 Northern monkeys
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In reply to Post #47
TBF They have been going ages now.
Do you mean the B2 by the 'tbf'? Re the B1, blimey, as per the thread, it's been around how long, 15 years (seems longer to me, where does the time go). I did enquire on the old NM site but never got round to using it.
(Only fishing i've done in Stoke is on a Thursday Night in Valantinos)
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In reply to Post #46
TBF They have been going ages now. Don't know a lot about the Staffordshire Carp scene (Only fishing i've done in Stoke is on a Thursday Night in Valantinos) But he seemed to have a decent group of anglers on it back then. The Scientific baits fella was a bit of a loon who used to kick off with anyone and everyone. And Im Sure Mark would correct me if im wrong but he was one of the earliest to try and rip off the Specialized Hookbaits.
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In reply to Post #39
Correcting myself here, it was the B1's, just took a look at SAE site, B2s are red π
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In reply to Post #36
Yes ! Lancashire lad here, Accrington area ππ
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In reply to Post #36
yep, always lurking in the background daveππ
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In reply to Post #42
I was on the forum and the other bait was an orange colour and Iβm sure a crab flavour. And yes scotty did like a bust up.
Many a funny wind ups on thereβ¦ used to be a few people who prebaited on it and then got some savage takes ππ
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In reply to Post #39
They're the ones and Scotty sounds familiar too, still can't remember the name of the other bait though π€
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In reply to Post #39
Correct and I think they are still going. From memory a few people got on them. They had a pretty decent following. I think the bloke who made them was called Scotty, used to have bust ups on the regular with a fella called Dean who had Scientific Baits and liked a row.
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I used to use the northern monkeys site . Seems like a lifetime ago now
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In reply to Post #38
If I remember they're made by sae bait developments. Bacteria B2s?
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I can't remember their name now, but did anything come of the Bacteria B boiles I think they were called, white with blackish bacterial lines on them from memory? There was another too but can't remember it.
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Any other Northern Monkeys lurking ππ»
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In reply to Post #34
I used to follow it avidly but never did understand most of the in jokes.
Was a goldmine of info and the classifieds were great.
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In reply to Post #33
I was a fishing warehouse regular.
Really good site full of information but a good laugh.
Not sure why it went Pete Tong.
I then slid onto Northern monkeys but yes the site kept crashing so I went onto Cemex and now here.
The northern monkeys and FW was mainly northern anglers and as we have a superior intelligence 🧠 I don't know why it evaporated 😂
I think carpforum is doing well when you look at the social media competition and long will it remain.
Take care out there peeps.
Let's hope this time next year we'll be out of this monkey 🐒 snot virus ☢ 💩 episode.
It's going to be a long haul.
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The secret not so secret goldendale common that use to ruffle feathers 
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In reply to Post #29
I remember the pictures of the tree cover and backgrounds that you posted (or maybe Stez) to compare and disprove there was anything like that on that section of the weaver 
Then someone found the pictures in a french lakes website, they were bang to rights busted.
And who could forget the Jackal... 
I started a fishery management section on there, ahead of the game 
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In reply to Post #29
....I remember spending 3 hrs walking the rocksavage/frodsham section of la weaver, looking for 60 days and nights worth of wear....
I think Stez did 3hrs in the opposite direction didn't he looking for new tree plantations to make doubly sure... 
Had a lot of tea and beer all over the screen moments on there as well. 🤣
Hope ya well Neil BTW. !! 
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Gutted it's gone I was addicted to that forum in a big way the old school stuff was the best also the classifieds were brilliant for a local bargain!
Is there another group or anything like it for us monkeys 
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In reply to Post #28
The northern monkeys was a great site. It was Richard Seal who contacted Julian re- the old skool section, anglers who would never dream of posting pics came forward, and I know many low profile top anglers registered just read that section. As someone has said, that content could never be repeated even in a book.
I remember spending 3 hrs walking the rocksavage/frodsham section of la weaver, looking for 60 days and nights worth of wear, even though I knew it was bull ****, I like to be armed before going into battle😂...... finding lathems gear in the out of bounds on petty which lead to a **** storm.
A lot of help and good info got posted on there, made some good friends via that site.
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In reply to Post #27
Thanks for the better explanation mate.
