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Really great photos.....thanks for sharing....keep them coming!

Here is the picture of the dace Mike.



The picture of Peter Stone is here viewtopic.php?f=30&t=8734

.......and when I showed that picture to Jim Gibbinson some 25 years ago he commented to me that it 'was a fantastic livebait'.
Arghh !!!

Mike

Mike Wilson wrote:.......and when I showed that picture to Jim Gibbinson some 25 years ago he commented to me that it 'was a fantastic livebait'.
Arghh !!!

Mike

Whilst that dace was only an ounce under the record a few years later a much bigger fish of 1.06 was caught by the Late Stan King at Barton Court [before it became well known]. Stan drowned on the Thames in the swim I had been fishing all week catching a lot of barbel. I had gone to Southwold for a few days with the family. My friend Keith [Speers] had been trying to phone me all day but the reception on my mobile wasn't good. Keith had to identify the body. I was devastated and we drove around for a while to find an off licence in Lowestoft. Virtually a bottle of scotch was drunk that night.
A sad day I will never forget.

Mike