JennyMorgan

I had rather hoped that it might add something

Massive slugs the size of savaloys are decimating our garden and inhabiting the river banks, I kid you not. If you have a slug allergy then be warned, huge great things, and you don't hear them coming! On top of that I have seen an adder on the banks of Oulton Broad, that is a first for me. Grass snakes are as common on the Broads as Yorkshiremen but until the other day I had never seen an adder in the area.

Hardly a hard one, the Ant is characteristically narrow. Couldn't tell you the reach though, not really being a sailing river I rarely go up that way.

See this for disgorgers and the Slammo in particular: Using barbless hooks also makes unhooking a great deal easier.

The Ant?

Amazing, even slightly laughable! On a fishing forum we had a right old hoo haa because a popular species of fish, the chub, triggered the auto censor into action too. So 'chub' was barred on a fishing forum but not on a boating one, strange!

Nice one in PBO this month. This forum is pretty much dog obsessed but what about our other four legged friends? http://www.pbo.co.uk/cruising/cruising-pet-cat-31947 Does anyone take their '*****' afloat? I often had my dear departed old tom onboard, a good companion. Had to watch just how many roach he'd stuff into himself before puking everywhere!

Mark, you want to get the 'full facts', asking Yare House personnel will only get you one side of the debate, the one that is approved and doctored, a phenomenon that has long pervaded the corridors of power.

Rose tinted glasses are, of course, mandatory. Since most visitors to the Norfolk Show are relatively local this does seem to me to be something of an unnecessary extravagance and little more than a vanity project.

I dread to think of what a mess our local authorities would make of of our local rescue services, witness the SOB saga. For that I'm not so sure that 'everyone would prefer that lifeboat services were covered by the local authority'.

The pike were no more obliging this morning than they were yesterday. Was a time when I could confidently expect as many as thirty fish in a four or five hour session on the Broads. Oh well, best get the roach tackle out!

In most incidences the flood prevention scheme has resulted in some very good footpaths, I'm sure the Fleetdyke path will be no different, when it's finished. There are now several long distance walks on the Broads.

http://hemsbyinshorerescue.org.uk/ Comments have been made in regard to previous incidents about over reaction. In hindsight this has clearly been true and I do sometimes wonder at the training and local knowledge of those taking the calls. However, better too many rather than too few. Caister lifeboat also has a boat at Beccles, the Broads is very well covered!.

Very fair comment, Neil, but please note that I did write 'some supporters' and 'some Brits'. We have just had the very real pleasure of a young Russian lady staying with us, a friend of one of my daughters. She was also clearly not impressed with the behaviour of some Russian footy fans in France. Regretfully football does seem to bring out the worst in some people.

Five hours for two small pike this morning, not good. Nice popple on the water, fished the leeward shore, everything looked promising, tide was good, lots of dirty weed though, thankfully tomorrows another day.

Just being realistic Being serious for a moment, am not too keen on the appalling behaviour of some supporters, not something that as a patriotic Briton I really wish to be associated with. Regretfully the behaviour of some Brits abroad can be quite embarrassing for many of us.

Gracie, please don't take my comments too seriously.

Oh dear, why ever didn't England just get it over & done with by loosing?

http://thebroadsblog.blogspot.co.uk/ One can only wonder, does it have planning consent? Perhaps this new village won't have a redundant phone box!

Oh well, best show 'em then, a fine pair of lugs!

'Round the bend,' about sums it up!

Iain, perhaps the 'ugly' referred to the ears?

Got to admit that it is many a long year since I have been above Surlingham under sail so I'm not the best bloke to have an opinion on that one. Surlingham from Oulton Broad is a grand sail, especially when the wind is free and a sail across Rockland will always be on my agenda.

A worthwhile plus for those of us sailing down South, apart from anything else, is that there are far fewer motor cruisers to dodge and weave in between. Now if we are talking about sailng on the actual Broads then I agree that Hickling can't be bettered.

I didn't realise that Acle was on the Southern Broads! Cantley to Coldham, for example, offers far better sailing than ever does the Bure, in my honest opinion.