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In reply to Post #18
we were offered the chance to keep it going dave. julian offered the mod team the site, all we had to do was get a server up and running and he was prepared to transfer everything over. the site was pulling in a few k in advertising revenue too although it had taken a hit when ebay changed their 30 day cookie policy to 'same day', that hit the sites revenue pretty hard which I guess is why jules lost interest and moved on?.
anyway, none of us wanted to take it on, it was supposed to be given to us jointly and we shared the revenue but where you have money involved there is always trouble. it wasn't trouble with the mods arguing over it, it was getting someone to actually take it on. we were all happy just reading the forum and doing the odd bit of trimming and pruning of posts here and there and we all regarded it as a headache we didn't want, so it ran until it crashed again and that was the end.
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Was on the forum for years , some good lads on there , some knobheads as is on every forum , great threads re cheshire waters and some excellent historic photos.
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In reply to Post #1
I was on the forum, miss it too, secrets yes but openness too.
There is a Northern Chat in the Fish ins section on here, quite a few x members on there.
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In reply to Post #17
Insane is the correct word Jase. That section WAS NW carp angling, thanks to angler's like Richard below. Now it's gone.
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In reply to Post #20
Agreed, pretty awesome, many people that I fished with many moons ago collaberated to make it the most informative, cloak and dagger and hilarious carp website around. Shame Julian allowed it all to come to an end!
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breaking the surface forum also had all waters around bolton , preston , wigan area, that also went
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In reply to Post #1
Yes mate, I was a member. It was a good forum
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In reply to Post #19
I think the last time it went belly up they lost absolutely everything all the archives that were left went with a server crash.
Was a great website and always a laugh with some of the windups.
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In reply to Post #18
I think Bernie turned his brain to mush by the end of it all. Bloke (was it Julian?) just seemed to lose all interest in it.
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In reply to Post #17
I had sent JG many messages asking to bring it back while the forum was still recoverable but he didnt have any interest. I had also messaged a few of the mods and they were in the dark, they would have been happy to keep it going but never got that option.
A very sad loss.
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In reply to Post #16
The Rocksavage stuff was incredible....lol
Unfortunately some of the NW history water stuff is completely irreplaceable. Proper old skool anglers putting pictures of bygone captures up were unprecedented anywhere.
Proper Secret squirrel photos going up which was the foundation of the site to people in the NW and why they contributed so freely..
That NW history section was insane and will never be repeated...
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In reply to Post #13
So much great stuff and the documentation of history of the cheshire waters was lost.
Mr L and his many persona had the mod team on the verge of suicude watch.
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What's the fw 
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In reply to Post #13
Oh yes, I remember that River Weaver fiasco!
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In reply to Post #10
Living off the land during the 40 days and nights on the Weaver. French fish
The jackal out of the canal
The Pete Price phone in. Poor Keith Arthur reading out the catch reports from non publicity waters on Talksport
The air bed baiting up and dropping rigs
Davey and Micky were nuts
Oliver Reed used to have me in stitches!
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Don't think that's possible. Iirc when Bernie L and a few others had accounts "deactivated" every post they'd ever written were deleted. Photos, stories everything. Carnage and never recovered. Selman still keeps the FW going thankfully
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In reply to Post #1
Yep , was a good forum good craic too pity it just disappeared
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In reply to Post #10
Yes was a great site shame it went
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Some of the classic threads...
Rocksavage, 40 days and 40 nights, some bellends got outed
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I heard the northern record could have fallen this spring? Be great to hear about a 30 caught up there
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In reply to Post #6
It would be great to have access to the old posts again, I was a member. Good site.
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In reply to Post #6
I'm sure Keith as a member on here could answer that one for you when he sees it
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In reply to Post #5
I heard Keith Feilding (Defient MPS) was looking at getting it up and running again.
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was a good site,shame it cant be resurrected.
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In reply to Post #1
Massive loss of info. Was great
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Yes and I miss it alot on here is good but doesnt focus on us monkeys haha
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In reply to Post #1
its a sad loss that went as it had every northern water on it,and its info etc ,but my god did it also have some tools on it, as well as some sound people
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Any of the northern monkeys forum lads on here don't slate me in these times lol
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