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Title: Fed up with the snow already?
Post by: Mike Barrio on 28/11/2010 at 15:10: There you go ................. :wink

http://vimeo.com/7976131
Title: Re: Fed up with the snow already?
Post by: Jim Eddie on 28/11/2010 at 15:36: Yes I am fed up :z10 Fantastic clip Mike :z16

:z18

Jim
Title: Re: Fed up with the snow already?
Post by: Tiam on 28/11/2010 at 15:43: that may have just cheered me up after looking outiside the window :z4 :z4
I agree, great clip! :wink

Tiam
Title: Re: Fed up with the snow already?
Post by: Mike Barrio on 28/11/2010 at 15:51: http://vimeo.com/11804173
Title: Re: Fed up with the snow already?
Post by: Jim Eddie on 28/11/2010 at 16:03: Keep them coming Mike :z16

Now if I was not married , and 20 years younger ........................... she still would'nt look at me :z4

:z18

Jim
Title: Re: Fed up with the snow already?
Post by: gunner100 on 28/11/2010 at 21:00: Jim,

Your marital status and age immaterial! For one dreadful moment, OK several moments, during the clip I thought it was "Mama Grizzly" aka Sara Palin. Mama keeps the likes of us in a run with the huskies at the bottom of the yard. Goodness knows where she keeps her husband , Todd, or her single mother daughter.

Lyall
Title: Re: Fed up with the snow already?
Post by: Mike Barrio on 29/11/2010 at 00:53: I came up with a new camo line today ......... it's pale cream :z4
Title: Re: Fed up with the snow already?
Post by: John Reid on 29/11/2010 at 01:12: I am totally fed up with the weather. Was really wanting to go fishing today on the Clyde but I don't fancy fishing in a blizzard!
Title: Re: Fed up with the snow already?
Post by: Noel Kelly on 29/11/2010 at 07:56: I hope metcheck have got this wrong
http://www.metcheck.com/V40/UK/FREE/14days.asp
Title: Re: Fed up with the snow already?
Post by: Jim Eddie on 29/11/2010 at 08:25: Quote from: An Chuileog on 29/11/2010 at 07:56
I hope metcheck have got this wrong
http://www.metcheck.com/V40/UK/FREE/14days.asp

Thanks Noel thats just cheered me up no end :z6 They only get it wrong when its good weather thats predicted :cool:

:z18

Jim
Title: Re: Fed up with the snow already?
Post by: Iain Goolager on 29/11/2010 at 13:16: Pointless white rubbish! It's reappearing as fast as I can clear it and my back is in bits :z6

I like the video of the troot chasing taking the floating flies - frustrating though :z16

Iain
Title: Re: Fed up with the snow already?
Post by: Matt Henderson on 29/11/2010 at 14:46: I've just received the "go home or you will die email!" excellent, except I know there will be a mountain of snow to clear from the pavement and the flat needs cleaning.

rubbish.
Title: Re: Fed up with the snow already?
Post by: paavo on 05/12/2010 at 14:48: The best Swedish fly fishing DVD at the moment. The Dream Stream. :z16
Theres a trailer on the left menu.
http://www.fishingfilm.com/my_films.htm

//Harri
Title: Re: Fed up with the snow already?
Post by: Mike Barrio on 05/12/2010 at 14:58: I like the trailer very much Harri .... thanks for posting :z16

The fish take the fly in a very positive manner.

Best wishes
Mike
Title: Re: Fed up with the snow already?
Post by: Noel Kelly on 05/12/2010 at 19:58: Love that trailer Harri looks like a great trip. Roll on the spring and big rising trout.
Title: Re: Fed up with the snow already?
Post by: Mike Barrio on 08/12/2010 at 11:29: Folk all over Europe are starting to show the strain of being stuck inside in this weather :z4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXPQY_VRP6M
Title: Re: Fed up with the snow already?
Post by: Mike Barrio on 08/12/2010 at 11:38: A good time of the year to dream about the spring :wink

Just something found on youtube, this Kiwi Brownie was 14 lb :shock

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKDhkJKygWI
Title: Re: Fed up with the snow already?
Post by: Dutchfly on 08/12/2010 at 11:42: Come on guys, I've said this before: if you can't fish it, skate it! :grin

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzHoUhzI9wA

Bring on the ice!

