Great to see....

A couple of teenagers fishing a weirpool.....

Great stuff & you can subscribe to their YouTube page here

Now if all teenage lads were like this, the world would be a better place !.

Back to work...

Yeah I've succumbed to the dreaded graft again, well worth it though, been on the go since 9pm boxing day.
Anyway been watchin in on fatwa recently, in me spare time ! when do they ever learn ? :D
Here

Today I've mostly been listening to...

LMFAO

OK I'll leave it at that :D

Boxing Day.

Well Hope everyone has enjoyed this Christmas, now on the eve of Christmas I posted on the blog about some river webcams anyway I've been keeping a watch on the one on the Severn at Atcham.

Christmas eve

Christmas day

 

 

 

 

 

It's been steadly rising &....

Boxing day

Looks like it's dropping now, great if it keeps dropping like in the last pic, it'll be a great session or two over the weekend coming, funnily enough I've always had better results fishing floodwater when it's peaked & starting to drop, maybe because I'm more confident of catching.

Blanking doesn't bother me neither, I just enjoy being beside a river somewhere.

Well besides monitoring online rivercams I'm gonna be keeping a close watch on the Trent in the next few days leading upto the weekend.

Now looking on the EA's flood warning site the Trent has got numerous severe flood warnings issued, but Colwick hasn't upto this point in time, so we shall see how things go.

Like I said in the previous blog post here in Nottingham I've got plenty of canals & stillwater fisheries to have a go at if the rivers out of sorts. 

I'm more fancying a go on one of the canals which  plenty of bait would have been put at the fish regular through this winter time with the amount of pleasure anglers & weekend matches.

Saying that I'm aware of a few gravel pits that still produce the goods with lure fishing, so either way round I'm spoilt for choice has to where to fish!.

Just gonna like I've said watch what happens with the river over the next few days & go from there, right gonna go get me dinner & after I'm going for a bankside recce.

Merry Christmas 2012.

Glad to have finished early this Christmas eve, to start with this morning I went round to a mates for breakfast, I enjoyed it, the weather has been pants today nothing but rain for most of the duration & I've never seen so much traffic pass through town in 1 day except for the usual rush hours, everybody must have been out making those last minute dashes to the shops for the festive duties & the good thing is all the rain has kept all the local tow rags at bay.

I've been have a clear up this afternoon in the garden after the rain had passed for a couple of hours & by christ the temperature is dropping rapid, so the only chances we will see of a white Christmas is a good old ground frost, eh I wonder how many have placed bets in the bookmakers this year on the chance of it snowing on Christmas day ?
Personally you've more chances of winning the lottery than a white Christmas.

Anyway after having my dinner I've been browsing the Internet for a couple of hours & I decided to look in on a site which hosts webcams on rivers in the UK called Farson Digital Watercams Anyway on browsing I looked at a webcam on the River Severn & by christ just look at the amount of extra water on in the picture below.

Well over the banks then, so I'll give any chances I've got at going for a session a miss this week, if things improve into the new year weather wise I'll take some time off to wet a line but saying that I've got plenty of canals & still water fisheries in & around Nottingham at my disposal, so no need to worry about river fishing.

OK have a merry xmas folks & whatever your upto this festive enjoy. :)

Go on then, Who can remember these?

1st up Jona lewie..

& the Flying pickets....

& I don't want to hear that both bands have wound up on the dole in Telford like the lead singer of Dexies midnight runners ! :D

No Armageddon, then !

So much for the Mayans prediction of the end of the world then !
I've read somewhere online an article in the daily mail, regarding the said prediction was false by a German scholar & the actual prediction was for something else to happen in 2012, but what it was that is going to happen in 2012, hasn't been translated & I cannot find the said article.

well nothing happening in the fishing department yet here, because I've been work, work, work, funny thing there is, you just don't realise how wrapped up in work you can get, that time flies, but saying that, this year has gone pretty damn fast has I've mentioned in previous blog posts, so before the older generation think it is them, no believe me time is really flying this year!.

Now mentioning Armageddon, I love this song, by John Denver, called: Leaving on a jet plane......

There is a true story to the above song about John Denver getting killed in a plane crash, bit of de ja vue there.

Some more from the garden.

Last of the tomatoes.

& the first batch of leeks.

I'll be taking the rest of the leeks out this weekend for next weeks stew pot, & very tasty they are.

& finally.

I've figured out how to add smileys to my blog with the simple help from this site It's very easy to do just follow the said instructions & sorted :) 

Had to share this one.

Just look at the smile on the German Shepherd, reminds me of my dog Jessie.

Ganglamb Style.

Caption this.

German Shepherd, Gangnam style :D

Last Month Of 2012.

This morning I woke to the temperature of  minus 4 & it's white over with a good ground frost, yesterday it were minus 3 but by 11.00am the frost had thawed, somehow I don't think it will today.

