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This is in the 'clubs and societies' section, but I thought it deserved a wider audience.

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Posted Thu Oct 14, 2010 10:49 pm by jeffreyo

I may be the only Old Blue to have been taught to cast a salmon fly in the art school car park (by the redoubtable Nell Todd), but I can't be the only OB to cast a fly. Is there any support for an Old Blues Fly Fishing Association (Old Bluffas)? Any OB is certainly welcome as a guest on my waters in Lancashire and the Welsh Borders.
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My personal "Best Cast" --- has been with a 36 Mills

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I am just surprised you didn't say 'a stick of dynamite'.
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JR will explain --- this one has shrapnel !
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A Mills 38.

A Shrapnel grenade with a variable-time fuse.

Bowled over-arm style into a room or gun-emplacement.

On detonation, the outer case blows into many lethal pieces. The results are obvious.

One point that should be remembered........


....... On pulling the pin, thrown the GRENADE - NOT the PIN !!!
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Rule two ---- do not drop the Grenade !!

When I was being introduced to this beast, the Instuctor dropped the Grenade -------

I was a moving target at speed !

We were then re-collected and told that anyone who had put his tin hat over the Grenade and then lain on top of it , to save the others -----

would have been immediately entitled to a weeks Leave !

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"Fishing" for compliments would explain this?
"Baldrick, you wouldn't recognise a cunning plan if it painted itself purple, and danced naked on top of a harpsichord singing "Cunning plans are here again.""
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I didn't "Get" the last Post ------

If it was intended to refer to myself --- sorry If I am dim !

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englishangel wrote:I am just surprised you didn't say 'a stick of dynamite'.
I'm trying to remember what the locals used at sea in South Devon. There was some sugar, some ********** (censored) and something else that they made, all in a milk bottle, corked and with a lighted rag. Drop it over the side of the boat and wait for the fish to float to the surface.
For delicacies there was the stick with a strong hook on the end - quickly into a hole at springs low tide and out came a crab

There were other effective methods such as shrimp and prawn nets but I could never tickle a fish like they did
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