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DoItDangle
Top Rod
United Kingdom
611 Posts
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 Posted - 02/05/2002 : 11:03:05
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Becuase I knew the answer I must have looked it up? Yeah that makes sense... If it is cheating to be educated, then I am guilty. Knowledge is not power my friend.
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stig
Newbie
90 Posts
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Posted - 02/05/2002 : 17:28:36
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I assume such an archaic law is no longer enforced, but next time I go to Jersey I'll leave my knitting needles at home!
Cheers
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Big G
Carper
United Kingdom
188 Posts
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Posted - 02/05/2002 : 17:46:56
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Dangling Man. You stick to your guns on your intelligence. I knew the answer as the Stigma of the crocus, just get your own back mate and ask ‘em a real hum-dinger of a question.
'Do It Dangle'? well I'm sure if you say so.
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T-angles
Top Rod
USA
1223 Posts
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Posted - 03/05/2002 : 08:24:14
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Ok Dangle, no need to get out of your pram. Occasionally someone will quote answers from references and yours looked suspiciously like that. Just reinforcing that it's trivia that's all.
Here's one not in the reference books;
Name 2 of the 3 trees favoured by the beaver
Don't catch 'em all, T-angles |
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Big G
Carper
United Kingdom
188 Posts
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Posted - 03/05/2002 : 08:51:37
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Terry
Are you referring to the European or American Beaver. I know that there are differences, what these are I am not sure.
I do know that the British species favor Birch trees, I am sure they like more than one type though.
Brithish beaver is the finest in the world, I am sure most British hetrosexual males will agree
Big G
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allan
Top Rod
United Kingdom
2920 Posts
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Posted - 03/05/2002 : 12:35:37
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TOO RIGHT BIG G. 
"May the sun never rise on a dry net"
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T-angles
Top Rod
USA
1223 Posts
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Posted - 04/05/2002 : 03:47:31
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Big G
I think the best beaver is wherever on the planet ya find it
Y'know I forgot y'all don't have any beavers over there. Consider the beaver Q a "ricket".
Just for your curiosity; the American beaver fell many types of trees but are particularly fond of aspen, willow & alder, although I don't know why. The little buggers have recently taken out two 70ft poplar trees in one of my fishin' holes on our local river.
Ok the beaver Q didn't work, so here's a British one instead;
I imagine y'all are familiar with that long flowing weed, home of the barbel, in clear chalk streams; what's it called?
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Noc
Administrator
England
11350 Posts
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Posted - 04/05/2002 : 14:18:28
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Only know that stuff as streamer weed. It's probably got a proper name but I don't know what it is. In fact there are lots of types of weed that I don't know the name of but I should.
Noc.
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Doughnut
Administrator
England
33708 Posts
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Posted - 04/05/2002 : 14:34:50
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| We get plenty of Beaver over here Mr-T don't you worry |
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T-angles
Top Rod
USA
1223 Posts
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Posted - 05/05/2002 : 07:49:35
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Noc
Somehow thought you would have got the weedy Q, you livin' up there near the Swale and all.
Donut
Only one trouble with having lots of beaver mate, all the women have got it!!
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Noc
Administrator
England
11350 Posts
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Posted - 05/05/2002 : 15:50:49
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Know what you mean T-angles. I've seen tons of the stuff in the rivers around Yorkshire but everyone refers to it as streamer weed. I'll have to find a book some time with all the different varieties in it for future reference.
Noc.
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Big G
Carper
United Kingdom
188 Posts
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Posted - 05/05/2002 : 18:33:23
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I,m sure it is Streamer Weed guys, that is the only thing I have ever heard it called. I would be interested in your analysis Terry.
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porky
Top Rod
United Kingdom
1249 Posts
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Posted - 05/05/2002 : 19:38:57
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The flea (paraergasilus longidigitus) is common in bream and carp but what does it damage by way of affecting fish feeding ability.
Cya later,
Porky
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T-angles
Top Rod
USA
1223 Posts
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Posted - 06/05/2002 : 09:10:31
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No, sorry, not streamer weed, although lots of people call it that. I's "water buttercup", ranunculus family.
There's another streamer weed found alongside the buttercup, not as long, darker in colour, very different leaf pattern, gets its name from a large black bird. What is it?
Porky;
the flea gets in the breams ear, he shakes his head which stops him from feeding on your maggots
Didn't know fish had fleas. The scientific name sounds more like a worm that affects the gut.
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porky
Top Rod
United Kingdom
1249 Posts
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Posted - 06/05/2002 : 23:44:26
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Its called the nose flea it damages the sensitive nasal tissues affecting fish feeding ability..
