Fishing
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.
Jeffrey Olstead
Fishing
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Fishing
This is in the 'clubs and societies' section, but I thought it deserved a wider audience.
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Re: Fishing
My personal "Best Cast" --- has been with a 36 Mills
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Re: Fishing
I am just surprised you didn't say 'a stick of dynamite'.
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Re: Fishing
JR will explain --- this one has shrapnel !
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Re: Fishing
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 !!!
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 !!!
John Rutley. Prep B & Coleridge B. 1958-1963.
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Re: Fishing
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 !
VC material ???
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 !
VC material ???
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Re: Fishing
"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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Re: Fishing
I didn't "Get" the last Post ------
If it was intended to refer to myself --- sorry If I am dim !
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If it was intended to refer to myself --- sorry If I am dim !
We have two Heroes in our Family -- and I am neither of them !!!
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Re: Fishing
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.englishangel wrote:I am just surprised you didn't say 'a stick of dynamite'.
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