Sandbagged!

Sandbagged!
Photograph by Steve Barnett

Wednesday 30 March 2011

All Fool's Day is...

almost upon us!


Is there anything worse than arriving at the waterside to discover you have forgotten something and that something is going to be sorely missed this day?

Hopefully this might help you.  If you want to add stuff do so and you may not need it all anyway.  For example, my first day out will require no waders so they will be ignored.  You may need to wade so you may eschew the wellies and overtrousers... and so on.

Right click the list and choose Copy.  Open a new document in your wordprocessor and right click and Paste it in.  Then print it out for your checking off all the things you might need.

Of course you may need a couple of mates to help you carry it all...

Have a great opening day, all of you!


Regular Rod

10 comments:

  1. Fishing dries without wearing a tie should be registered as a criminal offense indeed. ;)

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  2. Aha! You spotted that little item...

    We English are generally preoccupied with the weather. A tie is a remarkably effective way of regulating one's temperature, especially early on in the season, when it is not uncommon to have every kind of weather in quick succession. Some days it is possible to have a hailstorm, ferocious breezes, rain coming at you horizontally, and then, as if by magic, the wind, rain and hail stops and the sun comes out to play.

    The tie can be quickly tightened when it is drafty and cool and then just as quickly be loosened a little to let some air in at the neck as the sunshine turns from warm to a little too hot.

    It also makes an excellent and handy cloth to wipe the polarised spectacles...

    I didn't want you to get the idea that a tie was there just to maintain some needless, arbitrary "standards"!

    8-o

    Regular Rod

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  3. Is it acceptable to substitute breeks for trousers?


    David

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  4. Hi RR

    You might want to add a well oiled wheelbarrow to your list to carry everything. Oh! and you missed the Ringtons, you should be ashamed of yourself.

    Mick

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  5. Sorry about the tea, my face burns with embarrassment as I write...

    I will just add: sack cloth; ashes; scourge...

    ;)

    Regular Rod

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  6. David you can wear ballet tights if they are of the right colour. Seriously though, breeks are not designed for kneeling down in. Trousers are more comfortable.

    Regular Rod

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  7. I should definately give this a try, since our weather conditions aren't that different, actually. Definately a grand excuse for wearing a tie on the river!

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  8. Hi DFE, can you post a blog about your preferred method to attach leader to your Dry Fly Expert line? and perhaps what leaders you favour?

    Apologies if you have already done this somewhere else.

    thanks.

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  9. Hello Anonymous

    The blog about that is here on http://dryflyexpert.blogspot.com/2010/08/leader-linguistics-tippet-talk-and-tips.html

    Failing that just run a search on the blog for the word leader.

    All the details are also included in the information booklet that comes in the box with each line.

    I still think the best leaders are those you make yourself as you can tailor them to exactly your requirements at that moment. The blog and the information booklet both explain how you can do this quite easily (and much more cheaply than buying leaders too).

    Best wishes

    Regular Rod

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  10. Thank you - I should have expected you would have that covered off.

    I'm working up to buying one - how are stocks looking?

    any discount for regular blog readers who live in Derbyshire? :-)

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