CU

Jeroen
Title: Re: Fed up with the snow already?
Post by: Mike Barrio on 08/12/2010 at 11:55: Great stuff Jeroen, that looks like fun! :z16

But sorry ..... I still think that water is for fishing :z4

Best wishes
Mike
Title: Re: Fed up with the snow already?
Post by: Dutchfly on 08/12/2010 at 12:21: Mike, Mike, Mike...

You are soooo wrong! :wink

Hopefully this winter we'll have the Tour of Eleven Cities (Elfstedentocht), a brutal skatingtour of 200 km (some 133 miles, isn't it?). If and when this takes place, you have to come over to Holland. It's an event you'll never forget! Check out this clip. If you scroll to 2:20 minutes, you'll see one of the biggest speedskaters ever, Norwegian Johann Olav Koss. You'll see what I mean!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p07-bjw2PcQ&feature=related
Title: Re: Fed up with the snow already?
Post by: Mike Barrio on 08/12/2010 at 13:00: Awesome Jeroen ....... awesome! :z14

Best wishes
Mike
Title: Re: Fed up with the snow already?
Post by: Peter McCallum on 08/12/2010 at 13:48: IO'll bet there are a few of those hunting around in the Don Mike. C'mon Ben get those big assed streamers out early season :z4 :z4
Title: Re: Fed up with the snow already?
Post by: Ben Dixon on 08/12/2010 at 23:59: Quote from: rabbitangler on 08/12/2010 at 13:48
C'mon Ben get those big assed streamers out early season :z4 :z4

Goes without saying Peter, not putting up any pictures. There's some bloody flyting ace that keep taking the piss out of my heads & finishes, made me all self conscious about posting pics or tying in public :z4

You'll have to get up here for a cast early season, that's two seasons you've been threatening now!!

Ben
Title: Re: Fed up with the snow already?
Post by: Hamish Young on 09/12/2010 at 09:23: Don't know what it's doing in Aberdeenshire.... but here in the Inverness area it's +4 degrees C and pissing down with rain. Which is actually slightly annoying as the cardboard that I've been putting over the windscreen to help keep the frost off isn't cardboard any more :roll

On the plus side, the carpets for much of the house should be delivered and fitted today.... which means that (finally :!) I'll be able to get the fly-tying kit unpacked, organised and ready to make a mess for the first time in over 5 months. I'm sure she who must be obeyed will be delighted by this :wink

H :z3
Title: Re: Fed up with the snow already?
Post by: Mike Barrio on 09/12/2010 at 09:29: Good news "H" :z16

So I guess we'll see a Step By Step from you now :wink

Feels like a thaw going on here this morning too .........

Cheers
Mike
Title: Re: Fed up with the snow already?
Post by: Hamish Young on 09/12/2010 at 09:36: Quote from: Mike Barrio on 09/12/2010 at 09:29
So I guess we'll see a Step By Step from you now :wink

**** cough**** Je ne dinnae think so pas :! Is my first reaction. Maybes aye, maybes no :wink
On the other hand I could do some traditional loch patterns, maybe a 'sensible' (proper man sized :z4) Claret Bumble or something of that kind.... maybe a dapping fly or two...... hmmmmm :z8

I'll think about it.... we should get Magnum to do one :z17

H :z3
Title: Re: Fed up with the snow already?
Post by: Mike Barrio on 09/12/2010 at 10:18: Yes, some traditional loch patterns would be great Hamish :z16

Magnum does not appear to be spending much time on the net lately :roll but yes, would be a good idea to ask him :wink

Cheers
Mike
Title: Re: Fed up with the snow already?
Post by: Hamish Young on 10/12/2010 at 16:10: I was out on a search today...... we were over in area that hadn't seen much 'action' from the snowploughs :z10

One of my 'troops' got run over by a snowplough spreading salt :shock

"bastard" he said, through gritted teeth :z4

I soooooooo need to get out more :z7

H :z3
Title: Re: Fed up with the snow already?
Post by: Mike Barrio on 10/12/2010 at 16:14: Big thaw here today Hamish ..... same happening with you?

