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CONGRATULATIONS LLOYD!
MAY I take this opportunity to congratulate Lloyd Watson on the capture of his magnificent record fish from Chew Valley Lake. I am so pleased that the new British record has gone to a lifelong pike angler, and he justly deserves it.
I know the feeling of utter disbelief he must be going through, as I did over 30 years ago when I caught my UK record pike from Llandegfedd. I hope the new benchmark he has set lasts a long time.
Despite regularly looking at UK fishing news online from my home here in New Zealand I knew nothing about Lloyd’s momentous catch until a UK-based fishing friend of mine Nick Baumkotter contacted me to pass on the news.
Would you be kind enough to pass onto Lloyd my warmest congratulations please, as I am not on social media.
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1 Also called finesse fishing, using light weight /soft lure (*hot prods) (4,4)
6 Semi-buoyant washed-out pop-up (6) 9Hard fruits of e.g. plums (6)
10 Tony ____, with 31ac. won our 'Team of the Year' 2023 (8)
11 Spread loved by barbel etc. (*peat) (4)
12 Ure tributary, flowing through Richmond (5)
13 Broadleaved trees – in Chelmsford (4)
15 Water at Shatterford Lakes for coarse and catfish (*all set) (6)
17 Welsh city location of Fendrod Lake fishery (7)
19 Leger set-up where a fish 'hooks itself' (4,3)
22 'The' fishing technique? (6)
24 See 26dn.
25 Salmon nests –sounds like colour shades (5)
27 These could be sand or glass! (4)
28 Glenn ___ , former manager of Drennan Barnsley Blacks (*lean crew) (8)
30 Knot used e.g. in Snowman rig (6)
31 ____ Izzard, won 2023 British Carp Champs with 10ac. (6)
32 Scottish salmon river, merges with Sou
