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o f f a tight clutch. Th e po w e r
w as incredible, I wa s shak i n g
a s I knew it was the Big u n ,
t h e line was going thro u g h
t h e willow branches but t h e
E . S.P syncro loaded in 1 8 l b
d i dn’t let me down th e ta c k l e
w as bulletproof, everyth i n g
w ent solid the fish was fir m l y
i m bedded in the midd le of t h e
gear while I drive home to get
my boat?’ Ryan... ‘ No probs’
I drove like a maniac and
was back in 30 mins with my
‘bic boat’. When I arrived back
R y a n l o o k e d s h e e p i sh , a s I ’d
h a d a t a k e o n t h e o t h e r r o d,
I ’d c o m p l e t e l y f o r g o t t e n a b o u t
a n d h e h a d l a n d e d i t f o r m e. . . .
I s a i d t h a n k s b u t d i d n ’t b o t h e r
p o ndweed I left the ro d f o r a
w hile and it pulled again T h e n
s o lid once more.
I spotted someone wal k i n g
t o wards me ‘Hello Dave, wh a t
a r e you doing here!’ Me. . . .
e r rrrrghh I couldn’t have b e e n
a t a worse time, with the B i g
u n on the end! It was a g u y
c a lled Rya n who uses m y b a i t
a n d although he wa s a so u n d
g u y, I couldn’t let on wh at w a s
o n the end!
Ryan sa id.... ‘didn’t k n o w
t h ere was any carp in he r e, I
s a w your van on the verg e. . . .
‘ Yes’ I said ‘Only five car p i n
h e re and the biggest is on l y a
l o w twenty and he’s go t m e i n
t h e weed, can you watch m y
l o o k i n g i n th e n e t a s I k ne w i t
was only one of the doubles.
Out in the boat I traced the
line through the pondweed
a n d e a s e d u p t h e l e a d c o r e.
T h e f i s h h a d g o n e, i t h a d b e n t
t h e e x tr a s t r e n g t h w i r e h o o k
j u st e n o u g h t o e s c a p e o f f t h e
m i c ro b a r b !
I hate losing fish, but I have
to admit this was rather gutw re n c h i n g a f t e r s i x w e ek s o f
i n t e n se e f f o rt !
T h e sm a l l o n e w a s a r o u n d
13lb and a distinctive grey
c o l o u r. S o I s t a r t e d r e f e r r i n g
t o h i m a s t h e g r e y m i r r o r.
The next day I was back
again, putting the bait in to
start building the Big un’s
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