[New member of the Ed's Bait and Tackle family]

Made up for you Ed, that's a cracking weight, glad all are well - Marcus

[Group Shots]

Me and the wife in Canada with a 26 and 31

Me and Jeff with a pair of high twenties again in Canada

[Trigger Happy TV...guy caught a great fish!]

macfish here. Marcus, nope, never heard of it. Is it one that they have some episodes on Youtube? There was also another show that I watched which was about an unusual group of employees at an English department store. They store owner was senile, there were several employees who were "sensitive" about certain of their personality traits and there was even a Colonel on the staff. Can't remember the name of that one either, but to me it was better than Keeping Up Appearances. Thanks, Jonathan

Type Vicky Pollard in on youtube, here's one to get you started - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcqUn79eGL4

[Trigger Happy TV...guy caught a great fish!]

some show that had a lady pretending to be socially a bit more than she was (can't remember the name). Great stuff! Jonathan

Hyacinth Bucket (Bouquet) in Keeping up appearances - not the best to be honest, have you seen little Britain Macfish?

[Trigger Happy TV...guy caught a great fish!]

Trigger Happy with Dom Joly - absolute classic, he did a stint over in the US but I think it only aired in the UK - check out youtube for more Dom Joly it's top drawer TV

[You thought I was fooling Eh ?]

They are some fat commons Brid - big congrats

[Big Winds on the Larry]

Can't wait ...

Being 8 hours behind you Rick I hate these posts of yours as they inevitably mean I either stay up until stupid o'clock waiting for your money shot or I get up too early and get in to work at half past stupid which then means I'm knackered by 4pm. JUST POST THE DAMN PICTURES

[A Hole in the Water - Carp Sized!]

Looks every inch a 40 Rick

[The Eye of the Turtle]

Straight out the top drawer again Rick

[Landing a Wels cat in Spain]

Jonathan, That one went 39:4 and was my biggest of the summer. I also had this one at 39 exactly, on 2 22mm halibut pellets. A 40 has to be due soon!

This one was a memorable fish, caught while I was carp fishing - on a single 16mm fishmeal boilie. A 34lb Koi-Catfish cross.

I don't think catfish and koi would cross, looks more like an albino wels to me - Keith would probably have the last word on this though

[first time trying a river need some help?]

River carp are nomadic and feed against or on features, get the marker rod out and find out 'what lies beneath!!' get some bait out, stick both rods on it and hope for the best!

[Landing a Wels cat in Spain]

Looks like the Segre?

[More St. Lawrence photos]

Good work Ed, keep flying the flag bro

[The International Junior Event Aftermath!!]

Straight out the top drawer on many levels, good account Scott and congrats on the milestone, heres to the next 20k eh?

[The one and only St. Lawrence River]

Straight out the top drawer, could do with some more story tho....

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[The one and only St. Lawrence River]

Straight out the top drawer, could do with some more story tho....

[Why I fish.]

Great story, that's what it's all about right there was that an amiaud pod in the background Kent????

[CAG in Dutch magazine]

Way to promote - good stuff fella

[First triple header of the year resulted in this...]

Corey that is an absolute cracker of fish mate

[My Latest Biggie!]

lurvely job mate

[Are These Grass Carp??]

Those are fallfish.

Fallfish are very 'Chub like'

[So I Took My Mother Fishing!]

Spreadin' the carp love kidda - it's tha future . Great story mate though I notice family stories always get a mention of tzuica - something you're not telling us

[A morning to remember]

I know you've been after those Koi for a while now Stew, so big congrats on that and the fine looking scaly

[A Chipmunk to Remember]

Marcus

High praise indeed! although I think Mr Yates would much prefer to beat me to death with the bite alarm and bank stick...

CarpDaddy

When and where is your next trip?

I was thinking more of the descriptive prose than of the modern style of fishing!

Good question Rick, we're about 8 weeks away from baby number 2 so at the moment I'm getting sneaky fly fishing sessions in at 5 a.m. before work With regards to my next trip I'm hoping to fish lake Bin El Ouidane in Morocco in December this year but the missus won't confirm until we find out how the birth goes and the first few months after so if I go at all it will be a very late decision. Other than that Geoff and I are planning a trip to thousand islands next summer, he's hopefully going scouting later this month for a week to check out a few areas. I'll keep you posted Rick, as ever you are more than welcome to join us

[Keeping the tradition alive.]

Nice story man