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around it all, it was a big and
doing big fish things. One of
which was a rolling on the
s u r f a c e, t h a t r o l l l e t m e k n o w
exactly what fish it was – it
was the little lin!
The next few minutes where
n e rve racking to say the l e a s t
a s she did make a few bid s f o r
f r eedom whilst under the r o d
t i p. She eventually went i n t o
t h e folds of my landin g n e t . I
l i f ted the net up in the w a te r
t o confirm it was the l i t t l e
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lin, I was met with the flank
of fish that simply took my
breath away – The Ecton little
linear was MINE ! this fish was
s t u n n i n g, a f i n p e r f e c t n y e o n
50 year old mirror with large
thick scales running down
its dark flanks, I was shaking
w i t h a d r e n a l i n e n o w, t h e b u z z
w a s i n c r e d i b l e – I ’d n o t o n l y
managed to fluke the lakes
biggest common the week
prior but it would seem that I
had also managed to fluke the
