Andy Scholey: 'Days of Wine and Barbel'

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Thanks, Andy, for your story...I bet plenty of others have been well and truly upstaged by their better halves...

 

[Graham Elliott 1]

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What a great article Andy. And a missus thats happy to concentrate on the action.

Taken mine a few times. No bites in half an hour......bored.!!

Good Luck.

 

[thecrow]

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A good read and some nice fish Andy, thank you

 

[geoffmaynard]

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Nice one Andy.
I took my missus on a sturgeon trip on the Fraser river in BC once. She hooked into a big fish and was playing it hard when she noticed my pal videoing her. She
immediately switched her attention to putting on some lippy whilst still playing the fish, and the air turned blue with results...
That was the family record fish for a couple of years, 100lb+.

 

[Keith M]

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Nice one Andy I enjoyed reading that :thumbs:

Keith

 

[robtherake]

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I'm happy to leave my other half minding the fort - the only fish she has any interest in come ready-cooked with salt and vinegar. Can't say I'd want her there really, I get enough bloody earache the rest of the time and she'd only tell me I was doing it wrong. Bu99er that for a game of soldiers.

Nice read though, Andy.

 

[Skoda]

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Thanks lads, this was a bit of a one-off, she’ll maybe come two or three times a year normally. We used to have a world Zander Championship (there were three of us, me, Sue and Micky) on the Cut-Off Channel where she won it with two Zander, the first one the bite alarm went bleep once up, twice down and she hit it! I still haven’t caught one!
The good news is she wants to go again this year.
Geoff, 100lb+ sturgeon would take some holding with one hand on the lippy, how long did it take to land?
Andy

 

[chub_on_the_block]

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Nice work Andy. My wife also enjoys trips to country estates and the like, but unfortunately has no intention of hanging around by the waterside long enough for me to wet a line.