Hi Q & All, Just to look on the gloomy side, its April, you know April showers! However, coraclers don't disolve in the rain like lesser mortals, and we paddle...
Hi Dick & the other dozen I was thinking of going to the Stour at Sudbury tomorrow for the first time this year. According to the RST Magazine the Tea Rooms...
Hi Dave, Sorry but I have already arranged to go cycling with Freo, it would be churlish of me to change our plans, she hates coracles! Looks like another nice...
Hi Dick We will have to start a group for oppressed husbands. Next Saturday is Qs first fishing group, I can't miss that so probably won't be allowed out ...
Hi Dave, Am I oppressed, don't think so. Can't stop I have to make the beds, do the washing up and get tonights meal, oh and feed the cat! WE didn't cycle in...
Hi All Just found this group the day after I finished coating my new Boyne Coracle with lanolin. Peter Faulkner built it for me before Christmas and I have yet...
Hi All Just found this group the day after I finished coating my new Boyne Coracle with lanolin. Peter Faulkner built it for me before Christmas and I have yet...
Hi Edwin, welcome to the group, I have removed restrictions so your messages should appear almost immediately. I am in Essex, quite a way away. I have paddled...
Hi and welcome I will soon be located new forest way so closer to you than Essex. I too am keen to get put fishing in a Coracle and may get to one of Mr Q's...
Hi Edwin (again) The coracle fishing is in the Stour Estary, and uses a net. Qentin or Q is the acknowledged expert! Where you can or cannot fish with nets is...
Glad to meet people who think such things are normal! Thought I would start off by trying my luck with a drop net and a handline. Would really love to run a...
Hi Edwin With regard to fishing books,I dont know any,the best thing is to get out there and do it as there is no substitute for expieriance. I regularly run a...
Yes I must simply get out and do it. Inertia is my biggest sin :-( On drift netting, does the net itself pay out as you move through the water with just...
... Hi Edwin The net will be taken by the tide, and will pull you allong with it,but you must load it carefully in your box or basket to achieve this,likewise...
... Very nostalgic, Toozy was my favourite area in the fifties. I longed for both a boat and the Martello Tower which came up for sale and was bought my a Mr...
... Hi Edwin, I suspect that not a lot has changed in Toosey since the fifties, apart from more caravans! From Jaywick to Clacton the sea wall is concrete,...
Hi All Haven't found much time in the evenings lately, just thought I'd let you know how last month went trip wise. Chelmer paddle , just me and Dave , met at...
I have a long list of mesh sizes sent to me by the fisheries people and am wondering what to use for a gill net. Mullet are likely to be the target fish but...
... Hi Edwin 50 ml is the legal min. which is what we all use in the east, As I remember telling you a few days ago,go to your local netmaker and get one ,they...
Sound advice Mr Q. Took what for me is a first step on Friday when I did some shore fishing on the Helford (catching nothing, ah well) and collected mussels...
Hi all This week, the Petitions Committee of the Welsh Assembly Government published the report of their short enquiry into access to inland water. The press...
BUT there is threat, and I mean threat, of a legally enforceable code of conduct. It is too typical in this modern age to link rights to responsibilities, pure...
I agree! Welsh Assembly Government's petitions committee spent some time in Scotland listening to evidence on how Land Reform is working in practice there. I...
I do support anglers, reluctantly because of experiences while canoeing, but I have to support anything that establishes the ownership of Subjects to their own...
Hi, I have been reading Roger Deakin's 'Waterlog', in chapter 3 he makes some comments about river access, presumably to justify his swimming. This book is...
Indeed free swimmers suffer as much as boaters, perhaps even more because of the fear instilled through unfamiliarity with water that we suffer from in...
