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Old 14-08-2008, 10:11 AM
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Hello everybody,

Here's a pic of my last carp caught on a PTN, took me about 30mn to land. That fish, the bigger I ever hooked, provided an incredible fight.

83 cm, and 26 lbs.

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Sorry for the poor quality of that picture (mobile phone).
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Old 14-08-2008, 12:00 PM
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Cracking fish Chiro, good angling
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Carp on the fly, I haven't tried it before.

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26lb

fantastic - looks a nice dark mirror

Where abouts in France is that then?
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In Picardy.

With the many battlefields of WWI here is the kind of stuff you could meet in some rivers when wading :

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an old WWI bomb, quite ready to blast
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