Hello

[Stalker]

Hi all.

First time poster, LOOOOOOOONG time lurker. I mean seriously long - I've probably been lurking since the mid to late 00s.

Anyway, like a few others I see, back to fishing (actually this is my third year back) after a lay-off of about 20 years, give or take - life "got in the way", etc.

Look forward to shooting the sh...breeze.

 

[Ray Roberts]

Good to hear from you.


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[Stalker]

Thanks Ray.

 

[103841]

Have you got a fishing licence?

 

[Stalker]

Have you got a fishing licence?

Of course!

 

[103841]

Of course!

Excellent, you’ll have to forgive the rather odd question, after repeated warnings a member was recently banned from the forum and has unsuccessfully tried to rejoin since using different screen names in the last few days. I hope you can understand with a screen name like Stalker why I asked the question.

Anyway, welcome to FM, I look forward to your contributions and hopefully some posts in the HDYGO thread.

 

[Stalker]

Ahhhh, gotcha.

Nope - I've always followed the law, even if I am a bit dubious as to where all that money is going. But that's a different thread...

The Stalker moniker I only used because Moocher (my initial chosen name, as I typically like to be mobile and give each swim 25 minutes or so) was already taken. Stalker was the next closest one.

You won't get any trouble from me - as I said I've been lurking for years, and I'm not a forum newbie in the general sense either, so I'm all up on forum etiquette.

 

[Jeff Woodhouse]

Hi-dee hi-dee hi-dee hi Moocher.

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[108831]

Welcome stalker.

 

[theartist]

Welcome, be nice if more lurkers or former members returned to do chip in with the odd post or three

 

[john step]

Welcome . Let us know what you manage to stalk.

 

[flightliner]

Welcome Stalker, enjoy the forum !

 

[Stalker]

Thanks for the welcome, all.

Let us know what you manage to stalk.

Most recently I spent over an hour following a 23/24lb mirror in the margins of a club lake, gaining its feeding trust with gradual offerings of pineapple mini boilies. It was just going for the hookbait when a cheeky 8lb common appeared from nowhere, pushed the mirror out of the way and snarfed up my hookbait.

You can imagine the range of emotions during the subsequent fight...

 

[mikench]

Welcome to the forum. There is a lot to learn and a lot to give.