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Len Arbery
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Hello Snape,

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To hopefully put the record straight: Gerry Berth-Jones informed me this picture shows May with his Mapperley Reservoir 15lb'er, caught in July 1953.

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Snape wrote:Gerry appears to be the inventor of the original bivvy
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He certainly did not invent it. What he did was exactly the same I did when I was young. He bought one of the military's half tents. Not sure about other countries military supply, but germany had these:
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Using only one half they give you what you see in the first picture. A nice wind shelter. The shape is more like a parallelogram.

Still own mine.
Ah, forgot: they even come with detachable poles and herrings. Not seen very often anymore in olive. Nowadays they have these ugly spotty military colors.

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Len Arbery wrote:Hello Snape,

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To hopefully put the record straight: Gerry Berth-Jones informed me this picture shows May with his Mapperley Reservoir 15lb'er, caught in July 1953.

Besties,

Len.
How interesting. I am not sure why I thought it was a Redmire fish but at least the record it now straight. Thanks Len :Hat:
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