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Something for the mantlepiece.

The Flower Pot in Aston, near Henley on Thames has quite a number of stuffed cased otters together with many cased fish, great place for angling club meetings :)
 
The shocking thing for me is that if you look at the picture, the evil person who did this obviously shot the poor otter when it had it's hands up :eek: Now that's just not cricket, is it :D

Mind you, if we could just get Amazon etc. to push these very attractive items as the 'Must have' present for christmas, it could be good :p

Cheers, Dave.
 
David Gauntlett said:
The shocking thing for me is that if you look at the picture, the evil person who did this obviously shot the poor otter when it had it's hands up :eek: Now that's just not cricket, is it :D

Mind you, if we could just get Amazon etc. to push these very attractive items as the 'Must have' present for christmas, it could be good :p

Cheers, Dave.
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Either that or convince the female population that the new big accessory is a hand bag and matching purse made from otter skin, that should get rid of em even quicker :D:D
 
The Chairman on Monday

Subjects: 1) "Must have been going at one heck of a lick when it hit the outside wall."; 2) The Beauchamps Barbel Museum.


Here at the Castle we have a lot wall-space and have long liked to cover it with stuff other than the usual daubs by Titian, Botticelli and Russell Flint - hence the extensive galleries of stuffed hippeaux, flyfishers, celebridees, Clarksons and other ephemera.

The other month, one back in the summer before Svalbard migrated south, I had an idea - indeed, one of my "Eureka!" moments:- a barbel museum.

So I got on the blower to young Paul...

"I wish to mount (is that the correct word?) a grand display of the biggest barbel swimming in early 21st Century Britain, lad. No expense spared. You get out and catch the beauties, river by river, then bung them in a freezer until I have found someone to stuff them. Someone rather fine ... a modern-day Cooper, no less...".

Well, Paul was as good as his word and already has a 16.25-pounder from a near-London river and equally substantial brutes / beauts from the St Patrick's and the Loddon that would make any over-serious barb aficionado's eyes pop and ears bleed.

Still no superior stuffer, however.

Can anybody recommend one?


As ever,

B.B.
 
Paul Boote said:
The Chairman on Monday

Subjects: 1) "Must have been going at one heck of a lick when it hit the outside wall."; 2) The Beauchamps Barbel Museum.


Here at the Castle we have a lot wall-space and have long liked to cover it with stuff other than the usual daubs by Titian, Botticelli and Russell Flint - hence the extensive galleries of stuffed hippeaux, flyfishers, celebridees, Clarksons and other ephemera.

The other month, one back in the summer before Svalbard migrated south, I had an idea - indeed, one of my "Eureka!" moments:- a barbel museum.

So I got on the blower to young Paul...

"I wish to mount (is that the correct word?) a grand display of the biggest barbel swimming in early 21st Century Britain, lad. No expense spared. You get out and catch the beauties, river by river, then bung them in a freezer until I have found someone to stuff them. Someone rather fine ... a modern-day Cooper, no less...".

Well, Paul was as good as his word and already has a 16.25-pounder from a near-London river and equally substantial brutes / beauts from the St Patrick's and the Loddon that would make any over-serious barb aficionado's eyes pop and ears bleed.

Still no superior stuffer, however.

Can anybody recommend one?


As ever,

B.B.
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And there they were telling me how good you were with a bait Paul :rolleyes:

Cheers, Dave.
 
Mounted Otter or Vampire Bat

What a dreadful looking thing, surprised that anyone would claim ownership of that, looks more like a Gargoyle?
 
Make a great picture for a " caption " competition. Something like, " Where the **** did that rhino come from " :D
 
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