Friday 12 November 2021

Alan Turing


After three pike blanks on the bounce I needed something to pull my string - time for a barbel. Much harder going than I thought (time to swap to luncheon meat) but I did manage to bag this beauty.

Some people think I'm just lucky - and what I caught next, floating down the river, might add a bit of weight to their argument...

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  1. A 50 from a river is a catch of a lifetime in any ones books 🌞🌞🌞

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    1. Really is a genuine UK fifty - I’ll add it to my PB list :-)

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  2. Where's the mat for the '50 and you might want to get your scales checked as that looks no more than a good '20 to me!? :) :) :P

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    1. Sadly on this occasion I didn’t practice catch and release - no need for a mat! Looked like a good twenty but had that red hue we all love!!

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  3. I dropped that one, can I have it back please.

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    1. Really - what was the serial number? Ah, I see the flaw in that plan. But I’ve probably lost £50 worth of hooks alone in that river - nice to get ‘cash back’.

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  4. Don't think I've ever held a £50 note, lucky sod !!

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    1. Once I’d netted it I waited patently for another to float by - if movies have taught me anything it should have been followed by more, then a duffle bag containing bundles, then a dead bank robber!

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  5. Great catch Brian. Must be an anglers find. I found one myself on an outing a few years back 😀

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    1. Takes my found total up to £85 this season... And long may it continue..!

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  6. Hahaha, defo gonna be fishing there next week!!

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    1. Free £50 note with every trip - guaranteed! *

      *Not guaranteed, in fact pretty unlikely.

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  7. Can't say I've ever caught a note, but i did find 53 pound coins once on a weir cill work party .someone must have been using it as a wishing well.Cleaned up ok, coke the best.also,i lost a bite alarm and bankstick on a trip to your river, in flood.went back to look a week later, gone, but whoever retrieved it had kinly left their smartphone as compensation!i do better with leads and feeders. The good blind trent and thames anglers have left me 20+ this season.far more than I've lost.

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    1. Hi Grant, haven’t heard from you in ages - hope you’re bagging up on Thames & Trent gold (barbel not pound coins).

      You reminded me of the time I went out looking for worms on Balham Common - 0 worms but a £20 note - so I bought some worms (and a couple of beers).

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  8. Sod the Barbel! Show me the money :£)

    Lucky git 🙂💰

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    1. A barbel and a fifty - the perfect mixed bag!

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