| #1  03-01-2008, 10:35 PM | ||||
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| Neil Nets Two Double Figure Barbel!!! But unfortunately it wasn't me!  Found myself back on the Dorset Stour this morning, although this time I was a couple of miles downstream of last week's escapade. I had a long walk to an area I knew would be reasonably sheltered from the gale force winds and usually held a few chub and maybe barbel. But when I arrived at my intended swim the only other angler on that part of the river was in it!  Never mind, I'd slot in a little further downstream.So to cut to the chase, all I could muster was a few chub on trotted maggot with the best being a rather ragged specimen just short of 5lb:  Good sport and quite enjoyable, but.......... .......this other guy (also called Neil) proceeded to land two superb barbel on trotted maggot and also lost another. What's more they were both "doubles": 12lb 03oz  11lb 10oz  A superb feat of angling and a really nice guy.......but ......"I wonder what if?"  __________________ "I'm playing all the right notes but not necessarily in the right order" Eric Morcambe     |
| #2 03-02-2008, 12:33 AM | ||||
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| Re: Neil Nets Two Double Figure Barbel!!! GR8 fish, your too! Any fishing is still better than being at work. __________________ A bad day fishing is better than a good day working! Fishing: if it were easy, it'd be called "Catching" http://www.flickr.com/photos/omahayank/sets/ |
| #3 03-02-2008, 07:47 AM | ||||
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| Re: Neil Nets Two Double Figure Barbel!!! What a superb specimen that second barbel is - almost fin and scale perfect. If you didn't catch two big barbel, at least you took two superb photos. As Dick Walker once said, the next best thing to catching a big fish is seeing one of your mates catch one. That's an elderly chub there, but a nice size. I fish a series of small lakes joined by a stream - you get to know the chub almost by name, and over the years I have watched them grow and age - eventually showing scales like the one in your pic. __________________ Nothing matters very much, few things matter at all - Plato ...only things like fresh bait and cold beer - Vagabond |
| #4 03-02-2008, 07:52 AM | ||||
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| Re: Neil Nets Two Double Figure Barbel!!! well done mate thats good angling  |
| #5 03-02-2008, 08:11 AM | ||||
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| Re: Neil Nets Two Double Figure Barbel!!! Well done mate and I recon they had your name on them - hehe __________________ Richard|Sea Fishing |Carp Fishing| Spud Gun | Zander fishing | Fishing Reports | Hunting Reports |
| #6 03-02-2008, 09:44 AM | ||||
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| Re: Neil Nets Two Double Figure Barbel!!! Nice one Neil(s) __________________ Dan `·.¸¸.·´¯`·.¸ Big or small, look after them all! ¸.·´¯`·.¸ ><((((º> |
| #7 03-02-2008, 12:03 PM | ||||
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| Re: Neil Nets Two Double Figure Barbel!!! I see you got the chub at the Stour sussed well done Neil.....I could have done with one of those whiskers yesterday at Sabrina  ....the first one looks like he has been in a battle but still a cracker. Well done to the other Neil too. __________________ There is certainly something in angling that tends to produce a serenity of the mind." - Washington Irving |
| #8 03-02-2008, 12:38 PM | ||||
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| Re: Neil Nets Two Double Figure Barbel!!! very Nice, Well done, One day i will get a Barbell  __________________ "The muscles of 20 men, and the brains of 20 mussels", |
