Foul hooking

[chesters1]

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There were also a few other blokes hiding in the bushes over the far bank who were also offering the odd 2/6d as well......paid for the ciggies didn't it [[Wink]] [[Wink]]

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it wasnt keston was it i got 5 bob

[poledark]

Ah well, thats inflation for you

 

I was hoping someone was going to ask me about the OTHER reel in the loft.....

 

Den

[Chris Plumb]

Steve Burke:

In my teenage years a friend of mine fishing South Norwood Park Lake hooked a perch through its eye.  Unfortunately in trying to take out the hook he also took out the perch's eye, which then bled a lot.  He released the fish and also flicked his tackle, now baited with a perch eye, back into the water whilst he cleaned his blood-stained hands.

 

Out of the corner of his eye he saw the float dip. On striking he caught the one-eyed perch he'd just released - on it's own eye!!

Steve - H Cholomondeley Pennell reported EXACTLY the same thing happening to him whilst fishing for perch in the Lake District in 1880!!! (As reported in Fishing's Strangest Days by Tom Quinn!)

 

 

Chris