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LEE GRIFFIN
BILL
DICK
PAUL
PHILLIPS
WILKINSON
GAYNER
e p ic battle, a mint of a co m mo n lay i n my n e t . O n th e s c a l e s
s h e went over 28lbs, and I n am e d he r t h e Pe a c h . S t ud to ok th e
p i cs, and away she went . A b la n k wa s th e re fo re s aved by j u s t
m oving the hook bait no m o re th a n a co up le o f fe e t , a n d t h e
b o at came in handy. I left o n e ha p py b u n ny. S o f ro m Ju n e to
S e ptember, I hadn’t blanke d o n c e.
In October, I only managed two sessions, and the first was a
blank. On the second I had an unknown mirror, and I named her
the Nude Mirror, almost a leather with just a small amount near
its wrist and one at the top of its gill plate, and that went 22lbs
I stopped fishing after my l a st s es s i o n i n O c to b e r, d ri f t i n g
over to another small pit fo r N ove mb e r a n d D e c em b e r, b u t
i t was the beginning o f Fe b r ua r y 2 0 0 0 b efo re I wa s wal k i n g
t h e banks of Wormleybury a ga i n . I he a de d fo r t h e D ea d Tre e
swim, an area which was a lways a g o o d c h o i c e fo r a w i n te r
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