 Poster: A snowHead
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Having spent the last month since my return half planning another week, suddenly the spring has arrived and I no longer feel the same desperate urge to ski. Anybody else feel the same? (Judging by the number of posts on here, skiing is no longer foremost in all minds.)
Instead I am planning a salmon fishing trip to Scotland, and a major attack on my new garden seems more exciting than does another week on the slopes.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| James the Last wrote: |
| a major attack on my new garden seems more exciting than does another week on the slopes. |
Mods, can we ban James? 
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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seconded.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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James the Last, ....strange man !
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James the Last, r u having a laugh? Off to Risoul this Sunday, can't wait!!! 
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I'm still not quite over my recent trip to Courmayeur and I'd much rather be there still (back at work today). However, the start of spring is time for me to save up and put my motorbike back on the road. That helps me to deal with the sorrow of no skiing for another year...
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James the Last, Cycling season beckons...and you can still be in the mountains to do that...
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James the Last, You must subscribe to the TO's thoughts than a ski season is only two months long, Christmas to the end of Feb.
Personally I've still got another 5 weeks to go for my next last fix and I feel it's pull already.
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James the Last, I know what you mean, I have started cycling more and doing other things. But I have a 2nd trip planned and am looking forward to some spring skiing. Ok the snow may not be as good as mid-Jan but I'm hoping I won't be so cold either!
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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James the Last, heretic!!! You should be burnt at the stake. Despite our season ending after one day, I am still thinking of the snow.
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You know it makes sense.
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James the Last, you want your head sorting!
Dwarf Vader,
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| Personally I've still got another 5 weeks to go for my next last fix and I feel it's pull already |
33 sleeps till we see you
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Tiny little pots have seeds and still I look forward to spring skiing hitting the corn snow just as it changes wonderful, love that skiing in the sun.
I say he needs treatment, electric shock therapy? 
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Poster: A snowHead
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Sadly, those of us like me who have had their annual ski trip this season have another year to wait. I'm already thinking I should refrain from this site for a bit to try and get over this pain. Or maybe by sticking around I can prolong that post-ski feeling...?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Have been back for 4 days from my 2nd trip of the season. We skied for 5 days and had 4.5 days of heavy snow and poor viz. Although we had a great time, the mounded fresh snow and poor viz have knocked hell out of my body. My knees are still on fire and the body feeels like I should give up skiing altogether. I know where you are coming from.
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It's certainly different at this time of year. Warm, warm, sun at the moment. Sitting on chairlifts, enjoying the ride and the view, being almost sorry you've got to the top and wondering whether to go round again. Sitting in the sun eating Beaufort sandwiches with a cold beer in a snow-hole beside you. Breakfast at 8 am on the terrace, in sunnies. Realising that there's about an hour as the snow softens when it's just like skiing powder (well, a bit like skiing powder.  ). I am thinking about spring though. Thinking about the flowers which will be crowding the pistes next time we're back, and the deep resinous silence in the pine woods. And more breakfasts on the terrace....
FtS is right about the toll on the body though. It's a time of year for shorter skiing days, knocking off before the snow gets too dodgy, and putting your feet up with a book.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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My knees are still on fire and the body feeels like I should give up skiing altogether.
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Ditto after a week of skiing/stag do in Ischgl in similar conditions by the sound of it. I'm broken.
(Still looking forward to the next trip though!)
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James the Last, nope, salmon stocked into a stillwater. £150 per day. There are a few places doing it these days - there's one in Shropshire, one in Northants and one down south I believe. I think fishery owners are trying to aim at a new market, those anglers who want big, big fish (much like when Avington and Dever Springs started) but not of the rainbow/brownie variety. The thing is, big salmon like big trout won't always feed so it's deffo going to be a lottery as to if you catch. Mind you, that's fishing in general....
By the way, I went to Ireland last year and was fishing for salmon on trout gear in lochs - brilliant way of targetting them. Fishing a 6-wt rod, 5lb tippet on a slow-sink inter pulling lures through the surface wash. Had an 8lb coloured fish that took me a good 25 minutes to get into the boat. It was as good a day as when i had a double-figure overwinterwd rainbow from Ravensthorpe ressie.
