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cast them back out. I mixed up
some bait which included the
spicy boilie, edge pellet, corn,
hemp, and chopped worm to
keep a fairly natural mix which
the fish had seemed to me
homing in on. Before I could
get the bait out, I had a take,
slowly pulling tight and gently
ticking off the spool. I lifted the
rod, and the fish began to kite
on a tight line down to my right,
there were thick Norfolk reeds
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and fallen branches between
them. I kept steady pressure
and began to regain line on it.
The fish waddled through the
reeds but surprisingly didn’t
cause any problems, and it was
soon ready to net, the fish was
big, and I meant its frame was
huge. The net shuffled under,
and I peered over, my legs went
to jelly at the size of the carp
and realised it was another
member of the A-team called
