That would have put a set in the Hardly Perfection!
Well done Moley.
Prime Gonks
- Richard C
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Re: Prime Gonks
"We shall not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.".
T. S Eliot
http://richard-cleaver.blogspot.co.uk/
T. S Eliot
http://richard-cleaver.blogspot.co.uk/
- Moley
- Brown Trout
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Re: Prime Gonks
There's something pleasing about a specimen Gonk.
It's obvious that those who replied feel the same but don't ask Fatty where the nickname comes from......just always called them by that name all my life.
More Gonk pics to follow in the near future on the purchase of yet another camera as the latest model has ceased to function. Cameras and a certain Mole just do not get on.
As ever,..........
Moley
It's obvious that those who replied feel the same but don't ask Fatty where the nickname comes from......just always called them by that name all my life.
More Gonk pics to follow in the near future on the purchase of yet another camera as the latest model has ceased to function. Cameras and a certain Mole just do not get on.
As ever,..........
Moley
Say aye tae'a pie!
- Woodytia
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Re: Prime Gonks
Nice one. I do hope you used an unhooking mat.
- Catfish.017
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Re: Prime Gonks
That's a clocking gone Moley! Well done. Wouldn't need many of those for a decent 'fry up'!
- Catfish.017
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Re: Prime Gonks
I wish these bloody machines wouldn't p..s around with my spelling!
- Carp Artist
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Re: Prime Gonks
A prime specimen moley. Have recently discovered that my little pond has a rather nice head of gonks. And far easier to catch than those Wiley old carp.
Not a fish was visible that first time I visited Beechmere; an utter
stillness brooded over the place and I felt the strange and sinister atmosphere which, so the story goes,
has been the cause of several suicides.’
BB – Confessions of a Carp Fisher
stillness brooded over the place and I felt the strange and sinister atmosphere which, so the story goes,
has been the cause of several suicides.’
BB – Confessions of a Carp Fisher
- ItchenRoach
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Re: Prime Gonks
got some big gonks down on the southern chalk streams,but I have no scales suitable to weigh them,i wonder what weight a 7 incher is
- Vole
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Re: Prime Gonks
I've weighed a couple of 6 1/2 inchers at 2 1/2 ozs, so I'd say around three ounces, if it's at that stage where it stops being triangular in section and the shoulders square off.
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Re: Prime Gonks
All gonk hunters need a set of these:
they come up quite regularly on that online auction site, mine weigh up to 8 ounces but there are 4 ounce versions.
they come up quite regularly on that online auction site, mine weigh up to 8 ounces but there are 4 ounce versions.