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  1. ColinA

    Advice New AA and AAA rechargeable batteries

    https://www.ikea.com/gb/en/p/ladda-rechargeable-battery-hr06-aa-1-2v-50504692/
  2. ColinA

    Advice New AA and AAA rechargeable batteries

    Lithium batteries are a different chemistry and have different voltages to alkaline or NiMh batteries unless there is a built-in regulator. Eneloops are very good NiMh batteries as they have a low discharge rate and stay charged. Ikea Ladda batteries are the same as Eneloops and reasonably...
  3. ColinA

    Fixed Spool For Common Skate (Shore)

    How did you get on on the Lleyn? We were due to be wrecking out of Holyhead yesterday, but the fcast put paid to that, so went species hunting on Angelsey instead. Had loads of species but nothing of any size. Ballans, corkys, goldsinney, rock cook, rock & leopard spotted gobies, pout, poor...
  4. ColinA

    Fixed Spool For Common Skate (Shore)

    Hi Graham. Daiwa BGs are great reels, not got as big as the 8000 myself but have the 5000 + 4000 and the BG gears are massive. Have a look at Alan Hawks review of the BG. Try and get a standard BG rather than a Mag-sealed one. https://www.alanhawk.com/reviews/bg16.html...
  5. ColinA

    General Basstastic moving from Mumbles Pier to Swansea Enterprise Park

    This is from the Basstastic Facebook page. 16 March 2021 WE ARE MOVING As of this week we will no longer be trading from mumbles pier! We are moving into a bigger more suitable unit over on Swansea Enterprise Park - Unit J24 Ashmount Business Park ,Upper Fforest Way Swansea, SA6 8QR (near...
  6. ColinA

    West Wales What's the official boundaries of North, West and South Wales?

    Perhaps that should be "anywhere in Gwynedd and the coast round to the Dee estuary is North Wales". The moot point is whether Ceredigion is West Wales or not. Some say it is, some say it isnt.
  7. ColinA

    West Wales What's the official boundaries of North, West and South Wales?

    Yes, Aberystwyth is on the west coast, but Pembrokeshire is further west.
  8. ColinA

    West Wales What's the official boundaries of North, West and South Wales?

    Traditionally the Dyfi (Dovey) is seen as the boundary between the north and south. One question would be what dialect of Welsh they speak, as gog's use different words for milk amongst other things. Gogs (north walians) use "llefrith" for milk but the south use "llaeth". West wales is an odd...
  9. ColinA

    Hoody update

    Arrived today. ?
  10. ColinA

    Frozen Bait from Supermarket

    I have caught smoothhound on frozen raw king prawn. I prefer to use whole prawn or shell-on prawn tails. Also use small chunks of raw prawn for black bream (1cm cube). Frozen cockles are a handy bait for bream and general scratching. A big bag of cockles can be split into small bags for several...
  11. ColinA

    mini long line

    I thought this was a forum for discussing fair angling with rod and line?
  12. ColinA

    Thresher from the shore!!

    Jack Shine caught several porbeagle to 145lb off the shore in Ireland. http://irish-trophy-fish.com/jack-shine-an-extraordinary-angler/
  13. ColinA

    Spools interchangeability between models.....

    Daiwa produce several models based on the BG with many shared parts. I saw some spools for the BG Nero variant on Pecheur.com at £17 so thought them worth a go. The larger Nero spools (4500, 6500 & 8000) are a direct fit on the BG. The Nero spools do not have the ball-bearing beneath the drag...
  14. ColinA

    Head torch.

    There are two different versions of the Fenix HM65R Std version Spotlight Outputs Turbo: 1000 Lumens/2 hours/534 Feet High: 400 Lumens/22 hours/331 Feet Med: 130 Lumens/42 Hours/187 Feet Low: 50 Lumens/97 hours/121 Feet Floodlight Outputs High: 400 Lumens/21 Hours/180 Feet Med: 130...
  15. ColinA

    What’s the best headlamp?

    Got a H2R myself. A good floody beam, but would prefer a lower turbo mode that would run longer. 2300 lumens for 1 min then drops to 750 for 110 mins. Why not maxout at 1000 which is plenty of light. You must use the propriety battery to allow charging with the magnetic usb charger. Standard...
  16. ColinA

    What’s the best headlamp?

    A bit awkward strapped to your head though.
  17. ColinA

    What’s the best headlamp?

    Did anyone else have one of these?
  18. ColinA

    Lets see your boats

    This is our club boat Oystercat which is for exclusive use by members of Mumbles Motor Boat & Fishing Club. http://www.mmbfc.uk/ Based in Swansea Marina, it is a Blyth 33 Workcat fitted with twin Iveco 330hp diesel engines, and will cruise at 21 knots. We mainly fish in the Swansea & Gower...
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