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EXCLUSIVE
The Perfect Common
h o oked it as I struck a f t e r
a n other few minutes, I w a s
c o nvinced it had to be f o u l
h o oked I said to Gaz “I’ve h a d
e n ough.” I told him, “I wo u l d
b u lly it up to the surfac e, i f
i t s foul ho oked, we’ll j ust n e t
i t quickly”. I wound do wn o n
t h e fish, slowly it started t o
c o me up to the surface i t s
h e ad come up and then 3 f o o t
a way its tail it was mas si v e
a n d hooked fair and squ a r e
I quickly lowered the r o d,
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s l a c k i n g t h e c l u t c h s o no t t o
pull the hook after another
5 m i n u te s o f t u g o f w a r w e
b u n d l e d i t i nt o t h e n e t , i t w a s
the Perfect common weighed
at 50lbs 4oz what a fish my
3rd 50lb common from the
complex.
I did go on to catch a lot of
fish from swan, but my mam
had taken ill and I had to be
n e a r e r t o h o me t o t a k e h e r t o
h o s p i t a l a p p o i n t m e n t s, o n t o p
o f t h a t To n y h a d p a s s e d a w a y.
