Ok, I found a flaw in the two tiddlers ploy.

I had a man come and chat whilst I was fishing and the conversation went, as
usual, to how I was doing. I was about to do the "two small ones" ploy when
my rod left the rest which was odd as it was only a half pound bream.

When I pulled it out the water I improvised on you ploy and said that this
was all that was about, just small ones which is true compared to what I had
been catching the last few times out.

The guy looked like a bit of proper angler but then says "Wow, you get lots
that size " at which point the two tiddlers idea sort of floated out of my
ear. Turns out he was one of the regular match anglers I upset last week.
However he took great interest in my set up and when I left a took a look in
on him and guess how he was fishing.

That was all I caught all morning so as I was not feeling too good I came
home and will go again on Friday, I have decided to modify the two tiddlers
ploy to "How big do the gudgeon get in here" followed by a village idiot
type laugh. Hey why be subtle.VBG

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Why do you never have a camera when you need one :-)

It was that long ago Box Brownies were far too expensive and getting the
fish to stay still that long never worked.

It's amazing how few anglers have pictures of themselves fishing (as
opposed
to holding the pick of the catch) - and pictures with the rod bent into a
decent fish are even rarer.

My second hobby is photography and I always get the best shots when the
camera is missing. I had a kingfisher fly by the other day and although I
had thee camera the bird jsut speeded up the closer the camea got to the
eye. SAme in Zoo's, every bloody animal tunrns it's back to me as I
approach. These is a theme me thinks.

Hmmm. You took stale buns last time you visited?

Going again next Friday.

If you have a similar session allow yourself to be heard muttering that
all
those **** carp keep getting in the way of your roach fishing.

I would have to shout with all the noise they were making. I will
certainly
make a lot more show of the catch, say weight each one shouting the size
as
I put them back. It has been suggested I enter their competition which
would
be interesting but I want to enjoy my fishing.

No - you're taking the wrong angle - keep on operating quietly, they'll
still notice. Then let slip that yoy're not satisfied that you're getting
the full potential of the water; which, come to think of it, is probably
true or you'd have moved on to a bigger challenge.

Or you can use the 'two tiddlers' ploy, see:
http://www.fishing.casterbridge.net/method/brag1.html

Got to be the cost of the oils used to keep them soft, I took a look and
they smell horrid.

You smell volatiles - chemicals which dissolve in air - fish smell the
ones
that dissolve in water. Something that pongs to you might be scentless to
a
fish and vice versa.

So you had a few trout on bread then, not tasted fresh trout for years
and
the farmed ones really do live up the joke as they taste so muddy.

I'm lucky to have a stretch of chalk stream close where a busy footpath
makes fly casting too dangerous and duck feeding provides continuous
groundbait. Every now and then a fly fishing purist sneers at the method
but I confuse 'em by talking about flyfishing for coarse and sal****er
fish
- and inviting them to try baitfishing for trout - which they mostly find
a
lot harder than they thought.

And that'll be the last trouting session for the season - I'll be ready to
start serious coarse fishing once we get enough rain to perk up the
rivers.

Cheerio,

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