In reply to Post #3
Found some on the bay, ordered a spool, wait now to see if its changed or not. At £13.25 including postage, for a 20m spool, I really hope its what I wanted

In reply to Post #2
That's the stuff, thank you so much for the reply, was driving me nuts trying to remember. I had loads of reels of it, but my garage was broken into and 50 years of tackle and memories was stolen, the whole lot, barstewards!

I will now try google, see if it's still for sale anywhere. Cheers mate

Can anyone remember a hook link material which had a stiff flourocarbon core, with a soft woven or braided outer casing? It came on the usual 20m spools, in 15/20/25lb breaking strains, and I loved it.

The flouro kept the the body of the link stiff-ish, acting like a semi stiff boom, and you could push the outer back down the fluro, then cut that back as much as you wished, leaving you with the braided outer as a soft, flexible end to tie the hook to, and form the hair. If you found hadn't cut the fluoro back enough, you could just push it through the side of the braided outer, and cut more off, simples.

You then had a combi link without all the faff! Brilliant stuff, but I can no longer find it, and being a senile old fool, I cant even remember what it was called

In reply to Post #223
My wife and I had a week in the Maldives a few weeks back (been there lots) and among the guests were a couple of rather nice ladies traveling together, one a solicitor, the other an IT specialists. Now, each island invariably runs a weekly night fishing trip for any interested guests, and my wife and I went this time, as usual. The following day the trip came up while we were having a drink with these ladies, and they oohed and aaahed and tutted alarmingly....turns out they were rabid animal protection types, and it was wrong to fish, end of.

So, as you would, I asked them what they thought of otters, which was answered much as I expected (lovely, cuddly, sweet...all the usual stuff) . I replied with information about the damage they were doing to fish, fisheries, peoples livelihood etc., but they were having none of it. In the end we had to agree to disagree, or move to another Island

My point is, our main enemy in all of this (otters apart) is extremism....on both sides of this issue. We have seen on this thread, on the bank and elsewhere the absolute nutters screaming "Kill them all", "Shoot 'em on sight", "poison them", "beat them to death with clubs" etc, etc. If any otter lovers wanted to bury our cause, then encouraging our nutters to shout stuff like that around would do the job for them just fine!

On the other side, we have the rabid "Don't you dare tread on that ant" tree huggers, most of whom would cheerfully harm a person in support of their cause, but freak out if you accidentally DID tread on that ant. And of course, you have less then zero chance of getting through to them that there are two sides to this, they point blank refuse to even listen.

The problem we have is that even the best of our lot are tainted by the words and actions of our nutters, and judged as being one and the same thing. Their nutters however....are perceived as heroes.

That is an extremely difficult difference to come to terms with, let alone overcome .I feel your pain Joss.

Cheers, Dave.

In reply to Post #161
Beave, you have arrived at the figure of one otter per 5 square mile by dividing the total surface area of of England by the estimated number of otters. However...otters live exclusively on the banks of rivers/lakes...they do not live in Westminster or the middle of a cornfield. Were you to rework your answer by counting only the square mileage of the areas where it is possible for otters to live...you would end up with a very different figure indeed.

That new figure would be useful to us as well...as that would tie in nicely with the areas we anglers are concerned about. Having said that, if otters DID decide to make a nuisance of themselves in cornfields and Westminster, we might then get some action on the issue

Cheers, Dave.

In reply to Post #9
Great info as ever Ken. One question...are you saying you were using the Fruit Special flavour neat as your long term soak.....or as the main flavour in a complex?

Cheers, Dave.