are we just mad?

[Guest strapper]

thinking it over , what other hobby would we spend so much time and money on?

i know most of us love pigeons but if we really thought about it, we all spend thousands and most of us never get anyway by doing it.

so...thinking about it , are we mad or just a little simple lol.

[Guest shadow]

mad?

[superstar]

Mental yes. Personally I cant wait till the weather improves so I can go fishing every evening to save my sanity lol

[superstar]

Pure bliss!

[Guest strapper]

Mental yes. Personally I cant wait till the weather improves so I can go fishing every evening to save my sanity lol

 

im off sea fishing  next saturday night..off the shore...gonna be frozen so that makes me mad also lol

 

two sons and son in law has roped me into it.

 

[Roland]

I don't know... Fishing / Photograthy, Kids etc. etc. all cost a fortune. It depends on what level one wishes to play.

A rod and bent pin, spiders, mouse etc. catch anything. the ole camera's take great photo's... but most hobbies are dearer than pigeons I feel. Exception is what price the birds, camera, rods you buy,

[superstar]

 

im off sea fishing  next saturday night..off the shore...gonna be frozen so that makes me mad also lol

 

two sons and son in law has roped me into it.

 

Good luck with that Paul rather you than me! Fingers crossed you have a good catch which makes it all worth it then. PS I aint too far away for delivery of a nice Bass or two lol. Roland is right though nothing is free today it all costs money especially if you want to do something on a reasonable level

[Guest strapper]

 

Good luck with that Paul rather you than me! Fingers crossed you have a good catch which makes it all worth it then. PS I aint too far away for delivery of a nice Bass or two lol. Roland is right though nothing is free today it all costs money especially if you want to do something on a reasonable level

 

 

bass??...id be happy just to catch some whiting lol....and back home asap lol

 

[bewted]

Pure bliss!

 

great idea fishing !!

[bewted]

a nice quiet place to relax in !!!

[bewted]

i get all the tiddler ones and my son gets the best,,,,,hard to believe he stalks these for hours with a fifty pence boOt sale rod and a £4-99P reel and just a crust of bread and sits for hours in the bushes or under trees !!!

 

this was when he was 9 years old and diagnosed with ADHD !!!!! MANY WINTER NIGHTS OUT TILL 10 OR 11 AT NIGHT !!!!! dont worry on dad,just catch another before we go home he said !!!

 

 

[Guest strapper]

wish the weather was still that warm now...think ill go hibernate till start of racing. lol

[Guest strapper]

Pure bliss!

 

 

what rivers that m8?...isnt the rother is it?..ive fished a few matches when younger around hereford.

 

[Guest strapper]

one late nights fishing, back last year havent been for a long while..local run pond .

got me one foot wet as i dropped me reel into the water when packing stuff away lol

 

[Guest spin cycle]

pigeon racing needn't be expensive....its fanciers that make it dearer than it need be. bigger teams...bigger lofts...more feed...'better' pigeons (?)...all because those with money seek a competitive advantage. surely pigeon racing has its roots in some of the most depressed times...they raced then so why should it be expensive now. i was going to take up golf until i walked into a loft by chance...its subs are £600/year and some clubs can cost as much as a loft...NOW THATS EXPENSIVE.

[ryesway]

any hobby can get expensive it just depends how much your prepared chuck at it  

[superstar]

 

 

what rivers that m8?...isnt the rother is it?..ive fished a few matches when younger around hereford.

 

Its the River Lugg just on the outskirts of Hereford.

[allenyeates]

Are pigeon fanciers mad?....... Of course .. But then thats what makes us different to all the others. Also I think our hobby/sport is one of the few that has no barriers or predudices and long may it continue..

[kirky]

I remember standing in pouring rain waiting for race birds the ex wife said that I must be mad, the iceing on the cake was I won the race, sent the ex wife to a 600 miler never seen her since

[Guest strapper]

 

Its the River Lugg just on the outskirts of Hereford.

 

i did think of the lugg an hour ago....fished it in thunder storm yrs ago......i remember a m8 catching a small pike and some small fish....he thought at weigh in, he had lost some fish...what it was is the pike had ate them lol...so he still had the weight lol.

 

 

[Roland]

Ted, use to go Cardington Mill, and the Electic place over where you are. Electric place was warm most year round and Tench was great fishing there.

Former in - laws of course are still all at Bedford. Still see them and get on Ok with them.

[nagid]

no doubt were no right.think if all the infighting an politics and backstabbing was gone the pigeon game would be far better to be in.just my opinion.

[PIGEONJIMI]

Call me nostalgic but i hark back to the days of the backyard lofts,pre vaccinations & all the other pills & potions,all we used was a puff of lice powder,you could get a half decent bird for half a dollar down at the pigeon market (shudehill), but like everything else we seem to need more & more extras to achieve the same results

[bewted]

Ted, use to go Cardington Mill, and the Electic place over where you are. Electric place was warm most year round and Tench was great fishing there.

Former in - laws of course are still all at Bedford. Still see them and get on Ok with them.

 

there still there roland and the electric place can and does produce tropical fish like siamese fighters on occasions along with others like guppies,etc, !!!

[Michael J Burden]

one late nights fishing, back last year havent been for a long while..local run pond .

got me one foot wet as i dropped me reel into the water when packing stuff away lol

 

Are some of them KOi or Koiarp?

 

Nice catch