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After posting something about top anglers on another thread I had given some thought to if a top angler fished my poor waters one afternoon a week same as me, would he catch any more than me, I doubted it. Like wise I thought if I could fish his better waters as often as he, would I also have some magnificent catches, I surmised I would. These thoughts were going through my mind yesterday morning. Then in the afternoon one of those odd coincidences took place, it is a funny old life!
Waiting for a bus home after fishing a bloke came up and asked if I had caught anything. When I told him no and where I had been fishing he said he had caught some massive bream there. He told me their measurements, one was 20 inches deep and 16 inches long. I said about 6lb then and he said a lot more than that. He pulled out of his wallet a little card and stuck on this card were three scales. He said he found these in the bottom of his landing net and on the back of the card he had written down three lots of measurements of three bream including the biggest one just mentioned.
He then proceeded to tell me about all the top waters he had fished, Trent, Welland, Nene etc and that he was the N.F.I. England champion for 1976. (not sure if I got that right)
Now here's the thing, I have fished this little stretch for 20 years and the biggest bream I have ever caught there was just over 5lb and that was an exception believe me, usually about 1lb, 2lb being a good fish. So along comes this "top angler" and in one session had surpassed my efforts by a long chalk after 20 years.
So maybe I am wrong about all being equal a top angler will not do any better than me.!
Waiting for a bus home after fishing a bloke came up and asked if I had caught anything. When I told him no and where I had been fishing he said he had caught some massive bream there. He told me their measurements, one was 20 inches deep and 16 inches long. I said about 6lb then and he said a lot more than that. He pulled out of his wallet a little card and stuck on this card were three scales. He said he found these in the bottom of his landing net and on the back of the card he had written down three lots of measurements of three bream including the biggest one just mentioned.
He then proceeded to tell me about all the top waters he had fished, Trent, Welland, Nene etc and that he was the N.F.I. England champion for 1976. (not sure if I got that right)
Now here's the thing, I have fished this little stretch for 20 years and the biggest bream I have ever caught there was just over 5lb and that was an exception believe me, usually about 1lb, 2lb being a good fish. So along comes this "top angler" and in one session had surpassed my efforts by a long chalk after 20 years.
So maybe I am wrong about all being equal a top angler will not do any better than me.!
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