doesn't involve getting the car off the drive.
You have to be careful there Danbert as you are in line of sight from the Kirkholt housing estate (bandit country!). They can scramble a bunch of muggers and be on you before you know it :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by Danbert Nocurry
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Originally Posted by Alf
Indeed Alf, I am well acquainted with the Kirkholt rapscallions.
The thing about people who fish on canals is that a lot of them think that that is fishing. I prefer more interesting and inaccessible spots that have to be looked for and approached with extreme care and patience, so as not to spook the fish.
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8146/7...ec20b07f_z.jpg
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7124/7...b8c49ed0_z.jpg
This came from under another bridge, again a pool that probably very few people know exists.
http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4100/4...65b2aaa6_z.jpg
Just what is the porpoise of this thread!?
Seems that it's all over parr the shoutin'.Quote:
Originally Posted by that_fjell_guy
Thought it'd be four piles of bricks down your neck of the woods.Quote:
Originally Posted by Danbert Nocurry
Canals are very bleak places to fish.
Nice little wild Brownie Mr Brightside, on the fly?
Worm on a Chubber float, barbless hooks naturally.Quote:
Originally Posted by molehill
I saw it was returned, they are precious :thumbup:.Quote:
Originally Posted by mr brightside
Naturally mr b. Here's one I caught high up the Stockdale valley on the tops above Settle a few years ago...Quote:
Originally Posted by mr brightside
http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4112/5...9e341c32_z.jpg
Wild Brown Trout by Andy Holden, on Flickr