does anyone do THIS?

[hatsoff]

I'm thinking of taking up a bloodsport and spending some time with dds teaching them. I thought about fishing. I just get the feeling that it could be kind of fun, you know, dangle a juicy piece of meat on a hook, watch all the fish bite, reel them in. what do you think?

I am, quit frankly, disgusted. Why don't you paint your DDs with fresh fox blood and make them run round the countryside witha pack of hounds chasing them. It gives the good exercise and hones their survival instincts.

gross [disgusted emotion]

Dh wants to teach our boys to hunt with a spear - big cats and all that

Gwenick - this would be a good skill for them to have if they are in a survival situation such as a plane crash

then he wants to teach them to skin eat, roast the meat over a campfire and make clothes and rugs with the skins

pmsl

Dp does fly fishing, love it. No bits of meat, just hand crafted flies (about 20 grands worth it seems!)

I think fishing is fun, but I don;t like fly fising much, coarse fising is dull.

Sea fishing is brilliant if you live near by.

Much more exciting is shooting game. If you can afford it.

iwas thinking of buying my DS a bow and arrow as a treat, and possibly a BB gun (sp?)

do you think this is a good plan

Obviously fox hunting would be the sport of choice but some people don't seem to like it. For some reason.

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hatsoff,why don't you pop over to see me in Kurdistan?
Very violent and bloodthirsty. Right up your street.They even let off guns at weddings just for the hell of it.

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It's the reeling them in bit that appeals. It would seem you can keep them going for ages.

I have an air rifle (birthday prezzie) and since moving to the country sometimes lean out of window and pick off the little rabbits that play at the end of our garden.

Wasn't sure what to do with them when dead but butcher happy to skin and prep them. You need about 3 for a stew for a family of 4 though.

Takes me a couple of days to get that many. But they are tasty.

Farmer next door quite chuffed as they eat his crops.

bit off thread - Moondog - had my fill of Kurdistan thanks. (Iraqi, not Turkish, which might have something to do with feeling it was my "fill")

You just never know when the supermarkets are all going to close down, do you. Think of the advantage you will have when they do. Except that all of ones work colleagues shoot on a regular basis apparently.

Hatsoff - you should defo go for fly fishing then. Can take hours to bring a decent salmon in.

What were you up to there,hatsoff??

work. (for a big ngo)- only three weeks, spent most of it travelling to Kirkuk and Mosul - which weren't considered safe to stay overnight at the time so had to "commute" from Irbil. It was june/july 2003 so found it all a bit grim. but, back to FISHING...

I keep worrying about what might happen if we are standed with no shoes? or what if clarks shuts down? I might teach ds to sut up animals for leather

I've tried to get the little deer too but I think I need a bigger gun.

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