Been Fishin'

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My mum phoned yesterday and asked if we could take her neighbours FEW fish from the pond as he’s lookin to spend some time at her majesty’s pleasure and he wanted someone to have the fish who he knew would look after them. So we agreed. Last time I saw the fish they were quite large, 3 of them about 10-12" long.
So off we went with fishing net and when we got there my husband had the shock of his life. These few fish turned out to be 14 in total and the 3 biggest one had grown. They must weigh somewhere in the region on 3-4lbs and the biggest of the lot goes a good 5lb. So we looked at the fish and then the net we had brought with us, and duly sent son home for hubby’s landing net he uses when he goes fishing.
Then I sat back and watched as they tried to catch them. The pond is not that big a certainly not big enough for the 3 big fish let alone the rest. So I watched for a while with my mum, had a good laugh, as he’d caught most of the smaller fish but the big ones keep on swimming near the pump, so he keep on getting that in the net. Eventually he cornered one big one and another one jumped into the net, which I thought was really nice of it. Then it was only the big one left. After catching the pump a few more times I walked over and removed the pump from the pond. DOH!!!! He caught it straight away.
When we got them home we floated them in the pond for about an hour until the water temps were even and they must have thought they were in heaven with so much more room to swim… But guess who’s gotta make the pond Bigger next year. That should make a good blog….. watch this space (it will be well photographed too)…LOL

• 22 Jun, 2009
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