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The question is, how did the guy (fisherman) find the phone number of the cell phone owner if the owner said he dried it off after reciving it to be able to use it?

The throat of the Cod is deep, and there are many mysteries to solve before I sleep....
 
Am I going to have to be the one that says this story is a little fishy?............ sorry
 
:DI'd love to believe it but I suspect somebody found the phone on the beach & just stuck it inside a dead fish. It's not exactly a quiet news week either. Watched RG at the weekend, even worse than I remembered.
 
Time for a news update (my 80+ year old fly fishing neighbour brought this one to my attention):
Dorset Echo - Huge marlin spiked (From Dorset Echo)
(Is Titus a member of this forum I wonder? Apparently a member of LIC)

Daily Mail:
The one that didn't get away: Doctor catches record 300lb marlin 'with his bare hands' | Mail Online
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Get a load of that bluewater "woodie"/canon behind him.
 
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Yes member of LIC - haven't seen him post on DB before - but well known to many of the guys who do...
 
Re: Jack Hargeaves - Out of Town / How! - Southern Television

Mr. X said:
...These ultra-high cost angling programs (Extreme Fishing & Accidental Angler) are fairly entertaining but I think some simple low cost, expert-led programs like the old Jack Hagreaves, Out of Town, Mike Ladle, etc. programs would be more interesting and useful. ...
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Time-warp. Jack Hargreaves was my brother's favourite presenter and Out of Town his favourite program. It brings back happy memories for me too (excuse the theme "Holding Jacks Rod":)):
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8RtYeJ4P30&feature=related]YouTube - Out of Town 2 - Jack Hargreaves Rod (Promo)[/ame]
(I preferred the original theme tune).

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kl-Tw5DNvA&feature=related"]YouTube - Out Of Town E.6 Pt.2[/ame]
 
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Not exactly news but 137mph on a mountain bike should be news worthy:
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLRDRzMWIsg&feature=dir]YouTube - Mountain Bike High Speed Record Accident[/ame]
 
Sea Shepard in the Sunday Telegraph today

I know several forum members currently or previously supported the eco-group Sea Shepherd - a spin off and rival of Greenpeace. Coincidently(?) the Sunday Telegraph published an interesting article on them today:

Paul Watson: Sea Shepherd eco-warrior fighting to stop whaling and seal hunts - Telegraph

"Once a Scottish fisheries patrol vessel, it now flies the Jolly Roger and belongs to the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, an aggressive, controversial, publicity-hungry environmental group that physically assaults whaling ships, and has been accused of eco-terrorism by both the Japanese government and Greenpeace.
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'...Greenpeace has turned into a gigantic self-perpetuating bureaucracy,' Watson says. 'They spend millions of dollars every year on advertising and direct-mail campaigns simply to raise more money.
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In 1977 Watson was voted off the Greenpeace board of directors for being generally troublesome, arrogant and difficult to work with, for opposing the incoming president Patrick Moore (who has since gone to work for the nuclear and forestry industries, as Watson loves to point out)..."
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Re: Sea Shepard in the Sunday Telegraph today

Mr. X said:
I know several forum members currently or previously supported the eco-group Sea Shepherd - a spin off and rival of Greenpeace. Coincidently(?) the Sunday Telegraph published an interesting article on them today:

Paul Watson: Sea Shepherd eco-warrior fighting to stop whaling and seal hunts - Telegraph
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Brilliant article -really enjoyed it!

I'm all for sticking limpet mines on whalers... come to think of it, I'll extend that to trawlers too:martial
 
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Broseidon said:
Brilliant article -really enjoyed it!

I'm all for sticking limpet mines on whalers... come to think of it, I'll extend that to trawlers too:martial
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:DNow there's a thought.

As well as the start of the spearing season, it is also one again, sadly, the start of the "tombstoning" accident & fatality stories :(:
Tombstoning: Jamie Sutton Dies After Jumping Into Sea Near Souter Point, Whitburn, South Tyneside | UK News | Sky News
 
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Mr. X said:
:DNow there's a thought.

As well as the start of the spearing season, it is also one again, sadly, the start of the "tombstoning" accident & fatality stories :(:
Tombstoning: Jamie Sutton Dies After Jumping Into Sea Near Souter Point, Whitburn, South Tyneside | UK News | Sky News
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That seriously sucks. I used to go jumping off cliffs when I was younger, although we always used to go and check the depth and conditions first.

It's a fact of life that people like doing dangerous things... someone's always going to end up hurt, or worse... :(
 
Tombstoning now Coasterring...

Mr. X said:
..As well as the start of the spearing season, it is also one again, sadly, the start of the "tombstoning" accident & fatality stories :(:
Tombstoning: Jamie Sutton Dies After Jumping Into Sea Near Souter Point, Whitburn, South Tyneside | UK News | Sky News
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And so it continues:
Cliff Jump Tragedy In West Wales: Coastguards Warn Of Dangers Of Coasteering | UK News | Sky News

More surprised by this one, Coasteering was I thought little more than the natural progression of unroped low-level sea traverses, pioneered by Pat Littlejohn in South West Britain (Cornwall, Wales but esp. Devon). He used a shortie wetsuit & EBs to traverse long stretches of cliffs, diving in and swimming across gaps/bays which could not be climbed.
 
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World Record holder Sara Campbell sets sights on greater depths...

Sara Campbell: working under pressure - Telegraph

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...the race to become the first woman to swim to a depth of 100m is being fought between a Russian known as 'the Machine’ and a 37-year-old British yoga teacher who took up the sport only three years ago.
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She believes that she is capable of competing with the best of the male freedivers, and sees 120m as a realistic target – 'maybe even 150,’ she says.
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Chocks away Biggles!

She'd be a handy addition to the British spearfishing team. (Hey, not all yoga teachers are vegetarian/vegan, and not all vegetarians/vegans are against hunting! It could happen:D)
 
Spearo Dave in the national press (again) - the Sunday Times

Local knowledge: England's best bits | England - Times Online

Local knowledge: England's best bits
We discover the treats and treasures the tourists have yet to ruin in the Lake District, Cotswolds, north Norfolk and north Cornwall
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Where to eat

While Tatler describes Jamie Oliver’s Fifteen Cornwall as “an absolute masterstroke of a restaurant”, locals call it a "catering-college canteen”, preferring to spend their hard-earned at Paul Ainsworth’s Number 6 (01841 532093, number6inpadstow.co.uk), in Padstow.

The menu — think £100 for dinner for two, with wine — includes cod caught that day in Newlyn, scallops harvested by hand by the diver Dave Thomasson and local pork belly, because that’s the law. And while Rick Stein has expanded his empire by taking over the Cornish Arms, in St Merryn, the partisans recommend the St Kew Inn (01208 841259, stkewinn.co.uk), an impossibly lovely spot deep in the Cornish jungle. Modestly, it claims to be “just a pub selling food”.
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Also, 12 foot thresher shark washed up in Cornwall: http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK...overed_By_Surfers_On_Beach_In_Hayle,_Cornwall
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And me on SOURCE FM 96.1 (Falmouth and Penryn) talking live on air to John the fisherman and his mates about spearfishing last friday!
 
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