its not easy having a big nose...
the shot thing is amazing,, i dont know who does the shotting on the ready made rigs we use nowadays there is no way you or i could shot a float the way they do now...
i remember a few years ago some 'hunt sabs' came onto the bridge of a canal where two of us were fishing, they started to throw quite big stones i put my pole down, it cost about £300 some cost over a thousand, i waved them over, they were calling us obscene names, come and chat about it i walked towards them, there was about half a dozen university types, but they ran out of stones, or do i mean something else and ran away... the old man who was fishing near me asked what might i have said to them, i told him "that if you have hard skin on your hands its because you use your hands, and if you stick a needle into that hard skin it is painless, now fish dont have hands [i know they have fingers Farty
] so they pick everything up with their lips which become calluses, hence they feel no pain when hooked" he nodded and smiled "my argument is that if you go to a county show you will see a little girl leading a two ton bull, she can lead it because of the ring thru its nose, if it wants to stop she only has to give a gentle tug and the bull follows, because it hurts if she pulls so the bull keeps up, so if the fish was feeling any pain why on earth might it keep tugging on the line" his reasoning was better than mine but both are relative... and trust me on this... if there were no anglers there would certainly be no fish in our rivers and pools,...[/i]