Cya later,
Porky
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T-angles
Top Rod
USA
1223 Posts
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Posted - 07/05/2002 : 06:33:12
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Porky
That's interesting, it must be very minute, does this flea affect all fish and what does it look like?
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DoItDangle
Top Rod
United Kingdom
611 Posts
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Posted - 07/05/2002 : 09:44:18
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Big G
Quite right...Do It Dangle? Well, do Old ladies slip over on Frosty mornings? Does Judith Chalmers have a passport?
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Col
Top Rod
United Kingdom
749 Posts
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Posted - 07/05/2002 : 10:02:48
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Mr T
Is it silk weed ?
Col.
Tight lines....keepin it reel |
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Big G
Carper
United Kingdom
188 Posts
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Posted - 07/05/2002 : 13:36:04
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Trivia
The record price paid for a Koi Carp was.
a.....$100,000
b.....$250,000
c.....$500,000
d.....$750,000
e.....$850,000
or was it c.....$1 million.
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stig
Newbie
90 Posts
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Posted - 07/05/2002 : 16:07:40
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My Oracle, (The bloke next to me at work) reckons he remembers an article where a Koi sold for $300,000 a few years ago. He wasn't sure if that was the record at the time, but I'll guess at $500,000
Cheers
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Big G
Carper
United Kingdom
188 Posts
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Posted - 07/05/2002 : 17:20:57
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I couldn't believe it when I read it in a copy of Water Gardener, It was $850,000 (about £570,000)  .
Im sure it won't be stocking our local waters.
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allan
Top Rod
United Kingdom
2920 Posts
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Posted - 07/05/2002 : 20:28:38
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I read a few years ago that Pete Waterman(popstars) paid £250,000 for a prize koi.(nutter). Like a lot of other people i've got some lovely Koi in my pond, but they aint worth squat really. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, unless your a rich git with more money than sense.
"May the sun never rise on a dry net"
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Big G
Carper
United Kingdom
188 Posts
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Posted - 08/05/2002 : 08:03:37
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Too true Allan, I've just had to re-stock my pond after feeding the local heron with six small (7") Koi. I was fed up enough after providing a £50 dinner (actually that seems pretty reasonable for a six course meal)
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T-angles
Top Rod
USA
1223 Posts
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Posted - 08/05/2002 : 08:12:45
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Col
No, not silk weed, that's the stuff that used to be found in places like weir sills. Although I think not very much these days, too much herbicides in the river systems. I used it to catch roach in the 60s. We'd drag a bare hook through it, then trot the stream with float tackle, a great bait. A master roach man taught me that art.
The answer to the weed Q is; "water crowfoot"
Big G; holy shoot, we need to get rid of some of those zeros. At half a mil there must be "mondo money" in koi breeding. I knew they was thousands but that's silly money. I'm gonna stock my pond with rudd for now.
The water spider breathes air but lives under water how does it do this?
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porky
Top Rod
United Kingdom
1249 Posts
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Posted - 08/05/2002 : 11:36:47
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Hello mr t the water spider takes down a bubule of air so that it acts like a diveing bell that way it can breath under water...
Cya later,
Porky
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allan
Top Rod
United Kingdom
2920 Posts
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Posted - 08/05/2002 : 11:51:15
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Spot on Porky; a perfect description
"May the sun never rise on a dry net"
Allan |
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allan
Top Rod
United Kingdom
2920 Posts
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Posted - 11/05/2002 : 23:41:26
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Wait a mo Porky, thats not quite right. He spins a silk webb like a diving bell and attaches it to weeds, drags air down with his hairy body and fills the bell, crawls insid. Tea and bacon sarnies to follow. Ye Gods! but i'm clever. 
"May the sun never rise on a dry net"
Allan |
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Bunny
Top Rod
United Kingdom
2140 Posts
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Posted - 12/05/2002 : 00:03:32
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Hehehehehe snigger, feeling of deja vu there methinks!!!
Cheers,
Bunny
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allan
Top Rod
United Kingdom
2920 Posts
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Posted - 12/05/2002 : 00:14:43
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Thats just what I was thinking Bunny when I registered my votes in the members polls. Seems like doughnut has his work cut out bringing things back up to date.
"May the sun never rise on a dry net"
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Big G
Carper
United Kingdom
188 Posts
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Posted - 12/05/2002 : 07:54:57
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The answer to the deleted question about the age of Hanako the carp is as follows.
Hanako the carp was born in 1751 and died on July 17, 1977 at the age of 226 years. Look at this web page for more details
http://www.arborman.com/koioldest.htm
G
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