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well just booked for this saturday...and have been pondering the affordability of south america this summer..but if theres no snow then theres still mountain bike holidays in the alps to plan.
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Has James the Last been banned yet?
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i had 3 days of shocking weather but one day of the best sunshine powderi have ever had... im shaping up for one more short trip, even if its only to lie around on a deck chair outside a bar. feeling pretty battered myself, took a few big tumbles
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Specialman, That's bonkers.
Even there, they say the average is 6lbs, and I thought anything over 10lbs was pretty good.
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You know it makes sense.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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James the Last, Just got the calculator out and reckon I've still got 47% of this seasons skiing to come, so no I don't feel any lack of urge to ski. Been casting a few guilty looks at my dejected track bike in the garage though and considering bolting on a few of the new bits for this season to make it feel more loved.
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Poster: A snowHead
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alex_heney, Dever Springs, Shimano Felindre and Avington all pioneered big trout growth, 'frankentrout' to many people. basically they're genetically modified trout that are grown-on very quickly up to double figures or more in just a few years. The thing about them is a trout's heart grows very slowly and a 30lb fish's heart is marginally bigger than a five-pounder's so they don't put up with catch-and -release, hence why most are bonked on the head. They're usually very fatty too so taste rubbish.
They came about in the early 90s when small stillwater trout fishing was booming because we still had a general close season on rivers, lakes and canals. The boom was huge and virtually overnight, a whole host of small trout waters sprung up to service coarse anglers who for three months of the year couldn't fish for anything but trout. Now, with only rivers having a close season (for coarse fish) small stillwater trouting has definitely peaked (it's still very popular mind).
The record for a rainbow is well over 30lb - this link (http://www.fishingdartmouth.co.uk/record_rainbow_fraud.htm) has images of an old catch that may or may not be the current record. Brown trout, which are regarded by many as superior because they're indigenous (rainbows are imported and called steelheads in the US) go to over 30lb in the wild - the record is from Loch Awe (http://www.loch-awe.co.uk/fishing.html). These large 'ferox' trout are proper predators and are usually caught on deadbaits and lures rather than fly.
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| .... and I thought anything over 10lbs was pretty good. |
It is. Small stillwaters won't stock that many big double unless they're charging a premium for a bag limit (£50-plus) and then they'll set the limit at one or two fish. Most stocked waters carry fish about a pound or two because these are young, fit and best of all, cheap. If you charge the average schmuck £20 to fish and they can take five fish, those fish cost about a £1.50 each so you've effectively made £12.50. If you stock a 10lb fish that'll be about £50 so you have to stock fewer, which makes the fishing harder and the chances of you going bust less.
Reservoirs are a different mater. They stock fish at about 2lb but think about the size of the water and you can quickly see why the fish that overwinter (survive the winter) grow so big when they're feeding on fry in the spring. If they're not caught for a few seasons they can soon put a big weight on and that's when they become so prized - a 10lb fish from a ressie is worth numerous grown-on small stillwater thirties, depending on your point of view. They put about 100,000 fish each year into Rutland but at 1300 acres, that's much less than the several 1000 fish they put into a two-acre fishery every fortnight.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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I must also point out
Is totally factually wrong, infact we got a cold wind. Can I smell snow in it?
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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10 days 'til I head out to ADH and without the missus too 
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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| James the Last wrote: |
Having spent the last month since my return half planning another week, suddenly the spring has arrived and I no longer feel the same desperate urge to ski. Anybody else feel the same? (Judging by the number of posts on here, skiing is no longer foremost in all minds.)
Instead I am planning a salmon fishing trip to Scotland, and a major attack on my new garden seems more exciting than does another week on the slopes. |
Feb to May is easily the best time of the year for skiing.
It is sunnier and warmer than Nov to Jan, with plenty of snow still around.
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James the Last, just been on the bike in the woods for a couple of hours - lovely. At the weekend I will start my seed planting campaign for spring.
...but no - I'd still rather be skiing
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No. I love spring skiing.
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