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t h e downstairs departm e n t ,
I t hen open the door to wh a t
c a n only be described as f i s h
p o rn. I pause for a spl it sec o n d
a s I scan the wall lo okin g a t
t h ese beautiful scaly bang e r s .
B e lieve me when I say t h e
p a use wa s short as I wa s
s t arting to lose the battl e.
F i n a l l y, I w a s w h e r e I n e e d e d
i n y o u r p o r tf o l i o .
The thing is though what
i s g o o d a b o u t f i s h i n g, w e a l l
h a v e d i f f e re n t t a s t e s o n w h a t
we think is the ultimate carp
a n d f o r m e, t h i s b i g pl a t e d
m i r r o r wa s t h e o n e.
I took a picture on my
phone of the holy grail and
w a l k e d b a c k t o H a r r y ’s s w i m .
t o b e a n d w h i l e s i t t i n g t h e r e,
I had time to take in what
I had just seen on the wall
o u t s i d e t h e b a t h r o o m d o o r.
O n e p i c t u r e s t o o d o u t a t m e,
although it was only for a
second its huge scales and big
frame was like a photograph
in my memory album.
I washed my hands a n d
s t epped back out into t h e
m ain area and scanne d t h e
w all again , I must have st o o d
a n d looked at that pi ctu re f o r
a good few minutes’ think i n g
t o myself that’s the o ne. I j u s t
w ant to clear this u p tha t to
b e fair all the fish on sh o w
w ere mega and you wo uld b e
d e lighted to have any of t h e m
At this point Harry had not
seen any of the fish either
and on my return, I told him
to go and have a look on the
w a l l i n t h e l o d g e.
Like
m e,
he
wa s n ’t
disappointed and came back
mouth wide open in a kind of
d i s b e l i e f. J u s t f o r r e f e r e n c e
I asked him, if he could only
c a t c h o n e wh a t o n e w o u l d y o u
choose? He picked a stunning
f u l l zi p l i n e a r a r o u n d m i d - 3 0
which goes to show carp are
like women, we all like di
erent types.
To b r i n g t h i s p a r t o f
t h e a r t i c l e t o a c l o s e,
unfortunately neither of us
caught although a guy from
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