Heather the Leather Carp Dies

[stooby]

I'm not sure if this has already been posted or not, but take a read...

 

http://fishingtackleoxford.co.uk/blog/2010...ther-carp-dies/

 

Shame to lose such a monster of a fish...

[Vagabond]

http://fishingtackleoxford.co.uk/blog/2010...ther-carp-dies/

 

Heather the Leather – thought to be 40 years old and worth £30,000 – had been caught and set free again an estimated 1,000 TIMES.

 

An analogy occurs to me.....

[Worms]

The local paper had an equally interesting article last week, "Duck crosses road!"

 

Unfortunately they don't have a website and they didn't give the name of the duck......Arthur perhaps?

 

[Toady]

Yep, you can count me as one of the "thousands of anglers reeling in shock"...shocked that people give a fish a pet name then trick it into taking a hook into it's mouth and drag it onto the bank for a trophy shot so that the press can report that Old Floppy's been caught a thousand of times etc. etc.

 

Talk about ammo for the antis!!

[Andy Macfarlane]

A nation mourns....

[DavyR]

Come on chaps, no need for heavy sarcasm! Let's face it, if carp didn't have distinctive individual scale patterns that enabled positive identification, we wouldn't have all this mullarkey about named fish, would we?

 

You might find the whole business distasteful, but Ravioli/Clarissa started a trend that was carried on by anglers like Chris Yates, who gave chess-piece-related names to many of the big Redmire carp, including his record-breaking Bishop.

[Steve Walker]

We should have a seance. Trouble is, they just keep asking for Bob.

[Andy Macfarlane]

Now that it's pan bread, will it become a ghost carp?....

[Anderoo]

There you go - if we're not allowed to eat them, this is the public face of angling. It doesn't sit very well, does it?

[Worms]

Chris Yates, who gave chess-piece-related names to...his record-breaking Bishop.

Phnaar, phnaar, a better story than the carp one!

 

Unfortunately, as Anderoo quite rightly says, non anglers who read that will see caught and released 1,000 times in a completely different light. The days of Redmire pool monsters and the start and development of catching big carp is, (in my opinion) a million miles away from today's stocked ponds of specially bred monsters that, quite plainly, anyone can catch.

 

 

One saving grace from the death of this non-native fish is that at least the otters didn't get blamed..........yet.