Still a fair bit of icy slush to go yet though :z6

Cheers
Mike
Title: Re: Fed up with the snow already?
Post by: Hamish Young on 10/12/2010 at 16:22: Quote from: Mike Barrio on 10/12/2010 at 16:14
Big thaw here today Hamish ..... same happening with you?

Very much so yes - plenty of snowmelt coming down the rivers and a tropical 8 degrees C :shock
Title: Re: Fed up with the snow already?
Post by: Allan Liddle on 20/12/2010 at 22:38: Still snowing in not so sunny Mosstodloch and to quote a good auld Scottish phrase, 'I'm Spewin.' :cry

But, as i've said elsewhere, if a bad winter makes for a good fishing season then bring it on :grin
Title: Re: Fed up with the snow already?
Post by: Mike Barrio on 20/12/2010 at 22:45: Yes, I think the Spring was exceptional this year Allan :z16

Cheers
Mike
Title: Re: Fed up with the snow already?
Post by: Allan Liddle on 20/12/2010 at 23:54: Certainly was Mike, however it didn't really let up either. Ok yes the abundance o big fish didn't last as was to be expected, however the overall quality did (along with a smattering of further 'Rod Benders' from a few hill lochs and a couple of big name Caithness venues).
All in all there wasn't really a bad month to be had. Plenty fly life, waters in good condition, fish in good condition (well once they'd caught up from the lean winter which didn't take all that long) enjoyment factor 100%

Strangely it's during this retrospective bit when you truly realise just how exceptional it all was (as long as you're true to yourself and don't simply gloss over the slower times).

Lot of further exploring to be had next season. Roll on.

Allan
Title: Re: Fed up with the snow already?
Post by: Mike Barrio on 21/12/2010 at 00:01: It was the same at Haddo Allan, as I'm sure a few folk on here will confirm, I can't remember the over-wintered fish ever being as great as they were this year. Some of this will be down to lack of stress I suspect, as the predators couldn't get through to chase them around.

This was the first spring that I have ever had customers asking me not to stock the loch :shock

Cheers
Mike
Title: Re: Fed up with the snow already?
Post by: Noel Kelly on 21/12/2010 at 07:18: I well remember the quality of the Haddo fish after the ice cleared. Best fishing I have ever had. -14 at Kintore this morning...
Title: Re: Fed up with the snow already?
Post by: Ben Dixon on 21/12/2010 at 19:55: Don didn't fish so well for trout early season this year for me. The salmon however was superb.

Bloddy cold here now, -15 about 5 mins ago and it's not even 8PM yet. Door frozen tonight was PITA to get in again!!

Ben
Title: Re: Fed up with the snow already?
Post by: Noel Kelly on 21/12/2010 at 22:12: -17.5 at Kintore now. Hope you survive the night Ben and can get your door open in the morn! Was that grease any good?
Title: Re: Fed up with the snow already?
Post by: Ben Dixon on 21/12/2010 at 22:21: If it's that cold Noel, I'm not going out to check!!

Had to break myself in tonight, took a while. Put entire contents of full tube round the door tonight in the hope that I can get out without hassle in the morning.

Cheers

Ben
Title: Re: Fed up with the snow already?
Post by: Mike Barrio on 21/12/2010 at 22:25: It's certainly crisp outside just now! :shock ..... How's the new batteries doing Ben?

Cheers
Mike
Title: Re: Fed up with the snow already?
Post by: Ben Dixon on 21/12/2010 at 22:36: Quote from: Mike Barrio on 21/12/2010 at 22:25
It's certainly crisp outside just now! :shock ..... How's the new batteries doing Ben?

