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Afternoon on the pond stalking carp on the fly, and out of the corner of my eye I saw gold heading towards me. Now my fly casting varies between halfway decent and something resembling a chimp smashing apples with a tennis racket - but this long cast was perfect!
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Landing the fly gently 6 inches in front of her, she nailed it without hesitation - cracking fight on the light rod and a 10lb 3oz mirror-koi was in the net, my first one ever and a double. An ancient looking fish, rumoured to be as old as the pond - absolutely beautiful!
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My afternoon was already made, but I fished on and added six more common carp - love catching them on the fly. And Richard, who fished crust last time, swapped to fly fishing this time and bagged his first two carp on the fly - not the last fly-carp trip this summer I’ll bet!
Spectacular fish but an introduced, invasive species so doesn't count ;o)
ReplyDeleteYeah they come over here eating all our boilies (and flies), fighting and lounging about all day... bloody foreigners! :-)
DeleteKing of the pond! Bet you was glad I wasn't there :)
ReplyDeleteNope, sometimes I need a decent net-man!
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