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[salokcinnodrog]

3 hours ago, kevtaylor said:

Quality 👌😎

My mates got a fishing room, in progress - got ornaments of fish and everything lol

I'm hoping to get a few for the mantlepiece - perch, pike and zander, but they're all good, he's got nearly all including the super rare carp.

Not got a thing about nets, just annoyance that mine don't match - hmmm ££££ cost inbound 😀

I've got 2 carp landing nets: a Fox Warrior net which has had the mesh replaced a few times and a Rod Hutchinson Sceptre net, both in 42inch. 

I've spent more replacing the meshes over the years than the landing net originally cost.

For years I lived with just one, but a few years ago came up with the idea of one on each side of the swim, so I could always reach one without, in theory of stepping around the rods to grab it. 

The 2 faults, they don't match, not that I really worry, and the second is many runs now seem to come on the middle rod...

4 hours ago, yonny said:

I got a Korda Spring Bow net delivered last week. I have a thing about real decent nets and have inadvertently amassed a bit of a collection. It drives the Mrs mad. A pal of mine showed me his Spring Bow a while back and I was well impressed so I've had a search set up on fleabay/marketplace for a while. The right deal finally came up so it's now racked up with the various Dymags and Chris Brown nets in the fishing room, much to the Mrs' annoyance.

I'll use it on my next session out of principle and then decide if it replaces the Dymag mk2 I tend to use most of the time.

I can't remember who it was by, but the original Springlock mechanism landing net I do miss. I borrowed one for a while back in the early 2000's when I had a load of gear stolen.

[yonny]

3 hours ago, kevtaylor said:

My mates got a fishing room, in progress - got ornaments of fish and everything lol

I'm hoping to get a few for the mantlepiece - perch, pike and zander, but they're all good, he's got nearly all including the super rare carp.

Believe it or not I can possibly beat that 😅

I have a full size faux taxidermy carving of the ex record carp, Two Tone, fully mounted in mahogany case. The centrepiece of my fishing room.  There's a funny story that comes with it too.

I came across it on ebay. It was advertised as a carving so clearly not the actual stuffed fish. I bought it, knowing full well it wasn't real, for the fishing room and thought I'd see if I could find some info on it. I posted it on the old Anglers Forum but no-one could tell me anything about it. But, the Anglers Mail got in touch and asked to do an article on it. Me being me, I told them I don't really want to be in a magazine, and turned them down.

So rather than just leave it.... they made a story up. They published an article, using the picture I'd posted on the Anglers Forum, that said the buyer had purchased it thinking it was the real thing i.e. the actual stuffed Two-Tone. The cheeky gits. Naturally, I went back to them and called them scum of the earth A) for making the story up, and B) for stealing my photo. Needless to say they never replied. This was maybe 10 years ago but the story  was still available online not long ago.

I just Googled it and found the image but the link no longer works.

 

Edited June 27 by yonny

[framey]

22 minutes ago, yonny said:

Believe it or not I can possibly beat that 😅

I have a full size faux taxidermy carving of the ex record carp, Two Tone, fully mounted in mahogany case. The centrepiece of my fishing room.  There's a funny story that comes with it too.

I came across it on ebay. It was advertised as a carving so clearly not the actual stuffed fish. I bought it, knowing full well it wasn't real, for the fishing room and thought I'd see if I could find some info on it. I posted it on the old Anglers Forum but no-one could tell me anything about it. But, the Anglers Mail got in touch and asked to do an article on it. Me being me, I told them I don't really want to be in a magazine, and turned them down.

So rather than just leave it.... they made a story up. They published an article, using the picture I'd posted on the Anglers Forum, that said the buyer had purchased it thinking it was the real thing i.e. the actual stuffed Two-Tone. The cheeky gits. Naturally, I went back to them and called them scum of the earth A) for making the story up, and B) for stealing my photo. Needless to say they never replied. This was maybe 10 years ago but the story  was still available online not long ago.

I just Googled it and found the image but the link no longer works.

 

I think the quote to be used here  is 

don’t let the truth get in the way of a good story..

typical journos 

Edited June 27 by framey

[kevtaylor]

1 hour ago, yonny said:

Believe it or not I can possibly beat that 😅

I have a full size faux taxidermy carving of the ex record carp, Two Tone, fully mounted in mahogany case. The centrepiece of my fishing room.  There's a funny story that comes with it too.

I came across it on ebay. It was advertised as a carving so clearly not the actual stuffed fish. I bought it, knowing full well it wasn't real, for the fishing room and thought I'd see if I could find some info on it. I posted it on the old Anglers Forum but no-one could tell me anything about it. But, the Anglers Mail got in touch and asked to do an article on it. Me being me, I told them I don't really want to be in a magazine, and turned them down.

So rather than just leave it.... they made a story up. They published an article, using the picture I'd posted on the Anglers Forum, that said the buyer had purchased it thinking it was the real thing i.e. the actual stuffed Two-Tone. The cheeky gits. Naturally, I went back to them and called them scum of the earth A) for making the story up, and B) for stealing my photo. Needless to say they never replied. This was maybe 10 years ago but the story  was still available online not long ago.

I just Googled it and found the image but the link no longer works.

 

That's amazing - and the cheeky sods!

My mate spends a lot of time looking for stuff on facebook etc  got the collecting bug from another friend.

I've not got a fishing room, just fishing kit in every room, garage and attic 😀

[salokcinnodrog]

I've got a few new books, I only wanted From The Bivvy, Carp Season and More from the Bivvy 3, but for the price I ended up getting Tim Paisley's Carp Fishing, Carp Amid The Storm and More From the Bivvy.

If I put the books I already have back on the site I may end up making something back.

[jh92]

Sold my 9 footers a few months back because I had no need for them.. just bought a set of 9ft scopes, picking them up tomorrow 👍🤣

[jules007]

Been making do with a folding camping chair since i came back to fishing, but fished yesterday and was so tired kept thinking need a recliner to snooze in mentioned to my mate on the lake Smithy and he sold me his JRC recliner chair in mint condition for 40 notes ideal

[Adders27]

I have a JRC Defender chair which is ok until the rear legs decide to unlatch and the chair collapses!  

[jules007]

Ordered a Shakespeare Aspect 11ft 1.5lb tc rod from err.....go outdoors not overly impressed as it arrived with 2 bent rod rings and some compression gouges on the eva grips despite being posted in a strong carboard tube, but i will use it as its only for small lake with carp to mid doubles and rod only cost £25, it will tide me over till i find something nice like a mint Sundridge vitesse 11ft