Cheers
Mike

Perfect Mike, even better now the glow plugs are sorted, turn the key & it fires immediately!!

Ben
Title: Re: Fed up with the snow already?
Post by: Hamish Young on 21/12/2010 at 22:41: It's now warmed up to -10 having hit -15 here earlier. No doubt this means more snow will come.
Which is nice.

I'm going to kick the cat in an effort to warm up a bit :z7

H :z3
Title: Re: Fed up with the snow already?
Post by: Alex Burnett on 22/12/2010 at 08:07: Quote from: Hamish on 21/12/2010 at 22:41
It's now warmed up to -10 having hit -15 here earlier. No doubt this means more snow will come.
Which is nice.

I'm going to kick the cat in an effort to warm up a bit :z7

H :z3

I don't like being kicked Hamish, :cry It hurts :z4 :z4

Alex
Title: Re: Fed up with the snow already?
Post by: Hamish Young on 22/12/2010 at 23:10: Sorry Alex, but it had to be done :z7

Don't know about being fed up with the snow.... but I am mightily f*cked off as my water supply froze. Again.
Well, the pump did. Mind you it was a tad chilly last night apparently it hit -22 last night according to my next door neighbour and his 'even geekier than mine' weather station.

To make me feel better I have once again kicked the cat and have cunningly re-designed the heating and insulation system for the pump so that it's probably better insulated than my house right now.

If it freezes again I might have one or three very choice, previously unheard and very colourful metaphors to share with the world :mad

H :z3
Title: Re: Fed up with the snow already?
Post by: Ben Dixon on 23/12/2010 at 00:00: Quote from: Hamish on 22/12/2010 at 23:10
I am mightily f*cked off as my water supply froze. Again.
Well, the pump did. Mind you it was a tad chilly last night apparently it hit -22 last night according to my next door neighbour and his 'even geekier than mine' weather station.

To make me feel better ....... and have cunningly re-designed the heating and insulation system for the pump so that it's probably better insulated than my house right now.

H :z3

Sh&* innit!! Will fire you some info for the ultimate in geeky weather stations, will probably appeal to you, needs a PC to run it.

Is it [the pump] now insulated how it should have been when it left the factory by any chance H? :z4

Ben
Title: Re: Fed up with the snow already?
Post by: Hamish Young on 23/12/2010 at 00:05: Quote from: Ben_D on 23/12/2010 at 00:00
Sh&* innit!! Will fire you some info for the ultimate in geeky weather stations, will probably appeal to you, needs a PC to run it.
Cool.... well, hopefully not.

Quote from: Ben_D on 23/12/2010 at 00:00
Is it [the pump] now insulated how it should have been when it left the factory by any chance H? :z4

Yes.

Cheeky shite

H :z3
Title: Re: Fed up with the snow already?
Post by: Mike Barrio on 23/12/2010 at 22:01: How's your door tonight Ben ..... iced in, or iced out? :z4

Cheers
Mike
Title: Re: Fed up with the snow already?
Post by: Ben Dixon on 23/12/2010 at 22:49: Door has not been too bad Mike. Put a full tube of that grease from Noel around the frame, seems to have worked but it has only thawed slightly on one day this week.

Got a new problem..... a Bat doing high speed laps of my kitchen, can't catch, tried to club it with a Helios tube but it is too fast for me!! Locked it in for a while and now it seems to have gone into hiding. Not sure where it came from, first saw it when it flew straight at me when on the phone earlier. Any tips? Will a mouse trp left on the bench get it?

Ben
Title: Re: Fed up with the snow already?
Post by: Mike Barrio on 23/12/2010 at 22:53: Never a dull moment at your place Ben! :z4 :z4

Yes, I would think you'd stand a pretty good chance with a mouse trap. Not sure what you'd use for bait though?

