Jim Baxter

From South Yorks. Lifelong match angler and former editor of monthly magazine Angling Star, just written a book - The Rising Antenna - about waggler fishing.

[Jim Baxter @TheWagglerMan]

What a DUEL and PGA golf showpiece - Patrick #CANTLAY’S triumph over de Chambeau at the 6th ‘sudden death’ play-off hole. The ice cool Cantlay prevailed when d’C ‘s putter failed him once too often. What a #star! #RT

[Jim Baxter @TheWagglerMan]

What a great month to fish #May is. Forecast to be wet in N.Derby’s Wednesday...but they got it wrong. Sunny and warm in main, friendly company, four crucians and many good roach on caster at #Barlow Farm - #idyllic. So don’t let forecast put you off. #RT

[Jim Baxter @TheWagglerMan]

I agree. As for Mr Davis’s characterisation of the finalists from another great safety player - ‘Harry Potter (Murphy) vs Dementor’- bit like pot calling kettle! Fact is Murphy played brilliant, matched #Selby with safety, but the better player won. What #bottle! #RT

[Jim Baxter @TheWagglerMan]

BRAVO magnificent #Mark #Selby. Once again he withstood all his opponent could throw at him. So sad that certain fellow pros have shown sour grapes about his style...a little bit of the green eye perhaps?

[Jim Baxter @TheWagglerMan]

So what’s to be done about serial #litterers - issuing on spot heavy #fines instead of just talking about it? I once almost fell out with a mate for chucking his fag packet out of my car window. What must their homes look like? Answers on a postcard. #RT

[Jim Baxter @TheWagglerMan]

#Countryside etiquette, or #code on midday news says ‘leave no trace of your visit’. Most timely, because Endcliffe Pk, Sheffield visitors had left their **** strewn everywhere yesterday. Feel ashamed that these morons live in my (green) home city. #RT

[Jim Baxter @TheWagglerMan]

....the answer, of course, is to turn our own. Buy good white or red maggots and place in quite damp fine sawdust and let em turn in the bait fridge or on garage floor. The damp helps mags cast slowly days later and you get beautiful crisp orange/red casters left on riddle.

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Now guys, it’s almost Spring and CASTER will soon be a bait to be reckoned with. But be careful buying casters from the shop. I fell for the vacuum packed trick yesterday. White c’s in the poly bag, opened up to redden off, but they turned a grey/brown. OLD! #RT

[Jim Baxter @TheWagglerMan]

What a turn of events. Well done ITV weather man, Paul #Beresford for calling out P #Morgan, the loud arrogant one, and make him storm out like a petulant toddler. If you give it you should be able to take it. Good riddance. #RT

[Jim Baxter @TheWagglerMan]

Is it just me who gets tired of the cynics, the doom and gloomsters? Sky’s Adam Boulton for example, who sniffs at the term Brexiteer, and sadly, hasn’t got a smile in him. Well I’d want to jump off a high building with such an attitude. Harsh? Well check him out first.

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Omg! #Andrew #Marr, what a gloomy, saturnine Scot! He never bothers to say good morning to guest, Rishi #Sunak, just wades into it trying to roast him. And what a contrast his positivity! Asking tough Qs is one thing, but Marr’s cold style is unnecessarily rude.#RT

[Jim Baxter @TheWagglerMan]

...Some football managers: ‘fake a dive lads lads, in or around penalty box, and you never know your luck?’ Wasn’t it Francis #Lee who allegedly pioneered this deception. What a sad example they set. More red cards and a sin bin? #RT

[Jim Baxter @TheWagglerMan]

As sportsmen #RUGBY players have true class. #Owen #Farrell on losing side, and sick, refused to call out the ref for a dubious decision, nor did his manager Ed #Jones. What a contrast to so many bleating soccer ‘stars’ and managers I could name! #RT

[Jim Baxter @TheWagglerMan]

Prof. #JVT - love the guy for being up front and direct! Answering concerns re #vaccine this morning, he says if his boiler fails he calls a heating engineer, not a brain surgeon. Message is Crystal: avoid the WhatsApp etc delusionals, listen to him and ffs take the needle! #RT

[Jim Baxter @TheWagglerMan]

Nothing against #Wiganers, but #Kay #Burley, always so self-righteous, bleats about about #Cummings error, makes a mistake and gets six months off on full pay! Come in #Sky news, what kind of punishment is that? #RT

[Jim Baxter @TheWagglerMan]

I’m playing devil’s advocate, but even IF billions were saved by (reducing 18 trains/hr to 14) when would it break even; and at an estimated £200+ ticket London to Manchester, wouldn’t punters decide to drive anyway?

[Jim Baxter @TheWagglerMan]

To mimic the words of John Masefield: Let’s get out on the bankside again, to the lonely water and the sky...and the wind’s like a whetted knife...and fish are feeding? Roll on the vaccine and Spring or even Summer.

[Jim Baxter @TheWagglerMan]

Am I wrong in thinking #HS2 is like a gambler who has lost equivalent to his house and is now staking his life. #Covid and the #green agenda should have stopped it, had the first arrived a bit sooner. A luxury we don’t need and now can’t afford? #RT

[Jim Baxter @TheWagglerMan]

Is it me, or does anyone else find ‘I’m a #Celeb...’ and its gloating presenters a sick-bag show? No? Well I can’t help an urge I get for some contestant to tie up either host (ideally both) and force feed him a handful of beetles, cockroaches, or similar! #RT

[Jim Baxter @TheWagglerMan]

Re GB Bake-off, of all the comedians in the world, and Matt Lucas is good, #Noel #Fielding on t’other hand, just don’t get it? How ever did he land the gig? He looks curious, but is just unfunny, and doesn’t fit with the former at all. He has to go. #Disaster #RT