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Rusty Member

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The winner and undisputed champion of guessing the fish weight is Rusty!

 

Shame he got the species wrong but a tip top bit of 'fishweightery'. :)

 

:D:D

 

So the moral here is that if you forget your scales and want an accurate assessment of weight just send me a pic. If you want to know exactly what species it is probably best to send a pic to someone else.

It's never a 'six', let's put it back

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Missed it! I would have been wrong though, I would have guessed 3lb 2oz, it looks very deep and stocky even though it's short. Was it from a river with crayfish by any chance? They tend to produce deep chub like that.

 

Well done for ending a run of blanks TT :)

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music

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Missed it! I would have been wrong though, I would have guessed 3lb 2oz, it looks very deep and stocky even though it's short. Was it from a river with crayfish by any chance? They tend to produce deep chub like that.

 

Well done for ending a run of blanks TT :)

 

It was from the Suffolk Stour. I'm no expert on this particular river but I'm not aware of a crayfish problem. Regulars such as John Weddup would be the ones in the know.

 

My local river - the river Lea - is stuffed full of them. From one of my favourite swims on a middle stretch of the river, on a day when the water was clear and low, I counted five of them!

 

Vis a vis angling and blanks, after a successful summer and autumn campaign, my winter season had gone disastrously so I was happy to catch a couple of chub. Not quite up in the league of the ones you’ve been snaffling. More Isthmian League Division One South rather than Premier Division but fun nonetheless! :)

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He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days without taking a fish. (Hemingway - The old man and the sea)

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I've had my fair share of blanks this winter too, in fact in the couple of months before xmas I think I fished every weekend (often both days) for about 2 bites :o Previous winters I've also fished this stretch on and off with absolutely no success at all!

 

The nicest pint is the one after a hard day's work, if you know what I mean :) We need our blanks.

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music

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It was from the Suffolk Stour. I'm no expert on this particular river but I'm not aware of a crayfish problem. Regulars such as John Weddup would be the ones in the know.

 

 

Yep loads of crays in the suffolk stour.

 

John

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