Re: Operation Arsehole update, it seems since I mentioned in the previous blog post about naming & shaming the local tow rags, (with addresses); the Police in the area have had a major purging operation on these low life scumbags, three of which are serving time in Glen Parva for Christmas, shame on them, the others however have mysteriously disappeared ! With no trace & the good thing is things have rapidly quietened down in the area.

So I've got a little bit of time on my hands, whilst waiting for a customers part, to finish off a job & I've decided to update the blog in the process of playing for time.

Last year we had the 11th day of the 11th month of the 11th year, this year we've just had yesterday the 12th day of the 12th month of the 12th year, at least we cannot have the 13th day of the (13th month) of the 13th year next year!.

Also another thing remembrance day was without any interruptions from the Muslim fraternity a quiet day, only because the big noises of the right wing groups had threatened the Muslim council of Great Britain, would be held firmly responseable for any poppy burning & chanting of British soldiers burning in hell.

Moving on, I've been, in my spare time digging out some photographs of the past & one particular photo came out in the bunch of pics reminding myself of my old German Shepherd Dog, Jessie, now unfortunately I had to have Jessie put down a few years ago because whilst she were going upstairs she had an heart attack & fell down the stairs rupturing her splean, which had then swollen out into her stomach.

But before that had happened over the years that dog was like my guardian angel, if I were in the garden, she had to be there & fishing, she loved going down the river & ponds, every Sunday morning at around 7.00am almost like clock work, every week she used to wake me up to take her for a walk down the river, that dog knew what day of the week it was.

Now Jessie also got into this habit of digging holes in the back garden, we are not talking small holes here, neither, anyway eventually I managed to stop her from doing this, by keeping her occupied with other things to wear her out, typical German Shepherd, but she was a great dog, & also the burglars steered clear of my house too, she let them know she was there.

One night this idiot broke in the house & he only managed to climb through the window, it were about 2oclock in the morning but Jessie had him there pinned to the sink unit below the window he had got through & she wouldn't let go, she were growling & snarling whilst holding this burglar there who were kicking & screaming at her, but she held him there, my dad at the time could not get her off of him, even when the police turned up that dog held him there, I eventually managed to get her to let go, even the police were dubious of her, I had to grab hold of her by the top & bottom of her mouth to make her let go & she drew blood on the tow rag who never came anywhere near since.

What a dog she were & here is a picture of her when she were about 5 years old stalking rabbits down the riverside tow path coming out of Stoke woods heading towards Radcliffe bend.

On the prowl.

I haven't had a dog since Jessie but I'm now contemplating having another German Shepherd very soon.

Resting on the sofa.

 

chyking out of the window.

& posing for the camera.

I always remember that one particular day I'd just got in from work at 14.30pm & I asked where the dog were because she used to wait at the front door for me coming home, but she were outside in the back garden & when I went to see her in the garden, she got hold of this fuck off great big black rat almost have the size of an adult cat & she were ragging it all over the garden & flinging it against the shed at first the rat was squealing & Jessie was growling & then I saw her fling it several feet up into the air, then it came down & landed hard on it's back which must of broke it because I heard it snap when it hit the ground with a big thud, killed it out right, eventually when I managed to make her let go, so I could dispose of the rat, there were blood all over the shed & at the time we didn't have a dryer we used the washing line & all these white sheets on the washing line all had streaks of rats blood all over them  I were dreading telling the person that had just not a few hours before washed them.

We never used to have any problems with the cats either, even they knew to steer clear, but thats a dogs life, eh?.

Right it's time to go find out where my customers part has got to.

Operation Arsehole, Update.

You remember awhile back I blogged about one of the local tow rags causing trouble, it were back in the summer of 2011, about June time without going through the archives to be precise, well anyway  the update.
First the picture from Operation Arsehole.

Now the outcome.

Named & Shamed.

Bit lenient, don't you think? for someone who was using an off road bike on the Queens highway! With no road tax or a valid MOT & the offences in the above scanned document, whilst the countries motorists get penalised for lesser offences, such as faulty brake & headlight bulbs which are given an on the spot £30.00 fine & made to return to the nearest police station within 5 days of being stopped to prove they have had the defects rectified!

However it's a result, not a good result but it's sorted.
After the court case I made a complaint to the local authority, regarding the situation with Mccaffrey, they then made plans to evict, but Mccaffrey moved before the local authority got the chance.

Since the incident, things quietened down in the area for awhile, until the rest of Mccaffrey's cronies kicked up in gangs, I'll blog about them later with more details, to name & shame, Some of them are about 10 years old & do alot of running errands for Mccaffrey & other drug dealers & don't worry their addresses will be published too, no stones left unturned here.
Operation Arsehole is now in full swing with a zero tolerance policy & people such as myself have had enough of the local hooligans & this Political Correctness mumbo jumbo of you can't do this!, you can't do that! myopia from the law.

Signing off now till the next blogpost.