Afishionado

Mike forgot to mention how BLUUDY COLD it was. Really odd at time a cloudless sky with sun shine yet an artic blast with a 'feels like' temperature of 2 or 3 deg' C. The brilliantly clear IoW indicated how low the air pressure was and each sharply defined band of black cloud was driven by a spitfull F5 freezing squall. Any way in the 625's roomy wheel house we had hot coffee and buns whilst the rods were in their holders out in the cold. Results were a few bass up to 2lb, some bream, and in the harbour weed. Mad Mike

Re touching up your 'dory' (well that's a new name for it!!) if you do it round the groins it will make you go blind I started fishing with no knowledge and I can fairly claim I still have most of it. Here are some tips......... Bait a hook lower it over the side and hold the rod .... Zilch, Nada, Nowt! Put down rod try to pour coffee out of flask...Instant bite You will run out of bait just as the fish come on to feed "You should have been here yesterday!" will ring in your ears for evermore Except for... "Don't worry it's only a little leak" As it says on the gates of HMP Dartmore "Abandon all hope ye who enter here" Apart from these and a few thousand other little niggles it's a grand sport and your welcome (to it?) Mad Mike PS Bank Holiday, windy, grey, cold, pi55ed off.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SAM And for goodness sake consider stoping growing, anything ovet 6' 6" is showing off!! Mad Mike

Jammy git Well done Mad Mike PS selling Merry Fisher, getting a blow up dinghy. This world has no bloody justice in it.

1/ Either side of a closed door 2/ I think you have got me there???????? 3/ as its only 1750 I could say none But the obvious answer is two Vicky and Liz?? Mad Mike

"What game begins with a T, has four letters in its name, and is played all over the world?" Golf, and on the moon once I believe Mad Mike

Quote...."Hi, i killed the person in that coffin so i could see you, oh you look nice aswell!" ROTFLMAO Mad Mike

OH DEARY ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Remind me never to upset you! When recruiting for personel that my have to take extreme measures certain agencies as part of there vetting use this or a very similar question as part of there exploration of an individuals nature and apptitude. Just as every one has a degree of paranoia as it is a survival instinct and vital to us. Everyone has to an extent a very small degree of psychosis. (manifests in selfishness or diregard of others). There are various ways of analysing personalities. One is to say that a person is rational, logical but with a tendancy to paranoia in the background. (Me, sceptic, Cynic, thinking the worst and reslolving how to avoid it) So on this basis you show as ; Logical, result driven, and self motivated but showing slightly higer than normal psychosis. (My daughter has this trait too). In other words you will do what ever YOU decide is nessessary to get the result that you require even the ultimate one of killing. Or you have seen or done this sort of test before Apply now for the SAS or SBS your their sorta guy!!! Mad Mike

Happy birthday chap Mad Mike

That is indeed one answer. But supose you thought that the other twin and the stranger were in a relationship, that would make asking them awkward or impossible, what then? There are lots of right answers. At the moment you are a linear thinker. Nothing wrong with that either. However if you try to visualise alternate answers to any questions and take your thinking of the various options to a conclusion, then select the best option as you see it you will become a lateral thinker. Linear thinking is the most common (normal) but unfortunatly the least effective. Mad Mike

Not at all Kam. As I said it is a genuine psychometric test. I'm suprised no one want's to try and answer. There are no tricks and no catch but what answer a person comes up with discloses features of their psyche. Your all a bunch of pusies Mad Mike

Not a joke but a psychology test. You are at the funeral of a friend who was one of a pair of twins. The other twin has brought a companion with them that you have never met before and you feel an amazing and immense attraction to them. Deep in your heart you know you must see this mysterious person again. However when you finaly get an opportunity to find them, the other twin and their friend have left the funeral and no one knows who the companion was or whare they live. How can you make sure you meet the mysterious stranger again? The people described have not been given any sex as the test can apply to male or female Please take this seriously as one of the answers might be very important to someone...... Mad Mike PS this is a genuine test and one of a type used by the military and other more sinister agencies

The problem you've got is that you can't test a repair untill the boat is in the water as I believe it is illegal to use marine VHF equipment on land (???). I am not an expert but I think the areal length has to something to do with the wavelengths it transmit and recieves on, however if you are sure that the copper wire is the same length as before I would be tempted to make a repair by using a pen top like you said but pre-filling it with some Isopon P38 auto body filler which will set hard and encase the wire. IMO it's worth a try. It is too early in the year to get conkers any way, you need to wait untill November. Mad Mike

The human brain is a wonderful gadget. Our interpretation of writen language and glyphs proves how latteral our automated thinking processes are. Later ..... in textspek = L8R see you... " = CU Good by ... " = GDBY Our brain only sees what it needs to to make an interpretation. On the other hand that's how you can fool a brain into not believing what it is seeing and visa versa. Mad Mike

Well done on a successful day but just a word of caution.... Tying up to a pot marker bouy can lead to you getting at the very least an ear bashing if the pot owners turn up to bring in their pots. Worse than the ear bashing could be the very rough way they might slam alongside you as they make a polite request for you to ****** off. No joke!! It is also considered very bad 'form' to use pot markers to tie up on. These guys probably have several hundreds of pounds of gear attached to that bouy. Then a jolly fishing boat comes allong, ties up to it and the additional drag on the ground gear pulls the trot into snags maybe. Mad Mike

Adulthood is not nessessarily connected to chronological age. We have some right big kids who propound to adulthood in our club. I am proud to be one myself......... C'mon Jack ....You too! Mad Mike

Then what? Try to flock the regular here? Why would he want a fluffy regulator? Mad Mike

Ah, well I read the bit about them talking to Sir, and Sir said it was OK apparantly. So not wanting to get the beast all riled up in his lair for fear of him exploding I kept me head down..... Mad Mike

Rob, check the chandlers price against Ebay prices. Some of the local chandlers are extortionate in their pricing. Mad Mike

A danforth is not the best anchor for our game. They are good for WAFI's to anchor up to in Studalnd sand but not too good in rocks and snaggey areas. A Bruce clone off Ebay for about

I'll echo Toms comments and would certainly like to buy some 'proffshnial' pictures of my Merry Fisher 625. But having been asked an extortionate

Yes I think we might bring Pride of Morpork out from Poole to meet up with you guys. Let's hope we get a good weather window. Mad Mike

Quote...Fit the tube reflector vertically, then switch the boat stabilisers on to limit the heel to less than 1 deg - sorted. And just keep the boat yawing by 30 deg to move the horizontal nulls around (should be easy with the steering response of a MF ). Oh, do what we normaly do then! Mad Mike

I am a bit confused having read the report on the Plastimo tube type. Are they saying it should be fitted horizontaly rather than the recommended vertical position eg The RCS of the Plastimo tube radar reflector over the elevation angles 0˚, 1˚, 5˚, 10˚ & 15˚ is shown in figure 14. At 0˚ the RCS response looks fair with 8 lobes achieving between 6m2 and 9m2, but as soon as the reflector is tilted even to as little as 1˚ these maxima fall away to levels of between 0.42 and 4m2. As the elevation angle increases the performance degrades even more, at 5˚ and 10˚ the stated performance level is 0.03m2 and there is only 1˚ of azimuth where both plots exceed 0.625m2. The statistics for the Plastimo 4

pretty enough to be a rare tropical......... Thats the fish mate not you! Although in a certain light you do look a bit sorta like the Milk Tray dude. Mad Mike