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dicky123 · Jul 31, 2017

Where do you get the water from when you use your Kelly. For years when I use mine the water has come from the water I'm fishing, I know all he dangers but.

Carrying all the water seems to defeat the object to me. I've mostly used river water, but most lakes are clear, and I always boil the water.

Does anyone else us a Kelly?

mikench · Jul 31, 2017

I wouldnt drink the water the bream swim in!

Peter Jacobs · Jul 31, 2017

I have no problem using the water from the lower Hampshire Avon in the Kelly Kettle but anywhere else I tend to take water from home as I think that is safer.

trotter2 · Jul 31, 2017

It supposed to be drinkable when boiled but not sure I would do it.
May well remove bacteria but cant see it removing chemicals trouble is you don't know what's been washed in from roads and farmland.
I would take water with you mate no point risking it Imo.

seth49 · Jul 31, 2017

It's supposed to be boiled for at least ten minutes. That's what I was told when I worked for the water board. If there's rats about it would be very risky. I just take a flask of hot water and make brews as and when.

fishplate42 · Jul 31, 2017

It is the rats that would worry me. I read somewhere the largest number of infections in young men was from drinking beer from bottles in pubs... Apparently the rats pee as they go along - all over the bottles... food for thought.

I remember drinking from the stream as a kid, fifty-odd years ago, when we went camping with the school in the summer holidays. I suspect there was all sorts of chemicals in the water then, probably much higher than today. I can't remember any of us getting sick. Mind you we were tougher then. I am sure we built up a stronger constitution in those days before all the 'sanitation' that the supermarkets and so-called food experts have 'added' to the way they sell and advise on food and food hygiene.

That said, I think I would take my own drinking water from home rather than drinking rat pee, boiled or not! It is not as if you need an awful lot.

Ralph.

dicky123 · Jul 31, 2017

Don't they say the rivers are getting cleaner.

tigger · Jul 31, 2017

A few of my friends who are into outdoor living, biking/camping out etc have small water filters which apparently give you drinkable water once filtered which takes seconds to do.
I think i'd drink my own urine before i'd drink the water from my local waters, even if it's boiled!!

mikench · Jul 31, 2017

Are you are taking the p*** Ian?

tigger · Jul 31, 2017

mikench said:
Are you are taking the p*** Ian?

I can sort you out with a couple of bottles of the good early morning stuff if you like Mike...it'll put hairs on your chest !!

mikench · Jul 31, 2017

I'll give that a miss!

dicky123 · Jul 31, 2017

i love it, you boys are so easy to wind up, where is BINKA

simply light the blue touch paper and?

binka · Jul 31, 2017

****y123 said:
i love it, you boys are so easy to wind up, where is BINKA simply light the blue touch paper and?

He smelt a rat (or was it rancid river water?) very early on and headed for the nearest drainpipe

Philip · Jul 31, 2017

fishplate42 said:
I remember drinking from the stream as a kid, fifty-odd years ago, when we went camping with the school in the summer holidays. I suspect there was all sorts of chemicals in the water then, probably much higher than today. I can't remember any of us getting sick

I had a very similar experience..school camping trip in the summer holidays and drank water from the stream running though the campsite.

However thats where our stories now diverge as after drinking the water I spent the entire night ******** my pants and used up my entire weeks supply of underwear in one innings

David Rogers 3 · Aug 1, 2017

fishplate42 said:
It is the rats that would worry me. I read somewhere the largest number of infections in young men was from drinking beer from bottles in pubs... Apparently the rats pee as they go along - all over the bottles... food for thought.

Bit of an urban myth, apparently:

Leptospirosis on cans: urban legend? | The BMJ

binka · Aug 1, 2017

David Rogers 3 said:
Bit of an urban myth, apparently:

Leptospirosis on cans: urban legend? | The BMJ

I've not read the article but was always under the impression that rats had to be carrying a certain disease in order to transmit Leptospirosis, as opposed to automatically carrying it.

Particularly vulnerable after high water when some of their holes have been washed out.

I do think they pee on bottles and cans though, I've bought cans in the past that look like they have a mild yellow, dried frosting on the top and I'm sure it's rat or mice pee.

Could just be another can that has split and spilled I suppose, I ain't risking it though

uke:

David Rogers 3 · Aug 1, 2017

The main thing to worry about near water is taking care to cover any slight cut or graze - when I lived in Northampton in the early '80s, a young bloke died of Weil's Disease after water-skiing at Ransome Road Lake (which was also used for fishing).

The coroner's report included the opinion that the bacterium had entered his body via a small, uncovered cut on his hand.

You've got to be pretty unlucky to catch it, but as you say, it's not worth taking the risk if you have a hobby that brings you into close contact with water that might contain all sorts of nasties...

Leptospirosis - NHS Choices

iain t · Aug 1, 2017

River water needs to be boiled a few times then sterilised with tablets for a min of an hour. Then filtered before drinking.
No way would i drink river water without treatment and ive got a lead line stomach. Spring water is OK
The bacteria, fish, animal ****, dead animals, Rats, Chemical spillage and Joe Bloggs pissing in it up stream, plus chemical run off from farm land when it rains.

Drinking river water will give you a high chance of poisoning or even a slow long death.

Pete Shears · Aug 1, 2017

Check 'Water to Go' - filter & bottle all in one unit - I would then rolling boil it just to be doubly sure

tigger · Aug 1, 2017

iain t said:
Drinking river water will give you a high chance of poisoning or even a slow long death.

Or even worse than that!

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