Murray,
They do look pretty much the same, both in good nick and that nice silvery colour. Andy's was 1oz heavier than mine and from a different river though.
To have got to where I caught it it would have had to have swum about 120 miles in a couple of weeks. That would have included a fair amount of time in the sea travelling between river estuaries and jumping a lot of Salmon Ladders )
Woz is pretty handy with photoshop as i found out the other day when he sent me a photo of the 1lb 13oz Brownie I had when we fished the Thames a couple of Saturdays back. The Brownie has enourmous red eyes and I look like Groucho Marx.
Woz, I assume by the Winalots you are referring to the very strange shapped boillies i scrounged to use as goundbait on the Thames ?
Fishing Wilstone a decade ago at the start of the season I arrived back at my bivvy having popped home for my tea to find Marsh Pratley with a big grin on his face. "had a pb" said Marsh "18 inches". "Perch?" I asked exitedly "no Turd" says Marsh laughing "and Don't tell Woz but i did it in his black bucket". A short while later Woz appeared suited and booted still having been at work all day. "Marsh has had a pb" I said "18 inches". "Perch?" said Woz, "No Turd" said Marsh and me and Marsh laughed our heads off. "It wasn't that funny said Woz". "We were laughing at the fact that he did it in your black bucket" I said. Woz walked over to his bivvie and burst out laughing "That'll be the black bucket you lent me last night then Andy". Doh !!!
Are you sure that isn't her in your photo Gary. She could have gone back out to Sea and swum a couple of hundred miles along the coastline before making her way up the ribble.
Woz it was about that time that you started to bring a Ukulele fishing with you and give us all regular renditions of "When I'm sellin winda's"