Can you not do some indoor casting with a dry fly in the dark? ... works on the Don :wink

Cheers
Mike
Title: Re: Fed up with the snow already?
Post by: Noel Kelly on 24/12/2010 at 01:29: Feckin snow :mad Just back from a wasted trip to Edinburgh. Planned to catch a flight to Ireland for xmas. 5 hr wait in the airport while flight was delayed, delayed and then cancelled. No seats available on any flight until 26th so an xmas here with the in-laws for me.... :z6

Ben bats are a protected species... surely you could scoop it in a landing net? Failing that it should be asleep during the day so you may be able to catch it then. Wear thick gloves as they have been known to carry rabies in the uk!!!!
Title: Re: Fed up with the snow already?
Post by: Ben Dixon on 24/12/2010 at 01:53: Quote from: An Chuileog on 24/12/2010 at 01:29
Feckin snow :mad Just back from a wasted trip to Edinburgh. Planned to catch a flight to Ireland for xmas. 5 hr wait in the airport while flight was delayed, delayed and then cancelled. No seats available on any flight until 26th so an xmas here with the in-laws for me.... :z6

Ben bats are a protected species... surely you could scoop it in a landing net? Failing that it should be asleep during the day so you may be able to catch it then. Wear thick gloves as they have been known to carry rabies in the uk!!!!

Bad shit with the flights Noel, not good. Drive & get the hovercraft from Stranraer?

I tried the whole landing net shit, it is either not visible (goes into hiding) or is doing a shuttle run from one end of the kitchen to the other and it won't fly into the net, keeps avoiding it. Thought knocking it to the floor with something (rod tube was first thing I picked up) then scooping up and chucking outside, too bloody quick for me!! Locked it in the kitchen, when it is not flying about I cannot find it so don't hold out much hope of catching it sleeping during the day. Don't really want to splatter it, bats are pretty cool just not in my house and definitely not cool when you have no idea they are there. First I knew of it was walking into my kitchen tonight and it flew right at my face, ask H's missus!!

Cheers

Ben
Title: Re: Fed up with the snow already?
Post by: Sandy Nelson on 24/12/2010 at 02:24: What did you do to annoy Rachel?

:z4

Hang a Barbless dryfly from a piece of line from the roof, then you can have the choice of keeping it as a kinetic display like some of those amusing mobiles, or you could then land it and take it outside.

Please don't bite the bat though, not all of them have rabies.

:z4 :z4

Sandy
Title: Re: Fed up with the snow already?
Post by: Hamish Young on 24/12/2010 at 09:16: Quote from: Spiderman on 24/12/2010 at 02:24
Hang a Barbless dryfly from a piece of line from the roof, then you can have the choice of keeping it as a kinetic display like some of those amusing mobiles, or you could then land it and take it outside.
Post of the year for me :z4 :z4 :z4 :z4 :z4 :z16

In the interim Ben, you might try some Meatloaf. Well.... kind of:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QOyNkaOFMk

H :z3
Title: Re: Fed up with the snow already?
Post by: Irvine Ross on 24/12/2010 at 09:23: Ben

Check that it's not hiding in the folds of your curtains, if you have any in your kitchen. That's where they tend to hide when they get into our house. Once they fold their wings they are surprisingly small and can creep into very small spaces. Your only chance to catch it will be to corner it when it has landed. The mouse trap won't work because they only eat insects not cheese or peanut butter.

It should be hibernating at this time of the year so I can't understand why it's flying about in your kitchen, or anywhere else for that matter. :z8

Happy hunting
Irvine
Title: Re: Fed up with the snow already?
Post by: Hamish Young on 24/12/2010 at 09:25: Quote from: Hares Lug on 24/12/2010 at 09:23
It should be hibernating at this time of the year so I can't understand why it's flying about in your kitchen, or anywhere else for that matter. :z8

If it's in Bens house, it's probably flying around in a vain effort to keep warm Irvine :z7

If it's still in the kitchen I don't hold out much hope of it surviving for long :shock

H :z3

http://www.onlinefunnygames.org/bat-hunter-867.html
Title: Re: Fed up with the snow already?
Post by: Mike Barrio on 24/12/2010 at 09:40: Quote from: Spiderman on 24/12/2010 at 02:24
Hang a Barbless dryfly from a piece of line from the roof, then you can have the choice of keeping it as a kinetic display like some of those amusing mobiles, or you could then land it and take it outside.

