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Only had the one example so wouldn't know and that was all fresh made. I can't make Mayo to save my life so I have to rely on my daughters.

Gay? No we just spell it with an "s". Had tartar sauce a couple of times in the US, down in Florida and when a the couple who rented a house to a bunch of us near Chatham invited us all round for a fish dinner. We supplied the fish and beer and they supplied clams, cooking and marvelous hospitality. Bluefish chowder which was an acquired taste, baked striper with tartar sauce and steamed clams with horseradish sauce. Never had clams before and they were superb, I would think you can buy tartar sauce in US supermarkets but fresh made is best. Don't knock it til you've tried it.

It's Tartar Sauce often served with fish in more civilised parts of the Planet.

Dogfish usually called rock eel, rock salmon or huss in a chip shop are from spurdogs or bull huss, haven't seen it on the menu in a chippie in years both on the protected list. Both doggies and skate taste pretty good as long as you bleed them. Cod is way overrated unless you can get it caught from a deepwater wreck and cook it fresh. Buy it from a fishmonger and it has spent weeks in the chilled hold, haddock is a lot better. Our bass is much like a striper to eat but not one of my favourites. Shortage of vegetable oil appears to be the main problem Brit waters have been overfished for years mostly by foreign boats.

That is what has happened but the Government will now listen to the media reaction and possibly any public outcry before deciding their action. Not fake news but government by media instead of listening to the scientific and health specialists.

Exactly this a modern day Silk Road and Empires rose and fell for centuries controlling such an asset. Oil pipe line straight to Iran and an overland route to the Middle East and beyond, all built with Chinese money and Chinese hands. Afghans appear to be incapable of digging something as simple as a well. Pakistan and India outflanked you could not make up a mess like this. We will have to see just how many of the Afghans evacuated at vast cost and terrible loss of life actually ever worked for the Allies. I mean interpreters and embassy staff should all be able to speak English shouldn't they? Liberal media narrative driving government policy in their ever increasing efforts to gain votes.

I think the US and Brits did quite a bit of work on resource evaluation. Hard work developing resources when you are fighting a war, have a corrupt government and the Afghan idea of resources are poppies. CCP will get the lot without any military costs but it will cost them money the Taliban are not exactly bothered with luxury goods. Wait and see what Pakistan does next is my guess big mates with the Taliban.

The Daily Telegraph is purely for UK readers, we left the EU some time ago. Our own war for independence. Trump had it right most European countries were not contributing enough money on defence and were relying on the US too much. First big test for NATO and they failed dismally. Every country failed dismally when it came to Afghanistan and it proved impossible to fill in the void left when the US pulled out. Our troops left UK nationals and others behind as well and they did not like it at all.

Yes we are although we don't have the lift capacity of the US and have to use commercial flights. Intention is to get every Afghan who worked with or for the UK forces out of Afghanistan. Boris is asking for the 31st of August deadline to be extended so we can at least try to do this. Afghan refugees who walk out will keep on walking until they find a country that will accept them. That US plane that took off packed with Afghans should never have happened the crowd just broke into the airport and climbed aboard.

Never thought I would hear those words in our House of Commons. Plenty of mistakes on both sides of the Atlantic, Boris got plenty of stick. Both he and our Foreign Secretary were on holiday when it hit the fan. Both US and Brit forces must have landed in Kabul just in time to prevent the airport from being overrun. Military have got the evacuation organised properly but how they are going to get everybody to the airport I have no idea. NATO appears to be broken.

Hi Guys, if a Brit may just interrupt this for a second, link is for a speech made by a British soldier who served, more than worth a listen.. Remember US and Brit troops are in harms way as we chatter just the way warriors from both our countries have been for more than a hundred years. Too much shared spilled blood together already. Let's get them all home safe and then sort those responsible on all sides. https://news.sky.com/video/afghanistan-veteran-tom-tugendhats-powerful-speech-in-full-12384482

Use them a lot in the UK various copies of the same concept around. Need a hook swap out and sealing some of them leak and the finish comes off easily.

Yes I did notice that but my LC hybrid is just the first three rings are all LC and then KT10 choke, KT8 runners. LCs do not bullseye but work just fine. Any thoughts on a four ring KW train plus choke to allow for the heavier mono?

