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The PB thread

Here's mine caught a few years back from the Swale. 10lb 1oz.

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Great to read this thread, nice idea Andy. Some lovely fish here too and great motivation for me and I'm sure others.

I've spent a fair bit of time staring at your 18lb fish Ray in the Bob Church book before now!

Here's mine from the Loddon when I got lucky with a fish that was very friendly towards me having caught it previously. 16.04. I remember every single thing about the capture and always enjoy reflecting on it. Just wish i'd had a decent camera at the time. Maybe I'll catch her again one day?


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The Chairman on Wednesday


So good of young Andy to create a thread in young Paul's honour. Though he doesn't "do" photos these days, he's sure to be looking in and having a laugh (as I have been), if only at the ill-advised camo.


As ever,

B.B.
 
Here's my PB and worst picture ever taken, self photography on your own in the dark isn't easy, wish I'd of moved that landing net handle!

11.03 from the River Dee, Oct 09.


Regards
Al

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Simon Haggis said:
Great to read this thread, nice idea Andy. Some lovely fish here too and great motivation for me and I'm sure others.

I've spent a fair bit of time staring at your 18lb fish Ray in the Bob Church book before now!

Here's mine from the Loddon when I got lucky with a fish that was very friendly towards me having caught it previously. 16.04. I remember every single thing about the capture and always enjoy reflecting on it. Just wish i'd had a decent camera at the time. Maybe I'll catch her again one day?


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I remember when you caught it Simon, superb fish, and fishing.
I'm no photographer for sure, but the photo looks just fine to me.

Ian.
 
P.B.

Hi Guys,
Mine was 13-8 from the Teme many moons ago ( 1990 I think, have to check my album/diary ). I still remember my legs turning to jelly as this fish looked simply enormous when it surfaced in mid river. The river was in flood and belting through, I was just hanging on really as the fish took me all over the river. When the Avons flew past 13lbs my brain turned to mush and I had to compose myself so that I could record an accurate reading. I can't get out as much as I would like now but the memories are still sweet.
Regards,
Graham.
 
Ill pop a picture up later as im at work at the moment,

But my PB barbel was the first I ever caught on my first ever trip targetting them!!
I had chucked a sickie from school, (so thinking about it now it must have been 17 years ago now) We went to the hampshire avon royalty stretch, I sat it out in one spot (next to the by pass bridge) all day, with my orange fibreglass ledger rod and screw in 3oz quiver tip, and an old mitchell reel, both donated to my by my dad, rod pointing to the sky it was the first time I had ever fished like that.
I baited with hemp though a feeder, chucking it to a gap in the streamer weed mid river all day, I went through about 10 pints of hemp. I forget what hookbait I was using, but I think it might have been sweetcorn.
I was staring at the quiver tip gently swaying with the flow, back and forth all day, until right at end of the day it pulled over and stayed there!
Expecting to strike into thin air I lifted the rod and it took an alarming curve, the fight wasnt spectacular, but one ill remember for ever.
Bundled into my old keenets triangle net, it was lifted ashore and placed on my "gym roll mat" unhooking mat.
On the scales it went 9lb 8oz, my first ever barbel, on my first ever trip targetting them, and still my PB today.

Although that barbel made an everlasting impression on me, it wasnt until some 4 or so years ago when I discovered that there were barbel in the thames, that I started barbel fishing properly, with the help of a few lads from this website who put me onto some decent areas that contained them, I managed to catch them to 9lb 6oz.

And to this day, although I target other fish too, barbel on the thames is my main focus and I keep returning to bang my head against its banks and return home to tell the wife of another blank. She does question why I do it, but I can never give her a straight answer, because I dont know why I do it, I just do, knowing one day will be my day and I'll succeed in beating them into submission as they have me for so many years!
 
tony,
The following quotations reflects my sentiments exactly when it comes to "why I go fishing."

"Many go fishing all their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after." Henry David Thoreau
"Time is but the stream I go-a-fishing in. Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains."--Thoreau
"There is certainly something in fishing that tends to produce a gentleness of spirit, a pure serenity of mind."--Washington Irving.
"Some go to church and think about fishing, others to go fishing and think about God."--`Tony Blake
 
And yet still others take a Lady Guide or two out with them and lose track of what they're supposed to be doing altogether.

As ever,

B.B.
 
Now I am not paricularly keen on publicising my catches on an open forum, but members of RTWAS and other of my many fishing friends know the details. RTWAS forbid any publicity of catches, which is why the Medway thread is no longer in the top 10. I am a member of CSAS which has a private forum and also prohibits publicity. In the early 1980s I was a member of TDFC, and loved fishing their waters. Perhaps I should consider joining again, as some of my friends are members. The trouble is they too have a publicity ban. What a quandary!

I suppose ' Mum ' really is the word.


As ever


Hugo
 
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Thank you Tony Stone for posting one that was not a double, Bob came close but failed. Mine 9lb from the Sussex Ouse, oh the shame. However it was from a bit about as wide as my front garden path. Punched the air and smiled so wide the top of my heed nearly fell off. Hope I never grow up. May go back to fishing proper rivers one day, may not.#
Shaun of the Bishops Finger
 
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