Yes, that's a cracker Sandy! ........ :z4 :z4 :z4 :z4 :z4 :z16

We already have a Spidermannie on the forum, does this mean that Ben will now be known as Batmannie? :z7

Cheers
Mike
Title: Re: Fed up with the snow already?
Post by: Alex Burnett on 24/12/2010 at 10:32: Quote from: Mike Barrio on 24/12/2010 at 09:40
Yes, that's a cracker Sandy! ........ :z4 :z4 :z4 :z4 :z4 :z16

We already have a Spidermannie on the forum, does this mean that Ben will now be known as Batmannie? :z7

Cheers
Mike

Spiderman, Catman & Batman, bound to be someone work in the Vat office or the post office, anybody deliver milk?!!! :z4 :z4 :z4 :z4

Alex
Title: Re: Fed up with the snow already?
Post by: Kevin Muir on 24/12/2010 at 16:26: Ben, Pease take the time to set up a video camera of you trying to swat (capture) the bat.

The mental picture of you chasing it round your kitchen with it enjoying the game is just something I have to see in the flesh.

The only time I have had any success catching bats was when seatrout fishing at night, usually on the backcast. Do you have enough space for this in your kitchen with the practise rod? From memory, a size 14 Silver Stoat would be perfect, worth a try :z4

I am in high spirits, new tyres and can now plough through the sections of road that imprisioned me last week.

What a relief to get mobile again.

Happy hunting

Kev.
Title: Re: Fed up with the snow already?
Post by: Allan Liddle on 24/12/2010 at 19:34: Ben instead of the net thing try a bath towel. Caught a couple on Loch Park over the years (they're partial to a falling dry flee :shock) and make a hell of a racket. Noisy wee feckers once hooked as well but always got round it with a bar towel and a pair o forcepts.

The wee fecker will be hidin in yer cutains or behind a wall unit.

Allan
Title: Re: Fed up with the snow already?
Post by: Mike Barrio on 02/01/2011 at 13:13: Another nice one from Youtube :z16

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mek7ZxN9zcw
Title: Re: Fed up with the snow already?
Post by: Mike Barrio on 02/01/2011 at 13:25: I love this photo :z16

(http://flymage.net/blog-es/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/Flymage-portada-mundo-al-reves1.jpg)

It's from pages 34/35 of the Spanish online magazine called Flymage
See the English version here: http://www.flymage.net/english.php (http://www.flymage.net/english.php)

Cheers
Mike
Title: Re: Fed up with the snow already?
Post by: Matt Henderson on 02/01/2011 at 14:01: It's just started snowing in town!
Title: Re: Fed up with the snow already?
Post by: paavo on 03/01/2011 at 18:23: Nice one of spawning seatrouts there Mike. :z16
I like that photo too. And excellent flees of Mikel Elexpuru in the Flymage magazine.

Dry fly fishing. http://vimeo.com/15260174

//Harri
Title: Re: Fed up with the snow already?
Post by: Mike Barrio on 03/01/2011 at 18:41: Nice video Harri, very nice! :z16

Just the thing for a dark winter's evening!

Best wishes
Mike
Title: Re: Fed up with the snow already?
Post by: Dutchfly on 05/01/2011 at 08:07: "That's sensitive allright!" :z4 :z4 :z4

http://www.dumpert.nl/mediabase/733841/06bffd49/vis_show_fails.html
Title: Re: Fed up with the snow already?
Post by: Allan Liddle on 05/01/2011 at 19:21: Crackin video just the job for the depths of the close season. :z16