Rebuilt a number of carp rods but just the one using NGC for test purposes, ignore the 27x and get that choke ring down the blank then you can populate the rest of the blank with 5 or 6 KT8s. ZA is spot on with the sizes but I found there is no need for the 40mm KW a KW30 works just fine. My preference is for an LC hybrid setup but the KW/KL-H setup sounds interesting. Do any of these cast any further than the old COF? Not that I can tell but the blank recovers faster, feels lighter and subjectively more powerful. Have cast 3oz on 0.35mm mono many a time and never had a crack off, smooth in and fast out.

I use an LC hybrid set up with the first three rings being LCs and the rest KTs. Standard Fuji recommended spacing works fine but is a little noisy, moving the stripper out calms things down mine are out at about 1800 mm on a 14' 8oz blank. Never tried RV rings out of my pay grade but have built NGC with the choke point moved down the blank. Rods up to 3oz I use KL-H and above that LC/hybrid, first three ring positions on an LC setup are just as important as in a KR setup.

Going deep on a windy day from a boat over Grafham, 10 yards of leadcore and a converted carp rod. Something was most definitely not quite right. Using a rod with enough authority to deal with heavy lines was the solution but level lines are never nice to cast.

Permanently splicing your running line of choice to a head of your choice creates an integrated line same as Rio sell as such. Old WF lines all had a 30' head with somewhat thicker running line than a modern integrated setup. Shooting heads I used to cut from DT lines and I always preferred them around the 35' mark, an old WF line with worn out running line can be recycled and used in a similar fashion. Shorter heads have come back in to fashion because they are easier to cast and with the thinner running lines they do fly and behave pretty much like a shooting head.. If you want to cast a heavier fly then you normally need a heavier line and rod , twas always that way.

Standard Fuji recommended distance from reel stem to butt ring is 1200 mm or approx 47 inches. Moving it much closer than that and it gets noisy. Recently built some Harrison 14' 6 ounce blanks and the LC20 butt ring is 1850 mm or about 73 inches from the reel stem, low reel mount spinning reel. Use braided line only with a braid shock leader. No line slap, no line wraps clean line flow. I don't know what Daiwa are trying to achieve here but it does not sound right.

I always buy rubber butt caps slightly undersized, warm them up in boiling water and push them on. Never had one fall off and they need some force to shift them. If you have to use a glue then you need some form of flexible adhesive.

US pounds and ounces are the same as UK. A quality 2.75 lb TC rated rod will cast 3 ounces all day with no problem perhaps a bit more. Used to rate rods back in the split cane era as test curve equals the best weight in ounces that can be cast with that rod. Carbon fibre has changed that a bit and a number of rods rated 2.75 lb TC are comfortable with up to 4 oz. Surfcasting rods in the UK are rated by the weight they can cast and it is usually a narrow range like 5/6 oz. I did some measurements on a number of carp rods some time back and only a few were in the less than 70 degree AA zone which makes them more suitable as TH fly rods. Test casts on rods above an AA of 70 degrees seemed to indicate that they were fussy about line weight but when you got them dialed in then they cast flylines well enough but are hard work. Anything above a shop rated 3.25 lb TC was going to need about 1000 grains to get them working. All the rods I tested were at the more expensive end of the range and I did not measure the test curve, I will if I do it again, just the AA and CCS. No idea how to convert CCS to exact casting weight in ounces or vice versa it is very much a case of tuning for maximum smoke and what suits you personally.

I don't mind quality coasters for conventional reels but they are no good for spinning reels. All my longer rods casting up to 8 oz plus bait have a low reel mount anyway conventional or spinning, no use for fishing lures though. A lot of the movable reel seats supplied as standard by various makers do not seem to last long anyway. Best of luck wading through the never ending list of Zziplex blanks available I have recently built some rods using Harrison blanks and finding them excellent and a lot cheaper than Zippys.

ZAF you can get the seats I described in sizes 24 -30 if you do a search for UK-Hooks although where they get size 30 Fuji reel seats from I don't know. Not difficult to do it at home with a Dremel and a file or two.

ABU make them where you tighten up a locking nut at both ends, bit thick and clunky though. Best ones I have used have a slot cut next to the fixed part of the reel seat wide enough to allow a coaster to fit, screw the coaster down tight and install your reel as normal. Does get in the way of a Breakaway Cannon though.

Starting point for me is to tuck the butt end in to your armpit and with a straight arm grip the blank. That's a good starting point for a 12' to 14' rod casting up to 6 ozs for me but is usually spot on. Lighter spinning rods I find I move the reel seat closer to the butt end. You can build up a tape arbor for a tight interference fit for your reel seat for test purposes. I don't like adjustable reel seats but that is a personal thing.

Just bought some in the UK so they are still available in the full range.