My husband and youngest son are keen fishermen (at this very moment I am a fishing widow, they will be gone all day, taking part in a match). They mentioned a match called the fur and feather which is the final match of the season which they will take part in in November. Does anyone know why it is called the fur and feather? I typed it into google but nothing came up except links to various fishing clubs' websites. I personally don't care one bit about fishing but they want to know. Any help appreciated.

This is a game fishing competition, as opposed to a coarse fishing event. Very simply, Jenny, as artificial flies are used, as opposed to real ones, or floats, worms, maggots, grubs (feeling hungry yet??) the materials used for the manufacture of these flies is the fur of some animals (such as seals, awwww,) and the feathers of certain birds.

I always thought that your husband & son were coarse fishermen (no reflection on their manners). I am surprised to learn that they are yer 'trout & salmon' wallahs...I wish them very good luck, and trust that, reluctant cook that you are, that your culinary skill will nevertheless prove equal to their undoubted prowess in the casting & striking department, on their triumphant return with the spoils of war.

Thank you Ritz, I didn't know you dangled your maggot now and again!!

They are at present course fishing, carp, tench etc. They do all sorts. I don't know much about fishing and have no intention of learning. As for cooking them, You know how much I love cookin!

Maggot? (The weather is not that cold yet...are Phil & Tom (Stephen?) going to Leicestershire for this contest? I have a feeling that if this is the one, they can book up to late November but the contest is at the beginning of December. Just so that they do not have to make two trips (one wasted!)

PS Incidentally, Jenny, course is a preordained run, path, track channel or order of action. The word you mean is coarse , which is any type of fishing (more or less) for fish other than trout or salmon).

Why have you just copied my post?

Eh???...

It's Steven, Tom's the biker! The match is through the fishing club they belong to ( Romiley angling club) I don't think they know whereabouts it is yet. I think most clubs call the last match of the season the fur and feather and I know it is coarse, it was just a typo

Yes, so you say. But a and o are in very different areas of your keyboard (I assume that you do, in fact use a qwerty keyboard-that is the one where the first six letters on the top line spell the word...oh, never mind... and thus are not merely tryping...oh never mind... )

It's all your fault. You should never have given me that bottle of wine. All the lettres on the kyeoarbd are in the wnrog pcale now!

Jenny!



Busy, here is it not? Now come on, you lot, form an orderly queue, no jostling, behave...

I wonder why part of my post (above) is written through my details below it...

...And now all is well, it seems, and I cannot delete this post! So I will hide it!

If I could find it, I'd delete it for you. But, alas, I can't.

Hi, Dorian! Getting all furred & feathered up (or should that be tarred & feathered?) at EOB, are they not? Fur & feathers flying anyhow...where on earth do these crazy fights come from? Anyway, is there no longer a delete key available for me to delete my own posts, where necessary? Just asking, it seems to waste bandwidth, though...
(Just like at the Extremely Overthetop Battleground...)...

There should be. Nothing has changed that I am aware of. I think what happens when people complain that they have no delete feature is that they are trying to delete before posting. During that "pre-posting" phase, there is no Delete function, not should there be. You can't delete what hasn't been posted. All that is necessary at that time is to click on the red box with the white X in the upper right of the pop-up posting window.

Many thanks, DG. All is now clear!...

Yeah sure Ritz..clear as mud..there's no delete function, DG, after we have posted

( Good grief..someone lured me into the fishing forum.)

Have you scrolled all the way down in the window to see if the delete button is there?

All the way, DG, and I found nothing. I blame Canadian second-rate technology.
How come you Americans and Brits get APVista, and we get AP98?

Me neither. Nope. No siree. When I need to delete a post, I have to edit it and remove all the text and then say something stupid like 'sorry, double post' even if the truth is that I was very rude and thought better of it. Which is very rare. The latter, I mean.
WE CANAJUNS WANT BETTER SCREENS!

Let me delete this post now.........
There's an edit OR delete post but no delete alone so if I want to delete what I've typed now I have to delete the whole of the text, line by line, before I get abusive and tell the ma

OK I get it. The delete button isn't the icon marked edit or delete It's the red box with an X which isn't marked at all...is it? If so that's really obvious. Silly me for not guessing !

No it isn't. The red box only appears when you try the 'edit or delete' if you use it all that happens is that your attempted edit or your complete deleting, line by line, is not posted: the screen goes back to the same post you just did , unedited.(Except that you can't delete the whole post line by line because you get no result save a message saying the message field must be completed !)