A very nice common carp
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Julian
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A very nice common carp
One of six carp I caught this afternoon and at 7.5 lbs it is not large but I think this is probably the the nicest coloured common carp I have caught up until now:
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Re: A very nice common carp
Very nice indeed, so dark! Would have loved to see that one in the water.
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Re: A very nice common carp
Yes lovely and dark, well done Julian. :thumb:
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Re: A very nice common carp
Those dark commons are just the business :thumb:
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Re: A very nice common carp
A beauty, Juilan.
That and the mirror you recently posted make a stunning pair
That and the mirror you recently posted make a stunning pair
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Re: A very nice common carp
Yes its tail is very large and it fought extremely hard - a very streamlined fish probably a bit of 'wildie' in the ancestry of this one as the original source of fish stocks on the pool are from somewhere that had very old strains of carp from a long time ago, and some carp on this pool do breed successfully.Lechmere wrote:A fair old paddle to!
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Re: A very nice common carp
My first thought was not of the beautiful burnished colour but of the shovel it has for a tail. Fantastic!
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