Facts of Fishing - FYI

[Roy]

I don't know how many of you have seen it so far but this week's Facts of Fishing contains one of the saddest news items I've heard in a long time. If you'll all excuse me, I need to go buy a sympathy card.

[BillsTheBassMan]

I don't know how many of you have seen it so far but this week's Facts of Fishing contains one of the saddest news items I've heard in a long time. If you'll all excuse me, I need to go buy a sympathy card.

 

Well . . .

 

What is it!!!!???

[John]

Yup RIP....a sad, sad, time....I have my flag at half mast!

[danbouck]

I told all my guys to take today off and celebrate the life of Two Tone

[John]

I don't know how many of you have seen it so far but this week's Facts of Fishing contains one of the saddest news items I've heard in a long time. If you'll all excuse me, I need to go buy a sympathy card.

 

Edited August 26, 2010 by John

[Roy]

Holy carp! That was a nice thing to do Dan. I admirror that!

[John]

Holy carp! That was a nice thing to do Dan. I admirror that!

 

Very good, that's a very unCommon thing to do!

[fishnsled]

I told all my guys to take today off and celebrate the life of Two Tone

 

 

Dang! You hiring Dan??

[danbouck]

Dang! You hiring Dan??

 

ya but you barely work because I give days off for EVERYTHING.

[fishnsled]

ya but you barely work because I give days off for EVERYTHING.

 

[John]

ya but you barely work because I give days off for EVERYTHING.

 

I'll confirm that. He told me to take the day off and I don't even work for him. How great is that?

[danbouck]

I'll confirm that. He told me to take the day off and I don't even work for him. How great is that?

 

[HTHM]

Heck when you work with him it is like a day off.....

Two Tone, maybe I'll paint the ceiling two tone.......

[highdrifter]

Dan you should know.. Bereavement days arn't cheap!!

[aplumma]

While it makes me sad I find it comforting that a family of five will eat for a few days if they are truly hungry.

 

 

twotones demise

 

 

Art

[capt bruce]

dan gave me day off too and I dont even know him but thanks for the day of morning , two tone I knew him well , An OFC minute of silence ... To two tone you will be missed , to all who cared and loved you FAREWELL MY FRIEND ....

[Guest gbfisher]

Man... . 67 pounds of fertilizer sure would have been a good fight on a Bow line.

[John]

Two Tone is dead: anglers mourn the death of Britain's record carp

By Angling Times

 

General News

 

16 August 2010 10:05

 

 

Britain’s biggest carp has been found dead. The huge mirror, which was known as Two Tone and lived in Kent’s Conningbrook Lake, had held the record since 2001 when it was caught by Terry Glebioska at 59lb 7oz. It raised the bar a further six times over the next seven years, peaking at 67lb 14oz when caught by Austin ‘Oz’ Holness in August 2008.

 

Chris Logsdon, boss of Mid-Kent Fisheries which owns Conningbrook, revealed how he made the sad discovery.

 

“A couple of anglers called to say they’d seen a big carp floating dead on the surface which they thought might be Two Tone, so my son and I went straight over to investigate. Sure enough it was the old boy – I was gutted,” Chris told AT.

 

“He’d had a hard winter followed by a tough spring, but there wasn’t a blemish on him – no scars, ulcers or any other sign of damage. He was just old – he must have been 40 or 45. It’s very sad, the end of an era, because Two Tone was part of carp fishing history. He was stocked into the lake at 12lb in 1982 and no English fish came close to toppling his record from 2001 onwards,” he added.

 

[kickingfrog]

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