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A day on the whip.

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Geoff_E
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Today I had a choice of fishing for water pigs at Coppice lane or a trip to Wheaton Aston for some proper fishing, I didn't fancy the carp so it was going to a few hours on the cut. Number 3 son picked me up about 9;45am and away we went with just the basic kit, box for the lad to sit on, whip, keep net, landing net and a fold up chair for me. I was going to catch a few or look like Nobby the gnome!

Parking up the canal looked in great nick and I just couldn't wait to get at it. The 3.5 metre whip was flicked out and a rig attached, GB was mixed (50/50 Supercup and brown crumb) and left to absorb the water. putting a pinkie on the hook I flick the rig under arm for the first run through and bugger all happened :-?
Try again but this time throwing 4 or 5 pinkies in first, the float settles and disappears Gudgeon number one goes in the net Image It was a fish a chuck for the next 20 minutes then the 1st barge of the day chugs through >:(
After throwing in a small ball of GB in the Roach put in an appearance Image then barge number 2 shows up :( more GB and loose feed and its back to the Gudgeon, with the odd Perch and Skimmer, after three and a half hours of pure magic I started to get cold, so we called time on it and went to the pub for a nice hot coffee.
All in all it was a good days fishing that ended with a bag of about 7 lb of bit with a few bonus fish.

Sorry its not a very good photo but I only had my phone with me
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The hi-lite of the day was this fellow
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That's a big old Tommy Ruffe in the video fella. Image
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Cheers Mugger, its the biggest one I've ever seen!
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Nice one matey, Well done.
The video was good too :D
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nice catch, would be interesting to know what it weighed as the british record is only 5oz isnt it?
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I had a munster - the biggest I'd ever seen a couple of years ago - further up the Shroppie nr Cowley

I wondered whether I might have had a potential record on my hands :D

HaHa even rang his better half up to find out what the record stood at for me

Now if it had been a perch of the same size it would have gone 6oz plus easy.........

Must have been hollow, weighed it seperate at the all out - not even sure if it went 3oz, but it was nowhere near 5oz :(
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