Old Warriors...

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Gary Bills
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Many thanks, guys; - I'm really pleased you all like the pic.
It's funny how few action shots are actually taken - they are often the most exciting images, aren't they? Mind you, I remember being filmed once as I played a double figure pike in at Dudmaston; - on the whole, I was quite pleased with the result, but I was surprised at how often the rod went too far back during the playing of the fish and how, at other times, I was clearly not putting enough pressure on the fish. All the same, it came out OK, - both the fish and the video.

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Even I'm my most ardent Mod days i never went fishing in my black and white Gibsons!

Nearly bought a pair off the bay the other year to wind up the Mrs.

Julian, that pond looks wonderful, shades of some of the Epping Forest ponds thee.

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This ancient looking fish was my first double,hence the grin.It weighed just over 12 pounds and i doubt if it ever got much bigger than that.It was caught in 1984 from a small cornish estate lake called st germans

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A lovely picture SparrowHawk, very nice. :Thumb:
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its one of my favorites,the fish was known as 'scarback' for obvious reasons!

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Got a belly on it, aint it :Thumb:
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That's Tom O'Reilly's stomping ground. Nice ol kipper...
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The Sweetcorn Kid wrote:That's Tom O'Reilly's stomping ground. Nice ol kipper...
You beat me to it SK, there is some lovely old fish in that book! A nice catch SparrowHawk :Cool:

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forgive my ignorance but dont know about tom o'reilly,im aware theres a book that refers to the port eliot estate lake but thats all,i thought it would be a different port eliot.Anyone prepared to elaborate?I have other photos but they're not digitised as yet

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Just had a look at little egret press website,i had forgot about it being at st Germans!Would like to know which book of his refers to st germans lake still

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