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little Stu!
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What an absolute beauty of a fish, trying to ignore size for one moment, and imgaine a creature gracing your net such as that!
Can't wait to get on the bank again!
Can't wait to get on the bank again!
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BLAM
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Its a great picture and I was thinking exactly the same thing. Lovely to see a such well proportioned fish and in such good condition.
Steve Spiller
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That is a lovely looking carp, commons always seem to look better than mirrors, IMHO.
What a beauty.
What a beauty.
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little Stu!
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In my humble opinion too Steve.
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Bully
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Personally I cant tell the difference.....
Paul H
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Commons are much more attractive than mirrors... in a fish kind of way.
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BLAM
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If you took them sunglasses off you might see things differently!
Paul H
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They're my cheapy liddle polorising shades and it was a sunny day!
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Anyhow mirrors are generally ugly things IMO commons are much finer fish.
That one is a beauty, as you say perfectly proportioned with no big fat belly, just a big old fish.
)Anyhow mirrors are generally ugly things IMO commons are much finer fish.
That one is a beauty, as you say perfectly proportioned with no big fat belly, just a big old fish.
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The Monk
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an incredible fish, my best French common went 39.5 lb and that was a well proportioned King variety, Ken Townley took the same fish at 41 lb a year later, . Mirror and Leather strains have of course been genetically modified, while the common is, in theory at least, returning to its original natural wild state, commons also tend to be ecologically fitter fish and can withstand illness and disease to a greater extent.
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unknownforce
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if i ever caught anything that grand i would have to stop fishing - wow, bet his arm hurt after that one!