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Friday, 14 September 2012

Unusual Fly Reels: Franco Vivarelli

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 Saw this the other day and though of the Usk, a reel that uses the drag to coil a spring which in turn takes up line. Very neat and tidy ...
Thursday, 13 September 2012

Fishing The River Usk Pt4

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Look everyone SBW's rod is overshadowed by Lord Hereford's Knob Every hobby starts with a hat, when stalking deer hats keep ...
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Wednesday, 12 September 2012

Fishing The River Usk Pt3

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Catch a snag or catch a fish? Well there's a surprise its another snag! As we were leaving our first nights camp at  Pen Pont we ...
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Monday, 10 September 2012

Fishing The River Usk Pt2

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After packing and re packing my kit we finally left London for the first part of the trip, we were to stop off in Cardiff (the capital of...
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Sunday, 9 September 2012

Eden Binoculars Review

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'I don't know how many guides I've met who dressed in rags, lived on wallpaper paste and government cheese but who owned a pa...
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Poo: By Any Other Name

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I found this one, where 'someone' had burped it up while sitting on a hay bale scanning the field for the next victim. Which anima...
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Saturday, 8 September 2012

Chad's Querencia

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We know him as Blogger , Bird hunter, Dog bloke, and Ditch fisherman . But in another life Chad would be the enigmatic [read grumpy] propr...
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Wednesday, 5 September 2012

Road Trip Food: Road Kill

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Thou shalt stop for a free meal SBW
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Monday, 3 September 2012

Escape Velocity

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Exit postponed due to missing 'wading shoe'. Any ideas? SBW
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Fishing The River Usk Pt1

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Unlikely as it may seem, especially to regular readers: myself and The Lighthouse Keeper are making our way westwards to fish the River U...
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Gear Freak, Kit Tart, Blogger

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" I know nothing else that so restores the buoyant optimism of youth as overhauling ones kit " Horace Kephart 1906 "U...
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Monday, 27 August 2012

Poo; A Photographic Study

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As many of you are are also amateur naturalists this won't sound as strange to you as it perhaps would in less inquisitive circles. ...
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Saturday, 25 August 2012

A Street SO Posh....

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That Arugula AKA Rocket grows from the cracks in the paving! Who'd a thunk it? More foraging and fishing to come, and of course that l...
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Sunday, 12 August 2012

There's No Auction Like a Firearms Auction

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If you're like me and already have too many hobbies, look away now.  Apart from inane eBay searches, charity shops and locked unit au...
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Review: Spyderco Sharpmaker 204MF Ultra Fine

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If you're the kind of person who has one of those annoying 'wheel sharpeners' for your knives best to stop reading now, as ei...
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Saturday, 28 July 2012

Conversations In Gun Shops Pt1

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Been a while, no? Work, money, girls, yah di yah di yah.Getting back into it, more posts to come. Soon. This one took place a while bac...
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Saturday, 7 July 2012

Ka-Bar - The Knife Of The Marine Corps

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KA-BAR Knives from Common Machine Prod. on Vimeo . Apropos of not a lot, I saw this on BB this morning and thought one or two of you m...
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Sunday, 24 June 2012

Bargain VG10 Kitchen Knife Review

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Many of you have written in to jeer at the amount of money I drop on gear, no offence is ever taken because my off-line friends mock me e...
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Saturday, 23 June 2012

Woodcock Recipe

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At the end of the season we had one of our all too infrequent 'Bloggers Armed Ramble' where The Bambi Basher, Mc Shug and your ...
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Saturday, 2 June 2012

Wooo hoooo!

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Just bought 21 packs of asparagus for £3.15 SBW
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